Something, Something in the Month of May

The garden is starting to go somewhere... strawberries, string beans, onions, carrots, no tomatoes, 

My girls:

The Maquoketa Caves!

Spooky...

Cold, wet, and claustrophobic... who doesn't want to crawl around in a cave?

The muddy explorers made it out alive!

Our 1967 water heater developed a slow leak, so we ended up replacing it with a lot of help from Curtis:

We've walked over 150 miles catching Pokemon downtown...

Cynthia's birthday! Thirtysomething, I think.

Rose helped me make a birthday cake using only fruit:

Happy Birthday, Cynthia!

I like riding my bike on the mountain bike trails at Beverly Park. Really difficult (and dangerous) to take pictures while riding, though:

April

So we're going to try planting stuff this year... not off to a super strong start, but we'll see. Tomatoes are supposed to be easy to grow, although we've tried growing them twice so far and each round has sprouted and then promptly died. Who's got green thumbs? WE DO.

Helped Dave swap out the engine in his new project truck.

Easter at the Conrad's:

Then decorating eggs at home:

We tried out the Quarter Barrel... not so much with the pizza, but the atmosphere and rad refurbished 80s arcade games made up for it!

Hey, You're Not Irish, Pt 3

Emily's 9th birthday!

Even though we aren't neighbors with John and Roxi, we still got invited to the party.