My New Toy!!!

I am so excited about this. My Grandma promised me her piano a few years ago, and she said that I could take it any time I wanted. Well we finally moved close enough so I decided to move it over to my house. It is a good thing too because they have been asking me lately to sub in as the primary pianist, and I have a strange feeling that they want to make it permanent here before too long. So I have been practicing every spare moment I get, I haven't had a piano to practice on for 9 years so needless to say, I am a little rusty! I love my Grandma so much and I don't think that I could ever thank her enough for this incredible gift!!!

Here is a picture of the boys, they got to ride horses on Saturday they thought that was pretty fun.


Brody thinks he needs to pull a face in every picture so it seems like I can't ever get a decent picture of the kid. grrr!


Oh and just an update on "Our Little Visitor" After staying in our courtyard for about 2 weeks ducky finally left and went back down to the river (unless he is in someone else's courtyard :) ) We tried to take him down to the river after about five days only to have him return the next morning. So we just let him be, the last few days I noticed him venturing out more and more and then he was gone. Brody would chase it around trying to "pet" him and we would say "no, he has germs" so Brody would say "but I won't touch his mouth" I'm glad he is gone, He was quite an attraction though.

Well we are off to Red Fish Lake next week I'm sure we will have lots of pictures and stories to tell.

We Have a Visitor

This little duck has been hanging out in our courtyard for the past 3 days. He looks like he has a hurt beak so I feel bad for him. He dosen't seem to mind us, even when Braiden gives him a shower with the hose. We filled up a five gallon bucket with water and he gets drinks from it and occasionally he will hop in and take a swim. I have given him plenty of time to leave, so tonight we are going to try and catch him and take him back down to the river. I'm sure he will be grateful in the end.


We had a fun fourth, Nate walked in the parade and passed out frisbees with his name on them, it is a good form of advertisement! After the parade we went to Grandma Douglass' for a yummy picnic, then we went boating. I tried to wake board but I could never get up, a girl can only handle so many face plants. Nate says that he is not going to let me give up so we'll see if I can ever do this. Later that night we went up to Albion for thier fireworks show which is fairly decent concidering the fact that the population of Albion is about 300. Thier fireworks were nicely coreographed to the smell of skunk and the bite of mosquito :) I was glad Hudson was asleep in the car the whole time.

Braiden has been doing swimming lessons and he passed level 3 so he will start level 4 on Monday. Brody is finally tall enough to start level 1 and boy is he excited, we are counting down the days. He has been so nice and patient waiting 45 min every day for Braiden. I'm glad he finally gets to do something, he deserves it!!

The Fourth of July

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