Backyard Zoo

This guy in Tyndall has this awesome backyard full of exotic animals that you don't usually run into outside of a zoo! We want on a walk with our friends yesterday to enjoy the weather and went to visit the animals. Fortunately, the owner was home and he gave us a personal tour! He had peacocks, camels, mini donkeys, and other things I can't even remember! But Cache had fun looking at all the different animals. I guess he's old enough for a petting zoo! He got to help feed them treats too! The guy used to have a wallaby, but he's had bad luck with them so he didn't have him anymore.

Night shifts...

Well, here I am working a night shift, and trying to stay awake (so hard!!) but it's midnight and half over, so I'm on the downhill slide. I just had a few pictures that I thought would be nice to share since they are cute and fun....and I have time between checking on patients and studying for TNCC (trauma nurse core course).

Snuggly morning. I couldn't resist

Cache helping shovel the deck! He actually did that whole section :)

Enjoying the snow...before he got too cold

He is such a big helper. Here he is helping daddy while he works on the electrical. He's handing him anchors...faster than he can use them :)

That's all for now! Back to studying!

Fun with boxes!

Who needs toys when you have huge boxes? A friend brought over these huge boxes he salvaged from the recycle at his work. Of course cache loved them just as they were...boxes...but I wanted to be creative. So they turned into little buildings! It was a fun activity while we were watching Tyler. :)

Heat Wave in January!

It was an unusually warm day for January, here in Tyndall. It got as high as 65! What is going on? In the morning Cache helped me paint the fireplace room. Mostly he just ran around with the spraying vacuum attachment saying, "TSH, TSH" like he was imitating a spraying sound.

Before getting dressed

All dressed! Doesn't he look like a mini man?!

Checking himself out in the mirror

Then we headed to the park! He got to ride in his wagon today! Lots of fun and all the other  kids at the park were curious about it too. :)

Such a cutie :)

Going down the slides like a big boy!

Sioux Falls Science Center

We had time on Tuesday and needed to head to Sioux Falls to do some shopping and it was fortunate that my friend Jill  and her son Tyler were able to go with us. We actually got a lot accomplished and even ate at the Pancake House, a first for us, and it was a hit! Who doesn't like pancakes. :) After a long day of shopping (thankfully both the boys napped on the way down) we headed to the Science Center there in Sioux Falls to let the kids run around and have fun. It was a really cute place and even though 1 of the 3 floors was closed, it was worth it to see them have so much fun! I have to say that it is totally a different experience as a parent. :)

Watching the hot air balloon go up!

Tyler playing at the water table

I caught a fish!

Cache being an astronaut...from behind...

He just LOVED this keyboard! It lit up and played notes as he ran across! He spent the most time here...

Bottom of the race track!

Ready, set, GO!

Cache Astronaut from the front

Happy new year!

So to start off the new year with a bang, Jared decided to give us a little scare. We have been collecting firewood for obvious reasons so today we went out with the goal of getting the rest of what we need for next winter. Of course being that it's January, it was COLD! 19 degrees with a breeze to be exact! So Cache sort most of the time in the warm truck playing with knobs and steering wheels. I came out to help when I could and went back to defrost when I was frozen. What do I find when I come out one of those times? Jared pulling at his pants...and the brand new holes he put in it with the chainsaw!! Thank goodness for flannel lined pants! It went through both layers of pants and his underwear but didn't touch his skin! Someone was sure watching over him. Here's to keeping our legs attached!