Quite Day for lego Building

It was rainy and cool out, so we needed to find something to do. It just so happen that all the neighbor kids came calling each other at around the same time due to boredom. Yes I think I might be the crazy mom who invites ALL the kids into my home at once for a play date. All nine kids (not sure what the 4 siblings not pictured here were doing) were content on me bringing out the legos. Dumping all of them on the floor and asking them to build something. Music was playing in the background and it was fun to listen to some of the kids sing along. They just talked to each other and the pleasantness lasted for a surprisingly long time. Maybe 60 minutes- wasn't counting but it felt like forever, I folded about three loads of laundry. Anyways, all good things come to an end with some sibling dispute (luckily it was not ours this day).

Cabin

This year my parents bought a Cabin in the mountains. It's fun to drive about an hour away from home and just be. They have been doing a TON of work to fix it up and make it slightly more modern. Nothing too fancy just updated. My boys enjoy going so much, that one evening this summer when they were headed to bed (later than usual I might add) they begged to go to the cabin. After a small debate on the how late it was.
9:00pm we loaded in the van and went.
Two of them fell asleep on the way and I was thankful for my middle child staying awake and talking to me the whole way.

My Publisher Book

I use to scrap book and would still like to do it, but it takes me so long to set and than create. There are so many photos to choose from that can take me twice as long to narrow it down. Printing is a pain in the booty. My printer is a Canon, which I thought to be very good, but after a couple of years the photo fades and is not so lovely anymore. So I saw these out on the intrawebs, and loved them. My Publisher is one of many photo albums company's you can buy from now days. It was easy to load and set up. I do miss the scrapbook creation, but I am really into this right now.

Target Practice

They were so into target practice for a better part of a morning. Rearranging furniture, changing length of shot and their own positions.