On The Farm

Yesterday our family went to the farm. We took a hayride out to the blackberry patch. This was probably the girls favorite part. Eliza loved the "bumpy ride.....weeeee!"
David took berry picking very seriously. He wanted to fill up our basket!



Eliza didn't care much for smooched berries on her fingers. She was so relieved when I removed them with a leaf.Now I just have to figure out what I will do with 6.5 lbs of delicious blackberries.

My Wee Little Hero

Just a few minutes ago I hear screeching from the bathroom. I get up to investigate. The girls have spotted a very small spider (or piece of dirt, I am not sure) in the bathtub. Eliza instructs, "Get back, everyone.... I'll get that spider. I'll squish it and kill it. It will be okay...." She tears a piece of toilet paper off the roll and steps into the bathtub. After about three cautious attempts she smashes the tiny thing under her hand on the toilet paper. She examined the remains on the toilet paper and then dropped it in the toilet and flushed. She looks up proudly and asks, "Am I both of your hero?" I exclaimed, "oh, yes, you're our hero." She gleams, "Yeah, I am your hero, like Daddy."

Our super hero proudly wears her Halloween spider shirt with her lilac pants with purple and blue butterflies on it. Daddy took both girls to the Hair Cuttery on Saturday while I ran into Toys R Us to look for a birthday gift. Daddy got Eliza a bob cut. Sadie just got a trim. I was growing out her bangs but she has started to pull out her clips and pony tails so I decided to cut her bangs so she can see. Eliza has never let me put anything in her hair so they get to sport the cute short hair dos! I like the hair cuts, but I have to compliment my sister here... She is a dog groomer so I had her trim Eliza's bangs the last time they needed it. She cut them so much straighter! Maybe I'll have her cut their hair from now on. It's like I've always said, if you want a good hair cut, see your family dog groomer. ;)

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Summer Activities

Here's just a little catch up of the things the kiddos have been doing the last couple of weeks...

We saw how Ray had a campout in the living room with his girls a few weeks ago and David really wanted to copy the idea. He took the girls to Wal-Mart and they bought a tent, brought it home and set it up in the Family Room. The girls LOVED having a campout with Daddy! Sadie went to sleep pretty well. Eliza was up pretty late but had a great time. I opted to sleep in my Tempurpedic bed.


Eliza is making a face at me for disrupting their special camping trip with Daddy by coming in the tent and taking pictures...again.

Aunt Molly invited us to join them at their community pool. The kids loved it, especially Sadie! Nearly every day since she tells me she wants to have a swimming party with Wyatt again.

Our local movie theater offers a free family movie matinee during the summer. (Regal Cinemas offers this at theaters throughout the country. Check to see if its offered in your area). I thought it would be a good idea to take the kids to the movies when I didn't pay for tickets so I am not out much if we have to leave early. I think they had a good time. I don't think the movie was their favorite. We're going to try it again this week and see how it goes. I took these pics before the show started and they were playing a little 10 minute cartoon before starting the opening previews.

We had some friends over for a little while while their Mom went visiting teaching. The kids all played dress up. It was really cute. My favorite is Bumblebee in the Pirate outfit with his "pirate vacuum," as he called it. Eliza especially loved playing with the big girls that day

Bowling

I saw on Gina's blog a video of her little Liam bowling. It was so cute. He looked so delighted. I thought that maybe my kids would like bowling. I called our local bowling alleys. The all charged around $5 a game per person and $4 for shoes. I did find one older alley that offers $1 game and shoe rental nights every Tuesday from 5pm to close. So we decided to try it out. They didn't have the nice stand that I saw in Gina's montage, but they were cheap and therefore quite busy. We had to wait about a half hour or so for a lane to become available. The kids had a really fun time. Eliza was quite upset when we left. I was a little bit sore... I have been wadlling around today. I am not sure if my old six month pregnant body was up for bowling but I did beat David nonetheless. :) I had a few spares, only one or two of which was bumper assisted. :) We told the kiddos that they needed to roll the ball and if they knocked over any pins then they won. It was fun to see their excitment.

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