Saturday Hike

On Saturday we went to a new to us path in Lafayette, Public Road Trailhead. It was a nice little trail that followed a stream that actually still had water.

The boys building a bridge.

Hard to see here, but this crawdad had turquoise on him.

Spencer's Life Dream

Spencer loves to memorize things and is really good at it too. This year we enrolled him in a nearby church's Awana program where he gets this fancy vest for badges that he earns by memorizing scripture. I can't tell you how much this vest means to him, like it was his lifelong goal to get one. He's in heaven this year because in addition to Awana, he and Isaac are also participating in Boy Scouts, which means another vest and more badges.

Spencer won a DQ gift card tonight in their crazy hat contest. He really did wear a hat, he had taken it off by the time he got home though. :-)

Berry Patch Farms

This past Saturday we went to Barry Patch Farms in Brighton to check it out. The strawberry picking was slim, but there were raspberries galore, it was wonderful! We'll definitely be going back.

This is bacon bits, the rather plump resident pig.

Puppy Love

Spencer and his toad.

I found this on the point and shoot today, one of the boys' pics. It cracked me up.

Samuel turned 5!

I forgot to charge my camera battery, so I was stuck with my dying point and shoot for Samuel's birthday yesterday. He had a great day and is still having a great time playing with his loot today!

Do you wonder what we do all day?

I put together a slideshow of shots that I took throughout our homeschool day. You can pause each slide to make it easier to read my verbose captions. You can also double click on the photos to see them bigger.

Fishing?

I've been wanting to take the olders fishing while the littles are in
preschool and decided today was the day. We've been to two Broomfield
ponds today with no real bites. The pond were at now has yielded a
nasty plastic toy boat and as it is next to a gold course, lots and
lots of golf balls.

Decorating the Driveway

This is a very Isaac look.

Close Call for Mr Toad(aka Star Wars Hero)

My alarm went off at 6:40 this morning, but I had a hard time waking up and hit the snooze button, which I hardly ever do. A few minutes later I was walking out of the room and something caught my eye. I look down and see Spencer's toad sitting about an inch and a half from Zoe's nose. Thankfully Zoe had been crashed and was just cracking open her eyes or I would hate to think of what could've happened. As it was, I was able to grab the toad mid-jump and return him safely to his aquarium. After an interrogation, it came to our attention that a certain son(I bet you can guess which one) got the toad out last night, lost track of him, and didn't want to get in trouble so said nothing at all.

Do toads have 9 lives? Mr Toad might need that many to live at our house!