Makes My Monday - Mommy & Me

I bought these garden's in a box at Home Depot a few weeks ago thinking that the boys would have a bunch of fun watching their plants grow into food. They are doing this at school also with some herbs.
We had some time on Saturday morning and I brought this out to do with them. They had so much fun.
We put water in the pots to let the dirt get soft.

Then we put the green bean seeds and watermelon seeds into the correct pots. They then covered the seeds with the dirt. We watered them again and put them into the sunlight for the green house to work.


I sure hope we get green beans and watermelon out of them.

Spending time with the boys makes my Monday!!


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Chase and I together while planting our garden!!

Makes My Monday / Mommy and Me

We had one busy weekend. We started Saturday morning, with a carnival at boys school/church. It was a fundraiser/open house for the church.

What fun we had. Chase and Cody's best friend, Jacob, was there also. They jumped in the bouce house for a long time and boy did they have fun. I captured a few cute picture also...

Cody

Chase

They also had a lot of fun games, including miniture golf, fishing, duck races with plastic ducks, ring toss, bean bag toss and a few more. The boys were really enjoying themselves. The music was a little loud...but it was a fun time.

They won a bunch of prizes, ate cotton candy (something I don't ever let them do),and have a sucker within an hour of each other!!

After we left the carnival we went to get some lunch and head over the the Jr. Fair auction in Lakeside. We have visited every year and every year it is great. The kids put on a wonderful show and auction. Cousin Tatum was at the fair also and the boys were so excited!

We alwyas buy at least a steer for butchering and sometimes a pig. This year we thought we would do something different and buy a smaller steer and raise it for about 10 months and then butcher it. So we actually ended up with two steers...this one above renamed Goose. And the one below named Maverick. Goose will be with us only a short time about 2 months we are estimating...Maverick more like 10 months to a year.

Chase and Cody are already feeding it and wanting to take care of it. We are not allowed to have live stock animals at our house, so we are keeping it at a good friends house and she is helping take care of it for us also.

After all this excitement we had Peyton's birthday party to go to in the late afternoon. We stayed at the Green's house until 8pm.

Like I said, we were very busy all of this in just one day...but it all totally Makes My Monday. I love having a lot of things to do!

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I didn't do a very good job this weekend at taking pictures of the boys and I ... (I am very upset with myself that I didn't)...

But I had this one for a couple of weekes ago...

Cody and I

Makes My Monday - Mommy & Me

What a great weekend we had!

We rode in the Lakeside Western Days Parade with the boys schoolon Saturday.

We had about an hour wait for our turn which we had to stay on our float and everyone did very well. But the weather was perfect sunny and warm but not too warm.

Bronsen and Braden (cousins) was also on float with us, so that was very fun and it was nice to be able to hang out with them!

I really wish that they would of let me tuck in their shirts this picture would have looked much better. But just to try to get them both looking at me it took a miracle so this is what I get!

Grandma, Grammy and Pop waiting for us on the parade route.

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I grab Chase on the float and pointed the camera and this is what I got for my Mommy and Me picture.

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This weekend we played a lot in our new flat back yard! We also worked a little in our backyard. We planted one of the banks with ground cover. We need to go and get more and some other taller plants, but it's a work in progress.

I don't think you can see the actual little plants here but this is the bank we are planting.


We stayed home all day on Sunday and we played. The boys rode their quads up and down the jump as they call it. Which I don't think I have any of. Picture opportunity next time the boys are riding!

The boys played in the dirt and was making mud balls.

Chase so proudly showing off his mud balls! He likes to roll the dirt around and then put them in the sun to dry.


We also played softball, will actually it's just me throwing the ball, them batting and they running to go it the ball.

Cody action shot of him batting. He was doing really good today and not getting as flustered if he didn't hit the ball. He hit it a few times and really enjoyed himself. Chase is a good batter and can connect with the ball most of the time (as long as mom throws it right!)

Chase took this picture of Cody and I playing. It's not the greatest picture, very far away looking but it's still Cody and I!

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All of the special time this weekend with my boys really made it a good weekend! I had even a chance to start to read a new book! My new book is the 3rd series of the Manning Series: The Manning Grooms. I have enjoyed it so far and can't wait to read it more!

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I wasn't able to get a my camera turned around on me for this week and I am bummed that I didn't, but a couple of weeks ago we were at the park and Chase took this cute one of Cody and I.


I was trying to take self imagines of both of the boys and myself, but Chase really didn't want his picture taken, so he asked if he could take my and Cody's picture. I hesitated to let him take my camera, just because I wasn't sure if a 3 1/2 year old was serious about actually taking my picture of just running around with a camera. But sure enough he stood back and looked at the picture thing and snapped the picture perfectly!

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Playing around in the doctors office waiting for the doctor I started taking pictures. This one ended up pretty cute and perfect for Mommy and Me!

Chase and I...

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I did capture a picture of Cody and I at the zoo while we were looking at the elephants. I love this that I am trying to get pictures of me and the kids.

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I took this picture last week of the boys, Diesel and myself while we were playing for the first time Chutes and Ladders game.


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