Silas turns Five!

Happy Birthday, Silas! Silas turned 5 May 20th-- two days after Breck's birthday--so we had a double celebration with Grandma Pemberton for them both.

If you haven't noticed, we have a LOT of birthdays in May!

Which maybe is a bad thing as you don't have the whole month to yourself to celebrate turning another year older. But looking on the bright side.....people are less likely to forget your birthday because so many people have their birthday in that month. Hence, more presents! That's always great, isn't it?

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Silas! Hope you have as great a year this year as the last one.....

Out of the Terrible Two's.....

Breck turned three May 18th and moved out of the "Terrible Two's." Though I don't think that title quite applied to him as his year as a toddler was anything but terrible! Well....actually let's not go there. :)

Grandma Pemberton came and visited us and helped us celebrate Breck's birthday, and all of the other boys' May birthdays. She gave Breck an electric stingray that swims around in the pool. Breck proudly named it Pepper.

Happy Birthday, Breck, and many more!

Happy Birthday Lane!

Lane has had the first of a long line of birthdays in May. He turned 12 May 10th and we had an interesting treasure hunt for him. Cammie, Bronwen, and I made up clues and riddles that we hid all over the "Pemberton Grounds." The clues eventually leading him to the trunk of our Accord where his prize lay --A Ripstik. It's a type of skateboard but, "Much easier to master," as Lane says. You can click on the link to see what the Ripstik looks like. I wasn't able to get a picture of him on it as he hates having his picture taken. He always groans and asks, "Is this for your blog?" He drives me crazy sometimes but all in all he's a great brother!

Happy Birthday, Bro!

Picking up the Tools Again....

We pulled out the tools, gloves, and seed packets last week and went back to work gardening. We planted some peppers, corn, tomatoes, spinach, carrots, peas, and lots more!A helpful hint that my mom found from someone who also has a garden: to use cornstarch as an ant killer. Sure it looks weird heaping boxes of cornstarch into your grocery cart, but it really does work! And it doesn't have all of the chemicals that regular ant killer has. Which is great because who wants to eat squash that has been grown in the same soil that chemicals have been dumped in?

Now, after all our days toiling in the hot sun, all that is left to do is wait. I think it is amazing how a plant can start from something so small as a seed and grow into a strong, healthy plant which produces food for us to eat. All from something so small. God really is amazing, isn't He?