St Louis Cardinals

This year Luke is on the Cardinals so we are all things St Louis right now.  Lucky for him (but sad for Jack) they are on all the time here yet we get very few Twins games.  He has become quite the baseball player and does a daily baseball challenge out back and practices with his coach Jack!

Civil War Demonstration

Once again Layken was my photographer to document our field trip to a Civil War Demonstration.  It was a  pretty cool day, especially for the boys. 

 Navy man

 The Union, I guess Brad had a great grandfather way back who was on the Union side, Jack was pretty excited to hear that.

 The Confederate side

The Rockhounds

Jack's team this year is the Rockhounds, the eyeblack makes him look pretty tough huh?

Baseball is in full swing at our house.

Bird Watching

 Yesterday Luke and Selah sat out in the yard in their bird "blind" to do some bird watching.

 Recording what he sees.

 How sweet is this?  They took out a snack while they watched but "nothing crunchy like potato chips" Luke told me (it says that in the book).

 Always giving Selah information.

 Turkey hawk I think, there were lots of these yesterday.

 We have plenty of nests and three bird houses with families in them too.

 Chickadees live here.

 Tucker "helping" in the bird bath/Penny's outside water.

 Pretty plants for Mama!

 they saw Robins

Morning Doves, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Chickadees,  Finches, sparrows, an Oriole (we have a feeder out this year) Red Winged Blackbirds,and hummingbirds.  No eagles yesterday and I am not quick enough to get pictures of them all, the hummingbird was super blurry, maybe through the summer. I think my Grandma hobby of birdwatching has rubbed off!  If you sit quietly in the back and listen to all the birds it is so nice and you eventually start getting buzzed with flyby birds, I love it!