They finally earned their Harry Potter game!
Archive for July 2010
We like Australian wines…we have moved on from Woop! Woop! to Big Woop!
I love that he loves to mop. 🙂
It was the PERFECT day for a popsicle stand. The boys had a great time and earned some money all at the same time. They were out there for 2.5 hours selling popsicles to construction workers, landscape guys, neighbors and people at the pool.
Making the signs
Sorting the flavors for easier distribution
Working the corner…Colm at one corner and Liam down on the other corner
(Project 365-7/16/10)
Colm and Liam gathered up stones, grass, leaves and flowers from the yard and then Colm and I made solar prints. Colm thought it was very cool. Apparently Liam had used solar paper at school before so he was highly unimpressed…been there/done that.
Our strawberry picking outing turned into a strawberry/blackberry/blueberry picking outing.
(Project 365-7/14/10)
There were TONS of blueberries and blackberries. We got a lot, but could have gotten so much more.
They had quite a few animals on the farm including this cat that Colm loved so much he kissed.
There were chickens, geese, ducks and turkeys wandering all over the property. At one point we were picking berries and a goose and her gosling were wandering through the blueberry bushes. It was pretty cute.
This was basically a farm where you could come and pick some of their fruit/veggies if you wanted to. There were no signs telling us where things were and no one greeted us or gave us any sort of tour and this was a BIG farm; they grow over fifteen crops. The boys had a good time though. Since this is a working farm, we got to go and see the pigs and chickens and we happened to be there during feeding time. Have you ever heard thirty pigs eating at the same time? It sends chills up my back just to think about it. It’s not pretty. You can’t imagine the cobwebs in the barn either. Those cobwebs have been there for generations and they were THICK and dusty and hanging down like stalagtites from the ceiling. I was definitely out of my comfort zone and had to get OUT of that barn. I don’t care how many cute little baby piglets there were, it smelled, it was dark, all of those pigs were eating and there were cobwebs EVERYWHERE! We did get to meet and chat with the farmer though, so that was nice.
When Sean and I were first here without the boys looking for houses we had several people tell us that we needed to go to VooDoo Doughnuts. We didn’t have time for that when we were here looking for houses nor was I in the mindset to go get doughnuts downtown at the time. Today, five months later however, is a totally different story. (We actually tried to come here once during spring break, but the line was so ridiculously long there was no way I was going to stand in that line with two boys.) So after swim lessons we headed downtown, found a place to park and found a line what was short by VooDoo standards.
(Project 365-7/12/10)
Picking out which one(s) they are going to get.
Photo opps while we are waiting in line
Inside…finally
Some of the yummies we got…the boys had already eaten theirs.
We have spent the past month or so following the World Cup, so Sean and I got the idea about midnight the day of the World Cup final to go see it downtown with 10,000 other people. I am so glad we went. Seeing it on the big screen with tons of other people definitely adds to the experience as opposed to watching it in our family room which is what we had been doing.
So we rearranged our Sunday plans, slathered on the sunscreen and headed downtown. The team we were rooting for didn’t win, but that didn’t take away from the fun one bit.