3 months later...

In July the kids and I took a trip to my parents' house.  It was on that trip that we found some caterpillars.  We gave them a home, fed them, talked to them and watched them get fat.  Then those caterpillars made their cacoons in our big glass jar.  We waited for them to emerge as butterflies.  We waited and waited and waited and WAITED...finally I was tired of the jar sitting on my counter so I put it on top of the fridge.  Several times I was tempted to throw them out.  But, because I had read that sometimes they wait through the winter I didn't.  Thank goodness I didn't.  On Tuesday afternoon while getting some ice out of the fridge I heard some rustling.  I looked and couldn't believe we had two big butterflies!

Here is one of the caterpillars we found growing on my mom's parsley plant.  We ended up finding about 6 caterpillars.

At first we put them in a jar, but realized that with 6 of them we needed a bigger home.

 Here is the upgraded home!

Here is one of our beautiful butterflies.  They are black swallowtails.

 This is one right before we let it go.



There are still two more butterflies who haven't emerged yet.  I guess we will keep waiting for them!

Camping with Daddy

Glade and Tim took our camper out for the first time last month. (I know I am not being very good blogger lately) They met Tim's brother Rob and his son Corbin at Ray Robert's State Park.

Glade helped get the camper set up.

 He enjoyed fishing with his new fishing pole...until Daddy cast it and lost his fishy!

 This boy LOVES to go fishing now!

 He and Corbin had a great time together.

This is what happened on the way home.  He was sound asleep when they got here!

The first trip in the camper was a success.  Unfortunately, it also resulted in the camper being broken.  We set it up on the street to dry out since it rained while they were there.  When we went to put it up, it wouldn't come down.  We had to call someone to come out and fix it.  So now that we have a new part we are good to go for camping in a couple weeks!

Girl's Night Out

While the boys were camping, Addison and I had some good girl time!  We started the night by getting pedicures.

She loved her very own butterfly chair!

 She loved every minute of the nail place.  I was worried that she would get nervous, but she didn't.  Even when they stuck her feet in bags of wax.  Yes, Addison got a parafin wax for her feet. 

 The result...purple polish with white flowers.

 After getting our nails done we went to dinner.  Addison requested chips and salsa.  So mexican it was.  She make this momma proud with her love of tex-mex.

 Photo by Addison

 Dinner picture

 After dinner we went to the new yogurt place.  Here is what we had.  Addison had chocolate with sprinkles.  Mommy had cheesecake and peanut butter with peanut butter cups.  YUMMY!

 Our toes.

 Then we settled into our pj's for popcorn and a movie in mommy's bed.  She was wide awake through the whole movie.  Me on the other hand had a hard time staying awake.  At one point Addison tapped me and said "You have to open your eyes mommy."  I was tired!

 It was such a fun way to spend our time together.  I hope we can do this again!  She loved her time with me and I loved it with her! (well except for the wiggle worm part while she sleeps!)