Tuesday March 27

The day started out early with taking little Elsie bug to the doctor.

She had to get up to date on her immunizations to get registered for Kindergarten.

She was not excited, but she was very brave.

She did ask for her Dad to come with her.

He always helps her to be brave.

We also bribed her with a promise of Ice cream if she would let them give her the shots.

We got there and she was so great.

Great until Dad hugged her to lay her down for the shots.

She tried so hard not to cry, but as soon as Dad had his arms around her....she just let it all go.

Poor lady tried to stick those needles in her tight little legs.....it was quite a sight to see.

I should have taken a picture, but that would probably be a mean thing to do.

As soon as it was over....and she got her pretty bandaids, she calmed down very quickly.

We were very proud of her.

We had planned to go to Yogurtz or to TCBY, but they aren't open at 9:30 in the morning....

Go figure :)

So we headed to McD's for a dollar cone.

Elsie couldn't have been happier.

After that we stopped by the Terry's to pick up the girls so they could come and play for the day.

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When we got home, we got to work.

I mean this is supposed to be our only not rainy day for the week.

We had to get all the stuff done outside that we wanted to.

We started by burning our side of the canal ditch.

I guess it was a good day for burning.

 The wind helped with fueling the fire, but things were wet, so it could be kept under control.

Well, we took advantage of that.

We burned ALL of the limbs we have cut from our fruit trees.

I mean ALL.

And man, that was a LOT!!!!!

We had a good fire going for much of the day.

We also pulled out an apple tree that wasn't looking very good, but it was also in a spot that we didn't want it.....

We burned more weeds along the fence line.

Dug up some more dirt to fill up by the retaining wall.

And lots more.

We kept busy all day long.

We are exhausted....and loving it :)

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Madi helped with watching the little kids before I got Porter put down for a nap.

She spent a little time sewing some more on her quilt.

It is looking really good, and I love seeing her be so proud of herself.

Can't wait to see what else she gets done over the next few days.

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Well, with all the fire we had going on all day, we had to have some S'mores, right???

The kids were happy to take a break from playing to have a dose of sugar.

I didn't have any chocolate bars, but I did have the melting chocolate.

So I melted it and spread it on each cracker, and it hardened just a little bit.

It worked perfectly.....and I think I will stick with this method.
I liked this chocolate much better anyway.....I am not a fan of Hershey's :(

So it was a long fun day.

The girls had to much fun with Ayden and Alex....and the best part is, Madi and Cassi got along pretty good.

And we all know how much I LOVE that :)