Happy Birthday

Today is Drew's b-day. Can't believe my little boy is 11.

Wow! how time flies! Army tank cake...
and a new "BMX" bike

weekend fun

Alysha had a tournament this weekend, the team got 4th place, good job!we enjoyed a picnic lunch
relaxing after lunch
Sunday Trevor chose Chinese for lunch (for his b-day) and Alysha "thought" she didn't like Chinese food, here she is eating with chop sticks and enjoying the food :)

chop sticks can be used for "other" things too

something new

I'm trying this "video" thing. I didn't know that I could only do horizontal video...sorry! We had been at the ballpark all day so the boys were creating their own fun, they found this little hill and started rolling down it!

party time

Trevor had Sean and Isaiah over today for his belated birthday party. They had a great time swimming, jumping on the trampoline, playing capture the flag and being "Super Heroes". "Lego Man" baseball player cake

berry picking

It all started this morning at 7:00am, the kids and I went to the neighbors to pick berries.

1-1/2 hours later we had picked 8 buckets. The kids did a great job helping, but they were ready to be done. By 11:30 the kitchen was all cleaned up and 19 quarts of berries were in the

freezer.

picking

stemming

chopping

washing

Happy Birthday

Today my little boy turned 8, sigh... where has the time gone? I remember so vividly when he made his grand entrance into the world, seems like yesterday.

new shirt and shorts from
Grandma B. Thanks!
dart "Nerf" gun and "Gerber"
(multi-tool) from us.


swimming at Adam's

water

Does anybody have gopher wood? We are thinking about building an ark. We have never seen the water this high, I can't believe how much it rose during the night. We had to prepare the basement just in case the water starts to come in (I pray is doesn't) So, now we are getting ready to head to Grandma's again.


the meadow and driveway

the driveway, notice how high
it has gotten since yesterdays blog

the backyard

this was taken last night,
our neighbor called this morning and
said our mailbox and the bridge is all
under water :(