Sunday.

I am kind of out of words today. We went to church, came home and ate. I took a nap. The boys seem to be accumulating energy as the hours pass... I had Jordan take a "rest" as he seems to have contracted the cold from Cohen and Ezra. 

They have been playing "house" upstairs. Lots of coloring, and reading to each other. They had lots of outside time once the rains stopped. Now they get and hour of wii before we wind into the bedtime hours...

Michelle made apple crisp and a double batch of cookies for lunches. She made a batch last night and it was eaten in an hour. 

My faithful assistant!

We did have to re-institute the "laps around the house" activity. 5 seems to be a good number. For starters....

Fess up Sunday?

I wrote a bus pass for Karen Rinehart. Michelle was able to use it and get on the bus. The driver never even looked at it. 

We have not eaten ANY Cheerios for breakfast, so I told them it was FINE to have them for dinner, as we had hot breakfast, so what does it matter if you eat them early or late...

Have fun and I am SO happy everyone survived skydiving. 

Saturday. Soccer. Sun.

Today started as usual, EARLY. I don't mind as I am usually up by 5 or 6. So I get a quiet hour before 7. 

I started in the kitchen at 7 with Dutch babies and JUST left it at 7pm. 

I had a turkey in Jana's freezer and decided to thaw that out the other day, which seemed a great idea at the time. So I baked a turkey, made 10 pints of green tomato salsa, and 20 quarts of Italian tomato sauce. While the turkey was roasting. 

Grampa took all the boys to Eli's soccer game. They lost 2-1. But that gave me a FREE hour! They picked up Michelle on the way home. We had lunch and the kids played games. 

Then Grampa took them all for a walk out back to the pond, so I could have a quick nap. I am a much happier person with a 20 minute siesta. I gave Michelle and Josiah the camera today. they did great. Josiah came back with pictures of 25 farm implements! They found another frog and a dragonfly. And of course pockets full of rocks. 

Jana and Danny came to dinner to help us eat the Turkey. The kids played and played out side. Then I grabbed them in one by one and sent them to shower! They are watching a Looney Tune and then off to bed! 

Ezra could NOT take his eyes off Grampa's mashed potatoes! 

It was a really good day. No homework to worry about, etc. Very fun just playing. Michelle made peanut butter cookies and played with Ezra. 

It's FRIDAY we get to stay up LATE!!! ????

It's Friday- all ready! Josiah said, "It's FRIDAY! we get to stay up LATE!" hmmm O.K. That's like 9:30, right? 

Michelle was off to the bus, in the dark again. She had no practice after school because they did so well at their game, coach gave them the day off. So she got to ride home on the bus for the first time. 

It is beginning to be VERY fall! 

Reminds me of the old days...

The boys left on the next shift. 

There was only ONE cow that was impressed with the favorite bus stop game, "kill each other with your backpack" 

In the afternoon we had a visit from our favorite 2 yr old and his mother. He had a fine time outside with Grampa, and found a beetle, grasshopper, bugs and a frog. They had snack time outside, with JANA?

Move over guys! 

We cleaned out the garden and dug the potatoes, picked squash, carrots, cabbage, and onions. Also finished up the tomatoes. Gramma will be busy tomorrow. 

Grasshopper Hunting

Dinner potatoes! 

The boys have spent the past 3 days counting my "money". Dividing it up into cups and labeling the $ in each cup. (this is a jar I put all my change in.)  They think it is a fortune and is is fun to listen to the ways that they think they can tap into this fortune. the most recent was Josiah, who thought since they had counted it all, we could divide it in half and I could KEEP half my money and the 4 of them could divide up the rest. That sounds fair. ???

It has been awesome to have my personal recycling facilitator on site. Saves me a lot of steps. 

After dinner I took Michelle to see a friend and the boys put together 2 United States puzzles. I found some stuff at the Thrift store that was new to them and seems to be working for some quiet entertainment. The price was right! 

I saw this in town today:

By the cemetery there USED to be these HUGE 80-100 ft fir trees. I drove in and did a double take because I thought it was giant cactus and I knew I was in the wrong state for that. They were cutting down all those HUGE trees behind the cemetery in the driveway to Lynden Meat. This guy was WAY up there! 

Happy Friday. Congrats on the two WINS Josh and Joel!! 

Thursday

They were all up early. I got Michelle up at 5:45 to be out at the bus, in the dark, at 6:30. The boys know NOT to put in an appearance till 7 am and all sleep with a clock. 

The early risers club. 

Their bus comes about 8. After yesterday at school, I wanted them to be ready and OUT there as she does not usually stop here ad is flying by the time she does go by. They were all out there waving their blue bus passes. 

Early release. The bus ride was not as long as it used to be! Only 30 minutes. 

Michelle got off the bus just as I was coming home from Bible Study. She finished her homework. The boys came and hour later. We ran Michelle in for practice and came back for a bit. Then all went to her came at 4. She got a hit, after the coach told her if she was going to swing, swing HARD! So she did and got a nice base hit. She stole 2nd and 3rd on an overthrow from the next batter and stole home on a wild pitch. She was out by inches. They won 13-2.  

The blog is doing it's own thing today, so all I can do is put the photos in a pile and use whatever font it decides I can.... BUT It's FRIDAY!!!!!

Michelle is #18 in the middle

The Fans!! It was hot so they were down to T shirts! 

Michelle did great. I was really proud of her and did my best to embarrass her with lots of pictures! 

Jordan went to football with Grampa. Then they were all home about 7:30 enough time for stories and ice cream. We had dinner in the car on the way to the game. They were all in bed by 8. we had a few too many "not listening" and "Gramma has had to say "STOP" WAY too many times today", events. Besides I was tired! HA HA HA

Michelle and I watched a "Chopped" and we were all in bed!!