Surprise for the birthday girl

The birthday girl

Some of the girls pitched in to give Cynde a scrapbooking basket. What a fun night. Cynde gave herself a "40" birthday party at Mackenzie River Pizza. Little did she know that we were trying to do a surprise party for her. So we decided to come a little late and bring some balloons and gifts to surprise her. I haven't laughed and cried like that for a long time.

Cupcakes

Hannelora and Emma frosting cupcakes

My Silly Boys

bath time

What kind of bath would it be without Batman?

I don't know about you, but I can't see Nathan, can you? He is testing out his camo backpack while he is ironing his shirt for work. Isn't that priceless?

I think Bjorn wants to be a stow away for the next sleep over at his grandparents house!

Ocean Box

In the girls hands are jelly fish made from plastic wrap.

Here are some whales coming out of the water and a few other sea creatures we couldn't fit in the box.

We finally finished our Zoology Zoo Box. We studied Sea Creatures of the 5th Day, they loved it. They always wanted me to keep reading. It was fun to see them enjoy science, now we are onto Zoology 3, Land Animals of the sixth day. It will be interesting to see what kind of projects we will have this time around. Of course, it can't be any more exciting then sea monkeys! Those things don't ever die, we had to give them a new habitat. We wished they goodbye and flushed them down the toilet...

Canning

Pumpkin and salsa

Our pumpkin from the garden.... It was huge, I only got to 2 out of the 5.

The inside...

Nathan actually likes to can, he is such a big help.

Last weekend I spent time canning salsa and pumpkin. It is a lot of work, but so worth it. I also canned apples as well on Monday. Now I just have to organize my shelves in the basement so they look all nice and pretty. Hmmm.... Now if I can find the time.....

Paper airplanes

I tried desperately to capture a flying plane, no such luck!

I bought a book for Zeb on how to make paper airplanes, it turns out all the kids enjoyed making them. In fact, it brought back memories for me when I made my own. Oh the simple things. How fun.

Sick babies and laundry...

Wed. night Zeb, Analise and Cozi had the flu. Our night started at 10 p.m. and ended until 2 or 3 a.m. Poor babies were throwing up all night.

hee, hee! Click on Analise's picture and read the bold words. It is actually a history of hop scotch that she is reading. Hilarious!

Cozi and her thumb... She is so sweet!

I thought I had a lot of laundry until today. We had sleeping bags, sheets, comforters, pillows, stuffed animals and the regular laundry. On top of that I had not folded the 3 loads before that.... I am so glad it was a hot day, most things dried outside. At least they smelled good again! Oh I hope tonight is a good night....