Day 269 - sunrise

I had the opportunity to go away this weekend to scrapbook! My wonderful neighbor invited me to her place up north to join her, her mother and a friend for a kid free weekend of scrapbooking. This was the sunrise our last morning up there.

day 265 - moon

Once again I was taking some shots of the moon, what's different about this one is on this night a planet was visible below the moon. Unfortunately when the planet was visible with the moon in the photograph, the moon ended up way overexposed. I am sure there is probably some way to remedy this and at some point in time I will have to research it. But here is my attempt. The small speck on the bottom was the planet, Venus I believe it was.

day 262 - massage

 

We were over my in-laws house and our youngest was enjoying the massage chair.

day 259 - bread

I recently started baking bread. I had checked out the book Artisan bread in five minutes a day : the discovery that revolutionizes home baking by Jeff Hertzberg from the library and this is one of my loaves. The kids have been enjoying the fresh bread so far.

day 251 - screen

Today my eldest son decided to go running at the screen & slam into it with his outstretched arms. This was the result. A bent screen! grrr

day 250 - breakfast

This was the kids breakfast the first day of school. Leftover birthday cupcakes, vitamin & some fruit. This was the plate of my non fruit eater, hence to very small piece of fruit. They usually eat better than this for breakfast.

day 248 - cake

My daughter's birthday cake. Not my best work. Hopefully by next year I'll be doing nicer cakes again.

day 243 - mascara

My daughter decided to try putting on some mascara today. Doesn't she know she to young :0

day 242 - boat

Time to put the boat away and head home. We had a good time camping, hanging out on the beach & going for cruises in the boat.

day 241 - campfire

The kids really wanted to have a campfire so on our second night we got one going. Here they are still working on it. They roasted marshmallows for the first time too.

day 240 - beach

We took all the kids camping for the first time this year. We had tents and are hoping to eventually upgrade to a pop trailer. Here's the oldest hanging out at the beach :-)

day 234 - Anniversary & birthday bash

My in-laws celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary, my mother-in-laws 70th birthday and my father-in-laws 77th birthday. We also tossed in my daughter's 3rd & son's 1st birthday too. Lunch and then dessert.

day 230 - beekeeping class part 2

My son and daughter went to part two of their beekeeping class today. They weren't to interested in the lecture part of it but they did like watching the bees go in & out of their hives and making beeswax candles.

day 225 - last day

Today was the last day of sports camp. Playing some games, here's soccer.

day 224 - sports camp

Day 4 of sports camp. One of today's sports was lacrosse. He liked this one & did fairly well with it.

day 223 - sports camp

Day 3 of sports camp for #2. One of the sports today was football. I liked that they had smaller footballs for the youngsters.

day 10 - sports camp

Day 2 of sports camp. Learning about badminton.

day 221 - playground fun

My 2 middle children playing at a playground after #2's sports camp.

day 219 - yard project #2

My husbands second yard project he decided to do this year is make a trail for the kids around the perimeter of our yard for the kids to ride their bikes on. Here him & my eldest son are dumping stone onto the trail.

day 213 -Chimpunk release

My oldest son had been at his grandparents house & my FIL had trapped a chipmunk. My son decided the chipmunk should come to our house & be released. Oh yay! ;) Hard to see but he's about halfway up the hill.

day 212 - project #?

My husband loves to start projects around the house & yard. Here is one of his latest, lowering our driveway in prepartion for widening it and paving it. It was pea gravel, when it's done we'll have concrete.

day 211 - Soccer

day 208 - Soccer camp

My oldest had a week long soccer camp for a couple of hours a day. He had fun though next year he'll probably give lacrosse a try.

day 207 - Summer fun

The two middle children having fun digging up sand while the eldest is at soccer camp.

day 205 - Butterfly

day 202 - Flowers

Some flowers that are currently blooming in my yard.

day 200 - Octopus

Special Lunch :)

day 188 - brothers

day 185 - Independence Day

Today is the Fourth of July. Did we do something patriotic? Only if you call going to church & then the beach patriotic. Which I suppose in a way it is, we have the freedom in the country to go to any kind of church we want, whenever we want without fear. For that I am truly grateful.
Back to the beach, this was the first time for my youngest to go to the beach. He loved it! Playing in the water and the sand was so much fun for him.

day 184 - no trainging wheels

My 4 yr old was recently learning to ride his bike without his training wheels. He did pretty well but needs to keep practicing.

day 183- Turtle

Today we went to the zoo, the kids really wanted to go to the reptile house. They had fun looking at the snakes, lizards and turtles. This is one of the cute turtles they saw, it is a McCord's Box Turtle.