Wilderness

I know, I'm a bit obsessed with the wilderness area behind our house LOL. I am just amazed at all the flowers that are out right now! They're probably all weeds, but it's just so green and gorgeous back there right now. Also all of our fruit trees are in bloom, so the backyard has some color too. I have to enjoy it because I'm sure they will come and weed whack the wilderness any day now and before I know it all the flowers will be falling off the trees as well. Anyways, here are a few of the wild flowers, followed by the fruit trees. And yes that butterfly really did just pop down on the flower as I was getting ready to snap the pic, what a treat!

Jump, jump...

Had fun practicing jumping shots with my brother when we were out at my mom's this weekend...even got my husband to join in on the fun! Wish I hadn't cut off his lovely girlfriends arm in the shot, but she's beautiful even without it ;o)

My brother's photography is awesome and it's fun watching his work get better and better. He gets tack sharp images with my old kit lens and I can't even seem to get consistently sharp images with the lens I have now!! It's nice having another person to go out on "camera walks" with ;o)

Revisiting the Flower field

Every year about this time the wilderness behind our house is just beuatiful!! Everything is all green and overgrown and at the end there is a field of these orange flowers.

We headed out there after school yesterday because I wanted to let the kids play and was hoping to get some pics of the kids in the field. Of course the kids just wanted to play in the darn stream. So no flower field pictures, but here are a few of the kiddos :o)

Baseball Boy

We had Brandon try soccer during the fall and all he kept telling us was that he wanted to play baseball. I thought maybe it was because he was on a soccer team with all girls, but I think this boy just LOVES baseball. He gets so excited to go to practices and games. He treasures his new baseball helmet and just shines when he puts his uniform on. When he rounds that last plate he can't even hide his smile! All of the other kids on the team run and tackle the ball when it flies to the outfield. But Brandon just holds his position and takes the game very seriously. I am excited to watch more of his games this season.


Of course Miss Brooklyn is along for the ride...whether there is a "park" at the park or not. At this game she decided that the drinking fountain would be just as fun and spent 50% of the game getting drinks *LOL* Had to get a pic of those sweet puckered lips!

Bring on the baseball

I have to first say that I am just not cut out for all of these sports! I thought soccer was bad, but baseball has twice the games and all kinds of equipment. The kids are loving it though and Brian is helping to coach both teams, so he's having fun too. Here's some random pics from opening weekend. I will have to do a seperate post with Brando pics since I took so many at Melanie's game.

My Super Star

Wish I had gotten a better pic with her teacher, principal and vice principal.....but my lovely three year old forced me to the back of the room and I wasn't paying attention to my camera settings!