Magic Mountain reload

While trying to add some text to the photobucket slide show some how it was disconnect/terminating the link the the slide show. Any ideas why that would be???? Any who we have just a few pics from some of the kiddie stuff. I guess we were to busy having fun.

Camporee

We had our annual District Camporee this last Saturday. These are two of my Scouts. For a full write up and more pics check out my BSATroop367 blog. It is on my sidebar.

Easter

Easter was fun. The Wednesday before Easter Kari's brother asked if we wanted to come over to his house for Easter, we said sure but we had plans at Mom and Dad Sorensen for dinner. So Friday after work we drove over to California for a day of fun. Saturday we went to Magic Mountain with Matt and Becca and their kids and Kirk(Marcus), Erica, and Livvy. We spent the Morning and afternoon with the kids in the kids area, later in the afternoon Matt wanted to take Robert, who is 7, on some of the roller coasters. So we made a list of all the roller coasters that he could go on and rode those, including one that had a loop, yeeee haaaaaa. After that it was getting to be around dinner time and so we left for dinner. We went to the stone fire grill and had some really yummy food. We took the ladies and the kids back to the house and the big boys went back to hit some of the more intense roller coasters. Sooooo much fun. Sunday we woke and had breakfast and the kids looked for Easter baskets, and to our surprise the Cardons had a Easter basket for Kari and I. Big surprise. Thank you! shortly after that it was time to drive back to Arizona so we could make it in time for dinner with the Sorensen's. More fun. Dinner, talking dirt bikes, and a fun game. Then it was time for home and some sleep. Thank you for all the fun everyone. I love being with our families.

Recycling or reclaiming?

If you have been by the house lately you know there have been some changes. About two months ago Kirk and I tore down the little blue house in the back yard. I am reclaiming the majority of the wood from there to use to build walls on the shop. Warren helped me put up the first 2 walls, may I say that it would be much easier to tear down the whole thing and start from scratch as opposed to filling existing holes. It is just a lot of cut to fit instead of just building from lumber that is all the same size and standard to each other. Anyway this is all about saving money and reusing lumber. So here is what we have been up to......

Here Kari and I are also tearing down a wall that enclosed our carport. More free lumber.

The last piece is coming down.

Here I am using some old and some new lumber.

The wall is done and going up.

The framing and sheeting is done. The window is also reused from the little blue house. So far I have spent less than $100 for lumber and nails and such. I love being thrifty.

Dessert anyone?

Sometimes you make food yummy enough you wish you could share with everyone. I made this last week, I was a little board and wanted to see what I cold come up with out of the stuff I had around the house. This is nothing real fancy but it was super yummy. The base is a puff pastry shell, and then I loaded it up with layers of strawberries and ice cream, more strawberries, and more strawberries, and a little chocolate sauce on top. It was really yummy. I hope this makes you hungry.

Kari and the Chickens

It is so cute, Kari has been feeding our neighbors chickens greens and oats. Now every time one of us walks out in the back yard all of the chickens run up to the fence to see who is coming and wait for some food. She gets to have all of the fun of having chickens without having to really take care of the chickens.