Fish Tank

Well, we finally gave in and got the fish tank!  Connor earned his fish tank by sleeping in his bed for an entire month.  Yup, bribery works.  And he is still sleeping in his bed every night.  Dylan, on the other hand, not so much.  I think Dylan is holding our for a puppy, which will never happen!

Here are some pictures.  My apologies, all the pictures were taken with the phone, so not the best quality.  And the fish swim too fast to get more pictures of them.

As you can see, it is complete with not just one dinosaur, but two.  Of course.  And a shark wearing red sunglasses.  Gotta love it.

We have 10 fish.  The fun part for the boys was naming them:

1. Buddy Dinosaur (zebra danio)

2. TuTu (zebra danio)

3. Frank (zebra danio)

4. Hotdog (Albino Cory Catfish)

5. Ladybug (Dwarf Gourami, male)

6. Target (Rosy Barb, male)

7. Costco (Rosy Barb, female)

8. Starbucks (Rosy Barb, female)

9. Meatball (Peppered Cory Catfish)

10. Sunglasses (Green Cory Catfish)

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Garden Update

 We planted a new plant (I think it was a sunflower that Connor planted & brought home from school) in place of our cantelope plant didn't quite make it.  BUT good news is almost everything else looks pretty good.  Here is the proof...

And the boys were adorable playing in the yard tonight...

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Storms

We have had some big storms here lately.  Lots of rain, thunder, lightening, wind, hail, tornado warnings.  Fun times.  Really Really Really makes me wish we had a basement.

But we make the best of it.  And after the storm passes, we go play in the puddles...

My disclaimer...I don't think I would be able to let the boys run, jump, play, and lay in the water if I wasn't taking pictures of the action.  It is a great distraction, lol.

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Ready for some sweets!!

I am so ready for some (or a lot) of sweets.  Lent is almost over and I am so looking forward to so many delicious & sugary treats. 

Chocolate banana milkshakes, snickers bar, kit kat bar, chocolate covered strawberries, brownie batter, hot fudge sundae, and pretty much anything else sounds amazing right now!!!  Just saying...

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Crazy about Easter eggs!

Connor got to choose how he wanted the eggs dyed this year.  Of course, he wanted dino eggs, I couldn't figure out how to do that, so he settled on Toy Story alien eggs (which turned out super cute) and snorkeling eggs, pretty funny.  Then he made his own dino eggs by drawing on them.  And Dylan attempted to draw on his.  Unfortunately, Dylan doesn't know the meaning of "gentle" and every egg he touched cracked.  Oops.

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