Our Great Week!

We've had a great week! The monkeys have made great progress on their "Everything for a Family with Nothing" project. They've been working hard and also having fun!

On Saturday Monkey1 and Monkey2 went to the Eucharistic Congress with some dear friends of ours. They were gone all day and had SUCH a fun time! I was so happy they got to go. I wanted to go, but did not think I could manage an all day conference type thing with a 4 month old, 2 year old, and 4 year old. Maybe next year... I dearly hope!


Monkey3 was really sad that she did not get to go to the Eucharistic Congress. [She needed to be 5 to do the Kids Program]. But she had a GREAT day at home with mom and dad none-the-less! She got to be the "big sister" for a change and had so much fun!

Our day started with a trip to the vet to get Sage microchipped. Monkey3 and I took her and Sage was SO scared - she was trembling from head to foot. But when the vet came in and talked to her she calmed right down, she was so happy to have a new person talking to her she got excited about that and forgot to be scared! She didn't even mind the needle when they microchipped her because the vet was talking to her while she did it [and that needle was HUGE!].


After the vet we came home and got daddy and the little girls and went to Home Depot where I finally spent my gift certificate I got for Christmas. We bought a weedeater [just what I always wanted LOL!] and a whole bunch of flowers. I LOVE flowers and have always had gardens around our home.

Monkey3 and I came home and worked like crazy in the yard all afternoon [in the June heat - we must be crazy!] We cleaned up the old pansies that were long dead and planted tons of flowers/plants: marigolds, zinnias, vinca, sunflowers, tomatoes and jalepeno peppers! It was lots of fun.

Monkey3 is the hardest working child I have ever seen. She LOVES to help and works like you would not believe. In the picture above you can see her opening a bag of pine bark mulch. She drug those huge bags over to the flower beds for me [no kidding, I think they weigh more than she does!]. And then she got them open while I spread the mulch. She also did a significant portion of the planting AND the cleanup!

My husband was watching her and he said "You know, if I had 4 Monkey3s, 4 rifles, and 4 parachutes, I could take over any country in the world. " I agreed with him! LOL!


Here is Monkey3 beside the sunflowers she planted.


Here is Monkey3 beside all the flowers we planted in our Mary Garden.

Not only does she work hard, but she's strong as an ox. Later in the day we went to Publix to buy groceries, and one of her favorite things is to bring in groceries and she will carry the heaviest things!

My husband calls her "the ant" because she can lift more than her own body weight!


On Sunday we all went to my moms house to throw a surprise party for my brother's girlfriend. She is one of the sweetest people I know, and it was so fun to surprise her with a party! We all had so much fun!

This week has been Vacation Bible School at our Church and they are doing a really neat VBS on the Saints - my two older kids have been doing that all week and having a total blast! [Poor Monkey3, again, she's just a little too young - she had to be 5 to do VBS! She was so disappointed!].

So, life has been so good lately! Praise the Lord!