Dad's Shadow

Austin is Dave's little helper.  It seems like almost any time Dave is working on something, especially something outside, Austin is right there helping, or trying to learn what it is all about.  I see many, many years of this as he grows and I love it.  Aiden and Landon - so far they aren't quite as interested.  I think it's the work they don't want to do - ha!

A few weeks ago when it was nice, it was time to put away some of the swing set stuff.  Here is Austin helping pull the wagon to the playset.

Swings loaded up - time to haul them back to the shed!!!

Now time to empty the sand box...Austin was really excited to see he got to use the little shovel that looks just like dad's big shovel!   

Such a good little worker!  He was seriously throwing the sand around the yard just like his dad - it was so cute! 

Bye bye sand box - see you in the spring! 



August 28th

I keep hoping that one of these days I will truly be caught up with the blog - like something happens I want to blog about and within that week I get it posted. I'm not too far off...but here are some pictures from Sunday, August 28th. Just a day - nothing too exciting about it but I'm thinking of doing a blog book some day to have all this stuff printed, so the random days that I want to remember will make it in here, too! :)

Aiden and Austin had a project for their class - they needed to decorate some people and they were excited!!! I remember when Landon did this, too! It's so interesting to see how each one responds to the project so differently!!! Here are their finished projects - good job, boys!


We headed over to Grandma's house in Sheridan - Aunt Michelle was there with her boys and also Makayla and Grant to give Deb and Chris a day to relax. (Little did we know Deb's twins would be born the next day - exciting!) Anyway - the kids had a lot of fun playing and even built a "camp-fire." It was cute to see them all use their imaginations together!


Sitting around just talking - cute!

They even took wagon rides as a group! Funny!

Austin running to catch up with Dave to check the peach trees! So cute! He loves to do whatever his dad is doing!

When we got home later, it was time to tend to the grass seed. Of course, Austin was right out there with Dad setting up the sprinklers. It was so cute to watch him just follow Dave around, following directions.

He even got to turn the water off and on - he thought he was pretty big stuff! Especially since his brothers were inside - just Austin and Dad!

Making sure the water was spraying where they wanted!

Helpers

I picked up the twins from daycare on May 5th and we ran home to wait for Landon to get off the bus. It had been cold, so our flower pots were in the garage. We needed to put them back outside and the boys wanted to help!

Good thing they have a Gator - those pots are heavy!


Aiden being crazy!

There they go - my little helpers!

Landon got home - time to play!!!

Our beautiful tree - look at those flowers! I just wish they lasted longer! They are already gone!

Austin sitting way up high!

All 3 boys swinging - I can't believe how big they are getting!

Front view!

We love to swing!!! :-)

So excited to see Daddy get home!

Flowers

The first fall we were in this house (2009), I made sure I got some mums for our back deck to put in the nice flower boxes we had. The mums were huge....and only really looked nice the first weekend I brought them home. I'm not a good mum care-taker.

So last year, I never got around to planting anything in the boxes, which was a shame because they are really nice - built right into the deck!

This year, Dave made a run to Tractor Supply for some things on Saturday morning (4/30) and came home with 2 flats of purple petunias. He was not going to let another year go by with empty boxes!!

So that morning we headed outside to plant them. The boys were excited, but it was pretty chilly! Here they come as Dave brings the tractor out:



Checking out the flowers...they smell good!


Landon taking a turn raking up the dirt, getting it ready!

Aiden's being a big helper!

Austin did have a turn - but I must not have a picture of that!

Then it was time to get planting - lucky for me I had a lot of assistance!

Landon planting a flower:

Austin and Aiden each planted a flower, too!

Then Austin of course headed for the tractor!

Notice I said they each planted ONE flower! Shortly after they each had a turn, they were off to the swing set!!!