Hammer time

These are my working boys. They had a mishap with the hammer in a matter of two days. David was pulling a nail out of some wood and Simon was hammering a nail in. David is really lucky he didn't hit any part of his eye, it could have been a very serious injury.

David's Seventh Birthday

This year it was so nice to have David's birthday fall on a Saturday. I woke up and made David his special birthday breakfast that he requested and surprised him with cinnamon rolls. As you will see in the pictures, Simon loved them. We really do try to teach the kids table manners.....but, what can you do. After breakfast, Dave told David to get ready to go to work and lead him outside where his brand new bike awaited him. He was so excited! The bike is a little bit bigger than the old one, but he got the hang of it in no time. He practiced hard for the race that afternoon. His party started at 3:00, and he had some of his friends from school come over with their bikes. I set up a race course around the property and they raced all afternoon. It was so cool to see David and his friends, He is getting so big. His maturity level has gone up so much in last year, seeing him at the party with all his friends really exemplified that. I took lots of pictures of all the key events so I will let the pictures speak for themselves. We really missed, Great Grandpa and Uncle Jon and Aunt Christina this year. This is the first time in Seven years they weren't able to make it. But we know where they all are and we look forward to seeing them again. Enjoy the pictures, the party was a blast.

Camping at Crescent

We had a very good and relaxing weekend at, Crescent lake. We did miss the fire works this year and had to settle with electronic sparklers, as there were no fire works allowed at camp. We picked up some fun little light up toys at the crescent store and Dave and I, I mean the kids had a lot of fun with them. Another thing we picked up at the store is, mesquito repelant. The mesquitos were sooo bad there and I have the bites to prove it. Refer to picture. The kids looked liked they had measles from head to toe. The only relief we had from them was out on the lake. Imagine the dissapointment from Dave. We did catch two kokani, and had them for dinner the first night. Dave had a huge brown on the line and David tried very hard to get it in the boat but the fish cut the line and broke free. Dave didn't have the heart to take the net away from David and do it himself. If he had they probably would have caught him. Dave is such a good Daddy! I wish I knew how to download the video that i have of the boat ride and of Simon Swimming. I will have to play with that later. Speaking of Simon swimming, He absolutely loves the water. The water wasn't exactly warm, it was frezzing. He floated around on his floaty in the lake for a long time. I wish I had a picture to show you, like I said it's on video. The kids had fun roasting marshmellows and riding bikes. David ecpesially loved the fire. We called him "fire boy". He would collect fire wood for hours and then kick the fire and throw pine cones in and whatever else he could find. He would have loved nothing more than a constant fire all weekend. We lost many marshmellow sticks to the fire. I had to find a new one every evening. Boy, I tell you, we were really roughin it! The motor home has electricity, heat and air conditioning. The days were pretty warm but at night it got a little cold, so the heater was nice. I had freshly brewed coffee every morining except, Sunday. The generator stopped working and that meant no electricity. We were camping in a site that didn't have hook ups. I have been so spoiled with the motor home, I didn't bother to pack any instant coffee. I will next time. I was amazed how much easier it was to camp with the kids this year. They are growing up so fast and this year really reminded me of that.

Summer begins

According to the calendar the summer is just about over for me. I always manage to fill everyday with some program for the kids or take on some project, like a yard sale that was a complete failure. I made a whopping $30.00 in two days. It took me a week to set up and then I sat outside for a total of 15 hours. So I made $2.00 an hour. It's funny "blogging", I don't know exactly who is going to read this, or if anyone cares. Just about all my family lives here in town so they get the scoop on my life without having to go to my blog. I decided to do this because My husbands brother and his wife are out of the country for a year and I thought this would be a good way for them to stay up to date on our families lives while they are gone. We are going camping this week for the 4th of July, so I should have some pics and something interesting to say by then.