Mission Accomplished!!!

This morning around 10:15, the UPS guy brought the newest addition to our family! Here's Turbo (named after our first turtle)!! He (or she...we're not sure yet) is a baby Ornate Wood Turtle. He was bred and born in captivity. He's very cute, very tiny (like 2 1/4 inches-ish) and is very outgoing! He's a fast runner and has been having fun exploring his tank. Kylie is soooooo happy!!! She read him a story this afternoon! :-) In other news...
~I had poison ivy on my arm. That was fun. UGH! Man, it itched so bad I was ready to tear my skin off!!
~My parents have been here the past 10 days. In fact, they left this morning. (They just called and they're in Tucumcari, NM tonight.) Anyway, we had fun while they were here...except for the fact that Kylie was sick last weekend and Connor was sick yesterday. We went fishing a few times and the kids had a blast! Kylie caught 12 fish and Connor caught 5.

Here are Kylie and Pepaw being silly...

Kylie with just one of the many bluegill she caught...Connor was yelling "I ROCK!" after he brought in this bluegill...~In our quest for a turtle, my dad actually found a huge red-eared slider in the middle of the road and brought him home. He was so pretty, but he was just way to big to keep...and I didn't really want to take a turtle from the wild. So, after the kids got to check him out (and I photographed him of course), we let him go at our neighbor's pond. Here he is...~Here's a toad my mom found in the front flower bed that same day:~Our monarch caterpillars all died! :-( We did everything exactly as they told us to...but none of them made it. 2 of them were big and I was just positive they'd pupate, but they didn't! Even Kylie said "No more monarchs! Painted Ladies are better!" Here's the last caterpillar...~Birds, birds and more birds have been here! The orioles are migrating thru and we've had lots of Baltimores eating grape jelly and oranges! I've gone thru 2 1/2 jars of grape jelly in the last week!! Here's a male...Here's a male Indigo Bunting...

I could post a ton more pictures of birds including the hummingbirds and some others, but they're on my flickr page, so you can go check them out!

Well, I think that's it from here for now! It's spost to be a nice weekend here! Hope you have a nice weekend and are able to get out and enjoy the sunshine!