Fishing and Football

A few weeks ago we all went fishing with my mom and dad.

Abby's fishing rod broke so I took some of the line off and tied it to the side of the boat for her. It worked so good that she still caught fish with it!

Mom had the idea to bring some latex gloves with for Matthew so he would put his own worms on and it worked! It may take him 5 minutes to put a worm on, but he does it now. (With gloves, of course)

I had read about this on day football camp that Phil Hanson puts on for kids and it was going to be in Fargo so I took Matthew. Lets just say he Loved it!

Mini vacation and T-Ball

Last weekend Todd and I went on a very mini vacation with some friends of ours. The grandparents watched the kids for us so we could go by ourselves which was nice, but it was also nice to see them again too! We went to the Blackhills of South Dakota. 

So here is a quick update on our life in the past couple weeks. 

First over Memorial weekend went took our annual trip to the Black Hills. As usual it was fun.

Then the week we got back from our trip we started VBS and also ended getting Matthew into a FREE soccer camp, which he LOVED!

His favorite position was being the goalie. he had never played before and he did pretty good considering this fact.

We also discovered that he is a little ball hog! The coach informed us that all 5 year olds are ball hogs though!

Then we had the Nelson family reunion a week or two ago.

It was at a farm a few miles from Mayville. Matthew had fun playing baseball all day with anyone that was willing!

Then we had Todd's 30th Birthday last week and Fathers day this weekend! The kids and I took Todd out shooting and Geocaching for Fathers Day and then to my mom and dads for supper!

The kids had fun on the tire swing at Grandma's and then matthew decided that Him, Uncle Luke and Daddy should have a race. I"ll let you guess who won!

Mother's Day Weekend

Usually on Mother's Day I go to a Flower Nursery with my mom and grandma. This year we decided to go on Saturday instead. I took the kids with also, because Todd was working for half the day.

Matthew likes to pull the wagons around with the flowers in them, and Abby likes to ride in them.

Abby checking out some flowers for us.

Matthew being his usual weird self. I'm sure this will only get worse once he starts kindergarten next year. Abyy showing me the flowers she picked out for me for Mother's Day. I think she actually wants to give them to Grandma Wanda though. So we shall see how that pans out!








Then on Mother's Day we went to church and we had nursery duty for both Sunday School and the service. Usually we only do the Sunday School hour, and I was reminded why. To many screaming babys at one time! Anyways, after that we headed out to meet Uncle Luke and go fishing and shooting by a river near him. It was Matthew and Todd that wanted to do the Fishing/shooting and I wanted to be with to take pictures of Matthew and Uncle Luke fishing. Turned out to be a pretty nice fun day!

The kids had fun trying to catch fish. The both caught at least one, so that was great!

                                                                 Even I caught a fish!

Abby really turned into a Tom Girl yesterday! She really liked the fishing and also helping Grandpa Joe with his arrows and walking in the woods with Daddy!

Here is a small look at what we have been up to the last few weeks. First, we found out that we are going to be having another little girl! All I can say is Lord help us!!! Matthew was glad for a girl and Abby was hoping for a boy. We are all excited.

The other night we were outside and Matthew decided that he wanted to try riding his bike without training wheels. We said ok, and off he went. The next day he was literally riding in circles around `us. Pretty exciting to watch!

A few weeks ago everyone got haircuts but me. I realized I didn't have any pictures of this and decided we needed some.

I cut about two inches off of Abby's hair in hopes that it would help with snarls. I think it worked, and you really don't even notice I cut that much off.

Lastly, Todd took the kids to the zoo a few weeks ago when it was FREE! Free is the only time we go. The kids had fun feeding the animals and telling me about the horse named sassy!

Alright, I'll try this again. I tried to update the blog a few weeks ago and nothing worked so I gave up.

Here we go.....A few weeks ago we decided the kids needed a sand box. Of course getting enough free sand to fill it helped too.

The kids had lunch outside for the first time this spring while daddy was making them their sandbox. Abby found some sort of stuffed bird in the backyard that had been there all winter and played with while eating lunch. Sounds and looked pretty gross to me, but I guess thats her tomboy side.

We went to Grandma Tina's and Grandpa Darrel's for Easter weekend. Matthew brought his bow to practice with at the farm. I made him take some cute "country boy" pictures.

He's getting pretty good at shooting bow.

I also bribed the kids to take some pictures before church on Easter in their Easter outfits. The turned out pretty cute, considering they didn't want to take them.

Abby with the gum she got in one of her Easter baskets. She just started being allowed to chew gum and thinks its pretty cool.

Matthew got a sling shot in one of his Easter baskets and he spent alot of Easter shooting things into the river with it.

Its been a while.......I know, I know, I know......

I know its been a while. Sorry, just hadn't taken that many pictures in February. We did however go to the Monster Truck show. Here are a few from that.

 

Then just today we had fun being outside in the warm sun with out millions of layers on. We even got new sidewalk chalk to use!

 

Abby is starting to draw more and more, and her people actually look like people!

 

  

Matthew draws all the time too. His favorite things to draw are Dino's, people holding hands, and just today....elephants. No idea where the elephant idea came from.