A Turtle and a snake

Busy day for reptiles around here yesterday. I was watering my flowers, when Zack and Kammie got off the bus and excitedly ran home. There was a big box turtle in the road where the bus and dropped them off. We went and got it out of the road and played with him for a while, before letting him go. He was the biggest one we've seen yet.



Zack was eager to pick it up.


Later I moved to watering the garden. Near the house, the ground cloth we had put down (to prevent weeds) and then the mulch was coming up. I thought maybe a sprinkler head was the reason, so I stepped back into the flower bed to fix the cloth and mulch. As I put my had down near the cloth, there was a SNAKE! It scared me, and I didn't know what kind it was, so my kids helped me get a bucket and catch it. Later we found out it was just a brown garden snake, not a Poisonous one, so I was brave enough to hold it and then let it go safely back into the flower bed.

Whole Wheat Bread

I love it when I get 5 nice loaves of bread. It's a beautiful thing.

And we had yummy scones too for breakfast.

Race pictures

Someone from James' work gave him these pictures from our 4H race this past Saturday.

Waiting to start. We are in the far left corner--some of us behind the front row, so we aren't seen very well.


And we're off.


Jordan and James at the finish.


James getting his 2nd place medal.

Sidnie

With the Indiana Jones craze at our house, Sid's siblings helped her with this "rambo" type get up. Funny girl.



Sidnie also likes to do things her "self." Whenever she can get her hands on the dirty laundry that Mom is sorting she finds things that she wants to put on. Here she is with a pair of her sister's underware on wrong. Silly girl.

4H 5K Run

Jordan and Kammie, with Mom and Dad, participated in the annual 4H 5K race. Jordan was running it for the 5th time. James stuck with Jordan and they ran the whole time. Mom stuck with Kammie and since she is not a conditioned runner, we ran and walked. Mom even put Kam on her back and carried her up the BIG hill. A good time was had by all. Jordan placed 1st in her age group (female 9-11 year olds). Kammie amazingly won 2nd place in her age group (the female 8 and under catergory).

Here we are reenacting Mom carring Kammie on her back.


Jordan and Kammie

The Primary Talent Show

Our Primary had their annual Talent Show on the 17th. Because of a mix up, only Kammie was there to participate. She demonstrated her TaeKwonDo form. She did this after running her first 4H 5K race that morning.

Kate's Ragstrip Quilt

For a personal progress project, Mom and Kate made this denim and flannel quilt. Mom cut out the fabric squares and the batting and Kate sewed all the squares with an X. Next, we made the pattern and got the layout in the order we wanted. Then we pinned everything together in rows and labeled them. Kate was then able to sew all the squares into their rows and then sew the rows together. Mom did the binding and we both clipped the seams. YeeHaw!



The "raggy" side. Oh it's not fun after awhile clipping all those seams.