The 3 Grandkids

The other day we went to Ryan & Emily's for lunch to celebrate dad's birthday. Right before lunch we attempted to get all the girls picture together:

Winkie, Tuck, & Miranda too

No, it's not the new The Wonder Pets theme song. We got two new guinea pigs named Winkie (from the ZhuZhu Pets) & Tuck (the turtle from The Wonder Pets) who are father & son. A guy in Jacksonville was given them away w/ all their stuff. He travels a lot & felt like he didn't have time for them. MJ is over the moon as you can see in the pictures:

Winkie, the father is a grayish & white color:

Tuck, the son, is mainly brown w/ some white hair:

Rocky is really liking them:

Meeting of the minds:

May Madness At School

MJ's school had what they call "May Madness"... pretty much a splash day at her school. They a lot of water stations & they had 5 minutes at each one. Boy, let me tell you it was a HOT one that day!


MJ's favorite station was the bouncy house/water slide:

The kids all loved the firetruck:

Memorial Day Week W/ Ben's Family

Mollie, Arlon, Granny, & Pap all came down here for a visit for Memorial Day weekend. We had a great time. We took them to Riverfest & had my parents over for dinner for Saturday night. Sunday I took Mollie, MJ, & Granny to the Old Mill. I know Mollie been out there every time she comes out to visit but Granny never been there.

For lunch we went to one of MJ's favorite places to eat, The Purple Cow. As you can see she got her purple milkshake.

For their last night we went & watch the fireworks under the bridge.

We all had a nice visit. We're going to try to go out to TN in August.

April Showers

In April we had a tornado hit out town of Viloina. We were blessed not to have any damage to our home, but Ben's truck did. LRAFB did also as well. Soon after that we were hit w/ major flooding. The pictures down below are what we took driving around one Saturday morning. We were on HWY 167/67 between Jacksonville & Cabot.

Montana

For my birthday I flew to go see my good friend Jessica & her family in Great Falls, MT. Me & Jess meet while we lived in Germany.

Jessica showed me why they call it Great Falls:

Jessica took me one day to the Lewis & Clark museum near by. It was really neat learning about their trip.

The clock like thing show how far you could pull the canoe in a day. Note, I was not pulling as hard as could.

Here I am modeling the head piece that showed how they carried their babies.

It took 5 people to translate:

Me & Jess went out to eat at a local Mexican restaurant. We order cheese dip & this is what we got:

Here's Ms. Kinzie (Jessica's adorable daughter):

On my last full day there it snowed:

I really enjoyed see Jess & her family. It went by way too fast. Unfortunately I brought strep throat back home w/ me.