One Year Old

The car seat gets switched to forward facing! Wahoo! My youngest is getting older! I would say time is flying by but it actually feels like we have known Amethyst longer than that. 

 

My buddy

Hilarious. Eli wrote this book and pictures. 

I know what we are going to do today!

"Actually, err!"

Chicken farmers and sea shell makers

Ok before we begin, Dora and I made a plaster mold seashell. She is proud as peaches of this. 

We are also loving our chickens. 

Eric is Awesome

My buddy Eric is a geologist. I was talking to him about Eli's love for rocks. Eric shipped him some ricks from his mine in Tennessee.

Now we are in the back yard digging for minerals. 

So far all we found was a bug. We promptly fed it to the chickens. 

November 18 swimming!

On a crazy spree I let kids go swimming before bath night. Eli is a good swimmer

Here is Eli swimming 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuRBNHV0YiU

Jumping 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYU4ew-Uks

Plaster feet

These turned out great. These are our plaster projects from last week. They turned out great! This was really fun. Now we have foot stones. 

Eli's in the middle turned out the best but Dora had snails on hers, mine was awesome with all the grass. 

This turned out great. Now I'm ready to track Bigfoot. If he ever comes to Texas. 

Kids being kids

We played a lot this week. 

So I have decided to go off nights. My headaches have been getting worse. I have been using more 5 hr energy drinks. And they are not paying me as much. But I am picking up two other part time jobs. 

Dora went to academy with uncle Brian and I. They live the exercise stuff!

Eli got a new suit. 

My running buddy. She plays while I'm on the treadmill. 

Marathon feet. I have lost two toenails training and have 3 blood blisters from running. 

Soccer coming to an end

Bridget took the kids to soccer on Saturdays while I ran to get ready for the marathon. But I did get to go to the last game and watch Dora score two goals. They had a ceremony where everyone got trophies. Kids were thrilled. 

He was so happy!

Saturday Fun

We had some fun today. We did plaster projects outside I showed them how to make casts of hands and feet. We also made casts of random things like shells and Eli wanted to make a leaf fossil! Then we made a mess and just played. 

These are our feet prints. Still drying. 

We also took the mustang out for a spin then waxed it up nice. This week I need to get it serviced and do the carburetor. 

Here is Pappa Don driving the gokart with Eli!

Eli made me this today. He made this on his own without help. 

Project Manliness Part One

We were having some after school fun with the bow and arrow. Dora is actually pretty good too.

On an unrelated note, want to see what marathon training and Texas fire ants does to feet?