cousins reunited in yarnell. tear drop, movies, and shucking corn.

thursday, july 29, 2010. after maaa... and levi went down to watch espen yesterday, he came back with them to wickenburg. the kiddos chose to stay the night there, so maaa... brought them to yarnell this morning.

seriously? LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER. when maaa... brought the boys over this morning and i noticed she and i had the same exact pants on and we both chose to wear a turquoise shirt. too crazy. she's so cute!!!

abraham hadn't seen espen in over a month. i wasn't sure how they were all going to get along after not seeing each other so long, but they did ok. the bigger boys kind of ignored abey a bit, but when levi was off doing his own thing, which doesn't happen very often, espen and abe would toot around together.

the kiddos watching a movie.

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joshua bought us sweet corn. the boys tried to use tools to shuck it.

grandpa showing espen how to shuck.

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espen and his uncle.

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abraham found g'pa's glasses.

all done cookin'.

buttering.

i wanted to get a pic of the boys watching a movie before bed. espen closed his eyes because he said sometimes the flash hurts his eyes.

then for some reason abraham started covering his ears and levi had his hand near his mouth...

...so i had the boys do "speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil."

abraham's has food poisoning, we think, we hope. oh, and a...(you have to read the post.)

monday, july 26, 2010. YESTERDAY abraham woke up from his nap and was talking gibberish. i think he was still dreaming. i just held him and all of a sudden he peed all over me! he felt a little warm too. we took a bath and he seemed better. then we went to go check out the TEAR DROP TRAILER. g'pa pulled it down and set up the tent that attaches to it. it was raining so levi, abraham and i were keeping dry inside it and abraham ended up falling back asleep. maaa...left for wickenburg and poppy left shortly thereafter. so, joshua moved abraham inside to the downstairs futon. he didn't sleep long. he woke up and PUKED all over!!! we were so not expecting that. he started to have a FEVER, but NEVER THREW UP AGAIN. so today we took it easy and chalked it up to his eating ruby red grapefruit that had EXPIRED 7 MONTHS PRIOR! and the mac-n-cheese that expired that day. grandpa was the only other person to eat the grapefruit, but he was fine. poppy and maaa...decided to not come back to yarnell today. they wanted to wait and see if any of us end up getting what he had. fortunately we didn't!!!

the boys on the rock outside the front window.

i just watched them. they were pointing things out to each other. i couldn't hear them, but it looked like a serious CONVERSATION and they were getting along so well.

levi must have sensed me through the window and turned around.

abraham, levi, and the triangle.

the boys and i went for a walk around the property while joshua was on another expedition.

this is what we found!!! a TARANTULA.

we followed him all over the place. this shows how big he is compared to cement blocks.

quite a few creepy crawlies around here lately.