Our life outdoors

To say we have been spending every night outside is an understatement.  We have literally spent every waking minute playing in our yard, going to parks and bike riding!  We spent Sunday afternoon buying bikes and a bike seat for Riley Man.  He loves his new seat so much and we have logged about 5 hours in since Sunday.  Monday night Riley and I biked the long way to a park quite aways away from us and had the whole place to ourselves for awhile.  He is just so much fun to play with and we laughed while we swang together until it was time to eat dinner.  After dinner we hit golf balls to eachother for an hour!  That boy is very particular about where you stand and he hits the ball like a pro!  Tuesday we ventured out to watch Daddy play s-ball and Riley walked in with his glove on his hand, his bat in his other hand and his backpack on that was carrying his PB and J dinner.  He had so much fun watching the guys play and also playing in the sand with Logan and Avery.  He was such a ham and cheering away (usually for the wrong team as ours is getting a little older, slower and worse with each passing year).  We are loving this weather and we spent our day off together deep cleaning the house with G'ma Hutch and re-arranging a bit.  The house looks sparkly clean and I once again feel so refreshed after it!  G'ma Hutch really means business when she comes over and we washed the walls down, the inside of the cupboards and vacuumed the couches among many other tasks.  Here's a picture peek into the fun we have been having together.

He loves to "drive the truck" it's become a fast favorite.

Little Logan watching his Daddy.

Little Avery is almost a walker and turning 1 next week!  

Our little baseball wanna be!

Say what? sssssssss...

I can't resist a good pizza fest so Sunday afternoon we headed out to my Aunt and Uncle's house for a Papa Murphy's dinner feast.  Little Owen and Riley got some play time in and Owen entertained us all with his impressions of everything from a snake (which was my personal fave) to a pig.  He is quite the animated little guy and it was fun to see the differences between the boys.  Thanks Sandy for having us over and for the salad, bread, pizza and ice cream cake!  Mmmmm!

Twins fandemonium!

We had our first experience at the new Target Field Friday night!  It was so pretty and it made us feel like we were out of state visiting a different stadium!  Everything in there was so fresh and clean and the bathrooms were my personal favorites-no lines and superbly white with no standing water at your feet or dim lights overhead!  Dear Metrodome-I don't think I will ever grace your toilet bowl insides again!  We spent a few hours ooohing and ahhhhing as we walked around and then we grabbed some grub and made it to our bleacher style seats 3 rows back from left field minutes before the game started.  We sat so close to the left fielders (Young and Podsednik) that our fellow bleacher buddies couldn't resist yelling insults out to Podsednik that were funny but borderline inappropriate.  Some of the insults included "Podsednik-your mom is a farmer!" (uh okay) and "Podsednik it looks like you pooped your pants" (it really didn't, not even close)

oh yeah and "Podsednik what's better losing in Chicago or losing with Kansas?" This went on all night long and finally in the 8th inning during a pitching change he looked at our section shook his head no and then laughed.  What a good sport and he seriously made about the sweetest catch I think I will ever see in person that night, right in front of us.  We actually made Sports Center-we are kind of a blur but in super slow mode you can totally see D's red Twins shirt!  It was a sweet catch and we still won so I can say "way to go Scotty!"  For a sold out crowd getting to our vehicles and exiting the parking ramp was painless and quick-we can't wait to go back and I think I will give my blessings to D purchasing season tickets!  Go Twins!

Jeff and Apryl

I look like I have the neck of a giraffe

Mauer mid swing, it was a hit!

Dirty 30

Go ahead just ask Apryl how dirty 30 can truly be!  I hear her garage is paying for the fun we had last Saturday night celebrating her husband Jeffs' 30th!  D still appreciates everyone who drove through the snow storm to make it to his 30th and we just plain like B-day parties (and our friends) so we skipped out on a Theisen/Miller/Kriebich reunion to spend the evening doing very adult things like playing Tippy Cup, taking shots like teenagers and extensively trash talking our opponents across the table.  It was a fun night with great friends and the Kyle cab picked us up and took us home to sleep off all the booze.  Riley man stayed with G'ma and G'pa Hutch and slept all night!  Way to redeem yourself little man!  We couldn't sleep past 7:30 which was pure torture but it was well worth it!  Happy b-day Jeff!

Prior to the dirty 30 I finally got to hand over gifts I had been storing for my Mom's B-day and for Katie's very belated B-day/belated shower gift.  I love, love, love to give gifts and I anxiously await the moment when I can finally hand them over.  My mom got a beautiful arrangement of flowers, a new spring purse and wallet and a few cards-one very nicely decorated by Riley.  (I had to make him color...the boy can't sit still for more than 10 seconds!)  and Riley Man for the night.  Katie got a handmade sign from Ashley my favorite painter (visit the busy brush link!) commemorating the Mexican vacation and her fresh marriage!  They loved their gifts!  : )

Notice the cute little bouquet on the left...it looks just like hers!  Fabulous job again Ashley!