Leave it to Weaver

Friday, June 29, 2012

Here Today Gone Tomorrow

For Dylan's birthday, he received a butterfly garden. We ordered the caterpillars from the site and received them a week or so later. Unfortunately, they stayed in our hot mailbox overnight and I think they may have gotten cooked. They never were able to recover. They barely moved, and after a while I was fairly certain they were done. I ordered more and this time, I made sure to check the mail immediately. The caterpillars were thriving, moving around a lot and getting bigger. After a while, they moved upside and started their transformation. Then one day, they became the beautiful butterflies they were mean to be. We had decided to keep them for a few days and enjoy them, then release them. Since it was really pretty out. I stuck the garden out on the back porch. I had a meeting that night and Damien was outside with the kids. He didn't noticed Natalie playing with the garden and well, the butterflies were all dead. Apparently we are no good at this caterpillar and butterfly thing. This is the only picture I got of the dead butterflies. Rest in pieces...oh and in peace too

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Fried Egg?

It's been so hot already this summer, that people have been doing all kinds of crazy things to prove how hot it is....including baking cookies and brownies in their cars. We took the old school approach and tried to fry an egg on the sidewalk.

After the first egg on tin foil blew away...whoops. we moved over to an old baking dish. It never did what I expected but that doesn't mean it wasn't hot enough.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Pool Side Beauty

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Safari Greg

I looked into booking Safari Greg for Dylan's birthday party, but he was in the New England area. BOO. A mom's group that I am a part of, scheduled him and I was excited that Dylan would still get to see him, and Taylor was still in town to go as well :)

Natalie waiting in the crowd...

Safari Greg brought 5 animals and his "favorite" was this corn snake. His show is very entertaining and informative. I would recommend it to anyone!! He had one bit where he had 2 kids on stage and an egg. The egg kept producing more eggs then finally it made this corn snake, but the crowd couldn't see inside the bucket. The one kid, a girl, refused to reach in and get the "egg" because it was a snake, so he offered it to the boy to reach in and get the "egg". The boy reached in and grabbed it. It caught Safari Greg off guard as he said in over a 100 shows, no one has ever reached in to get it.

I can't remember, but I think this was a tortoise from Africa.

Dylan loved this cayman.

and of course, Dylan's favorite...a python. I was so proud of him letting Safari Greg wrap it around his neck.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Cousin Taylor's Visit

For the past few years, cousin Taylor has come up for a week to visit with us. Dylan loves Taylor, and he is so happy to spend any time with her. As well as Natalie....it was nice to have an extra pair of hands around. Natalie has become quite the demanding diva when it comes to getting her books read. Taylor was able to accommodate her demands while I took care of dinner.

I signed the kids up for free bowling for the summer as Dylan has been begging to go bowling. We only had to pay for the shoes and the extra game...as one game went by too fast.

Taylor was not that happy that she lost both games to Dylan. She made herself happy knowing that he used the little ramp thing for his ball (although she used it once and did worse. Natalie even wanted to get in on the action.

Dylan and Taylor had their share of movie time in the afternoons while Natalie napped. Here they are all snuggled up together in the chair.

On Friday night, our city had a family fun night hosted by a local church. Dylan and Taylor were so excited to go. What I thought would be an hour in the blistering heat, ended up being 2 hours because they were having so much fun.