Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend was a good one for everyone, except Andy....he had to work all weekend! But on Friday, Trish packed up the little man and went to her mom & dad's in Missouri Valley. They had fun visiting Grandpa & Grandma Lesher and came back on Saturday. Then on Sunday, Grandma Mary and Grandpa Bob came over to visit little Caleb! They went for a walk on the new bike bridge. Here's some pics from their excursion.







They all had a great time and thanks to Grandma Mary & Grandpa Bob for coming to see us!

Patio Farmer

This summer Andy is farming on the back deck instead of in the garden. Since he's watching Caleb on his days off, they are growing veggies in pots and towers on the deck.

Here's the tomato tower. There's 4 tomato plants and 1 green pepper plant hanging on the underside. On top you'll find two rows of crisp lettuce and 9 plants of green beans. Also tucked in there on top is a lone strawberry plant!



Then in the corner of the deck, there's a pot with a couple cucumber plants and a another couple green beans. The idea is that the cucumbers will climb the deck rails and produce giant cucumbers for some delicious salads! You'll also notice a lone green pepper plant hanging out in the hanging basket. In a few weeks you should notice a nice surprise growing around the green pepper plant. But that'll be for another post....


Look for more updates throughout the summer on the back deck garden....

8 months!!!

Today is Caleb's 8 month birthday! It's hard to believe that he's already 2/3 the way to his 1st real birthday! Caleb is a whopping 20.3 pounds (according to Wii Fit) and measures somewhere in the neighborhood of 29 inches (according to Andy's tape measure!) Andy had the day off with Caleb today and they had quite the adventure. Here's a recap of their day.....

Here's Caleb talking with Mom in the kitchen before she left for work. You can tell he looks a little sleepy still.


Then after some play time and a good bottle of milk, the little guy took a nice long nap.


After the nap we took a walk to the campground in the park where we visited the campground host Nancy. She hadn't seen Caleb since last fall right after he was born! Here he is getting ready to take off on the walk!


After the walk we hung around the house, played with some cool toys, watched some cartoons, and then had some lunch. Following lunch we packed up the bike and new bike trailer and headed for the new Woodward to Ankeny trail. The trail features a newly constructed bridge over the Des Moines River that's for non-motorized traffic. It provides amazing views up and down the river valley and we enjoyed riding across it.






Following the bike ride I had a tired boy on my hands.


And we got home just in time to beat out the storm!


The rest of Caleb's day was filled with toys, a bath, and some relaxation with mom & dad!

Teething!!!

Caleb is now cuttin' some teeth! His two front bottom teeth are coming in strong. These pics aren't the greatest, but you try to get better pictures of teeth inside a 7 month old's mouth!!!

Hot Bats

The Dirty Dawgs moved to 2-1 tonight with a 19-5 win over Adobe. The bats were on fire as we batted around in two separate innings. I promise I'll put some pictures up soon from one of these games! Our next game is Wednesday, May 25th at 8:00pm. See ya there!

Season Opener

Yesterday marked the start of another softball season in Boone and Andy is once again pitching for the Dirty Dawgs. Our first game was yesterday against the defending league champs, The Slammers. The outcome wasn't all that great for the Dawgs, and since I know you probably won't see the highlights on ESPN, we'll keep a season update on the blog! The final score was 22-10 Slammers. Sorry, no pictures of the rout.

Next game is Wednesday, May 18th at 8:00!

Grizzly Bear

Caleb got new slippers this weekend! They are grizzly bear paws and they are awesome!



Uncle Seth & Aunt Joanna came up Friday night too. They stayed for one night and then went home. Caleb stayed up late enough Friday to have Uncle Seth read him his bed time story!



Seth brought up a bike trailer for Andy to pull Caleb around in this summer too. But that'll be another post on another day.....!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!!!!

Yeah, it's late, but we still love our Mom's!!!!

Wing Man

Since Andy had to work all day on Mother's Day, we are celebrating Trish's first Mother's Day today! Andy, with his Wing Man Caleb, had today off work and picked up a new patio table for Mom's Mother's Day gift!



We are grilling pork burgers tonight and having a few cold ones to celebrate!

Mushroom Huntin'

Caleb found his first morel mushroom yesterday!