Spring days!

 Roxy's favorite ball!

 My girls out enjoying the fresh spring air early in the morning! (before Reed was even awake!)

 I love this one with the two of them walking down the hill!

 They both wanted to wear their spring dresses! Aren't they cute!

This is how Roxy makes sure no one gets her ball as she takes a drink.  She brings it and drops it in the bowl the "bobs" for it when she is done. :o) I love watching it, it makes me laugh!

Pinewood Derby day!!!

For those who don't know, I am the Cub Master for our Cub Scouts (I am in charge of pack meetings).  I really do enjoy watching these young boys grow, and see how much they change in the course of just 3 years.  It makes me take a look at Reed and see how much he is growing up too.  Well anyway this is the Pinewood Derby!!! Hooray!!! (and grandpa McNeff helped Reed build a car of his own!)

 We have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for fastest car.  Then we also have a separate vote for the best designed car.  This year the Lego Nijago car won.  (Everyone who comes votes on which car is their favorite)  Reed LOVES the Nijago stuff.  I thought it was pretty cool myself (it was the winner by the way)  It is the 2nd car from the right.

 Reed loved his Pinewood Derby car that grandpa helped him make.  He said that it is very special to him because grandpa made it for him.  What a sweet kid!

 Here he is all stoked for winning one of the heats!

Zoom!

The Bean Museum!

So my SIL called me up and asked if we wanted to go with her to the Bean Museum. We all love that place so we were happy to go. They had the new exhibit up and I was excited to see it completed. I had to look between the partion they had up before. (but what I had seen made me excited to see it all done) We all had a really good time! Thanks for inviting us Nicole! It was so fun to see you and Naomi again!

Just a cool shot.

Reed was scared of the baboons. With teeth like that I would be to though.
Just a cute one of Dani
The nice thing with these animals is that they hold still for their pictures :o)
Reed and his Zebras

Marian loved the hyenas, I don't know why but she thought they were very cool.
Fun hippo, the kids thought the water was real
This hungry lion is not going to share his kill with poor little Naomi.
I just thought this looked real and really cool!
Look at the size difference!!! That thing is HUGE!
Beautiful fowl
I love how this was set up. I wondered how they found such a small baby pronghorn though.
Baby pronghorn! So cute!
Marian helping me show the size of a bobcat (for those who doubted me, yes they can be twice that size, but they are not bigger than the lynx)
Hall of deer anyone? Sounds like a place in Hogwarts to me.
I love this cute little deer. Check out it's neighbor with the fang! Marian thought that was cool!
Goldie Locks and the three bear anyone?
I love how this one looks like the bobcat is hissing at Reed
A Reed's eye view! ( he asked for the camera and took some pictures with it)

Happy Easter!

Rub a dub dub, 3 kids in a helicopter!

The Helicopter! The new kid toy!
All their eggs were down in the playground area while the other cousins had theirs on the other side.
Last week we took a trip up to Wallsburg and Grandpa Shepherd brought out a bunch of cookies. Dani took them in handfuls and was storing them in this truck. So when we got there this week Dani opened it up and said "Hey, where all the cookies go!?" When we had left there were still half a dozen cookies in the truck and she remembered that. She must have been a squirrel in her last life. :o) So this time she kept her cupcake in there (but we made sure she ate it all)

Even Roxy got to join in the fun and find some eggs just for her. I hid liver treats in some eggs and she was pretty good at finding them.
Reed looking for eggs

I love the cute pictures of Grandpa Shepherd with Dani.


I just had to throw some of the cool dog playing pictures in!

Can you see Reed's very loose top tooth!
The kids and their spoils....
Dani and Marian sitting on the swing
I love the eyes