What's worse than a spider on your front porch?

We have a couple garden spiders that spin these beautiful webs in our yard.  I have a picture of one next to Jayden's hand so you can see how big they get.  How ever one of the garden spiders liked to spin webs on our front porch (front door).   Grandma Lea went to leave one night and almost ran into the spider on her way out.  We took down the web.  The next morning Guy went to leave and the spider had made another web covering the front porch.  Guy dunked under it and went to leave.  He realized he had forgotten something and ran back into the house (forgetting about the spider).  Big mistake.  He ran right into that spider web, finding the spider on the tip of his nose.  He did a cute little dance, removing the spider from his nose.  All I can say is better him than me.  By the way, the spider has not made a web on our front porch since.

And the answer to the question.  What is worse than a spider on your front porch?  A spider on the tip of your nose, of course.

Camping in the play house

Jayden and Daddy camped in the play house.  Jayden was so excited.  They got to stay up late and they watched a movie.  (Even though I don't think watching movies has anything to do with camping.)  But they were not the only ones who stayed up late.  The mosquitos were out too and I think they won.  Jayden had 11 bites on his hand, 10 bites on his face and more bites everywhere else.  Good thing they had fun or else I think all they would remember is their unwanted guests.

We love going outside!.

Jena and Josh love being outside.  We have a sand and water table they played in for the first time.  They splashed and played.  They were up and down.  After about 30 minutes they were dirty and I think their diapers absorbed as much water and mud as they possibly could.  I finally removed the diapers and let them play in their birthday suits.  They had so much fun.

Josh's walk

Poor Josh had roseola this week.  He had a high fever for 5 days and then the rash came.  During the 5 days I thought there was no way it could be roseola because Jena wasn't sick.  They share everything, but on the 6th day the rash came.  At least we finally knew what was wrong.  The end of the week Josh was his old self and practicing walking as you can see in the clip above.

Peek-A-Boo Jena

Jena is our big ham.  She loves to play Peek-A-Boo as in the video above.  She has also made her first sign(sign Language) which is milk.  She waves bye bye and claps her hands.

Josh and Jena's first beach trip

I finally took Jena and Josh to the beach.  I was so afraid they would eat sand, get sun burned, or crawl into the hot sand.  They did really well.  A little sand in their food,  Josh crawled on the boogie board and not the hot sand, and Jena would not keep her hat on and she got just a little pink.  Not too bad.  We went with our friends Brian and Heidi Neville and Janette and all of the kids so I did have lots of help.  Jayden spent most of his time jumping the waves.  I got an action shot of that.

Jayden's photos

Jayden received a camera for his birthday.  He is having tons of fun with it.  But what does a 6 year old take a picture of take a look.