Happy Memorial Day

We did some gardening on Memorial Day.


I love this picture of Mike and the kids. It's hard to see but he is talking with his hands (like a true Italian) and the kids are all intently listening.

 

 

 

 

 

The city was holding a Memorial Day celebration and the park so I thought we should take the kids. I tried to explain what Memorial Day was to them. Pretty hard considering their age. They really liked all the soldiers at the park. They kept asking if they were good soldiers or bad ones.

 

Anthony and Michael

 

 

 

 

Annie

 

 

 

Sammy came too.

 

 

 

Jake

 

 

We took over the swings.

 

 

 

"Puhlease MOM, can I climb the tree!!!!!?????"

 

 

 

Look at that happy face.

 

 

Can I climb too?

 

 

 

Miss Menifee was handing out cupcakes and there was a free jumper.

Jaileigh and Sammy

 

 

 

Annie with her mouth full of cupcake.

 

 

 

Michael

 

 

 

 

Jake

 

 

It was a fun day.

Take My Picture!

This kid is a goof! Annie found this snowsuit in the closet and they all had to take turns trying it on. Michael really, really wanted to take a picture so that I could send it to Grandma!

Eating Apples

These four each went and got their own apple. They then all lined themselves up right here. It was too cute not to take a picture.

Jaileigh, Anthony, Sammy (neighbor), Annie

 

 

Jake with our friends dog, Dakota.

New Chickens and Dairy Time

Daddy has been out of town this week. I say that tongue-in-cheek because he has been in La Jolla the whole time, that is like down the street to us. He had to stay there for a work conference. Yep, I did try to fanagle our way into his motel room and for pool use but it didn't work. We had our own fun at home. One of the days we went to the dairy.

Oh and did I mention anything about our new chickens? On Monday night I took the kids to pick up our new chickens. Ever since Snowball went to chicky heaven the kids have been begging me to get more. We picked up 5 more so now we have 10 chickens! We are lucky our neighbors are so nice! I wish I would have taken pictures the night we got the chickens. The lady we bought them from had a ton of animals and she let the kids pet them and visit all of them. She said they could come back anytime to play. When we got home it was after 9:30 (my kids go to bed around 8 so it was late!) and I still had to clip the chickens wings. The kids stood around while I sat on the porch and cut each of the new 5 birds wings. Then we put them in their new chicken coop and went to bed. The chickens love it here and the old chickens didn't try to do the whole pecking order thing that Snowball used to do. They accepted the new ones right away. Phew!

Back to the dairy . . .

Michael washing his hands so we could get a treat.

 

 

Anthony and Jaileigh feeding the goat.

 

 

Jake- notice how he cut his hair. He and Anthony did this during preschool. They went and hid in the kitchen and cut their hair. I can't tell where Anthony cut his hair but Jake did a pretty good whack job.

 

 

This is how I hide it- the side sweep.

 

 

Eating their ice cream.

Jaileigh, Annie and Michael

 

 

 

Jake and Anthony

 

 

Anthony and Jake

 

 

 

 

Michael

 

 

The whole gang.

Mike got the quads these Italia soccer jerseys when he went to New York for work one time. Annie wasn't born yet so she doesn't have one.

 

 

Jaileigh

 

 

My messy boy- Anthony

 

 

 

Jake

 

 

 

She dressed herself . . .

 

 

"Mom, the goat tried to eat my ice cream!"

 

 

They had so much fun! Love the dairy!

Water Balloons

The kids have found a new activity that they love. . . . water balloons!

 

 

Our neighbor, Hannach

 

The favorite water balloons are the "hot dog" balloons or the really BIG ones. I accidentally bought a regular mixed bag of balloons one day and the kids LOVED them. Jaileigh hid one of hers in the bottom drawer of the fridge so she could save it.

Blueberry Picking

My friend, Mandy, invited us to go to the blueberry farm with her family. We were so excited and invited our new neighbors to come as well.

This was at back of the blueberry picking property line. I think the owners of the blueberry farm owned this home. My kids were instantly attracted. That is Jake and Annie at the very top.

 

 

Anthony

 

 

 

Jaileigh

 

 

Michael

 

Jaileigh and Annie

 

Isn't she so cute! I just want to squeeze her.

 

 

Sammy

 

 

Anthony

 

 

Jake

 

 

Beautiful blueberries!

 

 

Snacks. Thank goodness Susie packed enough for everyone because I didn't.

 

 

Jake

 

 

Sammy's sister, Hannah

 

 

Annie

 

 

Anthony really got excited about the pigs.

 

 

Looking at the chickens.

Hannah, Sammy, Annie

 

 

Jake

 

 

Playing on the cool tractor.

 

 

It was so much fun! Sadly, I didn't get pictures of Mandy and her kids. Next time!