Today...We Cooked Pumpkins (Tuesday)

A good friend of mine gave one of her beautiful pumpkins. We left it outside for the past week or so for decoration, but I noticed that it feels like frost to me outside and we'd better bring it in and cook it up if we were going to get to eat it... yummmy....



So I showed them a different way to cook it, cut it in half. Scoop the seeds out. Peel it, chop it up in to cubes, boil it.
Marcus really enjoyed his job of scooping out the seeds. Which of course we rinsed, dried and are storing for next year's garden. I want to see if they turn out so beautiful for me!
These wonderful boys are growing into such good helpers!! They could do everthing but use the knife to chop them up. They scooped, washed, peeled and cleaned up! I just love noting how much more they can do this year compared to last year :)

So much fun working together, next up I'll tell ya all the yummy things we cooked up from this single wonderful pumpkin.

Today... We raked Leaves (Monday)

David had the day off today and I had no appointments to do with/for the midwife, so we raked leaves today. Lots of fun. The children really enjoyed playing in them more than putting them in the compost pile. David also was smart and threw in "if you help rake a lot of leaves, I'll give you a dollar". That was plenty of motivation for them!!! LOL
The boys thought Victoria would like to play in the pile too, but I think they got a little carried away and almost completely buried her... so I had to explain to them that she probably didn't want to get buried; she probably just liked to play in them :) She was VERY damp from playing in all those cold wet leaves, so I brought her in and gave her a warm bath immediately.

Today we played Hockey...Hockey is in full season!!!

Today we played Hockey...

I wish I had gotten these way earlier in life!!! This is now our PE for school!!!! Fun Fun!!!

Here are the boys enjoying Isaiah's new hockey set: two nets, 6 sticks, lots of balls. They didn't have a clue how to play so David had to explain a few basic rules. Hit the puck into the OPPOSITE team's goal! LOL not your own. Hockey is rough. Its for big boys. So if you dont want to play feel free to sit with mom and tori, but we are having fun here, no crying allowed :)

David enjoying a moment with Victoria while I get a chance to play. She was so amused by the whole shouting and cheering thing. She is not used to this much noise and commotion!
Here I got a chance to play. Nice hockey field huh? Its the perfect size, and walls all around. But we can only play when David takes this car to work, otherwise it will have to be on the back patio, without walls. And let me tell ya we need these walls, LOL.Boys taking a "jaritos break" we had lots of Mexican sodas left over from the birthday party. They like them a lot. David takes much nicer pictures than me ;)

Today... we went to bush park

We went to bush park to play around with the camera and take some new pictures of the children. then home so david could play around with photoshop. these are the first three.












The most recent one of all four of my children, one of me and Victoria since I dont have many pictures with me in it, and one of beautiful Victoria in the flowers :)

What a lovely evening!!! Thankyou Lord that my husband is so wonderful with that camera, to be able to record in photos our sweet life so we may look back upon it and cherish it in our old age to come... Thankyou for the beautiful park that we get to enjoy and for such happy children who are so easy to catch on film...

Today... I got new grass

My husband is so wonderful. He knows I have been working really hard at making my back yard look nicer. However the many beloved feet that tread on my grass have sadly worn a large bare patch. With this last week of rain and my children playing in the back yard… it has officially become mudd, no grass. So what does David do, bought me instant SOD. Not 4 or 5 pieces that would have “patched it up at bare minimum, but he bought me 18 pieces!!!! Enough to cover both bare spots and ease its self onto the thinning grass just after it. It looks amazing. My yard is COMPLETLEY covered with grass right now!!! Now it looks so clean and new and fresh. Especially with the sunshine we have had today.

Thank you Lord for the sunshine, my new grass needs a few days of it really badly to “perk back up”. Thank you for the little blessing you place in my life.