We kicked off tonight's season opener by running to Dairy Queen before Nick and Cullen headed into the tent for the night. 
As much as I would love to camp out with them, I am sitting this years opening day out. I need a good night sleep to keep up with this pace I've got going.
From what I can tell Geremu has Nick's hairline and my sparkling personality!
On a completely different note, I have a temporary roommate living at my house. I told her that I wasn't even going to talk about her on the blog until after I had gone into her bedroom at night and took a few picture of her sleeping to post. It's Katherine (close family friend I grew-up with) she graduated this past December and has been subbing in this area of the state. The lease on her apartment was up last weekend and she wanted to finish the school year subbing. Since she is teaching summer school in Madison she will be moving out shortly. It's been so nice & fun having her around!
I've been really busy these past few days, next week is the last week of school for us and I won't be there so I have a lot of extra (sub and grading) stuff I need to take care of before we leave. I really should be working on something else right now- I'd best get a move on.
When Cullen gets angry about something, like not getting "marmellos" (marshmallows), he now hides out in the kitchen cabinet to get away.
We've been spending a bit of time on Cullen and Geremu's bedroom, Bob aka Cullen has been a huge help. He mostly walks around saying, "yes we can".
After all that excitment Nick took Cullen outside to play. This was the scene from my kitchen window minutes later. 
I'm not sure who's idea this was but Cullen was hiding in his "house" with an unbrella for a partial roof and Nick was spraying the hose like it was raining outside. Cullen ended up a bit wet but he was loving every minute.
On a completely different note it was twins day at school. My friend Michelle and me were twins. Michelle is the one on the right and I'm on the left in the picture, I thought I best explain who is who since we look so much alike. Tomorrow isn't twins day but we are going to dress alike again, I'm not so sure people will even notice, seriously.
There is a mistake on the birth certificate but assuming that it's fixed and we get state clearance we should be in Ethiopia to pick Geremu up June 5th. Everyone cross your fingers that everything is fixed soon- I hate hanging in limbo. In the mean time we were told to go ahead and put tickets on hold for our flight! This couldn't have come at a more perfect time! Some stats for you folks, since Feb. 21 Geremu has grown 2 inches and gained almost 5 lbs he is now in the 15-20% on the American growth chart.
My sister Colleen and Mom were also was in town visiting with our grandparents so it was nice to see them. Colleen is done with school for the year and headed to camp this next week, I don't know if we will get a chance to see her this summer so it was nice to spend a little time with her.
Below are a few other pictures of our Saturday, Bob S. was supervising as Nick grilled out. 
Sisters
G'ma Great Nita and Cullen
This is just outside the place we ate at, it was a beautiful day!
Cullen loves to race, he talked both Patrick and his friend into racing him around the house.
This is Cullen's little jeep that doesn't run because we need a new battery, which is probably a good thing after seeing him try to steer his bike. Cullen still likes to take this for a ride daily and since it doesn't run I am usually the one that ends up pushing him around the yard. Fortunately, today I didn't have to push. Cullen found it pretty funny that he ran over Patrick's foot. After Patrick left he kept telling me, "I go bump and Patrick say ouch" then he would kill himself laughing.
Besides breakfast I also got my car hosed down from Cullen and an oil change from Nick, some how they knew just what I wanted!
When I started to re-do Cullen and Geremu's new bedroom we decided it would probably be a good time to move Cullen from his crib to a big boy bed. When we put Cullen's new bed in his room we also put a toddler bed in there for Geremu. Cullen never had a toddler bed but has sort of taken a liking to Geremu's. Once to twice a week he likes to plant his butt in Geremu's bed and sleep there. I have told him many times that it's Geremu's bed and he always responds with, "I just keepin' it warm". Last night he fell out of Geremu's bed and never even woke up. So I just went into his room and covered him up on the ground, I was afraid if I attempted to move him then he would wake up. Anyways, this morning when Nick went to shower he must have woken Cullen because when he got out of the bathroom Cullen had moved himself back into his bed and had fallen back asleep.
Although it may look like Cullen is getting pony rides around the yard from Nick what is actually happening is Nick is picking dandelions (and Cullen is riding along). This may be the craziest of my husbands traits- he doesn't like to use weed killer or anything to fertilize the lawn because it can pollute the earth but he is willing to spend minutes and sometimes hours picking weeds- I'm not kidding.
We live in a neighborhood where everyone has a beautiful lawns. Pretty much everyone uses a lawn service. We have had neighbors give us the number of their lawn service. I've actually called and had them come to our house but when Nick found out they wanted to "treat" the lawn with chemicals that was the end of considering a lawn care service. Apparently he was looking for someone that was willing to pick all the weeds and dandelions on their hands and knees for a small fee.
I'm sorry to admit I use to help him with his obsession before we had kids. I'm the one that initially purchased the "weed puller". But after pulling both of my hamstrings doing this I called it quits. Nick has improved his technique by crawling around the yard to prevent such injuries from happening to him. I don't think he liked the way I was pulling the weeds either because he would sometimes mention that I didn't get the root- again I'm not kidding.
On a completely different topic Nick and Cullen were outside washing out the fish bowl and Cullen dropped the bowl on the driveway. Thankfully Nemo wasn't in his bowl, Nemo now has a new home.
