Mother's Day

Today was a wonderful day.  Funny how for me, much of a "good" day revolves around the weather.  I love the warm sunshine!  Last night the girls spent the night at my parent's house and this morning I woke up to my front flower bed completely planted with flowers!  My girls and my parents came over late last night and planted them with a flashlight while I was in bed.  What a fun, sweet surprise.  I asked Morgan if she has fun being a little sneaky elf and she sighed and said, "Oh my, it was sooooo much fun!"

Here are a couple pics I took with the tripod this morning before church.  I love these kiddos and am privileged that they call me mom.

This afternoon while the rest were sleeping/resting, Morgan and I went for a little bike ride.  About 1/2 mile down the road, the chain on my bike popped off.  I've never been very mechanically inclined, knew that I've never had any luck trying to fix and popped chain, still had my white shirt on from church and didn't even want to attempt it.  I was ready to turn around and walk it home and Morgan stuck her little hand in there and got all greasy and popped that chain back on.  I think she's got some different blood than me!!

My parents came over for supper tonight and Steve cooked us a feast.  He made steak and potatoes on the grill, green beans and salad and then some macadamia nut brownies.  Quite impressive and delicious.

Greta after a fall off of the swing

A more glorious moment on the monkey bars

Buds

I am so happy that I am still able to celebrate Mother's Day with my mom.  She is well loved around here!

My Big Girlies

Gweda

I love how Greta says her name.  Gweda.  My dad calls her sugarplum and she says, "No, I Gweda."

Claudia took these pics.  I love how it shows her little personality.  She's never got too much to say but is always all smiles.  I love this girlie.  This was her I heart NY shirt that is now her Gweda shirt.  She peeled every last little bit of it off.

Makeover

Because my husband has nothing better to do than to run circles around me, he decided to take a few days last week and give our shed/barn a makeover.  I must admit that at first I did not think I was going to like what he wanted to do to it, but I think it looks great.  He was right.   Here is a very narrow "before" picture.  It was a very faded yellow (that sort of matched our old siding on the house).  It showed all kinds of dirt and mold.  Yuck.

 

And after.  A new door, too.

Miranda, do you notice that Greta has this dress on in almost every picture?  Is is her FAVE!!

Aaron and Greta were enjoying watching the township mow the sides of the road today.

I was right...

A number of weeks ago Aaron had a bad fall off of our bed.  The next morning he woke up in a lot of pain and kept telling me that his bone hurt.  "The bone" was his collar bone.  I couldn't even touch it, he could not lift his arm over his head, it was very hard getting dressed, we couldn't pick him up, etc.  The next day I took him to the doctor, fully expecting the x-ray to show that it was broken.  There was nothing on the x-ray.  This continued for another week, Aaron constantly telling me that his bone hurt and all these other things still going on (not being able to use his arm w/out pain).  I called the doc back and she sent me to an orthopedic doc.  Another x-ray, nothing showing up.  They told us it could be a fractured growth plate in his shoulder which would not show up on the x-ray.  Didn't make sense to me b/c the pain was very clearly coming directly from his collar bone.  I kept thinking that something had to be going on.  I have never had a kid tell me that their bone hurt.  He was obviously in severe pain but nothing was showing up.

Yesterday we went back yet again for a follow-up appointment.  A couple of weeks ago a large bump formed on his collar bone.  Sure enough, the doc confirmed my suspicions.  The bump is evidence that there was some sort of fracture and that it is now healing.  They did another x-ray which still did not show a fracture, but the bump was proof.  It's kinda silly, but it made me feel better, like I'm not this wacko mom who kept thinking that there was something wrong with me kid and he was really ok, like just a bruise or something.  Thankfully he is feeling much better now and his using his arm at full function.

Here is the pic from yesterday, it doesn't show much, just his cute little bones.  If you look closely on the left hand side, you can see "the bump" right outside of his rib cage.

She won

For all you mama bird sympathists (sp?? Is that even a word?) out there, the mama bird won.  On Monday there were 2 eggs in the nest. I have not touched it and promise to let her do her thing.  BUT, the other day Aaron and Greta went out to check on the nest and one of the eggs were gone.  I really don't think they touched it.  Aaron is a bit of a rule policeman, I really think he would have told me if Greta did it.  Anyway, so there is one little egg in the nest.  I haven't seen the bird in awhile so not sure if we have scared her away or not.

Easter Eve

Normally Steve has to work on Saturdays but b/c of his retreat earlier in the week, he had this past one off. What a treat!  We decided to have a nice breakfast together, have Bible time, let the kids dye eggs, and give them their baskets while we were all together.  It was a very fun morning together as a family.

FYI, I get the slacker mom award for our egg dying.  All I did was water and food coloring, hence the very blah eggs.  They didn't know any different and had a blast.