All In One Day!!

So I have been a slacker, but here are a ton of pictures to make up for it! :) As I was trying to upload all of these photos Fern thought it would be a good idea to slather herself in Earth Balance (our fake butter), so I had to stop and clean her up, she was naked except for a diaper so it could have been worse!! Maybe her Great-Grandma Jenson gave her sunbathing instructions before Fern came down from Heaven!

This all happened last Thursday!!

So what do you do when mom pours Tabasco over your favorite thumb?? It actually kept him from sucking his thumb all day, but I have abandoned that endeavor for the time being as Jake has finally decided to work on potty training!!! Yea!!!!
We have grand plans for a great play house for Fern, but between time and money we decided unfortunately that it will not happen this year. But then our neighbor offered this little play house to us for FREE!!! She speaks my language!! So we brought it over and we cleaned it all up while Fern was napping, then after her nap we surprised her with it!!
Not alot to do in there yet, but she enjoyed "her space"!!
The windows were the best, she would shut the shudders and we would knock on them and then she would run over and open the window! With a great smile of course!!
Then she tolerated the boys coming over for a visit! Jake thinks this is the Dukes of Hazard, he jumps in the dutch door!
A little further away!

Fern decided I should sit by her house, she patted the ground until I came and sat, this was my view looking up. I love trees!
Here she comes strolling home!
This was later in the day when Dad was spoiling Fern, that is chocolate!!

We got forced inside late in the afternoon, we knew there was a good chance of rain, and the clouds had started to get dark, and there was thunder rumbling around. But then the sky turned this strange color as it got darker, the wind was weird too, so we deiced we should get things cleaned up. So I took the clothes off the line and set the basket on the back porch, then Fern and I walked around to the front to check on the boys cleaning up out there. Then as I was standing out there I felt a couple drops so I turned to go grab the laundry basket off the porch, I had not even gotten past the garden patch when it really started to rain and the wind got stronger! I started running, with Fern in arms, I got to the back porch scooted Fern in the back door, grabbed the basket shoved it into the door, it was pouring by then. When I jumped in the door and turned to shut it I looked out and our little aspen tree by the shed blew all the way over and touched the ground, and all the big trees blew over so far that I could see plenty of sky over them!! And then as Riley describes it a "wall of water" came (also into all the front windows that were all open, soaking the carpet and curtains) the boys had gotten into the garage but it was still open, so they got it in the face!! It lasted for a bit, we had lightning pretty close to the house, it was REALLY dark. We got out our oil lamps and were ready, luckily we did not lose our electricity! We enjoyed the rest of the evening watching the original Swiss Family Robinson movie! It rained for the next couple days! The next day we found out we had actually had a "mini twister" I don't know what kind of science is behind that name but it is what we heard. It would explain the color of the sky and all! So there is our latest adventure in Connecticut!! :)