Growing up!

We were getting ready to go to church and I tried on James' Sunday outfit..

He's growing up so fast.

A few items of note..

The last day of school has arrived! Here are a couple of picture of David relaxing in the car before the school bus came.

The kids also finished up their year of piano lessons with a recital.
They each performed 2 songs and did a lovely job.

Carina's 15th birthday

Carina is now 15! Amazing! She had a quiet birthday at home. We made chicken rolls and blueberry pie to celebrate her birthday. Shield your eyes, there is a lot of flame involved below!

Carina managed to get the candles blown out!

Happy 15th Birthday, Carina!

A week of Concerts

We had a very busy week. We had 3 concerts to attend for the girls. Tuesday, we went to Carina's, Thursday-Annie's concert, and on Friday-Kathleen's concert. They were nice and we got to go out to Dairy Queen afterwards for some ice cream!

Kathleen's chorus and the Sand Hill elementary chorus got together and performed for the lunch room ladies during their annual dinner. It was nice. She did a good job!

Annie had her Kindergarten concert. They performed 3 songs.
Annie is standing next to her best friend Zoey (girl in pink)

Carina performed in the chorus concert "ENCORE" It was quite a good show. They performed it at the Townsend Center at the UWG campus. Here she is in her "thriller"costume.

Duets with James

Wow! Guess what! We have high speed internet as of last night. So I decided to try and post a video on the blog. I am very excited about this. We have had dial-up internet for 11 years despite lots of trying to get high speed! And we finally have succeeded. So enjoy Carina and James' duet on the piano!

Nestlings

It has been a week and a half, so we ran out after dinner tonight to check on our little nestlings!  They have grown so much!  They are covered with fuzzy down and are starting to grow their adult feathers. Sadly, only 2 have survived.  There were 4 little naked birds last week, but we only counted 2 tonight.  But these birds look strong and healthy , so it looks like they will make it.  

They are so cute!  I'm sure they will soon be flying out of the nest!

Musical medleys

David discovered that he could play most of the melody on Master the Tempest is Raging with Carina on the piano.  It has no flats or sharps so he was keeping up pretty well.....

Of course, this inspired all of the other children to run and find every other musical instrument in the house to play along too.  So we had Peter on the coronet, Kathleen and her friend Hope on harmonicas, Annie and David on the recorder, and James and Jared on the tupperware drums!  I took a video also, but you'll just have to imagine the beautiful NOISE that has come out of the kids.  (my connection is too slow to upload videos)

Springtime in Georgia

Spring has arrived beautifully in Georgia and with it the gardening bug... So being unwilling to dig up our hard clay soil with  a shovel, I decided that we should have raised bed gardens. So we built 3 using the cinderblocks that used to be surrounding our old regular garden.  We are very excited about the gardens!  We have planted tomatoes (grape, cherry, romas, and amelia) in this bed.  We were also out of room in our herb garden, so the basil and the chives also got planted here.  We have another bed which is hosting the cucumbers, zuccinnis and the watermelon (hopefully the bunnies won't eat the watermelons this year).

Our Herb garden:  German thyme, cilantro, parsley, sage, rosemary, and oregano.

While we were making our garden bed, we heard chirping from the plum tree, so we investigated and discovered that the eggs had hatched.  We have baby birds!  Little naked, blind baby birds.  We were getting ready to spray the tree with Sevin, but will now have to wait until the birds grow up!

There are 4 baby birds in the nest (no idea what they are.

The kids said the eggs were blue, so maybe robins)

Sleeping baby birds.  So fuzzy!

We took pictures with our camera from above the nest, making sure not to touch it, so the Mama bird will come back.  Apparently this little nestling thought we were bringing lunch!