we're back!

Ok, so we have been hiding out a bit over here in good ol ND. we got home from WA just fine. My mom kindly offered to drive me and the boys back home. I am so blessed to have such a kind family who is so generous with their time and love for me and my boys! Each time Max deploys they open their doors to a loud and crazy bunch of gordon's, and are so patient with us as we completely take over their house and lives for a few months.
When we got back here, we settled in just fine and the boys played with all their toys as if they had never seen them! it was nice and they were content. we have been enjoying the nice weather (until last week anyway) and spent a lot of our time outside and doing things that we won't be doing during winter. Family bike rides, walks, lazy afternoons spent in the yard watching the boys get dirty, flying kites and going to the park are all things we won't be doing for a few months. winter here is LONG, so we were trying to squeeze every last drop out of the weather that we could. then our upstairs computer video card gave out. max spent several hours over a few days trying to figure out the problem, and I was able to enjoy watching him do "man" work by trying to fix it. all of these are lame attempts to excuse the fact that I have neglected the blog.
shortly after max came back we went to the children's museum in Fargo. it's basically a large house set up with all sorts of kids things and science experiment type stuff. here's a few photos:

the painting area. asher was shopping for snakes.



this is a giant human heart, and a creepy kid mannequin place there for.....ambience?



here's bub looking through a magnafying glass at the indoor behive:



GIANT FACE!



Here's Bucka beaver (bright named it). it washed up in the big flood of last spring, the museum thought they should stuff it and display it for kids. Asher touched almost every inch of it, Bright was only interested in the teeth. this photo is bub contemplating the name, and a sweet fatherly photo of max.



We had a hail storm, it came on very quickly. I was at target at the time and by the time I got home, and got the camera, some of the hail had melted, but here's a good sample size of the hail we expereinced:



Asher wearing Cars slippers that Bright wore at his age:



Here's daddy and asher playing guitar:




Coming up: photos of our trip to the winnipeg zoo, and some cute bathtime pics of the boys.