it's been a long, long time

wow. it's been almost a month since i blogged! that's a long time!

so here's what's been going on in my life....

the boys finally got brave enough to feed the geese by hand! so fun!

a couple of weekends ago the weather was so beautiful that i just went outside and laid down in the grass and soaked up some sunshine! then i got all my boys to go on a road trip with me!

we got in the car and headed west. our final stop was in ponca city. i wasn't all that impressed with that town, but i did like pawhuska! it had such a cute downtown, and we found an antique shop where everything was 50% off! score! guess what i bought.....

the next day at church a very generous person gave me 2 tickets to see the 1940's musical revue called "in the mood". it was so AWESOME! i loved the music and the dancing. i would have had more pictures, but right before the show started they made an announcement that no photography was allowed during the show.
the next day, we took flat stanley around to visit bartlesville. he's a children's book character that travels around learning about different places. courtney sent him to us so he could learn about our new town. we took him to frank phillip's home...
and to our favorite place....the duck park! {it has a real name, but i can't remember what it is right now!}

the geese were very friendly to flat stanley!
the next weekend i went antiquing in broken arrow with all my boys again! we didn't really find anything, but i really wanted this 3 foot plastic easter bunny! i don't know what it is about large, plastic, light-up decorations that make me smile so much! if he hadn't been almost $20, he would have come home with me!
we spent most of spring break in broken arrow {since we still own a house there. ugh!} of course we had to get up early and drive to bartlesville for church. that's usually not so bad except this happened to be the weekend the time changed! {i despise losing an hour of sleep!} i tried to sleep in the car on the way there, but i didn't have much luck. the boys, however, had no trouble at all!
monday the boys and i went shopping at a few stores i've missed!
tuesday evening i was in the kitchen cooking dinner when spencer came running in the house shouting, "mom! come quick! colby's bleeding!!!! a lot!!!" somehow daryl heard colby screaming before i did and made it to him first. he was sitting on the trampoline shrieking and holding both hands up. blood was pouring down his face and dripping into his hands. my first thought was.....stitches!

we got him cleaned up, bandaged and finally settled down. then we learned what happened. the boys were wrestling around on the trampoline and somehow spencer's front tooth went in to colby's forehead! so colby has a gash the size of spencer's front tooth! i think all the blood scared colby more than the pain did.

i thought colby had taken the brunt of the collision, but i was wrong. spencer's PERMANENT front tooth cracked going across it just under the gum line! he had to go to his dentist at 7:30 the next morning to see if dr. owens could fix it. because of crack's location, dr. owens wanted to make sure there wasn't more damage up under the gum so he sent spencer to an endodontist. spencer had a root canal done that same day! that's when we found out that there is also a crack up under the gum! so now we are waiting for him to see a prosthodontist!!! dr. owens patched the crack temporarily until this other dentist can fix it permanently! wow!

it's hard to tell in this picture, but the cracked tooth is the one on the left. his gum is actually swollen over the crack!

headwound harry strikes again!

today was the warmest day of the entire spring break, so i spent most of it outside! daryl and spencer rented a u-haul and went to BA to load up all the boxes and stuff that were in our garage.

so while they were busy doing that, colby and i played!

our first stop was the duck park! {of course!}

i got brave and actually sat down on the ground at the edge of the water to watch the ducks and geese. these 2 geese started fighting just a few feet away from me.

then the next thing i knew these 4 geese started honking and headed straight for me! they had no fear! they were close enough for me to touch without straightening my arm out! then they started ducking their heads and honking even louder. that's when i decided it was time for me to get the heck out of dodge!
before i got up, though, i asked one of the geese if i could take a picture of his adorable feet!
colby spent his time making sure that all the "sleeping" ducks got some bread, too! he was so cute!
he also took some time to pick some flowers for me!


after duck park, we drove to osage hills state park. we were both in the mood to keep exploring nature, and that's the only other place i could think of going that spencer and daryl wouldn't mind us going without them.

it is a nice little state park. lots of picnic tables and camp sites. our church is hosting a church camp out there this summer! i bet it's beautiful then!

colby found a lady bug!

i looked for woodpeckers that i kept hearing in the trees!

i also got a visit from this friendly little critter! i almost knocked it off without taking a picture! i'm glad i didn't because it's amazing up close!

after we played on both playgrounds, we had to come back into town to help spencer and daryl unload the uhaul. let me just say right now that i HATE moving boxes and furniture!

when all of the unloading was done we came home, and i ventured into the king's backyard to see what was blooming.

i don't know what these are but they are beautiful!

i found this tree with a heart in it! i've lived here 5 months and have never noticed it! shame on me.

i call this picture "rocky at sunset".

colby just adores honey!

my peaceful moment in their backyard was abruptly interrupted by the shouts of spencer saying, "i'm going duck hunting!"

i think dirty little boy feet are cute as long as they're not on me!

after supper the boys convinced me to take one last journey with them. they wanted to look for 4-leaf clovers over by the golf course. as i stepped onto the front porch and looked north, i saw the awful winter storm approaching.

spencer loves these things because they look like grenades!

the tree is still sad because tomorrow is the first day of spring, and we're supposed to be getting many inches of snow!!!!! i feel the same way about the approaching winter storm!

to me it looks like zorro had been by this tree and left his mark!

moments after i took this last picture of the dark blue sky, a gust of cold wind came blowing out of nowhere. the cold front literally blew in on us while we were walking back home. it just reminded me of god's awesome power and presence in this world.
so, those are the photographic highlights of my life since the last time i blogged. i know i don't need to wait so long to blog again. i promise i'll try to do better!

quote of the day:“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands: a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” ~Sidney Lovett