A quick recap of our weekend before heading out to restock our grocery supplies and tackle the laundry.
Friday was spent preparing for Erik’s birthday party. Although it would have been nice to invite ALL his friends, I’ve learned over the years to not go overboard. Your age in years equals the number of friends invited. Every extra kid increases the volume of the party by the power of 10.
He didn’t want a theme so I came up with a theme anyway because, how do you plan a party without a theme? He wanted to play all kinds of GAMES so,
GAMES
became the theme. I made this cake:
The kids decorated bags for their “goodies”:
They popped many many balloons:
Wrapped each other up like mummies:
And time spent at our house wouldn’t be complete without breaking out the light sabers:
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We had a gorgeous weekend. Twice a year our Church holds its General Conference which is broadcast worldwide. So we spent Saturday and Sunday listening to our leaders uplift and inspire us.
Despite the wind, the sun shone and the temperature creeped toward warm.
So between sessions of Conference we worked on the project of the moment (which sadly isn’t the chicken coop...yet). Ralf and my brother-in-law Jeff built these awesome garden boxes a couple weekends ago. We finally filled them with dirt, spread gravel between them, and added dog-proof fencing this weekend. All ready to plant.
Living in a wind tunnel and having an utter lack of trees creates the ideal setting for kite flying. Erik broke out his new one and gave it a try:
On the off-chance you think I’ve given up on the chicken coop project, think again. We took a little research trip over to our friends’ place who built their own darling red hen house. Hubby was impressed and inspired to build one of his own. I’ll keep you posted on the progress.
They also have two friendly goats that Will has taken fondly to. Here he is enjoying a little fresh air on the farm. The goats may not share the fondness judging by the part where one of them butts Will with his horns.
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Off to Win-Co and piles of dirty underwear.
Happy Monday!!!
