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Friday Five

1. We are headed to Emma's Meet the Teachers this morning (they won't decide her teacher until the last day of this school year) We got her K readiness test scores in the mail and she did great. She measured as Above Average -we all know she's way above average =) (sorry that's just a proud mama talking)

2. We went outside and did sidewalk chalk for awhile. It was nice to just hang out on the back porch last night.

3. We went to the library and got I few good books. I'll tell you more about the one I got when I finish it.

4. We are going to just hang out this weekend. The girls HAVE to clean up their closets- you can't even move in them.

5. I entered a Friday giveaway on my friend Bertie's Fitness Blog (check out the sidebar). It's a great site. Every Friday she has a giveaway. She posts recipes and fitness routines. I have done the Plyo one and it about killed me- I am going to make an effort to keep doing it. I also made the protein packed chili she posted and Jarrod and Jude wolfed it down. It was great. You should definitely check it out. Most of the fitness stuff does not require and weights or anything, just you and I really like that a lot. It is not in our budget right now to go pay for a gym membership or a bunch of fitness equipment so just me is a good thing.

My Garden

I realized I forgot to post pics of our garden. I planted lunchbox tomatoes, strawberries, eggplant, broccoli, green leaf lettuce, lemon thyme, pineapple mint and lavender. We planted a container garden since we are renting this house and can't dig up what small amount of yard we have. So here are our plants:

Tomatoes


Strawberries


Eggplant


Broccoli


Lettuce


Lavender


Thyme


Mint


Everything is doing really well. The strawberries and tomatoes are flowering. You can see little bits of broccoli starting to grow and the eggplant has a bud on it. We get to pick the lettuce weekly and it's yummy.

Funniest AFV video ever

Memorial Weekend Festivities

Well here is what we did this weekend.
Friday- Family Movie Night
We watched Bedtime Stories. It was great! We all loved the movie and would recommend it to anybody. It was definitely family friendly.

Saturday- Holland Lake
We went to Holland Lake and checked out the lodge, lake and waterfall.First we checked out the lodge and then we went and had a picnic lunch by the lake. All 6 of us hiked up a mountain to Holland Falls. Part of the time Jude rode on my back, then he rode on Jarrod's shoulders and sometimes he walked. It was beautiful, but a long way up. Mia got really tired of walking and on the way down cried the whole way. Then, we went back to the lodge and rented a canoe for an hour and Jarrod and I took turns with the kids. He got Mia and I got Kaitlyn and Emma. It was a really nice day and we had lots of fun.







Sunday- We went to Fort Missoula. It was pretty interesting. It started out in 1877 as an open Fort b/c the Missoulians were afraid of the Western MT Indian Tribes. Then during WWI it became in internment camp for Italians (or as the lady at the front desk called them "those eye-talians") and then during WWII it was a part-time internment camp for Japanese-Americans. When they opened it up for tours they brought in an old schoolhouse, a church and a train. They also had a sawmill that they give demonstrations on sometimes. They also had old barracks and a lookout tower (which Jarrod and the girls climbed up into -waaaay too high for me). Then we went and got drinks at the gas station (I really miss my QT drinks, but these were good).



Monday- Jarrod mowed the lawn. I changed our sheets out to regular cotton (no more flannel until winter-maybe fall) and I also swapped out the kid's winter clothes for short sleeves and shorts. Then, Jarrod and I made chili in the crockpot so it could simmer all day (got the recipe from Bertie's fitness blog-link on the right). We went to Rattlesnake and hiked a new trail. Jarrod and the girls played frisbee. Then, we went to the old trail and hung out at the spot where we like to skip rocks. The water run-off is crazy and there was no little beach area anymore, so we let them get their feet wet in the shallowest part. Since it is glacial runoff, it was freezing!! Then, we came home and boy did our house smell good from the chili!! I made some potato salad and for dinner we will have chili, potato salad and watermelon. It's been a fun weeekend.

Tagged

Ok, so Diana tagged me to do the 8 things lists. So, here goes nothing-

8 THINGS I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO:
1. Kaitlyn being out of school
2. people coming to visit
3. Jude being weaned
4. Saturday Markets (I love going to the Farmer's Market)
5. Emma learning to read
6. summer weather
7. Being able to go to a farm and pick our own fruit
8. Our trip to Glacier

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY
1. Woke up
2. Got a shower
3. Trip to Holland Lake
4. Hiked up a mountain to the top of a waterfall (4 miles roundtrip)
5. Canoed with Emma and Kaitlyn
6. Had a picnic lunch by the lake
7. Drove through a really pretty neighborhood
8. Hung out last night alone with my Hubby for awhile (Jude was present for some of it, but then he finally passed out)

8 THINGS I WISH I COULD DO
1. Sew with my sewing machine
2. find a work at home job
3. get my kids to play nicely for more than a few minutes at a time
4. finish my Bible study and start a new one
5. keep up better with my blog
6. learn to always enjoy/savor the moment
7. slow down time so we could spend more time with our kids at each stage of their lives
8. Stop worrying

8 SHOWS I WATCH
1. Chuck
2. SNL
3. NCIS
4. Monk
5. Big Brother
6. The Mentalist
7. The Office
8. Out of the Wild

8 PEOPLE I TAG
1. Kristen
2. Diana
3. Mom
4. April
5. Amber
6. Gina
7. Bertie
8. Vanessa

Friday Five

1. Monday we went to eat lunch at the park by Jarrod's office. The kids had a lot of fun playing and they got to hang out wiht their Daddy.

2. Tuesday we found out that we have no AC, so I went out and bought 2 tower fanc that work great (even thought my Husband said they wouldn't work at all)

3. Jarrod used our green leaf lettuce in a salad this week and said it was good. So, atleast one of our plants is in use right now. I am soooo ready for the other stuff to start blooming and producing. SHould be July/August

4. Tonight is movie night and we are going to watch Bedtime Stories. I'll let you know what I think about it later.

5. This weekend is Memorial weekend, so we get Jarrod for an extra day which will be nice, we've been missing him. I think we're going to some lake and I'd like to go tour the local breweries. No, I don't like beer at all, but it sounds like fun.

I'll update on the Memorial Weekend festivities and the movie later.