Yeah, I'm an idiot.

So today we stopped off at the flower store, and got my mom some Mother's Day flowers. The nice lady at the flower store gave the boys each a red carnation too. Jake proclaimed today, "Boy's day!" and was absolutely thrilled. Danny was thrilled too, until he broke his flower on the way out, and had a fit. My Dad taped it back together when we got there and all was well again.

Since my parents live out of the city, I usually drag the boys for a drive down a few country roads on our way home, to see what we can see, and so I can take pictures. So we find a few cool shorebirds, and one in particular that wasn't the least bit shy. I take a bunch of pictures, and we head home. I upload them onto the computer and realize that I had neglected to change my camera settings from manual to auto when I switched out the lens. The pictures are so overexposed that no amount of photoshopping is going to save them. Sigh.

We did head out to Johnson's Lake last weekend, for a picnic and a hike, so I'll share a couple of pictures from there.

The ice receeding:


The crocus's blooming:


Boys being boys: