May Showers, Flowers, and Fun!

It has been a wonderful May for our Lindsay group. There has been gardening, kite-flying, babysitting, James' 2nd birthday, three bad cases of pinkeye, lots of projects and mischief in the house, and plenty of fun in the sun. Please enjoy the pics and videos and drop us a line, we'd love to here from you. Also note that some videos are only on Facebook, so check out Mike's video files.

James getting a hair cut.

Mommy came into the kitchen and found James 'cooking'.

A few days later I found James cooking again. Maybe we should get a child lock for the fridge.

Playing in the sand box.

Book signing with Colin Powell.

Playing at the park.

In the backyard.

 

More backyard.

 

Playing with birthday toys.

 

James loved his cake.

 

toys...

 

toys...

toys...

and more toys!

James loves water guns, and has finally figured out how to use them. He is a pretty good shot!

Flying kites in windy May weather.

 

Watching movies with some friends.

 

Falling asleep coming home from church... we thought the shoes on the hands was pretty cute.

 

My mother's day gifts... a sewing machine and thread kit. Yeah! Mike did a wonderful job wrapping with the left over moving paper:)

Working with Daddy, one of James's favorite things to do.

 

More work.

 

Don't worry... there is a cover on the razor.

toe 'jam', anyone.

Saturday in Nashville

          Saturday the April 28th was a beautiful day for us here at Ft. Campbell, and so we decided to go down to Nashville for a morning session at the Temple and an afternoon visit the Zoo. Our last zoo trip, though at sub-freezing temperatures, was a ton of fun. It was however much too cold for the elephants to come out, and they are James favorite. This time the weather was perfect. The Nashville Zoo is a good moderate size compared to St Louis, but the best part in our opinion was that the near majority of the walking paths are shaded with trees, bamboos, etc. Two big thumbs up from our fair-skinned entourage. Many of the Zoo pictures are on different media, but by the time this is posted and videos are loaded, you'll get a full glimpse of it all. Enjoy!
 

 

 





 



 



 



 

 



 

Springtime News

Well everyone, spring is here (rain and shine) and we wanted to give an update and share news. The most exciting news.... we are expecting Baby Number 2 in October! We are so excited! Allie is fourteen weeks along. When we learn the sex of the baby we will let you know.  Mike's unit is deploying in late August or early September. We are sad that he will likely miss the baby being born, but we are holding out for a command decision that will allow him to come home for the birth.

James is chatty and full of energy. Each morning he insists on watching Ratatouille. Despite our efforts, it is the only movie he will sit through. Allies has it nearly memorized. Even the french dialogue! Allie has a calling as the Primary Secretary and Mike has been bounced around in nursery and sub-ing in primary, with no calling yet beyond home teaching. C'est l'eglise. He says not being set apart isn't fair...cause he is missing divine qualification and that extra energy for Sundays;)

While Mike was in Colorado with his unit for the past 3 weeks, Allie and James spent Easter weekend in IL with Mikes family for a b-day, baptism, baby blessing extravaganza. It was wonderful to meet our new newphew/cousin and visit with family. Mike says training was exactly that...training. Being a chemical officer assigned to an aviation unit can be demanding. Mike has to do his CBRN duties on the side of/in addition to being a fulltime aviation operations officer. All with no formal background or training in aviation. But he is rocking it anyway... doing great, as always!

We are currently enjoying the last day of a 4-day weekend. The weather Saturday was not good for our planned zoo trip, but that didn't stop Mike from working on the garden and James' new sandbox. We had to put up chickenwire because something was eating our squash, cucumbers, and potatoes. We think it was rabbits. In the pictures you'll see Mike's 'addition' to the house. He calls it "the Box". Allie calls it the "Lindsays Land of Sand". It weighs about 1200 pounds. How we are gonna move with it??? We'll worry about moving it when the time comes. The plastic turtle at walmart just wasn't big enough. Our prayers and thought go out to you. Enjoy the pics.



Helping Dad with the Stud-Finder

NUMBER 2 !!!

Chilling with cousin Cora

Out the back of a CH-47F

Soo may to choose from...

On the swings.

Such a smart little boy. I can match shapes.

At the park.

"the Box"

I still need to paint the sides. I think red-wagon red would be perfect.

Papa Craig's Dirt-dirts

DIRT-DIRT's!!!!

Grampa Charles B-day cake, too good for forks!

And by the sweat of thy brow...

One of the first features of our house that we fell in love with was the backyard. We firmly believe in being productive, working hard, and returning 10 when the Lord gives us 5. We know how blessed we are and want to tend the beautiful garden our Heavenly Father has given us.

This Saturday was a big project day for us. I missed photos of the box construction, but Mike and James worked hard building planters and clearing grass out of where our veggie garden will be. Mike also is building quite the sandbox for James. Allie is going to get wildflowers along the back of the fence, and next week we will start the landscaping in the front yard.

In return for doing most of the labor, Mike is steadily expanding his tools/equipment. He says his building, fixing, crafting is his own game of golf. Plus he absolutely loves going to Lowes. Thats where we got our livingroom rugs. He says it all started with the Heckingers woodsection. Enjoy the pictures!!