The 4th of July

As is our new tradition, we went to the St. Joseph County Fair on the 4th of July. It was half price day and it was a million degrees by 10am. The Rosses braved the intense heat to join us. 

 Animal Petting area

Do Not pick me up. Does this apply to the chicks or the kids?

There, I touched it. 

 

These hamster, guinea pig, rodent things gave friend "Geirlead" quite a start. He still isn't sure if he wants to get near them.

 Sophs does not like horses.

Yum corn!

Milk, ice cream and grilled cheese. What more could you ask for?

Go ahead ask my brother to say, "mom, where's my corn?" or "I lost my corn".

 

 Lemonade

 Getting lined up for the parade

 The older boys were not interested in the parade until they made a "float".

Watching the parade 

In which we pick blueberries

We picked some blueberries again this year. They were smaller and not a sweet as last year. The branches were also all over the ground making it a bit more difficult for some. 

Ry loves to have little picking buckets. He refuses to keep the bag in them, however. He is also in love with "ice cream truck" and it goes everywhere. 

Sophs has been eating last year's frozen berries and knows just what those little blue things are. Before this picture she was pulling the branches toward her mouth and eating them straight off of the bush!

Cute baby!

How to Bake a Cake

This is Ry's second cake. I didn't get pictures of the first cake he made.

Step 1.  Get out the bowl

Step 2. Crack eggs into bowl. (let mom pick broken pieces of shell out). 

 Step 3. Open box of cake mix (add oil and water oops no picture)

Step 4. Pour in cake mix

Keep pouring 

Step 5. Mix ingredients together

We also poured it into cake pans and then sprinkled the tops with sprinkles. Mom put it in the oven.

 This was not staged. 

We ate this cake and it was part of Soph's birthday photo shoot. 

We even ate the first cake he made. Pineapple upside down cake. Jesse tells me that he only took the hot butter out of the microwave and opened the pineapple can and Ry did the rest.

Weekend Away

 We took a trip to Wabash for the weekend. We say everyone. It was great fun and it was wonderful catching up with everyone. We even tried to take an 18 grand-kid photo... 

Here is some of the aftermath

 

Ry asleep on the couch. He had been crying for something and then he got really quiet. 

 

Sophs decided to help me unpack. Climbing in and out of things is her new favorite pastime.

Dying Easter Eggs

I finally took the photos off of my camera. Only took me 4 months :( 

Flash back to the past and see Ryan dying eggs with his dad. 

Toddler Thoughts

We had just gotten done singing the song "Follow the Prophet" as part of his pre-bedtime scripture reading.

Ry: I want FHE!
Me: Why?
Ry: 'cause I wanna a treat!
Me: Oh, well it's not Monday.
Ry: And do Easter Eggs! (he takes the box of dye and throws it up in the air)

Well at least he likes Family Home Evening and we will have to dye eggs as our activity on Monday :)

Name Letters

Maybe if I am accountable on the blog, I will finish more projects?
Well here are two of the three I finished this week. The other one is a Christmas scrapbook page for the Sophs.

I think I like how they hang down

The more traditional orientation.