Weekly Review X

Sunday~
We went to church in Fridley this week because Ben is here and he wanted to tell them about his time in China. It was fun to get to see everyone up there. We visited quite awhile before coming home. We had roast, potatoes and carrots for lunch. We all had a rest time after lunch, it was so nice. We also went to Urban Ministry this evening. It had been weeks since we went there so it was nice to get to see all of them.
Monday~
Beatrice had a birthday party to attend over in Eagan at the Civic Arena. They got to ice skate. I stayed in the area and did a few different things in the car such as cut out coupons and I also went to Sam's to get some groceries. Hans and Garret came to spend the night and hang out with Harrison. Pa Nhia came over for supper. It had been quite awhile since she was over. It was fun to visit. She took Ben and Margaret to Target so they could buy the game Risk. For some reason Ben got to thinking about it and wanted to play it with Harrison and Margaret but we didn't have it so he decided to go get it. Harrison was happy about that. They have played it several times.

Tuesday~

Beatrice, Ben, Garrett, Gregory, Hans, Harrison, and Margaret all played Risk for forever. Lunch was set back because of the game going on for a long time.  We had music lessons today. Tammy came and got Garrett in the afternoon and then the rest of us headed out to the dollar theater to watch How to Train Your Dragon. It was a very cute movie. When we got home I made supper of fresh pretzels and salad. It started to storm around the time we ate and by the time I was finishing eating I was the only one in the house. The others were all out watching the storm. It was quite pretty. Then after the windiest parts were over it was a very beautiful sky (hence the pictures). Travis read to the kids out on the front porch for awhile. So they could appreciate the weather pattern going on, until the mosquitoes drove them inside.

Wednesday~

The Risk players played the morning away. We went to horseshoes. Beatrice, Deborah and Gregory helped me get groceries. We were very efficient. The story for tonight's class was David and Goliath. Since it is a common story I decided to take the kids all out to the parking lot and see how big Goliath actually is compared to them. So ahead of class I traced Margaret with chalk and built her up a bit to be ten feet tall. Then we traced around each other and drew in their clothes and so on. We had fun doing it. We ate peanuts, since they remind me of smooth, small stones. 

Ready for church.

Thursday~

We worked hard. Travis, Harrison, Gregory and Beatrice went to cut and split and bring back a load of wood. Margaret and I weeded the flower beds across the street in front of our house, from the sidewalk to the end of the street. They were getting terribly over grown. After Travis went to work we all went to the lake to go swimming. Ben made our supper of fried rice. He learned how to make it while he was in China.

                                                                                                            

Friday~

We worked at cleaning our house. We also went to Minneapolis, to the Bakken Museum, to explore it. It is such a cool museum. The building is really neat, the exhibits are interesting and entertaining. I packed a picnic lunch and we took a break from the Bakken and went out and enjoyed God's amazing outdoors around Lake Calhoun. After we ate Margaret wanted to go check out a huge weeping willow tree and on her way got sidetracked by an artist sitting at a couple benches painting. She was very excited about his work and he gave her a couple copies. Then we went and browsed through the Florence Bakken Medicinal Garden. We decided I have a medicinal garden. Next time you come and visit I will take you on a tour of my medicinal garden. Florence's is larger than mine and prettier, but still mine is doing really well this year. One neat exhibit that we really enjoyed was mindball. The person most relaxed could get their ball to cross over to the other person's side fastest. I was the champ for quite awhile but then Ben figured out how to relax himself and he beat me and everyone else. While Travis napped in the evening Ben, the kids and I went swimming again. I actually didn't swim but read on the shore. They are all having so much fun in the water these days!

Saturday~

We had our old Life Group friends over for a brunch with Ben. It was fun to have everyone over again. They all stayed quite awhile visiting, and eating. We sent up the last hot air balloon from China before everyone left. I gave several of the ladies a tour of my medicinal garden and sent home several starts of mint for their gardens. Carline and her kids stayed quite awhile playing. It had been sometime since they had come over. After supper we left to go watch the play Wuthering Heights. It was so well done! We all truly enjoyed it. And were very tired by the time we got home.

So sorry this post is late going up.

~Anna