Earth Day bags 2

Molly's on the left, Potter's on the right. Now we just need to get out there and start picking up trash, although it looks like rain is coming today........

Earth Day bags

Each of the kids is going to have their own Earth Day bag, but I only got to help Caleb with his today before we didn't have any more time. Since tomorrow is Earth Day, I guess I need to crank it up!! Caleb put all the letters on by himself (I assisted only with spelling) and then he glued the recycle symbol on. What a Van Gogh!!

Fun at dinner

Tonight at dinner, Caleb kept saying 'picture, picture' he wanted Dave to take his picture with me. So Dave obliged and we have a few goofy pictures to share. Molly was doing some sort of sultry look that came out weird.

Caleb painting the deck with Dad

Caleb and Dave had fun using the long roller bar to paint the deck. Promptly after I finished this video, Caleb turned around and got his foot into the paint tray!!

The deck project

This weekend, Dave took on the huge project of pressure cleaning the deck, the patio underneath and the picnic table. They were in huge need of some attention. I didn't get a proper before picture with all the flaking paint and moldy gunk, but here are a few after he cleaned it and started to paint. Caleb was very interested in this project!!! I don't have any after pictures, as I wasn't really allowed to walk on the deck last night once it was done, and today is rainy. There'll be some soon.

Caleb clips himself

He loves to get the clips from the refrigerator and then put them all over his clothes.

Philip visits us briefly

On the way back from his stint in Colorado, Philip made about a 12 hour stop in Endicott, 9 of those hours he spent sleeping, much to the kid's dismay!! They did have a chance to goof off with him, though, and it was then silliness as usual.

Molly's lincoln log house

Another masterpiece!!

Easter dinner

Standing rib roast, horseradish mashed potatoes, asparagus, and angel yeast biscuits. What else could we possibly need?? Oh, the carrot cake that was for dessert!!!!

Few more cows (different pasture)

Potter and I took Macdougal for a walk to another pasture, with cows and a donkey. The cows were unimpressed with us.

Egg hunt and church

The Easter Bunny did not disappoint in hiding the eggs all over the house. There were some for every age kid to find. It was hard to keep Caleb (who woke up really, really early) from looking, then Molly, until Potter and Dave finally woke up. Many eggs had been spied by that point. Church went very well and the kids behaved themselves, then we had photos at home. Not many pictures of us as a five-some (or twosome), so I treasure these.....

In their new pajamas

The kids had fun wrestling with each other......

Easter morning

The Easter Bunny brought everyone new pajamas!!! Potter got MarioKarts Wii pajamas, Molly got Princess pajamas, and Caleb got Lightening McQueen pajamas!! Yay!!!!!

Our family

A variety of family pictures. This might be the only one where you see me (with Macdougal) and I took it myself.

More Easter egg dyeing

Like I said, fun for all ages......

Easter egg dyeing

What kid doesn't like dying Easter eggs????

Goats bleating

The goats were much more cooperative!!!

Will this cow just moo already?

The cows were not cooperating with the mooing. We did more than they did.

And then the cows

Directly across from the goats are the cows (I know I have posted pictures of all of these same animals on our many trips from N.C., so pardon any of the repetitiveness, as I am sure many of you have seen this and know all about the farm animals at Fearrington!!) which were in the small corral area where they eat. Normally they are spread out all across the meadow or are in the small pond cooling off. You don't realize how large some of these are until you are right in their face, and boy were we close this time!!!

First encounter with the goats at the lake

Was beautiful weather the first morning we were there, so we headed across the street to feed the goats some carrots and celery. They never say no and in fact when we ran out, they ate the clover that we picked outside their pen! Then the kids spent some time next to the lake tossing in random things, mostly sticks and those prickery things that fall from trees. We also saw a box turtle, whose picture I forgot to post!!

Granddad picks up with Little Green Man

We headed down to N.C. for Easter with Granddad!! The night we got there it was fairly late for the kids, but they had a bath to help settle them down for bedtime and then Granddad gave them the next installment of the Little Green Man series. He has been doing this for years with Potter, now Molly listens pretty intently, and Caleb just wants to sit with someone or some dog whose ear he can hold while finishing off his bedtime milk sippy!!

Potter plays with Neal

Potter's friend Neal came over this past weekend for playing outside (on the one nice day we have had for a while) and then they had hot dogs and roasted s'mores. It was fun watching all of the kids climbing trees, playing in the woods, climbing on the picnic table (where these pictures were taken), and hitting balls with the bats.