Memorial Day Weekend Fun!!

We had a lot of fun on our memorial visit to Vegas. Thank you again carrie and rod for letting us come, and for feeding us and everything else. we missed you, brooke, and mom and dad. These pics are out of order..but enjoy!

At an old western town- tempting our fate on the scary train tracks! 'The train was about the size of a peanut' But still cool!! :)

watching the Bellagio Light Show..after Gelato!

A Manichean Cop we spotted on the side of the highway! He looked so real.

Little A.j. just hanging out on our 'camping trip'

There are no words to describe how much lizzie was enjoying her S'more!

Uncle Brett and Lizzie 'hiking'

The 'dutch oven' master. Thanks again Rod for the yummy food!

Kate showing off her guitar skills.......ALL the songs she played were so good.....:)

At the Bellagio gardens...im not sure what Rod is thinking....

Abby riding the horse at the western town

Kate and Caitlin gettin down.

Nothing beats home grown tomatoes!

Some more Lambourne going-ons... here's a batch of freshly picked cherry tomatoes. The yellow pear ones are really good! I'm just growing cherry tomatoes. The girls love to find and pick them. They're learning their mom is sort of a tomato nazi and that they have to be so-red-they-couldn't-get-any-redder to be picked.

I just had to show you all this. So for the past few months whenever bars of soap would get down to a sliver and you couldn't use it anymore, I'd put it in this jar. I'd been buying the natural soaps lately and I hated throwing any part of them away. Anyway, so I melted them together, added a few tablespoons of water, and molded them together- and they work GREAT!! Rod thinks they look like barf, and maybe they do, but it's great recycling!

Mom- Lizzie has taken your "books for babies" philosophy to a whole other level.

Lizzie's bear after she got into my buttons and pins- I can't tell if it's voodoo or super creative.

She also did his bum.

Our weekend on the Farm

We had a fun weekend getting away from it all in Adin. We were busy painting, planting a garden, fixing sprinklers, and of course wrestling. Carrie, you would love this place!

It Can't Be True.....Can It?

The kids came home with some disturbing (depressing, shocking, gut-wrenching...you fill in the blank) news. 10 days of school left.



Someone please help meeeeeeee........

Mother's Day Feast

Delicious Food!

Fantastic Cooks!

Lovely ambience and flowers. The men outdid themselves again!

We had a great meal of french onion soup, asparagus (Jake) grilled shrimp (Rog) crab salad (Dad) prime rib and potatoes (Grandpa) and pull apart

coffee cake for dessert (Daryl) It was a great Mother's Day!

Home Sweet Home

Brett and i have been having a lot of fun making our new apartment a home. We've gone from this... ( no furniture)

...and thanks to mom and dad we now have a furnished apartment!...

we're waiting for some pictures from john to fill this wall

This is our spare room...now kind of a storage room!

our dresser in our room

our closet in our room

This is our beautiful bed! Brett was taking a nap and i didn't want to disturb him :)

This is what the house looked like for brett's birthday!

A cake from scratch that was not so yummy but looked good!!

I had to put a picture of this on...it's home made french onion soup- it was so yummy and i was proud of myself :)