the wagon!!

The little red wagon the boys got for Christmas several years ago and its been through so much! But its still goin'. The boys decided that they wanted to paint it with some misc paint we had in the garage. At first I thought to myself what are they doing but I figured they are having fun and its their wagon so what the heck!

(yes they built a roof on top of it a couple of weekends ago)Bry did some of the painting but mostly just hung out!

Kode was the "captain" over all the painting

And this is our little neighbor Jakob. He came to help

And this is what the wagon ended up looking like when they were all done! Pretty crazy but they really had a good time!

Minor Surgery!!

Shawn had to have a minor surgery last week on his head. It was an in-and-out procedure. He had to have a cyst removed off of his head. Thanks to those wonderful jeans that you automatically inherit when you are born. Well this is one of those. He has a few of them but this one was exceptional one!

(it was so large that it was being irritated from his hard hat)

They removed about a dime size of stuff from the cyst and then stitched him up with 10 stitches and sent him on his way.

(warning: the pictures are kind of gross)

he had to wear this bandage on his head for 24 hours after the surgery. then he was ok to take it off.

and this is what it looked like after surgery. kind of gross but much better then before and the cyst gone!

So on Friday he had to go back into the doctor and have the stitches taken out. The doc said that everything looks great. Shawn said that he was glad it was over. (well at least that one. he has 2 more that need to be removed but that will be later on down the road. they are not as large and don't bug him)

BMX Riding

Lately the boys have been asking to go over to the church to ride their bikes. (the church is a 2 blocks away from our house so I don't get very excited and the hole neighborhood goes with them) So Shawn and I decided to go and see what they were up to. When we got there the kids were adding on to their BMX track. They were making more jumps to jump off of and trying to make a obstacle course for them to ride around on. Something good for all of them to keep busy with. some of the neighborhood kids hanging out

way cool Kode

gotta love the toung hanging out

Kode was pretty proud of himself jumping as high as he was

and Shawn could not stand it he had to go out and help them with getting their track together

Bry gives it 2 thumbs up!

All in all it was a lot of fun watching the boys ride around on their bikes. (although there are times when they really scare me but I guess as long as they are having a good time that is all that matters)

that time of year

so its that time of year again. the time to get everything winterized and put away for the winter. i don't know that i was quite ready to put everything away but after that cold spell we had last week i realized we really needed to get it done right away. shawn has to work the next few weekends so i figured this was a great time to get it all done.

see ya next spring patio set

and all of the stuff from the boys play set had to be put away

we winterized all of our 4-wheelers, our cab-over and got everything taken care of with the air-conditioner. then after all of that we made our way inside the house and covered all of the windows with plastic. man it was a very busy weekend. so now i think we are somewhat ready for the cold weather. (i am not sure i am officially ready for the cold yet. summer was just not long enough) owell i guess it is what it is!