Marbles

Blessed Life II

 continuing with things I am thankful for:                           It is still hard to tell for sure who has the bigger stronger muscles. ;)

 

A nice big sister who helped the little brother make cookies that he was craving so badly. altho'  they made the mistake of trusting their mother to bake them and the cookies were forgotten in the oven until quite brown and crisp.

Family

We are a whole family again.

Prince Phillip

Prince charming stopped at our house the other day. I think he is one of the most handsome gentlemen I have ever seen! I really liked his choice of helmet.

AAaaah!!!

She lost a tooth! Oh my. She can't be old enough to lose a tooth. Where has the time gone. She looks pretty cute though. :)

We love to read

Asterix books are enjoyed by everyone in my family. We borrow them from the library and look at them for hours.

140

One hundred forty skittles later.... We are doing well. But we miss you a lot.
 so yeah, one skittle a day and we are counting down. the jar is not nearly so full. do you realize this means we have only around 40 left!? 40 long days-short days-crazy days- hopeful days-lonely days- fun days.... They will all be all of those. because the last 140 were as well.

Beautiful Days

Last week end we went for a walk by a pond. When we came to a stream with a bridge we thought we probably should play a game of Pooh sticks.
Whenever we happened to find a nice stick we would get it and take it back to the bridge to throw into the water. I thought some of the kids' choices of stick were a little large. especially when we had so far to walk before we got back to the bridge. Molly's did make the biggest splash...

See, we were all there. :)
Who's stick is going to win the race?

Naps

Napping in a tent is way better than napping in ones bed. My baby is so sweet.

Oh yes

Do you know this girl? don't you think she is sweet?

Quotes

Here are a few good quotes from this past year.

"Mom, this is so tasty!" - Lars

"And they lived funly ever after." - Heidi

"I love you." -Molly
"I love you too." - H
"Do you want to get married?" -M
"I will if you be nice." -H
" I will, I'll even share my lion with you."- M

I'm not sure what they were playing with for that one but I'm pretty sure they were in some sort of character.

Bakers Man

Pat a cake,
Pat a cake,
Bakers man,
Bake me a cake,As fast as you can,Roll it and pat it,And mark it with a K, and put it in the oven for the kids and me!

December iris

I transplanted this iris the end of August. Then for some happy reason it decided to bloom this fall in its new home.
It is a little patch of sunshine under my kitchen window.
I am thankful for all my pretty flowers!

Once upon a time....

We had lemonade.
And we liked it very much.
It was so pretty and fun.
We raked tons of pine needles into piles.

We watched Disney on Ice and enjoyed it very much.

Day 28

These are the girls in their new dresses. With their sweet little brother!

8th Day

• We have a table in our school room! We no longer have to do school work at the dinning room table. I am so excited about this. Also if some people are being to loud while other need it quiet we can divide them up.
  
• We went for a short walk today. We walked down to the driveway of our church building and back. We might walk to church this Sunday.
• School went well. We did some stuff with magnets for science today. I really like it that our science curriculum touches on a lot of different kids of science all year long. My kids are to young to have a passion for one type of science. This way they can learn about tons of stuff every year and when they do find something that they love we can start to focus on that one thing then.
• Lars is getting pretty good at riding his little bike.
• I made some chocolate cupcakes this afternoon. I didn't want us to forget what they taste like.
• A bunch of rotary winged aircraft have been flying over today. I'm not sure what is up with that. :)
• We wrote some letters this morning as part of our school.
  

Day 6

• My children are at this moment playing in the garage with their bikes. Their bikes are upside down and the are using them to, "make candy." You will have to ask them how this is done as I am not sure quite how to do it.
• Another day of school went well.
  
• We ran to Wal-mart to get some ink for the printer.
• Had some nice phone calls tonight.
  
• We had one of the kids' and my favorites for dinner; Split pea soup, with ham, and corn bread.
  

School really takes up a lot of our time now. It is time well spent and we all enjoy it so it's good.

Day 5

• We had our first school day. It went very well. The kids were very happy to be "doing school."
• I rearranged the kitchen dinning room.
• moped the tile floors.
• The kids played hide and seek around the house.
• the kids took a bunch of pillows and got into the pillow cases and jumped up and down the hallway.
• Lars reported that he had killed his pet. And I thought oh no he's killed the fish. But no, he had killed the fly that was in his room. His heart was fairly broken.
• We went to Aldi and Wal mart.
  
• We had fresh broccoli with our supper. I really like the taste of fresh broccoli cooked in the microwave with butter and salt and pepper. The kids don't find it as lovely as I do.
  

Day 4

• We, went to church this morning. It was lovely. My class had a breakfast potluck and fellowship time intead of regular classes.
  
• After church we joined our church family for a spaghetti dinner. We did not join in the cake *auction but we were there at that time.
  
• I did stuff to get ready for our first day of school tomorrow. I am very excited to get started on that.
• We spent time sitting around the table coloring pictures together.
  
• I stayed up way to late last night reading one of my new books. bad girl. Now I am very tiered!
• Lars fell asleep on my lap while we were watching a youtube thing on the computer.
  
• Lars went to Sunday school class by himself without fussing and then had a very good time while he was there. amazing. I gave him a little talking to before we left about how he was a big boy now and that he would go to class with out a fuss - "no, no, stop fussing while I'm talking to you about it too... Okay, remember you are a big boy and you will have a good time."

*Oops. thanks for pointing that out.

So nice

Derek found these beautiful dragonfly hooks for us. he put this up by the back door for me. Such a lovely place for little aprons or rain jackets.