whoops...

hard to believe that this...

grew up to be this...

 and did this...

...to our car...

 yep its true... quite an arm on that kid... too bad when she was trying to show her friends her amazing softball pitch {never played a game of softball in her life} she happened to be showing them with a rock and happened to release the ball  rock a pinch early...

 blessing in disguise: there was a whole line of cars at that party and she happened to hit ours...

miracles happen.

hey, we are still smiling... windshield  replaced and ready for our 30 hour drive to UT

{don't worry, we really replaced it!}

little water fountains...

i told those little monsters to go pick me some peonies for the kitchen table and this is what i get...

a giant peony explosion in our tiny wading pool...

... laugh it up little monster, you guys are SO funny...

 "but mommy, i just wanted to pretend to be a water fountain"

can't really argue with that logic.

 of course Cora wanted in on all the fun...

 and daddy was MORE than happy to help her out with that...

its that time again...

yes i am a geek... deal with it people

A Zoo Day, A Rainy Day and A Sick Day...

same day.

i was the only sick one, it was Cora's pre-school field trip to the Toledo Zoo so i had to suck it up because just look at that face!!! 

she really REALLY wanted to see a Zebra so we saw one... and thats kind of it.... for the real animals anyway

...because it pretty much started pouring rain 2 hours after we got there! 

i mean buckets of the most ridiculous rain and thunder!

we found an indoor exibit to "bunker down "in...

"can we see some animals now?"

sorry sugar! next time we will see them all!

this is what a great weekend looks like...

the first thing i noticed when these monsters came back from a weekend with Granny and Papa at the lake, was that somebody grew... and somebody shrunk..

{or they were just wearing eachothers dresses}

"no time to worry about that mom, we were too busy catching frogs..."

 crazy hair, grubby feet, dirty finger nails chocolate mik stained dresses...

i don't know about you, but that is all an indication of a serious good time!

when i noticed the dresses i said,"let me see those tags!"

{while getting a close up of that beautiful hair}

and i found this...

whoops... backwards too

you couldn't wipe the grins off the faces of these filthy happy children...

who would want to! 

and summer is just beginning, there will be many more days of dirt and sun and backwards outfits!

i can't wait!

Happy Mothers Day Granny and Yaya!

 we love you so much! best in the whole world!

LOVE,

 Cora...

and

Eva...

its my birthday....

 ...and i can eat playdough cake if i want to!

 doesn't that just look delicious!

 i woke up in the morning to some crazy kids yelling at me to stay upstairs... because it was a surprize!

"5 more minutes mommie"

about 45 mins later i came down to see this

 ...a streamer surprize...

 ...a breakfast surprize...

 ..a cake surprize {can you see the high heeled boot?}...

 and some fancy presents!

 don't forget nutty kids..

..and a handsome husband...

they got me this..

 SOOOOO excited!

such a fun morning... with such a sweet family! i am so blessed!