This morning the kids and I headed to a local farm (actually a little over and hour away) to pick berries and dig potatoes.  Rain was in the forecast but not until afternoon.  Luckily we arrived early and did get a container of strawberries, and some blackberries before we were stormed out. 

The kids had fun and we ate a lunch out on the way home which was a special treat.

I also got some peaches off a friends tree -
all kinds of yummy goodness...

Wow, it has been awhile and it took me a minute to figure out how to even post (not sure when they switched everything...)

Exciting news of the week - I have two more nephews  - Matthew and Benjamin -  My sister in law Camile and Brian's brother Bob had twin boys.
And more exciting news...school is officially out for the summer.  Eli and Kiley were very excited when I told them they did not have to do any school work for a whole week ( I love the fact that is still exciting...)  We are really not going to do full school days through the summer just a little each day.  Eli had a great year and despite my apprehension about the home schooling part it went great.  I am defiantly sold on the university model.  We will be at Providence next year too.  Eli will be in second grade, I am going to start Kiley a little early in K, and I am going to be teaching one of the first grade classes.  It should be a busy and fun year.

Here are a few pictures from the last couple weeks...

Fun on the tramp with the sprinkler...

Eli watering our 'garden' it looks a lot different now after a
couple of bug eaten plants and a couple weeks of growth...

The kids wanted 'war' paint the other day so...

I melted some strawberries and they had fun

A couple of weeks ago Brian got the kids this
little boat and oars...

I am not sure who had more fun the kids or daddy - he tied them around his waist
and swam the lake - it was rather funny to watch but the were all loving life

last weekend we headed out the the central TX
airshow.  It was a first for everyone and we had fun...

Kiley was loving life because Daddy
bought her a lemonade...

 We enjoyed it until we could not take the heat any longer and we headed to happy hour at Sonic to rehydrate...

On Friday Eli's school had a festival. This year in history we have been studying the medieval period so we had some fun activities from this time in history as well as some field day type games. The kids had races, tug of war, archery, horse riding, dancing, and actual jousting lessons (which was pretty cool to watch - the younger kids did not get to completely suit up but they still had fun)

It has been beautiful the last couple of days here. In the 80s with a little breeze. The kids and I made some bubbles today after school and they had a lot of fun playing with them...

Over the Easter weekend we headed to Bobby and Camile's to spend some time with the cousins. We had a lot of fun enjoying the open space of the country.

Eli did not want a big party on his birthday this year so... On Thursday Kiley and I took cupcakes to school and had lunch with him.

Then on Friday (his actual birthday) we took cupcakes around to some friends and neighbors. Saturday he wanted to have his friend Caleb over with his family and he asked if I thought we could have the party 8-5?! The Porterfields came over mid morning. We had a football game in the backyard, then a scavenger hunt around the house, backyard, neighborhood, and around the trail near the house. Both Eli and Caleb are reading the Box Car Children books which always have a mystery or something that the children have to figure out so they enjoyed the scavenger hunt and it lead them to the lake. We had pizza and cake at the lake and spent the afternoon swimming. It was a lot of fun.

Enjoying a couple of gifts 'building blocks' and Risk...

Football and cutting his Box Car children cake...

Swimming fun on the huge log they converted to a ship...

Happy Birthday Eli!

(just a couple days late...)

It is hard to beleive I have a seven year old?!