I brought the kids out to the woods on Easter morning to get a casual group pictures. I had told them to wear their shoes, but not all of them got the memo, so they weren't very happy with me. Here they are waiting for Adam and Ruth to show up. There's a lot of poison ivy in the woods, which I did not say much about because it was hard enough to get them out to me and I did not want to give them an excuse to run off. So far, none of my kids have ever had a poison ivy rash. I have never had a poison ivy rash and John has never had a poison ivy rash, so I think that we are the rare family that is not allergic to it, but that could change and we are certainly exposed to it plenty.
Our flowers have bloomed and Susan is walking around like this everyday right now. She loves these flowers. I currently have a vase of them on my bedside table and there are piles of them among some other ground flowers. This is all the work of Susan.
Arwen is holding a flower and told me that she was disappointed that the flower did not appear brighter in the picture. She obviously had a plan for the picture with her flower.
And here they all are. All 13!
This is the corn that is coming up. It has been a very dry spring. I have never had our soil this dry. But the corn seems to be doing fairly well. I expect that I need more fertilizer, though. I am still always uncertain about how much fertilizer to include.
These are peas and green beans, possibly a squash plant, and some tomatoes towards the back. The furthest set of hills has herbs and tomatoes. I have a lot of squash plants that are still too small to plant that will be moving in and some sun flowers that I want planted.
We got this plastic couch free from the neighbor. It will replace the other free couch that I got 3 years ago that despite a lot of sewing and repairing the frame, it is ripped and broken and did not last long with this many bouncy boys.
Johnny after he got his hair cut.
Johnny before his hair cut.
Sam after his hair cut. He has been asking for a short hair cut for about a month now. I like his long hair, but I think that his cute snub nose and blue eyes look nice with his short hair.
Gideon asked for his hair to be cut, but I had said no and that he has to grow his hair as long as a girls. He fell on the floor and growled at me. But the girls and John would be mad at me if I cut Gideon's hair. He has to keep it long for now, and anyway, I like his long boy hair.
This is Joseph's hair looking all sorts of lengths and I thought that It looked terrible, but he apparently hated his haircut and told me that I am the worst at giving haircuts. But his cut came out the best with everything perfectly smooth and even with a shaved neck and all. His after pictures are in the above photos.
This is a snail that Joshua made out of toostie rolls and wanted a picture of.
The flowers are in blossom and we have had a lot of butterflies visiting, plus a lot of bumble bees. Those flowers are buzzing.
