Hay Ride? Dog Sled? Lawnmower trailer!

Does hauling your family around in a trailer pulled by your riding lawnmower make you trailer trash? What it comes down to is that Ryan likes to play with his toys. He got a new trailer this week (which conveniently can be pulled by the Jeep or by the lawnmower) because it will help him "when we reroof the house in June. We won't have to haul all of the shingles from the front of the house to the backyard." I am pretty sure roofs have been redone without the purchase of a trailer, but whatever. He is doing it with his buddies and their own physical labor, so I guess I can agree to the trailer if it saves us several thousands in labor costs! He thought Cole would enjoy a tour of our property, and gave us a very thorough (and very chilly) spin around the yard.

If you are free the first weekend in June and would like to help with the roofing project, we pay in pizza and beer.

P.S. That's TWO posts in one day, so I guess I'm trying to make up for neglecting it for so long!

LONG Overdue ..... sorry about the delay....

Okay, okay, we are bad parents. I promise, we have been doing fun things and taking fun pictures, but we have been SOOO busy, we have not had a chance to post them. So here is a collage of pictures from the past month or so...

In March we went to the Edge Waterpark again, and had a blast. We went to the zoo again, and have been very confused by this spring/winter on again/off again thing. We have packed away our winter things and pulled out our summer things several different times this spring.

Cole is a walking, running, full-blown toddler these days. He often makes requests (demands) for apples (appo) and bananas (nananana). Everyday he blows us away with something new. Today we found a long-lost pig that had been missing from Cole's farm truck. Ryan threw it in by the farm toy (you know, the barn we all had as kids; a totally separate toy collection), and Cole picked up the pig and brought it into the other room and put it on the truck where it belongs. We thought it was incredible that he was able to decipher pig from pig and remember where it went. His current vocabulary includes: up, please (up PEES!!); all done; eat (et); uh-oh; and apple juice. There may be more, as we seem to add to it everyday!

We are heading outside now where Daddy is going to pull Mommy and Cole around in the trailer behind the riding lawnmower. Fun, fun, fun!!! Maybe we'll even take some pictures and put them on the blog within a reasonable period of time!