Family Portrait
mourning dove
It’s My Birthday!
Today is, as Moose put it, my 5th 39th birthday. We started the day by taking a peek at the rapidly-growing mourning dove squabs in our tree:
We were out early due to the excessive heat warning I was gifted for my birthday. There was only one thing I really wanted to do out of the house…visit a spray park. We ended up driving up to a really nice one in Edwardsville because it was open early, and had fun playing in the water before it got too hot!
When we got home, I opened my presents…I received some very nice things from my family!
Of course I played Animal Crossing New Horizons, and for the second year in a row, Roald came to my party!
The rest of the day was pretty chill…we watched some of my favorite movies (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, A League of Their Own, and White Christmas), had my favorite frozen pizza for dinner (Home Run Inn), and enjoyed the beautiful birthday cake (with 43 candles) the girls made for me:
In spite of the heat, I had a fantastic birthday…and that’s just the start of the fun this week!
The New Neighbors
We’re in love with our new neighbors!
Ryan is much braver than I am…he climbed a ladder just to get some pictures of the mama with her babies. They’re the nicest birds!
They Grow Up So Fast!
Last week on the way out of church, we noticed a bird sitting on a nest in a tree, and we even saw a little wing peeking out from underneath her. Yesterday, we walked by the same nest, and were shocked at how much the two baby birds had grown in just a week…they hardly even fit in the nest anymore!
I’m also a little shocked at how fast my children have grown up…time certainly does fly!
The Church Dove
After church this morning, I happened to look into a tree across the street from the building, and spotted this mourning dove sitting in her nest…and if you look closely, you can see a small wing peeking out from underneath her!
