This Week at the Haderlie's

So here are a few of the highlights from this week:

Joshua had Texas Day at his school and he dressed up as a cowboy, sang songs, and danced (square and line). It was a cute program.

Elliott had fairy tale day (sorry no pictures of this one...I couldn't get to the school that day). He dressed up as a knight and had a good time making a gold crown with fruit loop jewels.

Beth and Jay had a nice singing session in the bedroom. Beth played a "drum" while Jay strummed away love songs and church hymns on the guitar.

Michael and Missy had a date watching movies and eating junk food in Michael's room. We watched Bolt, Bedtime Stories, and City of Ember. It was fun! We all especially laughed at Bedtime Stories. I was a little worried about it with Adam Sandler, but teamed up with Disney it was a great movie.

We invested in a wheat grinder. On Sunday we ground wheat and made our first all whole wheat bread from our food storage. Yes Mom, I finally got around to using it. Jay and I were amused to see how much the kids enjoyed grinding the wheat...especially Joshua who went on to grind the whole #10 can. He really got into it. My first loaf turned out really bad...it didn't rise. I guess I over kneaded it. The second loaf was much better. Next week I will experiment with a different bread recipe...maybe one that is a bit sweeter. If anyone has a really great one let me know.












I have really enjoyed my new camera. I am hoping we will have enough karate footage of us all to make a fun video to post for you all. Hope you enjoy the pictures and our little update.

Flower pot garden

After attending a food storage/ emergency preparedness enrichment I felt inspired to plant a flower pot garden. The kids are really into it and I have to make sure that they do not water the plants too much! Elliott is even praying for our little garden to grow and to be safe.

We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cauliflower, cucumbers, peas, green beans, zucchini squash, bell peppers, carrots,and flowers. Combined with our plentiful peach tree I think that this year will be quite the harvest if we don't have a really dry summer. Last year we were blessed with a mild summer, but the year before that we had drought conditions and no peaches or pecans.