Last week was pretty busy for us! We started out with Jannika's 7th birthday. Her favorite gift was a butterfly garden (don't ya LOVE those commercials that make kids beg you for bumpits or a shoes-under? :) This was actually a very cool (and educational) gift!She had a "J" birthday party where the girls had to wear things that started with J (jeans, jackets, etc), we had a jump-rope competition, learned to play jacks, guessed how many jelly beans were in a jar and had a J shaped cake! (This is one of those times when the horseshoe cake pan your family has had since 1972 comes in handy!)
Notice the girl second from the right wearing Jammies, a jumprope around her waist, a jacket, jacks and jack-o-lanterns for a necklace. She definitely won the prize!
The rest of the week included having about 15 young men crash our house for an activity on Tuesday, some friends over for dinner on Wednesday, crazy cleaning and baking for a baby shower at my house on Thursday and then making lunch for the faculty of the school on Friday. Whew. I know some of you are going "Is that all?" Well, that's kind of a busy week for me. Then on Friday afternoon, we packed up and headed for the desert for our first camping trip in our new camp trailer.
And what is this odd picture, you might ask? Well, it is a real live dinosaur dig. On our way to our camp spot, we stopped to see this dinosaur dig site. I think what you are looking at is a vertebre and a rib.
I just thought this picture was pretty funny of Claire drinking her 50th Capri Sun. She was absolutely in HEAVEN while we were camping. She loves being outside, getting dirty and riding her bike.
It was a great week!
