Happy Birthday, Daddy!!

As you all know Dad is in Canada with Mom and Jessica at the moment, so today we couldn't celebrate his birthday together. :( But thank goodness for phones that can send our happy birthday wishes across the miles. I don't know where any pictures of Dad are when he was a baby, and Moms not here to show me where they are, but I did find this one of when he was little. Wasn't he cute?! :)

Happy Birthday, Daddy!! We all send our love to you and hope that the Lord blesses you for all the things that you have done for us in our lives. If there were more people in this world like you, it would be a different place! :) Miss you lots and can't wait till you all come back!

Dad with his husky.

Dad always likes to tell people the little story of how once he went hunting and he found a dear, and after that he never went hunting again. :) 

To Daddy and Mama

Hello Daddy and Mama,

We are glad to hear you are having such a fun time in Canada. This is Jenny blogging this time. Joylin wasn't feeling to excited about doing it so I decided to give it a try. :)
Here is a little of what we've been doing while you are gone. 

As usual Catan is being played a time or two a day... well maybe a little more than that.

 Joshua has been keeping the family bicycles in working condition. He gave Micah's bike some much needed peddles. Afterwards he decided to try it out and had his little brothers time how fast he could peddle one mile. He did it in approx. 6 mins. Good job, Joshua!

Joanna being an awesome helper!

It's taking some getting used to but she's doing a pretty good job of it. We haven't got a whole lot of calls but there have been a few.

These three are some awesome dish washers.... despite the flying water and soapsuds at times! :)

Yummy green beans that we cooked for lunch.

Jesse made a dressed up bean jar to take to the county fair.

With the help of big sister it turned out quite cute.

The baker checking out the cookbooks.

Making sure we had the right recipe for zucchini bread.

Last evening we looked out the window and saw these two monkeys.

Joshua found a small net that we had stuck away some place and decided to make a little kids volleyball court so he could teach Jared and Jesse how to play.

 

I think he did a really good job with it.

Awesome hit, Jesse!

Go Jared!

More later! Love and miss you!