Happy Birthday Mr. Peter!!

Happy 8th Birthday Peter!!

Peter had a great birthday! It was the second to last day of school. It seems a little late to be in school, but such is life. He was excited to have some of his cousins there! It made it really special.
Peter LOVES Star Wars!!

I always love the surprised face of excitement at getting what he wanted!

He got a set of scriptures and a scripture case. I love this picture because you can see his dimples. Ever since Hannah got a clock for Christmas Peter has wanted one!

What a big, great, lovable kid Peter is. He is one who has always enjoyed being at home or with his family. He is growing up fast but he is my first to get a hug and kiss before school. He is also the one who still wants to hold Mom's hand. He may be shy, but has a lot of love to share! I love you Peter!!

A day of clamming

My visiting teacher invited our family to go clamming with them. I had to buy a clamming licence.....never thought that I would get one of those! We went when the tide was the lowest all year and had a great time! Miriam just wanted to jump in our wholes to swim. She finally made it and had a blast! Eden was far more particular.....didn't want to get her hands dirty! The older three just ran around and played and discovered......crabs, clams, starfish, hermit crabs, sand dollars, shells of all kinds, sea anemia, barnacles, and little fish. We stayed until the tide came in......What a great day!! So fun!

Friends

Eden was holding a piece of paper and Alan asked her what she had in her hands. Her response:

"My Friend!"

It was a picture of Jesus.....


Out of the mouths of babes!

The power of seeds

Last night we had meatball sandwiches on hoagie rolls with sesame seeds on them.

About halfway through dinner, Joseph pulled off a sesame seed and announced to the family that if we planted this seed, it would grow into a hamburger tree, and then we could just pick hamburgers and eat them whenever we wanted.

Awesome! We'll have to plant one tomorrow!

Temple Trip

What a beautiful experience this was, to take our family to a temple open house. We live about 3.5 hours from BC temple and it is a rare occasion to get to tour a temple and we wanted the kids to be able to go inside a temple so we took them out of school and crossed the border and went!
It is a beautiful Temple with so many intricate details. All the decorating and woodwork was done around the Dogwood tree. The Celestral room was breath taking.....we gathered our children around us and told them that we would be together forever and that the feeling they were feeling was the Holy Ghost confirming that this was true. It was an experience of a lifetime!

I think the best part for me was to share it with my kids. I remember as a kid going to the Portland, OR temple open house with my family. I was around Hannah's age.....I will never forget how I felt there and I knew that this is where I wanted to be married. It was an amazing experience. I feel so blessed that we were able to go and share this with our children.

Families are Forever!

Tulip Festival

My neighbor and I went to the Tulip Festival with the kids that were home today! We had a picinic lunch. It turned out to be a hot day.

Have you ever seen anything so gorgeous!! We decided that we needed to plant my yard like this!!
Joseph wasn't supposed to go between the rows, but before I told him to get out I snapped the shot!!

My blonde beauty was just as pretty as the tulips!

I loved that you could see the mountains surrounding the valley.

They had kites that were being flown by themselves. They were just stuck in the ground with a stake. It just added to the feeling!!

These were my favorite......the color just stood out. They were so striking.

This photo was my favorite with the old barns in the background. It looked like we were there all by ourselves. It was so pretty!!

I had Miriam in a backpack most of the time. When I got her out to look at them she was thrilled and loved to feel them!!

The size of the heads of these tulips were huge and gorgeous!! Of course, Yellow being my favorite color, I had to have a picture of these!!

Vampires??

Peter and Joseph came up to me today both wearing goggles and Joseph holding something behind his back while Peter read this story:


I found blood on the street and collected some and my brother and I are interesting how it is. We found out that it was vampires blood. If you look at it without protection for your eyes you will die.


At which point Joseph whipped out this bag of "blood"!


After probing how they colored the water I found out that Peter had a bloody nose and was just letting it drip into the sink. He called for Joseph to go get a bag. They collected the blood from his nose bleed into the bag and then added water.


I would have loved to see the thought process as Peter thought this up.

Bubble Discovery

Nothing quite so exciting as discovering bubbles for the first time!!

All my babies...

Just the girls....