B# 7 Turns 4

On Saturday, B#7 turned 4. Hard to believe he is already 4. We just stayed home and celebrated his birthday as a family. He was pretty specific in what he wanted for his birthday and with some preplanning and shopping at Goodwill we were able to find what he wanted. He asked for a big boy bike, which I found brand new at Goodwill, some little boy roller blades which I also found at Goodwill and a lawn mower which we had purchased and put away months ago since Wal-Mart usually only carries them in the summer. B#1 bought him the movie WALL E which the little boys were very excited to get. So we watched that in between riding bikes and roller blading. Now we are ready to plan a family bike riding day when the weather gets a tad cooler. B#4 made him these adorable cookie monster cupcakes. She only made enough for the little ones because she said they were kind of a pain to make.

Happy Autumn

I just love Autumn. It seems to me that most people do. Usually everyone calls it Fall and I like to call it fall too but I love the word Autumn. It sounds so much nicer. If the next baby had been a girl I would have loved to name her Autumn although I am sure that would have guaranteed about 11 vetos. Today is the first day of Autumn. Unfortunately here the weather isn't feeling much like it. I think it is in the mid 80s today. UGH! I would be happy with nothing warmer than 75 but hopefully that will be coming next week. Today we put out what little "fall" decorations I have, which I thought I had more. Then we made some chocolate cupcakes to snack on. Maybe this weekend if the weather feels "fallish" we can have doughnuts and apple cider with Dad. I still want to work on some outside decorations but those will probably wait for a week or so.

A Wood working frolic

For quite some time now we have had a pretty large pile of logs on our property that needed to be sawn, split and stacked before winter comes. Unfortunately in our family we just don't have the "boy/man power" to get it all done now that B#1 works full time and B#5 just isn't old enough to handle the chain saw. Dad did try to teach some of the girls but they just weren't ready for the chainsaw either so that left Dad to try to get it all done by himself, not to mention, we do not own a wood splitter. Praise the Lord for good friends...on Saturday some very good friends of ours came over with their 7 strapping boys, 3 very hardworking girls, several chainsaws and their wood splitter. I had thought they might get most of the logs cut, some splitting done and no stacking since there was such a lot of wood to be done. Well they started at about 12:00 and even with a break for a yummy lunch of clam chowder they finished every single bit of wood by 6:00ish. Not only was it all cut, it was split and stacked in our shop. Then everyone came in for some really really yummy pumpkin cheesecake that B#4 made and some peach cobbler.