Going for a swim..

Today is HOT!! 90 degrees in april...its crazy! weve been outside all day! we did the Walk for Life in downtown wake forest and then introduced brody to the sprinker in the backyard....he wasnt quite sure it was fun:) but he got in the baby pool! while brody was zonked out for a nap, we decided to take Nala down to the pond to get in the water. She LOVES it! ive never had a horse that loves the water so much. i posted some fun pictures of her enjoying it!

Baby Guineas

We have some new animals on the farm:) we got some 2 day old baby guineas! pretty much, guineas are birds that run around the farm and eat ticks and bugs. so we were in the farm store this week and as soon as we walked in the door of the store brody heard them chirping! Brody started saying "bok bok" "bok bok" (which is what he says for a chicken). anyways...we had been wanting to get some guineas to help control the tick population out here:) so of course brody talked us into it! right now they are under a heat lamp in the garage and brody asks to go out there about 5 times a day:) he is doing really well learning to pet them very gently!

Gardening and Picking Strawberries

This week has been wonderful! Brian has the week off since he was in Africa for the past 10 days. We have pretty much just been enjoying farm life:) Today we started working on our first garden! its been something brian has been so excited about doing....me on the other hand..i see it as alot of work! but slowly im getting more and more excited about it! So brody of course was right in the middle of everything "helping". THere is hardly ever time brian is on the tractor that brody isnt sitting on his lap. i think that kid would ride on the tractor all day if we let him!



We also went and picked strawberries today! We picked...Brody ate! He thought he was in heaven i think! There was no stopping him! i would have to hold onto his hands to keep him from picking them and putting them straight in his mouth! i tried pick them and then let him put them in the bucket...but the strawberries always ended up in his mouth! he was a Red Mess by the end of it:) He had So much fun thought! he calls all fruit "popples"..i have no clue why (thats how he started saying pineapple and now thats what all fruit is) anyways....all he said the whole time we were there is "Popples! MMmmm! " "Popples! Mmmmm! he even sat on one and i took a cute picture of his cute little rear end with strawberry smushed all over it:)

Easter and after

We were minus brian this easter....this is why im just now posting about it! dont want to put anything on the internet about my husband being away in another country for 10 days! Brian was on a missions trip in Africa...he had a great time! We on the other hand were trying to stay as busy as possible here, so we didnt miss him so terribly bad! We went to church with mom and dad and we let brody hunt easter eggs when we got home. He LOVED it....i was really suprised! He thought it was such a fun game to find them hidden all around the yard! the word "hidden" is used very loosely:) i posted a few pics of him in his handsome little easter oufit hunting eggs. It was sad not having brian around for so long....Brody got introduced to "skype" and thought it was the neatest thing to talk to daddy on the computer! everytime he saw the computer he would ask for "dada". Brody really missed brian...i wasnt sure what would happen when he finally saw him again. i didnt know if he would really grasp how long he had been gone, or if when Brody saw him again, he would act like he had just seen him yesterday. My mom had to take Brody to the airport to meet brian ( i had to work:() When brody saw his dad coming down the escalator, he started RUNNING to him as fast as he could. mom and brian both said they hadnt ever seen him run that fast before! Then he wouldnt let brian go, he kept pointing to him saying "dada,dada". like he was telling everyone in the airport "this is my dad". i WISH so bad i could have seen it!