L and E got their very first Bibles the other day! The Bibles have their names on the front. It was very exciting and Papa taught them how to play the Bible game swords right away. They know their books of the Bible but it was a bit hard to find them in their new Bibles. I have a feeling though that there will be a lot of Swords in our future :) They found Jonah where we had been reading as a family and followed along while Papa read a chapter. It turns out that E's and J's Bibles are the same and L's is the new copyright which is a bit easier to read and so it's a little harder for him to follow along during readings. They will be starting their own devotions in school this year with the ACE program so now was the perfect time to get their own Bibles. They are also bringing them to church to follow along while scripture is read. They even packed up a little pictures kid Bible for R so "she could have a Bible too!" I love that they care for eachother and help eachother. R was quite pleased :)

~Baby Food Days Are Here Again~

Carrots ready to freeze in ice cube trays. With little girls I use ice cube trays, with little boys I use yogurt containers :) My girls eat so much less then the boys. Baby G can eat two cubes if she's really hungry, J3 at this stage was eating 4!

I freeze them in the trays then pop them out and keep them in 1 gallon zip lock bags, refilling as needed. Soon I will only use these handy cubes for meals in a hurry or when we go out and about and I will use my baby food mill at the table at meal times for at home meals.

Food?? Really?? Baby G Takes a Taste :)

I'm a Happy Baby!! 

I'm a very happy baby!! 

First Bite.

Seriously?? THIS is what we were all excited about?

Are you sure Mom?? 

Hey MOM let go of my hands!! 

J can you believe she's not letting me grab the spoon??

THE GREEN LIGHT!!

Seriously! This stuff is NASTY!!

Well Mom seems to be encouraging me to eat it!! Maybe I'll have another bite.

Nope still nasty! MORE???

I AM SO DONE!!!

Just for the record it was well sweetened, nicely thinned, cream of wheat at the perfect temp!

J, R and E fought over who got to finish it off and they all assured me it was WONDERFUL!!

She's now had cream of wheat, carrots, oatmeal, watermelon and apple sauce. 

Thank You J for taking all the wonderful pictures :) 

The green light is the light on the front of the camera that comes on just before the picture is taken.

Baby G thinks the green light is evil. 

But she enjoys hamming up to the camera anyway. 

A Merry Night

The Food!!! 

Mr. B had been gone guiding and came home for a short few days to visit with his wife and he brought back a 15lbs salmon!!
The Friends
Mrs. B called us up and asked if Mr. B could make us supper.. 

OH YEAH!! 

Then she asked if they could bring Mr. B's younger brother Scott..
I had to think about that one :) . 

Scott's been off traveling the world for the last several months so we hadn't seen him for quite a while. 

He's my cousin you see.

The kids love him.

So I said yes :) 

No really Scott it was really nice to see you :) 

Finishing supper.. BBQ'd salmon, flayed by Scott, cooked by Papa and Mr. B, rice, corn on the cob, salad, with ice cream cake for dessert. YUM!!! A meal for a king!! 

J3 and his cheese ball grin :) 

What was left of the 15lbs salmon after roughly 30 minutes of feasting.. They sliced up lemons and onions and laid them on top of the fish. It was AMAZING!!!! Papa took this last piece to work and he said it was just as good the second day. Which is amazing for fish! 

The Fun!
After supper there was the usual sword fighting :) 

Apparently Scott and E were the two champs and here they are dueling it out.

E won!! Scott said she was amazing! 

This is not just mindless sword play.

 There are rules.

 If you are mortally wounded you die. (Often dramatically) 

When the last person is standing, you can come alive again and play again.

 Certain areas are off limits for attack. 

This picture pretty much sums up a night with Mr. B and Scott over.. or just Mr. and Mrs B. 

Fun Craziness

Baby G and Baby J :)

WOW there is a baby here!

And WHO is that over there??  :) 

They are 4 months apart :) 

Super Cute. 

E Reading :)

Bedtime stories :) 

L Reading :)

Something Is Wrong Here~ Meat Chickens~

Took this picture this morning.. these chicks are all the same age, on the same food, from the same place. 

Note the size difference? 

:$ 

We actually took the largest 50 out and have slowly caught 35 more of the bigger mediums and put them in with the large birds in a different pen on grass.. hoping that this will give the smaller birds a better chance. Which means we have 50 birds that are the size they should be.. out of 300. 

We took 35 of the mediums out which is roughly half of the mediums.. 

*Blasted hard to catch when you've been in there catching a few times*

So lets say mediums are roughly 80 birds? 

Which leaves us with 50+80=130. 

Which leaves us with  170 little birds... Little tiny birds that are weak and die easily. 

We are down to a total of 255.

We've never had birds like this before. EVER! 

The hatcheries email box is full,

 I wonder if they are getting a LOT of negative feedback this year?, 

so my message is not been able to go through..

But they will be hearing from us. SOON!! 

The Car.. Good bye Car~ Large Family Home School Thoughts.

A home schooled teenage boy who lives down the road came over last week and asked about our car out front. It's been there for several years and we were just going to get it taken away so we gave it to him. 

They had a bit of fun getting it going as one of the wheels had seized up. But they got it moving and the teenager drove it home. He said he wanted it for a project and we were quite glad to help him out! 

We knew there was a home schooled family down the road but we've not had any contact with them until that day. They also have 6 children, 3 natural and 3 adopted. I believe the boy who got the car is the oldest? or second oldest at 13. This brings the total of home schooled families, that we know, of with 6 kids up to 4 families, not including us, in our area. Though we are the only ones with six in such a short age gap. For instance one family's oldest is 16 and the youngest is 1. Where is our oldest is 8 and our youngest is 6 months. M's from church are the closest age gap as their oldest is 12 and their youngest is 3 months. :) 

Thinking of the age gap helps me understand how people with as many kids as we have still think 'wow that's a lot of kids' simply because we had ours so fast while their 6 kids are spaced out over more years.

A Fun Sunday! ~And A Picture of Me For Aunt Linda~

The wonderful Ladies we home church with :) Cindy, Me, Sarah, Christine, and Rachel.

Between these 5 ladies there are 19 children :) 

Three are missing.. Aubree and Deb and Colette. 

All the children in the church group number 23 and another on the way! 

We are standing on the trampoline! 

We all traveled out to Sarah and her family's new place in a nearby town to Church together 

and had a BLAST!! 

What a wonderful day.

I did not take my camera and I snagged this picture off FB for Aunt Linda. :) This was taken on the 10th Aunt Linda :) 

Wonderful friends, wonderful fellowship, wonderful food, wonderful games, wonderful time.