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!!