Lots and lots and lots to post about!

Last weekend we were at Margaret's(Jim's mom) for the weekend. We had a great visit with her and got lots of things done around her house. The weather was VERY nice. Not quite shorts warm but near to it! We enjoyed some time outside playing. We even took Leo with us for this trip and he seemed to enjoy his brief time as a country dog! Here are some pics of the fun...
Drew and I were playing a little soccer

Beautiful Spring Flowers

Leo enjoying the outdoors

I have been off work the last two days. Yesterday we went to the zoo with some new friends. We had a wonderful time. The weather was absolutley gorgeous!! The only hiccup was that it took us over an hour to get to the zoo! Seriously, we got there in the regular 30 minutes it takes from our house but sat in a line to get into the parking lot for over 30 more minutes. Drew was with our friend's because he has spent the night with their son. They were already in the zoo. I really think that had he not already been in there we would have just left. But, I am glad we did not because it was a good visit. We got a new zoo membership so now we will be able to go as often as we would like. This is the best way to see the zoo because it makes for a really long day if you try to see everything. This was the first time that we have taken JC and he could really enjoy it. He walked quite a bit on his own and we just had to push the stroller. I was glad we had it for the LONG hike out to the van though! Here are some pics of our fun...

Here is Drew posing for a pic, oh never mind, that is a real monkey! HAHA!

After our trip to the zoo we started working on our big Spring Break project, moving the boys into one room! They are now sharing a bunk bed in one bedroom and we made the other bedroom a play room. Here are pics of all our hard work.

The Playroom...

JC took his nap on his mat on the floor of the playroom today.

The Bedroom:

And here they are as we laid them down for the night about 30 minutes ago,

All was good until after about 15 minutes of them being down Drew decided that he needed something to eat. Well now JC has been up and down and up and down. So we have now gotten the spank stick out and are going through that drama! I know that it should be expected to take several nights to break him of this. The easy thing to do would be to give up and set the baby bed back up, but we can conquer this!

The room rearranging has been an all day project. We also had to go through tubs and tubs of clothes to get their summer stuff ready and box up things that Drew no longer can wear and to clean out all the stuff that JC has outgrown. I think we probably went through 4-5 tubs worth of clothing. It was quite a chore but it is done now! We have their upcoming fall clothes in a tub in the back of the closet so we should not have to do this again until next spring really. It is not that bad when you realize it is only major work about once a year. Now we have a huge stack of yard sale stuff in the garage. I have to look at the calendar and figure out when in the next few weeks that we can have a free Friday night and Saturday to do this. It will definitely take an entire Friday afternoon/evening to get the stuff out on tables and priced to sell. We have a lot of stuff to sale now. Some furniture, some clothing, lots of baby stuff. Hopefully we can make a little bit of cash to go towards our upcoming anniversary trip. After our long day Jim grilled out. We had deer steaks wrapped in peppercorn bacon! YUMMO!! I do not know why I would ever go out and pay for someone else to cook me a steak when I have the best right here! It was awesome. After dinner we took the kids over to the parking lot at the school for Drew to practice riding his bike and for JC to play on his 4-wheeler and the Lightening McQueen car. It was just wonderful weather for this. We took the bubbles too and they played with them for a while. We were there probably about 45 minutes, right up until dark. I am glad we took them over there. Drew did great on his bike. Having open space like that really makes a difference in their riding. He is getting more comfortable on the new, bigger bike he got for Christmas. I put the training wheels back on the old bike today and lowered the seat down so that it would be ready for JC when he can ride it. Here are pics of the fun at the school parking lot...

Well friends, as you can see it has been one busy, exhausting day! So, I will bid you farewell for now! Until next time!