mo-tab in OKC

the mormon tabernacle choir made a stop in Oklahoma City. that choir includes my mom!

that's only three hours from Siloam Springs! yay!
that's a lot closer than 24 hours.
mom even got us FREE tickets the concert. woop woop!


just the perfect cure for my homesickness.
i love you mom.

into the wild

we journeyed to southern arkansas to see aunt jan and uncle billy and explore their endless acres of wilderness.

preparing to talk a walk/hike, jan pulled out these homemade fly nets for us to weari thought it was a joke, so i took mine off after the laughter and the photo opp.
and we walked.

zach was on the lookout for wild pigs

gracie caught tons of these tiny frogs along the path
and about a half mile into the walk... it was attack of the horse flies. the nets were not a joke anymore. glad mine was in my pocket :)

hannah fit all the way inside hers.
i was wishing for a full body net. or at least long pants. oops.

gross (continued)

a few weeks ago when I posted the unfortunate killing of the copperhead snake in the yard, i received a chastising comment from an anonymous reader. whoever you are...this is for you. THIS is why we had to kill the snake instead of just move it...
duke (cache's daddy) looked like this this morning when he came in. his leg is swollen and he has a distinct snake bite. gross. and sad. look at his face.

now wouldn't anyone have done the same thing to a snake they saw that close to their house?

float trip

last month we took a float trip down the buffalo river with the bond family. so fun!

we got to stay here (in the tents)

...through two storms

watched ninja nate do some of this

and this
listened to uncle zeke tell crazy stories
and he even let the boys shoot this

we all enjoyed a long day on the river doing this

and i tried to work on my tan, but by the end of the day, i looked like this!

thanks, tressa and zeke for a fun weekend at your place!

cache

cache is getting lots bigger! here's some photos of him at six weeks old. aren't those floppy ears so cute?

sorry these photos aren't the best, but he is a quick little guy and i had to snap fast!

hannah and gracie each got a little kitty last week - cache thinks they are pretty fun to mess with and can fit their whole head in his mouth!

gross

working out in the yard today we came across this guy....

that's right, a copperhead snake. gross.

zach cut off it's head with the shovel. gross again.

cache

meet our new addition to the family
his name is Cache

just look at that face!
he's got a little white "soul patch" on his chin.



big blue eyes


cache is one of fives puppies - three black ones and two brown ones. the daddy is a pure bread weimeraner, and the mom is a mut - something crossed with an australian shepherd. but, the puppies look a lot more like daddy!