JULY 14, 2012 -- PLAY DAY AND FEELING ORGANIC

JULY 14, 2012 -- FUN DAY AND FEELING ORGANIC

Dad, Joseph and Benjamin were gone today to the lake for a Priest super activity -- for the 16-17 year old boys from church.  They had a great time.   Sorry.  No pictures.

 Here at home, we had a fun day!!!  We started the day at Lowe's for the "build and grow" activity and they all loved it!  It is also a great learning experience for most of the kids to learn about slowing down, reading directions and following visual and text directions.  When you hammer the nail in the wrong place, it just doesn't turn out as good!!  

Bethany and Rachel helping Mason build his project

David with Matthew working hard behind him.

Daniel did it!!!

Matthew is almost done!!

Mason loved this activity!  He is proud to have his own working apron!  He is growing up so fast!

Mason and David -- they have become good buddies lately!

Rebecca is working hard!

Next we took Bethany to the doctor and got medicine for her "swimmer's ear" and middle ear infection.  I had told the 6 other kids who had to wait in the waiting room that we would go to lunch if they could sit and wait patiently without any problems.  They did it -- and it didn't help that this was the fastest "in and out" doctor's appointment I have EVER gone to!  That was a blessing for me and the kids! 

We headed to Steak and Shake for lunch!  Kids eat free on Saturdays -- well at least 1 kid meal for every $8 spent.  We got 3 kids meals free and we skipped the soda and the ice cream to finish our meal with it only costing $20!!  Yahoo!!!

We picked up Bethany's perscriptions than headed home.  The kids started playing and were doing so well, so I let them play awhile then at 2:00pm we all worked together and did our "required" list of jobs for the day.  We cleaned up the main floor, distributed new cleaning supplies to ALL bathrooms, straightened up bedrooms and cleaned ALL bathrooms!  I had great workers!

Our reward for finishing the cleaning was to go to the dollar store and they all got to buy a $1 water gun!

We came home and swam and played with our water toys.

Dad and the boys had come home shortly after us and then we cooked hamburgers for dinner.

While hamburgers were cooking, Dad watered the garden while I picked from the garden!

We are producing yummy greens!  We have another bag full of bok choy and turnip greens!  Also a few more hot peppers, turnips, radishes and even 1 tomato!!!

Cucumbers and squash will start to harvest in at least the next 2 weeks as well as the many green tomatoes should start going red!  Broccoli is coming along and the corn is starting to develop tassels down inside the stalk!  It is so fun to harvest from the garden!

This evening, we ate outside and enjoyed the incredible cool weather!  It was a cloudy and beautiful day today and at 6pm it was 78 degrees!  Unheard of for July and such a change from the 100+ degree weather of 2 weeks ago!!!  The temperature change sure shows in the garden!!!  The plants are happy!!!

For dinner tonight we had our hamburgers and a "Bok Choy Slaw" salad with Bok Choy from our garden an then some turnip greens that I cooked this time with some bacon crumbles!  Both were really good!

It is so cool to eat from our own garden!

The whole garden

Squash plants!

 

Cucumbers!!!

Look at that beautiful Bok Choy!!!  We have harvested

Broccoli is still trying even though we planted very late!!  It didn't like the 100 degree weather!

Tomatoes!!!

Asparagus!  You don't pick for the first 2-3 years.

Look at that corn!!!!