This isn't Kansas, you know!

This June in Colorado has been wild & crazy!   Lots of thunderstorms & rain...& a couple tornado warnings.  Last week, we had one of those warnings.  Bergen heard it on the radio.   He immediately gathered all the kiddos & the dog & went to the basement.   I was upstairs & suddenly they were gone.  He'd be a great Boy Scout.  

He had also grabbed his 'special' things & stuffed them into his pillowcase.  I was curious what he would have grabbed.  I wonder what I would have grabbed. 

He had his 'animals,' his library books (don't want those to get damaged!), his pillow, his Snoopy bag & his dictionary.  His dictionary!?   I asked him about not having his Bible....."I forgot," was his response.    I wonder if that would have been something I would have forgot also?

What would you have grabbed?

Spring has sprung & then some....

No, I haven't forgotten how to post a blog....we haven't had 'nothing' going on....I just haven't felt motivated. GASP! How can that be? Well, with four kids roaming around this house, blogging (& facebooking, for that matter) have taken a WAY back burner.

But today, I have decided to jump back on the wagon....ha ha. Spring in Colorado has been nice (& a big stormy with a couple of tornado warnings to sit out). The green has returned to Greeley & I love it! Our garden is planted & the grass is getting mowed on a regular basis. Here are some pictures of what has happened up until now to catch you up on The Jacobsen Nation.

We went to the park to play...a park in Loveland. Bergen is posing here on the cannon at the park...DJ used to play on it when he was a kid....

We got LOTS of snow on our daffodils....

We had a wacky April Fool's breakfast.....eggs & toast? I think not! I got all the kids with this one!

We acted silly....

We colored eggs....

This was Melissa's first egg ever to color....or "balls" as she called them...

Much to the chagrin of the boys, we dressed up....

We did school.....

Mallory's reading skills improved SO much! She started reading to her brother.

We acted silly some more.....

We licked a beater...

Hatch played soccer (when the weather would let us).

Mallory posed pretty....

Hatch took Melissa for a ride on our cousin's ATV......

DJ & Jynelle went for a ride of their own....

DJ looked cool....always.

Hatch ate cake & got a soccer trophy...

Bergen played soccer.....& itched his ear!

Melissa ran around.....

Hatch gave me a good shot....

Melissa hung out with Ohmi LeeLou

Hatch went "swimming"...notice the size of the pool to the size of his swimming gear.....

We planted our garden....

We played in the mud!

We went & saw a very cute play where Bergen played Olley Oak Tree!

& some of us wrestled with Papa Doug....

We also sanded down our wood floors, stained them, sanded them again & stained them again & finally covered them with varnish......LONG story......painful too, but I'm sure DJ would LOVE to tell it....(yes, it was my fault).

Spring has been fun & there is more fun to come this summer.....& maybe I'm back on the blogging wagon for awhile.....or maybe not.