Porter has been busy doing projects for his Science & Art class.
For Science he had a soil project testing which soil holds the most nutrients.
He also had a flower project to see what happens when you add red dye to the carnation water.
For Art he had to make clay beads & then paint them when they dried.
The kids had fun helping Porter with the projects.
Laun bid on a fishing boat in California & got it, so we went on a little weekend trip to go pick it up.
Clayton was showing me his incision as we were traveling, it has lots of scabs still, but it is healing well.
We are excited to have a little fishing boat & it came with a motor & trailer.
The trailer tires both needed to be replaced & luckily Laun brought two new ones with him. The boys got to help some. They are lucky to have a dad that teaches them so many things.
I think some children have been watching Princess Bride a little too much lately…
We stopped to let the kids get out & walk around for awhile.
The kids really wanted to go to this jerky place.
The jerky was good, but the kids ended up getting dried cantaloupe (disgustingly sweet) & some chili lime pistachios (very good).
On the way back from California we went to my parents house. The kids had fun picking the fruit to be juiced & playing in the yard.
Laun helped trim a tree.
We helped with juicing at Grandpa Mecham’s home & at my parents home.
Marlee really likes my parents dog, Bear. She was out there carrying on full conversations with him.
Bear liked the attention & followed her when she tried coming inside.
Today was the last day of the boy’s semester. They are still doing that online school this year. We celebrated by going to a restaurant they like, called ULike Buffet (lamest name ever).
Porter doesn’t have the best table manners. He tends to stuff his cheeks like a chipmunk. I shouldn’t judge him though because I did the same thing as a child.
Jonathan & Darleen brought over a birthday gift for Marlee today.
They gave her pink lip gloss & bracelets.
She had fun kissing her brothers on the cheek with her bright pink lips.
Jonathan was holding Clayton’s face so Marlee could leave a pink (lip gloss) kiss on his cheek.
The boys love their sister. What good sports they are.
Jonathan & Darleen brought over their wedding cake. They have been married for a year and a half & their cake has been sitting in a freezer this whole time.
I can’t believe my baby is 4!!!!
This morning she helped me make crepes, it is what she wanted for her birthday breakfast.
The tradition continues that we got from Lucy…getting to use a cream cow on your birthday.
I think I have almost 30 cream cows now from the kids to choose from! Marlee was excited that I found a purple one, now if only I could find a pink one.
I love when the kids request crepes for their birthday breakfast- one of my favorites.
our four year old goof ball
This is how she usually looks-happy:
Marlee loves:
-her daddy
-her momma
-her boys (this is what she calls Clayton & Porter)
-her grandparents, aunts, uncles & cousins
-friends
Marlee & Kaylee
Haley, Marlee & Brigden
-sucking her thumb & touching her belly button (will she ever out grow this?)
-skinny jeans (when she wears regular jeans she freaks out & says, “there too long…they’re bugging me.”)
-dancing & singing
-drawing, coloring, creating, etc.
-presents (she is always so grateful & excited anytime she gets a gift)
-dress up (as you can tell…she put on a dress over her outfit today)
-posing for pictures (she often sticks her hip out or puts her hands on her hips, or does both at the same time)
-long hair (she keeps asking me to cut her hair long-wish it worked that way)
-anything pink or girly (she loves shoes, makeup, nail polish, jewelry, clothes, etc.)
-attention & mail (she got a birthday phone call from her Turley Grandparents today & a birthday card with cash from them in the mail)
-Barbie's & Princesses (When Grandma Lucy was in town she took Marlee to Target to pick out what she wanted for her birthday. Marlee choose the Merida Barbie from the movie Brave. She was so excited!)
For lunch she wanted to go to Peter Piper Pizza.
She loves cheese pizza.
The boys used all their tickets to get Marlee prizes: biggest gummy bear I’ve ever seen, a slinky, bracelet, crown & wand.
The gummy bear weighed around a pound & was over a 1000 calories!
For dinner she requested Hormel chili-easiest birthday dinner ever.
We had the DeGomez and Heap family over for cake & ice cream. Haley & Brigden are her closest friends. Her & Haley usually can’t hang out without a fight over the color pink, dress-ups or something else super important like that. Brigden claims that he is going to marry Marlee when they grow up & he’s very serious about it; I mean who could blame him for liking such a great girl?
Marlee asked for carrot cake from Costco. This girl made my day easy. I usually make my kids birthday cakes, but those little carrot’s made of frosting must have been calling her name. We also got a red velvet cake.
It took Marlee forever to blow out the candles, which is surprising since she has so much practice helping everyone else blow out their birthday candles.
I think we got enough cake.
We love having Marlee as part of our family. She is a ray of sunshine & adds lots of pink into our dirty laundry pile. We think she is the funniest, smartest, wittiest & cutest little four year old around. We love you Marlee Cate Hall, happy birthday!!!!
