Apple Picking

We took the apple kids picking this past weekend. We were having incredibly warm weather for October and picked apples with shorts on, something about that just felt off. The kids had a great time!

Field Trip To The Farm

Aiden's class took their last field trip to Kensington Farm this morning.  It was a gorgeous day to be out, the kids had a great time running around and checking out all the animals.  They got to pet the baby animals and even go for a hayride. 

Happy 3rd Birthday Owen

What an awesome 3rd birthday you had!  You got to celebrate with Luke on his birthday, then you had a party at Grandma and Grandpa's, and a third one the next day at Aunt Lois'.  Three parties for my little three year old.

Some things about you at three:

- You will try just about any food at least once but I would say your favorite food is chicken....with ranch dressing of course.


- Your favorite color is blue, or green but that's usually only when Aiden wants what's green.
 
- You weigh 28 lbs and are 35 inches tall.

- You are scared of bugs...it's going to be a long summer

- You LOVE Layla and are always following her.

- You are my little love bug, you could hand out a million hugs and kisses through out the day.  I love when you hold my cheeks in your little hands and give me a big ol' sloppy kiss.

- You love to aggravate your brother, if it bothers him you'll do it!

- There isn't a puddle you don't jump in!!

- You can burp and fart like a grown man and take pride in that!
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Happy 1st Birthday Luke

We celebrated Luke's first birthday this weekend.  With so much going on lately it was nice to all be together and celebrate a special day for Luke.

The Birthday Boy sure loved his balloons!

The goodies....

Cake Time!

Egg Hunt

Easter Morning 2011

The Easter came to The McFarland house and sure did leave a mess, thank goodness I didn't find poop on the floor!

Helicopter Egg Drop

A local church was putting on an egg drop for the kids on Saturday.  Jessica, PapaMom and the boys came out to go to it with us.  We got there on time to register and had to wait around an hour for it to begin.  It was at the middle school on the athletic field.  It had rained the night before so you can only imagine how muddy it was.  We met up with Tim, Angie and Chloe and waited for the drop to begin.  The longer we waited the more people showed up.  Finally we heard the helicopter in the distance, it hovered above the field and dropped thousands of plastic Easter eggs.  Once it flew off the horn blew for the kids to begin getting the eggs.  The crowds moved in, we searched the ground, squeezed further into the crowd, searched the ground and......did not find one egg!!  Aiden cried for a good five minutes as kids with baskets full of eggs walked by.  All around kids were crying with empty baskets.  We met back up with Kyle and David who each had found one egg.  They were such good big cousin and gave their eggs to Aiden and Owen.  Next year.....we won't be doing the egg drop.

After reading about the event online I found out the church expected 4,000 kids more than 8,000 showed up.  Add parents to that number and there were A LOT of people there.

Coloring Easter Eggs

I bought a new kit this year to color eggs, it was a tye dye kit and it was horrible!  It was taking forever, one egg at a time, and the colors weren't very bright.  It dawned on me I still had the egg spinner from last year in the basement, so I went down to look for it.  Of course while I was down there Owen spilled the green dye all over the counter, good thing he's so cute.  The boys had a lot more fun with the spinner and the eggs turned out beautiful. 

Popsicles

It hit 83 yesterday, you know what that means......POPSICLES!!

Mr. Goofy

I love those goofy faces that Aiden makes! It's hard to find pictures lately without some kind of goofy grin!

Colored Bubbles

 






Dear Crayola,
Your new colored bubbles are very pretty. I have to say I'm surprised how vibrant the bubbles were when the kids blew them. But I have to believe the inventors of this product do not in fact have children themselves. These were THE messiest thing I think they have ever played with!! Everywhere the bubbles land they leave a little "love". The driveway, the hood of the car and the siding on the house do not apprieciate said "love". These will only be played at Grandma's while the children are naked from now on.

Sincerely,
Lindsey

Blue Eyes

Owen has the most beautiful blue eyes and long lashes (which make me jealous). I joke with Gary that the next time I go to the make-up counter I'm bringing Owen with me so they can find me lipstick that matches his lips!

Spring Zoo

 We LOVE the zoo! I could go 100 times and it never gets old. The weather man promised 60 and sunny, what we really got was 45 and cloudy but that didn't matter the boys had fun anyway. We even got Papamom to tag along. It was Luke's first visit and he got excited seeing the animals, the few he saw while he wasn't napping.

Hiking

The boys have really enjoyed going hiking in the evenings.  Owen has to pick up every stick and every rock and try to carry them all with him.  Gary showed the boys how to start a fire this last time, they thought that was pretty cool. 

Island Lake State Park

The sun was shinning and it wasn't too cold out, so we took the boys up to Island Lake State Park to do a little hiking.  The boys had a lot of funning running and throwing stones into the water.  They can't wait for some warmer weather so we can stay out longer.
 

Talkin' Tuesday

I placed a bag of garbage outside the back door yesterday, needless to say some sort of animal got into it during the night.  When I asked Owen who did it?  He responded with a list of suspects...


"Maybe it was a bear, or a lion or a raccoon!!"

I'm going to go with the last option....lol.

Happy 8th Birthday David

We celebrated David's {I was informed he'd like to go by Dave, though he will always be David to Aunt Lindsey} 8th birthday today.  The boys had a great time with nerf guns shooting anyone that was in range.  Time sure does fly!  We love ya David James!

47

47.  It was 47 degress today and you would have thought it was 80!  The sun was out and the snow was melting.  I pulled out the mud boots today only to discover that Aiden's didn't fit so we made an emergency trip to Target for a new pair.  The boys loved jumping in the puddles.  There is even talk of a trip downtown to walk the boardwalk and possibly get icecream. {Crazy I know}

Happy Birthday Dad

Happy Birthday Dad!
We spent the day sledding, drinking...lol and playing some UNO attack!
It seems I was the only adult out pulling the kids around and may have put a hole in the boys snow tube!

Top 10 Pictures of 2010

The start of the year HAS to have a winter zoo trip, not just any zoo trip either.  I has to have Papa along too.  It's become a tradition on that first warm up of January.

  

We decided a bigger bathroom was in order

The addition of my newest nephew Luke on April 30th

Aiden started soccer.  He was a little timid but loved it!

Cousins!  They looked so cute on Easter with their rainbow shirts!

Making pickles with ingredients from out own garden this year!

Saturdays this summer meant hanging out with my dad at Farmer's Market.  I'd get up before anyone was awake and help him set up.  Then go back and get the boys to spend the afternoon helping Papa.

Aiden started preschool in the fall.  I love seeing all the projects he brings home and seeing him write his name on everything he can find now!

Halloween 2010!  My two pirates in homemade costumes.

Christmas 2010 and our family.