Turning 5

 Little I woke up to balloons on his 5th Birthday! He came downstairs to see everything was set up for his big birthday dinner with the family.By this time, you could see the pure excitement in his eyes.We decided to have him a Birthday party at his school. This way all his little friends could be there without inconviencing the parents and nobody had to feel obligated to buy presents. It worked out great...we had the party during lunch time and we brought pizza, fruit, drinks and cupcakes. That evening we had family over for a Birthday dinner which was super funHappy 5th Birthday Little I!

So Thankful

I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with the most sweetest little boy in the whole world! Little I has a warm smile and a big helpful heart. He never complains or gets jealous about sharing his mom and dad with orphans, he is always excited about someone new moving in. He gives his best to others and takes second best by his own choice. This Thanksgiving he learned about pilgrims and indians and decided for his Thanksgiving feast at school he wanted to be a pilgrim. The cutest little pilgrim I ever did see <3

First Day of Pre K

My little boy is growing up so fast,

He instantly got shy as soon as we got to school,

He had been excited for weeks to carry his batman backpack

He sat down right away and started his daily assignment that was waiting for him at his chair...Wow!Where has the time gone??

We started the week at Raystown Lake! Here are my boys doing their popeye pose.

My tankini girl playin in the sand...

Raystown Lake is a beautiful place to camp. The resort we stay at also has a lodge that rents rooms that overlook the lake, cabins, beach bungalows and Villas.

It was a full moon and it would slowly rise above the mountain and make its grand arrival every night we were there, so beautiful.

This week for daycare we made a homemade slip and slide. We used tarps to pad underneath and painters plastic on top.

We added a whole lot of dish soap to make it slick...wow did we slide!!!!

We clamped the hose on a ladder and left it on mist, just to add enough water to make the soap slippery....

We also pulled out our blueberries we froze a month ago. i was so happy with the result, they stayed round, not smooshed and they seperated. We added sugar and ate them with lunch and added them to our pancakes...so yummy!

Today we made a campfire chicken... We took bricks and made a dutch oven on the side of the campfire, just by stacking them.

Then I took a whole chicken, rinsed it, and put big pieces of onion inside it cavity. Seasoned the outside with Lowerys seasoning salt and wrapped in heavy duty tin foil and sat inside the bricks.

I forgot to get a picture of the end result because we were so hungry to eat it, by the time i remembered it, there was hardly any left...yum!

Canning Peaches and Makin Jam

Just another day with the kids being rotten and getting into everything....

Ole Milly layin on her eggs....

The bees hovering over the Russian Sage.....

and the house filled with the smell of sweet peaches.....

Gardening

Our tomatoes are finally starting to come in. My plan is to cook up a pot full, every time I pick and put into jars. Carly my calico loves spending time with me in my garden.

The heat wave was really drying out the tomato plants, so I decided to straw them heavily to hold in the moisture. I did the same with my squash and cucumber plants.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.  ~Lou Erickson