Clay, nature, and Awana's

The kids played with clay. There are snowmen and creatures on ski's.....notice the snow in the trees.


We had a nice day yesterday so decided to skip the normal Friday stuff and go play for awhile. Kids took their nature notebooks and traced some leaves and other sites they saw. #4 still not up to par but thought the fresh air would be good for him.

Last night was the Awana's celebration. Last day until next September. Both kids groups got up and sang some songs and got little things for recognition. All the pictures came out blurring but if you tilt your head sideways and squint you can tell who's you;)

Park day

Here are some pictures from Tuesday. I had taken the kids to the park and #3 had asked me to take his picture. I told him I didn't have my camera but I found it as we were getting ready to go. As you can tell he put on his grump face just for the camera.





#4 is now running a fever. I usually try to give everyone extra vitamins to boost their immune systems when one of us is sick but I guess since it was me that was sick it just didn't get done. Hopefully the bug moves faster through him.


Here is a picture of my work so far. Our homework is to hand quilt around our design and then get our compass out and start using that. My personal goal is just to hand quilt around the design. I'm enjoying learning this but it is a lot of work!

Weekend

I developed a sore throat Friday night, could feel it coming on at dinner. Ran a fever during the night, took some headache medicine on Saturday morning and felt ok. We had a busy Saturday, got our 'new' car registered-it cost us a whole $10 to do so! James had a softball game, once again the tradewinds have left, air is filled with vog and it is HOT! Poor #4 as soon as we got to the game he had sweat droplets on his head. Kids played around while the guys played ball. Other team didn't have enough players so it was just a scrimmage. Then we took our picnic lunch to a shady spot where it was a tad cooler and decided we'd go to the $1 theater to cool off. So we took the kids to see Horton Hears a Who. We had a good time, movie was silly. Got home rested and had supper(thanks to the crockpot)
Sunday, however, the fever wouldn't let me go. James got a lot of home projects done and kids got to practice their skills on being quiet.
I'm still not 100% but feeling better each day. #2 made me a cute get well card, my intent is to take a picture of it to share with all.

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If you hear #4 calling for hat that means he is looking for the cat.
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James officially started some college classes last night!!

I started playing the grocery game. I have a friend(or 2) that have had huge savings with this. I'm not sure how well it will be for me because of my location and being able to use the commissary but I'm going to try the trial run and see. I've also been reading about square foot gardening and may give that a try this summer as well. I haven't had much success in my gardening ventures out here due to space and kids/balls trampling stuff. But figure instead of waiting for the space I might try this new (to me) idea-it's not like food prices are getting any better.

This is the day, this is the day that the Lord hath made.....

sorry. Got the song stuck in my head.

Good things about today:
*homemade bread
*washed the van-love the clean van!
*cleaned the floors upstairs-ahh, clean floors
*played in the pool with the kids
*cuddled and read stories with each child
*grilled chicken and zucchini for supper

Not so fun/good things of the day:
*cleaning up the many spills
*walking with bare feet on sidewalk-causing feet to blister(yes it's that hot again)
*VOG
*listening to whine/tantrums

Woohoo, the good things win!! Although I'm not sure what it means when two of my things are food related! Now off to try to figure out this hand applique stuff and get ready for LOST.

Some more photo's from Sunday

I had wanted a picture of the kids and I together. The picture didn't happen until we changed into old clothes so we could go to the beach. We went right at the end of the day, hoping to catch the sunset.
At the end of the slide is #1 and #2 with their 'quilts'. We read Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt this week and they decided to make quilts after we read the story.

Some highlights of our day

The kids have been anxiously awaiting today, they've had grand plans on decorations and what to serve.(I must give #2 credit, although the others piped in she was the one who master minded of the whole thing.)
We got home from church and I got the hot water ready for our tea and rested while they finished some details. They put a clean tablecloth on the table with some nice napkins and then decided to make place cards and name tags. We had a nice center piece with some rose buds they had made. They then finished making the cucumber sandwiches and we sat down for tea. It was all rather lovely and I was really happy how they were able to carry out all the details they wanted too. We did let daddy drink his soda at our tea as you'll note in one picture-we still haven't managed to convert him into a tea drinker:D



Some of the flowers on the back deck. I enjoyed my morning tea with them and we made some homemade ice cream this afternoon out here.

Another busy week

I've wanted to write many times this week but alas, I never found the time to share. So I've found a few minutes to share the best thing that has come out of our week. As a mother and a child of God, I have found my greatest wish and most often prayer to be for my children. I pray that they will love the Lord God with all their hearts, all their souls and all their strength. I pray that they will be great servants for the Lord. Well, Monday #1 made a huge step in this direction. Monday #1 accepted Jesus as his savior. I am so excited for him, that he has his heart open to the Lord. I am excited to see what the Lord has in store for him as he grows into a man. I thank God for all He has done in our lives and all that is yet to come.