HAPPY "LATE" BIRTHDAY CHRISTA KUCHTA!!!

Makayla Jo is here!!!
We are having a great time today! Makayla is here and Ally finally gets to be the oldest. She is taking on the mother hen role with pride. She told me this morning " Mom I will take care of Maykayla today okay!"

So far she is doing great and not being bossy at all!?@* I think it's because Makayla seems to be in awe of Ally. During lunch, Ally would take a sip of juice, then Makayla would take a sip. Ally took a bite of sandwich, Makayla took a bite etc. etc... It was hilarious:) Makayla has been following Ally all over the house and right now they are both doing somersaults in the living room (more like rolling all over the floor) Ally has even been sneaking cookies and sweet cereal for the two of them, so sorry Gina and Joe if Makayla is bouncing off the walls tonight:) She did eat most of her lunch though, she totally devoured the egg salad sandwich I made. So I guess I should also be sorry because now she will be bouncing and farting:) TTFN

Ooooh Blue!!!

Well Here's Zach's blue room. We are going to paint the closet beige, after all it's just a closet. Zach is very anxious to get moved in, but we still have to get carpet and all the wood work done. There is an end in sight though and we just can't wait!! Steve and I spent some quality time tiling the bathroom floor yesterday. It only took about three hrs. now we have to wait a day and Steve will grout inbetween the tiles. we picked an almond color grout so it should look pretty. TTFN

Turkey Time in Panama...
Wednesday morning I was on the phone with Emily when eight turkeys came strolling into our backyard. I totally freaked out and practically hung up the phone:) I ran and got my camera and slowly opened up our back door. Our big black lab started charging at the turkeys and barking like a maniac! So of coarse I started running after the turkeys trying to get the perfect picture... no such luck, they ran soooo fast, but yoou can kind of make out the big black blobs in the background here? There are two in the top photo and all eight in the other. COOL huh! I'll try to get better pics when Sadie is not around. These turkeys like to fly up and roost in my neighbors tree at night, and we can hear them gobbling sometimes. TTFN:)

Spring has Sprung...

Brown paint is a great bathroom color!

Isn't Zach cute in his uniform:)

Ooh la la!!!

Yum yum yum delicioso:) Ugg, Ugg me chief cow horn!

We have been quite busy the last few weeks. Zach is now a full fledged Boy Scout after five crazy years of Cub scouting. His arrow of light ceremony was really fun! We had a big dinner followed by dessert, every family had to make a themed nature cake, they were delicious:)

Zach went on a big campout last weekend and learned how to use an axe, a knife and how to start a fire with matches and flint- Watch out Nebraska!!!

Spring sports start up soon for Zach and Hayley so I will once again be living out of my car, fun times, fun times!

I've been painting like a fool down in the basement, it's coming along slow but sure. Everything has to be primed first so it's kind of a pain. We picked out a dark brown color for the bathroom, so far it looks great!

I have definately got crochet fever! I started this afghan a couple days ago and ran out of yarn so I went back to the store to get more and they don't carry it anymore! Oh well, I have the same yarn, but in all different colors so I decided to make a wacky rainbow blanket!

Allison turned 4 and we talked her into getting her ears pierced! She really didn't want to at first because Zach and Hayley kept telling her that they use this big metal gun to shoot the earrings in! They are not very nice and somehow I think it's kind of funny because I'm sure me and Emily use to do the same kind of things to the younger sibs:) Anyway, her ears look great and they were only sore for a couple of days. She's such a BIG girl!

I better go, Kari's bringing her kids over soon because she's got her Drs. appt. and I need to make a themed cake for Zach's cubscout banquet. I'm thinking about making a cake shaped like a tent and make a gross green icing to frost it! Who knows? Mom suggested a fish shaped cake with gummy worms coming out of it- that would be cool too!