i take my son fishing on mother's day...

and enjoyed mother nature.....

can't help but wonder if animals celebrate too.

(took these mother's day this year and came across them again today)

a few pictures from the last post...

brooke and i headed to the top of the river by bus then getting ready to tube back down to our truck.
brooke lazin'

brady saying "get the picture mom.

hurry of me with the waterfall behind me"

(i got it, but not perfect. trying to keep the camera out of the water if possible)

brady catching some rays

the river ahead of us.

you'll find us tubing down the Niobrara....

this weekend chuck, i, and the kids will be tubing together down the river.

never been yet but heard it's a load of fun.

we will be on one big tube together with our lunch. should be relaxing.

hopefully will get lots of neat pictures to post after...

here is some info on Niobrara supertubes.
if canoeing's your thing they have that too.

brady

today i was reminded of things i feel sorry for...and a funny thing brady said after his hair cut about a year ago. after we got his haircut, we stopped at the pet store because that's what we do to entertain ourselves and plus brady LOVES animals. snakes, spiders, dragons, dinosaurs, sharks and he loves learning about animals. anyway (this was suppose to be a short story:) ) this is what he said to me a year ago as we left the pet store.

"mom, don't you feel sorry for the tarantula at the pet store??"

I was beginning to think this kid could not be my son. I responded with something like this..

"uuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh nnnnnnooooooooooo!"


but tonight as my son lays shivering on the couch from a fever he's trying to break, i do feel sorry for my boy. :( third day of school and already was sent home with a fever. also had 3 others who went in nurses room only to be sent home. so i guess you can say school has began and so has the sharing of sicknesses. yippee. poor guy.....

i bet my son wishes i was so sorry i'd go buy that tarantula he wanted, but there are just some things a mother can't handle living under the same roof with and a pet tarantula would be one of them. he did get McDonald's though. that's something i could do to make him feel a bit better.

saying a little prayer that in the morning brady's temp is gone and he's feeling like himself again.

by the way the doctor said no school until his fever is gone and brady responded with

"i have football tonight" :)

weekend entertainment.

we will be heading to Imperial, Ne tonight to go see these guys!

some old music, but i'm still a fan.

saturday we have our fourth wedding this summer to attend here in town.

great couple getting married, so excited!

and sunday after church i will be doing some baking for my silpada party

on monday night.

there you go the weekend planned out and underway!

Have a good one!

a quote from my son.

brady "middle school is cool."

school just begun, along with everything else.

yup, mornings like these when you can barely open your eyes

ya know... those early morning practices for the sport of your choice

she's all signed up for volleyball on the first day of school.

afternoons like these

games days like seen here.
(brooke in orange...love the socks.)
and he (my boy) will be signed up as of tonight for football
the sport of his choice.

where we will have more after practice moments like these.

game fun like that. (#18 belongs to me)
and practice, practice, practice looking to improve the skills

these are the days of our life. well, school days.