Look what we caught on video..

Garden time.

Weeded and turned the rest of the garden dirt over. Ready to be raked, staked and planted. Let the growing begin-tomorrow.! 

As for the kiddies- they've collected and fed the chickens a large lunch of worms. Yum. 

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Animal adventures with the cousinsz

Its barely noon-thirty and we've caught a snake and chased 3 buck deer out of our yard that were trying to eat our strawberry patch for lunch. Where are we!? Beck was thrilled to finally catch a snake friend and somehow he's escaped. Great! We'll catch another or two before this memorial day is over. One by one the Garters and Carter's won't share a home;)

Good times roll on.

We've definitely been having some great fun. Playing and working in the yard and garden has become our new hobby! Lots of time mowing, trimming, prepping the garden, hunting for garter snakes, chasing chickens, watching the honeybees and all kinds of play. Our first spring here has been so fun to watch all the plants and flowers pop up that we never knew we had. The climbing clematis, peonies and giant lilac bush are next to surprise. We've never had a garden either so I'm anxious, and excited for that challenge. Hoping to get it planted next week. Here's a little kid update, more for my own good. These kids are growing up too fast. We recently had pictures taken so I wanted to update and add some of those as well. Our friend Dave took them on the Provo river, near midway. He did a great job.

Harper Lee turned ONE on the 9th! Such a little spit fire. Climbs everything she can, wants to gab and point all day. She says, doggie, baby, dadda, and bye bye. She signs, bath, milk, drink, more, and all done. She loves baby dolls. Rocks, kisses, hugs, feeds and pushes them in the stroller. She's not quite walking yet...Roma holds her hands and walks with her everywhere. Her favorite place to be is outside in the grass, dirt, cement..anywhere the kids are. We LOVE our little Harps!

Roma is almost 4, this July, and can't wait for pre school with Miss Katie. Some of Roma's favorite things to do are, sing, take naps, do her own hair, pick her own cute outfits, snuggle and ride a pedal bike. The other night during family night she wanted to sing a certain song that only she knew. She ended up making up a song and singing a serious solo to all of us. It was LOOOOONG and serious the whole time. Dave and I made eye contact and I couldn't help but giggle. She was so proud. We all were.

Beckham graduates from Miss Katie's preschool tonight! He is so excited that he's been shouting and dancing about it all morning. He has loved everyday of school and is excited to move on to kindergarten this fall. He likes to learn and is suggesting we have "learning time" over the summer. Which I used to do with the kids a lot more in our old house. Beckham is silly and a good friend to everyone, including Roma. Some of his favorite things are snakes, chickens, riding bikes, helping me clean, decorate for holidays, and do yard stuff. He will hurry and clean, organize and spay air freshener around the house when he knows that we have company and can see me doing my "chores". Hope that interest sticks around. Also played his first season of soccer and was a natural. He's a fast kid, and threw his arms up, jumping whenever he scored.

Being a mom is the hardest, Best job in the world. I'm ever thankful for a radical, hard working, husband that makes my job much easier and FUN!

Happy Friday the 13th!

Beckham and I were watching cartoons together this afternoon and creepy, spooky ones kept playing..I finally realized that it was Friday the 13th. So, I explained to Beckham some of the silly superstitions and how it can be a "day of bad luck." He immediately wanted to spook some friends of ours by dressing as a mummy. So, why not.?
I wrapped him and Roma up and we decided they would walk around our friends backyard till they hopefully spotted us. I was pretty entertained. The kids got a kick out of it.

And she's up!

Beckham's friend left his smaller pedal bike at our house and Roma jumped right on and Took off. I tell ya, i believe in those "balance" bikes. Both her and Beck got one around age 2, and a year or so later had confidence to just skip the training wheels and start pedaling.
Its so fun to see kids "get" something.

Preschool studs.