Saturday, March 22, 2014

Potato Planting

 Today we spent the day at the garden planting potatoes! The kids took a lot of rocks out of the tilled up garden. It wasn't their favorite part of the day, but they all did a great job.
The kids worked really well together and put all the potatoes in the ground. Poor Noah was on a scout camp out the night before and I picked him up around noon. He was pretty tired and I think he was looking forward to a hot shower and a relaxing afternoon and evening at home. But he worked hard and didn't complain to much.


This girl got soooo dirty! All the kids did, but I think she takes the prize for the dirtiest!
 I love when Jane just wants her daddy. Today she kept reaching for him when she woke up from her nap. But Kendall needed to work so she tagged along and was as happy as can be!
After a much needed bath I found Jacob on the couch sound asleep! He worked hard today. We started the day with a piece of land that hadn't been worked in many years.  By the end of the day we had tilled the potato garden plot up, tilled up another field for other veggies, and planted 184 potatoes! So glad those potatoes are in the ground and look forward to eating them all next year!

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Daniel Turns 6!

Daniel turned 6 years old yesterday! My Brother, Joshua, volunteers at an equestrian center and was able to take Daniel out for a ride. We didn't tell Daniel about it so he was super surprised and excited!
 He got to lead Shaw out to the arena and lead her around all by himself!

 Joshua said that at first he held on really tight to the saddle, but soon was more comfortable and held onto the reins. He even got the horse to trot, and giggled the whole time!
 He requested a volcano cake with snakes on it. Since I have absolutely no talent when it comes to cakes I let my mom do the cake.
 I think he likes it!
 He got another model for his birthday, it's an apache helicopter. He's already started working on it.
He also got the movie Epic which we watched that night.