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I have a few pictures to post. I am a little behind....nothing new. So here is Ethan. I could NOT believe the size of this worm. Now that would catch a HUGE fish. Ethan thought is was great. Look at that smile.

Mayah and Ethan putting the worm into the bucket of water. It didn't take long before they lost it. I'm pretty sure that was a snake and not a worm. LOL. Just kidding.

I found this brand new pool still in the package for $4 at a garage sale. The kids wanted to put it up right away. Here is Mayah jumping from a chair into the pool.
Poor Mayah. Look at her eyes. Ethan was trying to be 'helpful'. He put sun block all over her face and it got in her eyes. She was having problems with them for quite awhile.

OK so the reason for this picture is just for documentation. Rachel is very independant. She has a certain way of doing her hair and she chooses what she wears to church and school. I think it is great. But there are times I try to help her. So this particular morning she got on these super cute capri's. But with this striped shirt? UMMM I wasn't feeling it. But she sure was. I tried to see if she would rather wear a solid color shirt but she didn't want to. So I just let it go. I guess we can choose our battles and as little as it was I decided to just let it be. I am pretty sure she will look back later on and realize that it really didn't match like she thought. But oh well. The joys of parenting. I guess I can't control everything even though I try to. :)

Zach is helping Don in the garden. We are trying to expand the garden. Don is sooooooooo excited about it. I am too but as it gets bigger and bigger all I can see is the amount of weeding this garden is going to take. OH WAIT.....that is why we had five kids.

So check out how dark the soil is on the left hand side. Any guesses as to why? Ok it isn't really soil. It is manure. Zach is throwing out some rocks. This is a very rocky place.

And finally: The Pine Wood Derby. The very first race was against Zach and Caleb. Caleb won. Then Zach went against someone else and lost. SO I told Zach to turn his car backwards. He ended up taking first place. Caleb received 3rd place.

Here is Caleb's car. He did pretty much EVERYTHING by himself including cutting it out. He got a little bit of help adding some extra weight to the bottom.







Caleb's car was voted the favorite by the judges.

Here is Zach's car. He had a little more help with the cutting. But he painted it all by himself and put the wheels on and then had some help adding the weight underneath. This car had to have quite a bit of weight added to it. And when they were trying to drill some screws in it for headlights it cracked the car. And Zach had hammered the wheels in so tight, at one point, that they wouldn't even turn. But FINALLY we got the car into racing mode and it won first place.

Here are Zach's awards. He won first place and then got best classic design from the judges.

Pretty fun night. They combined the pine wood derby with the pig roast and potluck. Kids had fun.