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 I love this picture, says so much about Noelle

 This is my fridge 30 hours after buying $70 worth of groceries. We sure eat a lot around here, and what they say is true, eating healthy does cost more, but glad to be able to feed everyone good food. 

 My phone had several dozen pictures pretty similar to this one!

 Lego house with garages custom fit to their vehicles.  They want to be in the Lego magazine so we are submitting this picture.

 Look, our Christmas present is here.  There was even "snow" on the ground.

 Robert is the MOST patient person ever!  Long day at work, comes home to put the trampoline together, all 96 springs - on and off twice. And he lets them help, he teaches along the way.  I would have shooed all the kids off.  He is like the Ying to my Yang.

 May Day arrived like clockwork.  Noelle was thrilled to participate more this year.  In past years I let her do one or two houses because it is such a pain (and not fast or steathy) to get her in and out of her five point harness seat. 

 We had a little visit from Robert's college roommate Dusty.  He was driving home from a meeting in Boone.  He has a pretty cool job on the railroad.  We don't get to see him often so it was a nice surprise.

Last official fieldtrip of the school year was to the Zoo in Des Moines.  The hour long presentation was pretty neat, we got to touch and learn about several animals that are not on display but instead used for educational presentations.  But I would say the next most interesting thing they found was this old Toyota you could climb into, the back window is actually the window into the Tiger enclosure.  Emily was interested in a bunch of stuff but the other two would have rather been watching Wild Kratts.