Lots of fun and a little spring!

What can we say? We love having Dairy Queen open. We are definitely doing our part to make them a success!

Carter had some groovy hair. You'd think when it's that short, it wouldn't get so crazy. Not true though.

Teague wanted to be like Avery on the way to daycare one day. They both brushed their teeth, then when Ave wanted a ponytail...

So did Teague! I know it's time to cut his hair. He'll just look such a big boy when it happens :(

I think it his 60 degrees last week, so the boys automatically thought "waterfight"! I made them wear T-shirts at least!

I don't know what was really happening here...but it made me laugh. Good old mitt head and cubby head are buddies.

Time to go for a walk on the trail. Or in Carter's case...be a bum as long as possible. He did eventually do quite a bit of running, but this is how we started out.

There we go. Push that empty stroller buddy!

Teague is a maniac! I swear he ran at least a mile that night, and tried to go in the creek about four or five times.

The other three were fishing with giant branches that they found around their tree.

We walked all the way down to the duck pond. A good 2.5 miles for those little legs. Carter and Landon must have been making serious faces. Teague just wanted to run over to the ducks.

Erica on Landon's bike...it made me laugh!

There is always time for a hug on a walk. My Carterman loves his brother.

Dana came into town for the weekend. The kids had an awesome time together. Ave had so much fun with Madelyn and Jada. They had a ton of fun with Abbey and Jordan's old costumes. The boys went superhero. Teague was napping, and Kolt was sticking close to his Mom.

There's Kolt. He is quite the funny little guy. He was dancing with the girls, and it was so cute!

I told them to do their favorite poses!

On Sunday, we went Reece's 5th Birthday party. She had so much fun at Carter's that she had hers at the Jumparoo too. My kids always have fun there!

Teague was a maniac! All the parents had a good time watching him bounce all over the place.

Back up the stairs again!

Another waterfight was in order when we got back to Grandma's house. Papa started it, Kyle joined in, and Carter and Landon were soaked!

Dana stopped by again. We had some enchiladas in celebration of Cinco de Mayo! Then the kids went outside and made mud pies.

Teague found a "shield" and Carter and Landon did their best to squirt it. Teague was drenched of course!

Jordo gave the girls some water for their mud pies...needless to say - it's bath time now! Hope everyone else had a lovely week!

2 new videos

All the kids like to watch Good Luck Charlie on NexFlix now. I'm not sure if they should, but it was a Disney Channel show so they tried it out. One day Ave said this gem to Papa, after he said she couldn't get him. It worked pretty perfectly, and we all could not stop laughing. She showed Grandma and Grandpa Barsness when they were here, and they loved it too. The girl's got some sassiness to her!



And now a Friday morning dance party. I apologize for the brightness and shaky quality. "Rio" was on HBO, and they love that show (especially Teague). There is a song by Jamie Foxx, and Will.i.am (dumb name)that Teagie always sings and dances to. He always has a super sweet voice on the Anne Hathaway part too that makes me laugh. They were a little distracted during this video, but it's still funny. Avery does a pretty awesome move at the beginning!

Big smiles for everyone!

I gave Laney my best at home haircut. It is not goood...but she feels much better. She just wanted to play and play afterwards. Luckily Avery and Carter were ready to play also.

I love this picture. They love their dog!

It was one of those random "fix Daddy" nights. Carter is spraying him with water, Teague has a hammer, and I'm not sure what Ave is doing. He's a lucky guy!

What's better than one saw...two saws!

This is Avery's "interested" face. That's what she told me anyway.

Time to draw! I like how Ave is just in a shirt and pants while Teague is all bundled up. He loves his zebra hat.

We had another Friday picnic. This time we went to Clark's Park. Ave looks very happy to be there!

You can't really tell, but Teague is hanging here. He is so big all of a sudden! I don't worry about him falling. He's pretty coordinated!

A little tire swing action. It's Avery's favorite.

Can you tell?

It was very windy. Not cold but windy. Ave helped Teague to the car. She loves her little brother. She is always nice to him.

Landon spent the night on Friday. In the morning they did a great job setting up a cool train track for the Cars.

Then we went to United Way's "Day of the Child" activities in the mall. There was a ton of stuff to do there. They had a blast. They all really loved the face painting.

Landon got a lovely red star.

Carter got a sweet lightning bolt. Teague had one too, but he rubbed it off.

Ave had a pretty pink flower.

Erica's co-worker painted these. She did a great job! I love how Carter is looking down to see what Ave looked like! He wanted to wear a hat this weekend, he looked so cute in it.

Avery lifted Teague up so he could be Buzz. He loved it (almost much as the sucker in his mouth)!

Avery did some coloring at the Girl Scouts booth.

Teague won a balloon! Avery also got some pansys that we put in the garden when we got home. We picked a sheltered spot. Hopefully they are okay out there!

There were a lot of fun games as you can see. I'm glad we went!

Sunday morning was a little rainy, but still warm. This is such a good picture of these 3. Ave really wanted them to get under the umbrella with her!

Teague got this hat at Evel Dayz last year. After Carter wore his weekend, Teague really wanted to wear one too. He looked smashing! He was keeping his playhouse tidy too. What a good boy.

Teague loves his Uncle Kyle. He likes to sit on him and just chat. He's so funny!

Lots of imagination!

Grandma got them some colored soap which they were dying to play with. The pretty much used all 4 bottles in one bath! As you can see, they loved it! They also love bubble beards...apparently Carter had bubble eyes!

Teague did not want to get out of the bath. Ha Ha! His little cranky face is still pretty cute.

Phil and Mary Jo bought Carter this rocking horse for Christmas or his 1st birthday, I can't remember which. It is still very loved! They have a blast pushing eachother down the hallway or going down the two stairs in the front room.

Teague was too busy eating leftover birthday cake to join in!

We have lots of random playtime stuff this week. Ave was helping Teague play memory on the IPad. We have 4 different memory games at home, but this way is less messy!

Carter made the "most powerful Quantonium in the world". It was Quantonium 25 whatever that is. He has quite the imagination. All my kids do. Dr. Graham always said he would like to be a fly on the wall just one day at our house, just to see how busy and silly the kids are. We miss him :(

Carter was begging for a bow and arrow for his birthday. I thought this was a terrible idea. Then I found this cheap-o one with suction cup arrows. He loves it! And he's only allowed to shoot it down the hallway. So far, so good. Unfortunately Teague was obsessed with it! So, our nice Carterman bought his brother one with his own birthday money (thanks Grandma Bonnie!). Teague doesn't even like the arrows or the string on his bow. He just wants to carry it around and say that he's Hawkeye!

Teague was being a superhero fighting Poppa the othernight (note the bow in his hand). These capes they got for Easter are awesome.

Ave was being a shy little "Wonder Avery" here!

Avery wanted to take some pictures the other night. Auntie Erica was ready...then Lando photobombed the picture!

These two are just plain weird. This pose seems to happen a lot. Landon likes his hand on Carter's head I guess! They were very proud of some level they beat on the Wii.

Avery and Teague are going to eat me out of house and home. They have discovered the joy of Poptarts. I swear we went through 6 boxes in a week (their Dad helps)!

This two year old works hard. He took two trips in the bike carrier with Poppa to Ace Hardware (Dad said he made quite a sight carrying his bow around), and they wore him out! He's such a good boy!