FOOD!!!!

I have experienced two wonderful new foods while in South Dakota and want to share them with you:

Burrito Smores:
Small tortillas
Peanut butter I used creamy, but I think crunchy would be good too.
Mini Marshmellows
Chocolate Chips/ m&m/s work too.
coals

spread some p.b. on the smore- down the middle or half or cover the whole thing, how much p.b. do you like. sprinkle on a hand ful of marshmellows then some choc.
wrap up like a burrito and then wrap in foil. place on coals for 2-3 minutes(not too long or it will burn). Open and eat.

Walking Tacos.: I found this one at the ball park
scissors
A snack size bag of chips, the ball park uses nacho dorritos, at home we also use cool ranch dorritos or fritos.
Taco meat
Cheese
Lettuce
Tomato
Sour Cream
salsa

In your hand smush the chips so that it feels like more bite size bits, turn on side and cut off the side 1/4" of bag, add meat cheese and what ever other toppings you like. serve with a fork. I think an adult serving is two. but this is really good.

propane tank

We have a propane tank in our backyard that holds our propane that heats our house in the winter. One day I saw a bird go in the little hole and after a while it came back out I went over and found a birds nest.

Jims Cake

Jim decorated his birthday cake. And wanted to share it with you.

Softball

Softball

Katie and Janet are playing softball here in Emery. They are doing very good and getting better. Katie likes to take her PINK bat to the games to use. "Power in Pink". Poppie and Nana got to gowith us to two of their games, which was fun.

At the tournament for their age group, they won first place.

Happy birthday Jim!!!!

Jim turned 15 years old today!! he planned for this very carefully, asking to not have to do any chores on his birthday, He wanted to not have dishes or laundry today.
I also gave him extra computer time. He enjoyed finding b-day songs on you-tube, especially weird al's happy birthday. He learned that he shares his birthday with the infamous Schlock, of Schlock Mercenary infame. (though Schlock is only 8 to Jims 15).

Here comes summer

Jim started his Drivers Ed. Driving today. He will go every day this week and then we can take him into the DMV and let him take his test. He would like to get his provisional license before his b-day.

Echo is working hard on her Faith project for YW.

Carie has started babysitting.

Katie and Janet are doing Softball with their first game tonight.

Mikey and Danny are busy playing and being little boys.

Tom and I are busy with school and work. And parenting 7 kids.

Love you all.
Lillie

School's out!!!

I got my final grades for the semester. I have a 3.6 GPA. I was a bit disapointed that the A I earned in math ended up as a P as in Pass/Fail. at least I passed.

I have enjoyed my week off. Playing with the little boys and working on a quilt. There are a lot of things I wanted to get done, however, I will have all summer to get them done and during the summer I will have the help of my children.

Today is my last day off, before my summer math class starts. It is also the last day of school for the kids. They would have been done last friday, but there were too many snow days, so they had to make one up. My math class will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays for a couple of hours each day, and my teacher wants to be there for longer than that, so we can get out earlier in the summer. It is supposed to go till July 17, so I would really like to get out early. I have talked to her already about missing during Girls Camp, and she was very agreeable.

Work is going good for Tom, We went to the company bonfire, (I think it is an annual thing) there was lots of good food, including smore's. There was a drawing for the adults. I think Each of the kids who are big enough to write put their dad's name in, but they only let him have one prize, katie and I are excited about it. It is a bird feeder. (For her B-day, Tom got her a pair of binoculars and a bird book)( She is very interested in the birds around here). Then they had glow necklaces, bubble swords, and kites for each of the kids.

Now what to do over the summer? Jim would like a summer job, but everyone wants someone 16. We will be spending a lot of time at the pool. Katie and I have been talking and I have assigned her the job of researching the Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead in Desmet, SD. to see how much it will cost, and what there is to do there, how long it will take to do it all. Echo has read the books more than once, but Katie is on herfirst time through them.