A day hike to Park Falls near Sly Park

Our baby hummingbird all grown up and ready to fly!

Bailey is getting bigger!!

The feather in Piper's mouth is not really from Bailey... :-)  I just thought it was funny..

Bailey's green feathers are coming in nicely!

Bailey flapping his wings for the first time!

Time to fly Bailey!

Once the flew out of my hands, he sat on the umbrella for quite a while.  His chirping caused another hummingbird to come and I think this 2nd bird became a teacher to this little guy!  It was an amazing sight to see!!

Extras...

 The other day Chris called so say that he found this baby bird on the ground at work.  Of course I went to go pick it up.  After a lot of research, we discovered that this baby bird is a Hummingbird!  I am happy to report that the bird is doing very well right now.  We will release him when he is old enough.

 Lucy and Ava had a little awards ceremony in Kindergarten.  They each said why they were proud. 

Lucy stood up and read her award.

Ava was too shy to stand up, but she did a great job reading her award.

"I am proud because I can count to 100.  I am proud because I can read a book.  I can follow rules."

"I am proud because I learned a lot."

 Lucy and Ava with their friend Ashley.

 Lucy and Ava painting self portraits

Lots going on!!

 Lucy made this wall sign for me on Mother's Day.. It says "Hap muzrz day" or Happy Mother's Day!

 We had a little backyard BBQ on Memorial day... Halley brought over some yellow balloons and all the kids wrote a message to a soldier that died.  We then let them go into the sky. It was a beautiful experience.

                                                          Jeffrey and Halley

Beautiful Halley

 All the kids decided to eat their smores inside the trampoline... too cute!

 Our little athlete Ava is playing Frisbee with Poppa.. She's quite good for 5!

 

I finally got around to starting my garden.  I had this old pressed would garbage from last season that was totally falling apart... so, I decided to replace it with rock. :-) It turned out great!  Now I just need to plant my veggies and hook up a drip system.

 Lastly, the other day we had a weird down pour of rain!  It was completely unexpected!  The girls and I were watching a movie, and all of sudden I heard this strange sound.  I look outside and it was raining huge rain drops!  Soooo fun!!