Updated to new blogpot....and I am having trouble figuring it out! Frustrated

My parents are still in the process of draining their pond to fix it.  Since the guy drained it, it filled back up, so he drained it again, and amazingly there are fish in it again (a breed of blue gill that we have never had in the pond before).  Josh and I went down with a net a caught maybe 20+ fish!  We then decided to put them in the kids swimming pool so the kids could "play" with them. 

The girls loved helping Daddy fillet the fish. 

It is hard to take a picture of this girl, she never stays still!

Best fish skinner in the world!  They don't make them anymore, but you can get them on Ebay

The girls painted some pretty pictures

Then they decided it would be more fun to paint Mommy

Then they painted each other!

Farrah got me to put some make up on her. 

She is breathtaking!

Seriously, it hurts me...She is too beautiful!

Dimples!

Here is Farrah working on Preschool. She loves it so much. We do it Monday, Wednesday and Friday.


















So I am just updated to the newer version of blogspot (which I figured out from helping Joshua with his blog). There are some things I like about it, but one thing that is really frustrating me is the picture uploading. Once I uploaded the pictures I couldn't add text in between them! I know you can add a caption now to the pictures (which is new), but I prefer not to use that feature, and still be able to write in between the pictures! I have not figured out how to do that. So hopefully if I play around on this a little longer, I can figure it out. Do most people write their whole blog out first and then add pictures? That takes too much thought for me. Anyways here is what I wanted to write in between the pictures, you can just look at the pictures and try to figure out where these comments belong:

The next day after we caught all the fish we had a fish fry!  Bluegill is one of the best tasting fish.  Josh loves fried foods! So he figured since we were already frying the fish, we should make onion rings....they were AMAZING!  We then looked around to find other things to fry.  We got some jalapenos out of the garden, stuffed them with cream cheese and made some insanely hot jalapeno poppers!

We did a lot of painting this week, and used lots of different things to paint with.  The girls had so much fun rolling the cars in the paint, and then Farrah had the great idea to get some plastic animals and make animal prints in the paint.  I feel like I have been slacking lately with the crafts, I blame it on the warm weather.  Once winter comes and we are stuck in the house, I am sure we will start doing more creative crafts.

Farrah and I started preschool this week.  This is a decision I have been struggling with for a long time, to put her in preschool, or home school preschool her.  Honestly preschool is EXPENSIVE!  I had no idea!  I think the cheapest place we found was almost $200 a month!  So I finally decided to do preschool at home.  I LOVE doing it with her, and I looking forward to have more structure with it.  Last year we did preschool maybe once a week, but it was very informal and not very organized.  I am trying to make this more official.  We are doing preschool every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  I have three plastic file folders (shown above) each with a weeks worth of preschool in it.  We mostly do handouts, on average 4 (front a back) each time.  I took a picture of two of the handouts that we did on our first preschool.  I can not tell you how much Farrah loves it and looks forward to it.  We do it in the afternoon when both Dax and Adra are napping.  Every time I also have her write her name on her handouts, and she is getting so good at it (I let her copy off one that I wrote), soon she will be able to do it by memory.  I am hoping to start incorporating more crafty things too, and hopefully can get Adra involved in that aspect of it. 
The girls are doing classes at the Y.  This was their last week, and the next session starts in September, so I need to decide what to sign Farrah up for.  I think I am going to wait for Adra to turn 3 and be potty trained before I sign her up for another class.  She loved gymnastics but she is just too advanced for the 2 year old class, and was a little bored.  Throughout the year Farrah will be taking a variety of classes; dancing, swimming, art, pottery, Spanish, and more!  They have so many different classes at the Y, and I am so grateful for that so she can have some real "classroom" experience. 

Dax can say "No" now.  He is a snugly, sweet, adorable baby.  We love it when he gives us snuggles, and kisses, and head butts (which are Dax kisses).

Farrah and Adra are getting bigger and older way too fast.  I just want to freeze them in time.  They play so well together, and I am so happy they have each other!

That is all for now. 
Hopefully I figure out this new blog thing, so I can integrate text and pictures better!