Fish and Chips

Michael has always told me stories of his dads fish and chips dinner. David spent time in the UK in his youth and loved the culture there. He brought some of it home with him and started cooking fish and chips for the family. Today David made his famous dinner for us, newspaper wrapping and all.


Michael and I love to Drench ours in malt vinegar. I had never had it until I married Michael, and now I am hooked as well.


David even insisted that in order to eat our dinner we had to bring two shillings and six pence. But when he realized how poor we all are he took pity on us street rats. So good, and so fun!

It's a boy!

It's a boy, everyone! We are thrilled. He looks healthy and is very active and wiggly. Hooray!

Try new things

I know kids aren't supposed to love veggies, but at our house the kids sometimes surprise me. I had a container of sprouts on the table with our dinner, and the kids were adventurous and wanted to give them a try. They all loved them. What a pleasant surprise!


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First day of school

Here it is finally, the first day of school! Andrew was so excited to be a big boy and go to all day school for first grade. Joshua was an awesome older brother and had no worries at all about the first day.
Caitlin and I enjoyed our day to ourselves and got so. Much done! Yeah for school!





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Bruces!

Heather and her sons Zachary and Nathaniel came for a week long visit this month.  What fun to be able to just relax around the house and really get to know cousins.  I had a great time spending time with my sis and having everyone close by.  We don't get that chance very often with the Bruces.

We made hover crafts

Groggy after a late night of fun

playing at the Mayfield park

extreme pets

If you know anything about our family, then you know how much we love our pets.  We have a loyal dog that is part of the family, as well as a cat.  Mike has two tarantulas that stay in his classroom, and the boys have a pair of leopard geckos that live on their dresser.  Plus we have a 35 gallon tank full of fish if you want to count those as well!

Over the summer one of our tarantulas died. Sad, but a fact of life.  So now we have this nice enclosure with nothing living in it....time for a new classroom pet!  We decided to get something a little less repulsive this time and agreed on a pair of red-eyed tree frogs.  You won't see them in the picture because we haven't actually got them yet.  We have been having a lot of fun setting up the terrarium -  homemade background, live terrarium plants, and a water fall with pond.  I think the new frogs will feel right at home.

So now we have mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and an arachnid.  If we get a parakeet then we will have one of everything!

A Mayfield 24th

Mayfield may be a sleepy little town, but not on the 24th of July!  Our old home town has a parade, a carnival, a duck race and lots of other fun things on the 24th.  The kids all rode in the Lion's club train driven by our friend Robert.  We gathered candy and went to the carnival.  The kids won tons of prizes and enjoyed the icees.  What a fun day in Mayfield!