Memorial day, belly's, remodels and guns

Yeah, I guess we've had a lot going on.  I'll start with memorial day.....or was it Christmas?  We went up the my parents cabin and it was cold and snowy the whole time.  No lounging in the sun for us.  Kate's all dressed up in her winter duds.

 This was her favorite part of the whole trip......splashing in the mud puddles.  I don't think her shoes, or pants will ever be the same.  But she sure had fun.

 We got to go on some wet 4-wheeler rides.....

  and feed the squirrels.

 My sister gave us a bag of clothes to bring home with us.  Inside was a bat costume.  Josh wore it for 2 days straight, not even bothering to take it off to sleep in.  Yep you heard that right. 

 And this little chub-o I can't resist taking pictures of.  All of Rachel's summer clothes when she was a baby were for 12 months.  Kate's 16 months and has a much bigger belly than Rach ever did so let's just say some things are hanging out and don't quite fit. 

 We also got a new roof this week.  Our's was starting to wear out and we had a few shingles blow off in a huge windstorm a few weeks ago.  We decided that we might as well get it done now before we have any real damage or problems.  I think it looks great and the best part is.....we hired it out so it only took 3 days, they cleaned up the mess and Trav didn't have to risk his life on our super-steep roof.  After having to roof our old house and Trav doing it himself this way was much faster. 

Here is a project that he did do and has been working on for months.   Here's the before:

 

During

 

And After

 He is so awesome.  What a handy husband.

Then last week we went and shot some guns with my brother-and-sister-in-law.  They have tons of guns and he has access to a shooting range in West Bountiful so we got to try a few out. I realize now that we didn't take too many pictures while we were there.  Hopefully my sister-in-law got some.  Here's Josh's Shrek ears with the ear plugs.

And then the weirdest thing....there were some cones in the middle of the parking lot so we went over to see what was there and can you see it?

That's a nest made out of pebbles and the eggs look like rocks.  I know I'm not a bird but if I were in an egg I think I would want fluffy stuff to sit on. I don't know, that's just me.  I'm glad the cones were there, otherwise I would have missed it.

Here's another big belly shot.

Josh and Rach even took a few shots.

 

And now summer has officially begun.