Ka-BOOM!

Let’s play a game.

You know those picture games where you compare 2 pictures and try to figure out what is different from one to the next.

I’m no good at that game. I always seem to have one object that I just cannot find.

But today I want you to play that game with me. I’m sure it has a real name but I can’t think of it and I refuse to Google it right now.

Anyhoo…take a good look at the below picture of a section of our farm. I took this picture standing in my front yard this morning.  Carefully study it…

Now look at the next picture taken about 20 minutes later. If you have really sharp eyes you may be able to spot the difference.

And of course a shot of the miscreants surveying their handiwork.

Two down one to go.

“The specialist birthday”

The title of the this post is what Laura has been calling her birthday for the last couple of days.  She loves that she can shoot fireworks on her birthday.

And yes my little firecracker turned 5 today.  Old enough for kindergarten this coming year.  There will only be two left at home…

Purple is her favorite color.

Additionally there may have been some firework shooting happening.

We had some visitors over to help us celebrate. Julie generously pulling Karla and Greg in our decrepit wagon.

At the end we had to go looking for Karla and discovered she had crawled into bed.  So she missed the last of the fireworks. After this picture was taken Gabe also announced that he would no longer tolerate anything that didn’t end in his bed.

Happy birthday to Laura and hope everyone had a good 4th!

A Fun Evening

This evening  it was time for a little R&R with the kiddos. So we spent some quality time at the park.

Megan has started to think that she can’t do that “kid stuff” any more.

But apparently swings don’t apply.

All the options at the playground and 60% of the time was spent on the swings including Karla who has to find her own way.

We also found this bumble bee.

Laura has been asking for a week to go to the park.

Can’t forget the adorable Gabe picture.

We topped it off with a late evening trip to the pool.  We almost had it to ourselves.  The older sisters didn’t stick around close enough to get their picture taken.

Ended the day with some very tired children.  I was glad for the chance to go play for a while.

Part 1 of Summer Concluded

Softball came to an end this last weekend for the Deters family.

On Saturday, Malissa’s team lost their game in the tournament.  They were showing a lot of improvement in the last few games of the year and played right with their opponents but couldn’t quite pull it out.

Megan’s team finished their tournament run on Sunday playing a very exciting game and very nearly upsetting one of the top seeds.

So proud of the contributions and improvements that both girls have shown this season.