This is such a LATE post...but I still want these pictures for when I make my blog into a book (whenever I get time to work on that....maybe when my last kid graduates high school. ha!)


So what we have here are a few photos from Kaitlyn's 8th birthday, Adelin's 5th birthday and Easter.


Yeah...I know...that's like forever ago right?

Nov. 3rd 2010....Kaitlyn turned 8! She had a fun party. My friend Alice came and did face painting...and her 1st grade teacher came and sang +played guitar. It was fun. I took more video than photos...and I still don't have any pictures from her baptism. :{



Dec 15, 2010...Adelin turned 5! She loved the doll she got and the tutu's+fairy wings. She had a separate party for friends for her 5th birthday...and I am not sure where the photos are from that!



Easter Sunday 2011. I found these matching suits for the boys right after Christmas. They looked pretty darn cute in them. I tried to get a good shot of all the kids....but either they were being crazy or the lighting was bad! :) I gave up.

Wormy with Kaitlyn at the beavers dam

After playing at Pioneer Park (across the Hwy from us), we walked over to look at the beavers dam. We found that the dam is mostly gone...there must not be any beavers around anymore. But, the kids got their feet wet and Kaitlyn found a cute little friend! I was a tiny little caterpillar....or some caterpillarish type thing.


Did you hear what she said at the end? "Goodbye Wormy! Now you're a movie star!" :)

Daily Activities

I thought I'd post about a few of our Daily Activities.

Today we made ice cream in a bag (click that for details). It's easy...and it actually had a pretty good flavor+consistency! Next time I will be prepared for some add ins (M&M's, Oreos....) It would be a fun summer party activity. Just be prepared to do most of the bag shaking yourself...and for it to take longer than 5 minutes! :) I read that you can also use regular table salt...but we used rock salt.

Yesterday we did noodle art. I put an assortment of noodles on a plate (ziti, spaghetti, rotini, bowtie, fiori) and than I gave the kids another paper plate and they had fun making different faces. When they were done playing around they hot glued the noodles down. I was going to have them paint them when they were done...but they had enough fun without having to get paint involved! Here's a little sample of the kids creativity!

What else have we done? We go to the library every Wednesday. We have racked up a couple of fines due to a page tearing baby....but it's worth it to get out of the house. We also go with a topic (America, plants, food,...) and they look for books on that topic and we get a movie or two on the topic. I totally don't care if they get something on the topic or not...but it does make it seem a little more educational doesn't it? ha!

We've also been on bug hunts, made play dough, went swimming in our Bishops pool, colored patriotic pictures to send to grandparents and did some good ol' fashion running through the sprinklers! We have lots of other things planned...hopefully we will get to do them all...but sometimes life gets in the way...and that's okay! (frustrating...but okay!)