We decided to have dinner in the backyard for some Friday night fun. I had made Salsa Verde Chicken (you can get the recipe from this site: http://www.kevinandamanda.com/recipes/dinner/salsa-verde-chicken.html)
It’s so delicious. Of courses I had to tweak the recipe a bit to get it to serve 8 of us and I cooked it in the oven in a 9x13. Anywho, the evening was beautiful and the apple tree gave us the perfect amount of shade.
Jessie’s been teaching herself to use the pen tool in Photoshop and cranking out a bunch of fun logos for her graphic design class. Here’s one of them in progress.
Jessie and I signed up to sell cards and quilled jewelry at a city festival. Here’s my display all set up. Unfortunately the day was a near flop as I think most people who came didn’t realize there was stuff to buy besides the free crafts for the kids. Not only that our booth was directly in the sun where no one wanted to be standing. We’ll chalk that day up to a good learning experience.
Abbie joined Jessie and I for the morning festival. Part way through she ran off to make one of the crafts and came back with this adorable rhino.
Another fun friend day. The older boys convinced Isaac to be their horse and pull them around. He actually didn’t do a half bad job as I was expecting him to not even be able to budge them.
Ella and her parents came over for a visit. Everyone wanted to hold her.
We went to Mark’s court of honor where he got his patch the the 50 miler he hiked.
Then we came back home for a hymn-a-long. Fun night!
The night finished off with a wrestling match involving a baby diaper, but I can’t remember much more than that.
The little kids and I went shopping for Spencer’s birthday presents. Spencer didn’t want anything specific, he said he just wanted a lot of presents. More on that in a minute. So we were at Toys R Us and they had these sprinklers/water toys on clearance for $6, but then when we were checking out it rang up for $1.25!! I almost ran back and got a few more for the gift box, but then decided to let others enjoy the surprise too. It was 77 degrees out, but definitely not warm enough to get wet and the water was freezing, but we just had to try it out.
When Ken got home we loaded everyone in the van and headed up to Whiting Campground to number 22 for our annual Brian hotdog roast. Ahhh….good times.
Neil and Isaac were my super pancake mix stirrers….and we didn’t spill too much on the floor either.
For Spencer’s birthday they decorated his desk at school.
Then we had Mark’s soccer game.
Then time for presents.
A soccer ball, fun bright orange soccer socks, swimming goggles and a new remote control car made the evening a good one.
Isaac finally fell asleep on the couch that night around midnight….
Jessie hung this up on the stair way long before I got around to taking a picture of it.
And in a way it is quite comical because I think Jessie was the worst at getting her job charts done, so it’s not like she had an excess to share. I don’t think she ever got enough herself to actually get something from the prize box. Abbie was the only one sweet enough to feel sorry for Jessie and she got a loan to get something from the chore box early just so Jessie could get a few extra chore charts.
After two years we finally got a cup of raspberries off our plants from Uncle Frank.
Here we are at one of Spencer’s games. Neil had a blast playing peek-a-boo with Emma; she was laughing so hard and was SO excited when he started waving the blanket around to put over her or himself.
Spencer loves doing crazy things with his hair when it’s all sweaty.
Isaac was a little bored with the soccer game and so we entertained him taking some selfies together.
Oh glorious nap time….only today it took two hours of playing in bed before he finally climbed up onto Spencer’s bed a fell asleep….so funny!
David and Lisa down for some games. Neil and Lisa were the winning team for our game of A to Z.
At Grandma’s house Jessie braided Abbie and Megan’s hair together.
My mom came out to stay with/help my Grandma Woodward for a couple weeks after she fell and broke her arm. We took some fruit pizza treats up to share when we went for a visit.
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