Help a Mother Out

I'm here to ask for your help.

For a bloggy friend of mine.

Her son drew a picture.

He entered it into a contest in hopes that his drawing of a whale will be made into blankets for needy children.

Will you help?

Please?

Pretty, pretty please?

With a Cherry on Top?

You will?!?!

Thanks.

Click HERE to get to the link and read more about this contest:)

Oh, and check out her BLOG HERE!

I love reading about her adorable kids. I love her style of writing too.

I know you'll enjoy it:)

Tell her I sent ya.

My Asphalt Cowboy

Earlier this week the kids and I walked to the end of the driveway to wait for Daddy to get home.

This is his Ride.

 We saw him coming from a ways off and the kids were pretty excited to get to see his truck.

Have I ever told you how good Ben is at backing up?

Let's just say he can back from the highway onto our narrow driveway and all the way to the the curve in our drive. And our driveways is loooong!



Look at that boy, backin up like that!

So proud of him!

I can hardly back out of my parking space with a small car let alone a semi!

This is why I married him.



Or maybe this is why-

He's just so darn cute in a bandanna!

( but will someone tell him that he NEEDS a haircut!)

You might be wondering where the children are while I'm taking way too many pictures of a boy in a truck.

Take a little look see down below.

Blake was supposed to be bring the little kids back to the house in the stroller but once again didn't listen. So instead be let the stroller go down the ditch with the little kids in it and took Audrey out while letting Owen try to walk out the the muddy field. He was crying at this point and trying to get his boots out which led to his boots staying stuck in the mud and him walking through it with his socks.

It was quite the episode.

Most things in this family are.

We've got Puddles  a Lake

Which means lots, and I mean LOTS, of muddy, wet laundry and floors for Mama.

But it is sooooo worth it to be able to let them run free outside again!

Sowing Seeds

I've always wanted to plant some grass inside the house for an Easter decoration.

This was the year to do it.

Mostly because I actually bought some grass seed in time.

Plus, I had potting soil from planting all Ben's seeds.

So it worked out perfectly.

The kids were pretty excited about it.

Even Clint.

Although, he is NOT a fan of me taking pictures of him.

So even though he looks extremely not interested about this little fun, he was probably the most excited:)

Fill up the cartons with dirt.

Plant the seeds

Think Blake used enough seed?

Of course, you must water the seeds.

( oh, and I am getting extremely annoyed that Walmart has no watering cans....we've been using Audrey's little beach toy one to water all our vegetable plants!)

And stick your fingers in and squish the dirt.

Laugh and giggle a whole bunch!

And most importantly, climb up to the table after Mommy just cleaned it up and stick your fingers in it again ;)