Unbelievable Iowa!

This is Sunday, March 25th... and I have to keep pinching myself, b/c this is just not normal! :D  Same goes for a lot of places I realize... but I'm in shock.  It LOOKS like spring. Iowa doesn't usually 'acknowledge' that it's spring, until at least mid-May! We started the day by taking a walk down to the 'creek'.... .2-miles down the road. And I just asked Chris and he said, "it is a creek... I just don't know if it has a name.  Well, we'll have to name it L-creek.  I mean L4 creek." :-)  The water winds itself through several pastures, and does eventually ends up depositing into the Buffalo Creek about 4-miles away.

They walked down into it... nice that the grass isn't too tall. Here they are splashing sticks. :)

And it lent for a cool back-drop taking pictures 'up' to the road...

Here is Ms. "Wiam" at 1-yr... SO HAPPY!  Always giggling & laughing...  lots of fun :) And actually taking naps now! It's great :)

She loves to point... Imitates whatever Lydia is pointing at for the moment.

Lauren video-taping :)

Trying to get a pic of the 4 of them ... pretty hard to do.

it was really bright!
LeaAnn 1, Lydia 2-4mo, Lindsay 5-7mo & Lauren 6-11mo

walking back... had to keep this one, Shena's in it :)

Oh yes... and what else do you get to do when it actually turns spring... mow the grass of course! :D  Chris said he didn't mow until May 1st last year! Might have been a stretch though... he was trying to prove a point to Ryan Kress ;)  Notice the Ipod?? Only b/c his 'work tunes' were in the skid-loader he said. ;)

And nice enough to have a grill-out!  Impromptu, but they're always the best ones. Here is Kyle & Lydia on a 4-wheeler ride. Lydia completed her outfit w/the helmet. :)

Chris said, "give her a kiss Kyle!"

and he did!!

Lydia looks smitten ;)

Hmmm... maybe not ;)

trampoline fun

and even sandbox fun!

Neighbor Craig brought his 'Traeger' grill for everyone to enjoy... cooks AMAZING food! We had pork chops & steaks.

Ms. Markia taking great care of LeaAnn :)

There was no water involved... but the girls tried to get us to let them swim. Thought wearing their bathing suits would talk us into it.

and the cook-out would not be complete without s'mores!

Craig ended up feeding her the s'more ;) such a sweet guy!

the finished product...

waving, "bye-bye!"  She's getting good at it :)

Love this picture :) w/Godmother Kris!

Carter happy to show off his marshmallow, or what's left of it! ;) We certainly can't wait to do this again! And w/any luck... mother-nature will continue to provide us w/great weather so we can!!