Sleepover with Kaitlyn and Tugs Part II

Brushing their teeth

All dressed up and ready for church

Feeding the cows day 2

We all had a really great time.  All the kids slept well except for Paul, who was quite wound up and did not go to sleep till about midnight.  He wasn't too crazy today though, thank goodness.  We all went to church and everything went fine.  The younger 3 kids went to Sunday school and Kaitlyn stayed with me. 

The kids helped prepare for our raw food diet.  Kaitlyn helped me make raspberry jam, faux mayo and chocolate icing made with avocados.  The kids really loved that icing!  And they ate some of those raw almond chocolate chip cookies too.  

Then we made meatballs with sausage from our pig and perogies for dinner.  The kids loved those meatballs!

I really enjoyed having Kaitlyn and all the kids helping me in the kitchen.

Sleepover with Kaitlyn and Tugs

Playing at Kaufman's Amish store

Working and playing in the barn.  Tugs did a great job feeding the cows!

Hot chocolate after playing outside

Kaitlyn colored beautiful pictures for Joy and then hung them up in her room for her.

All dressed up

Dance party: they were making a train when Uncle Kevin called to with them goodnight.

Monopoly!

Paul's Last Day of Soccer

Joy wanted me to get some pictures of her too.

Paul got a certificate and a Soccer Shots bag.

The Speer Family Goes Raw

For our latest week long food experiment, Shawn Speer has convinced me to give the raw food diet a try. Well, raw food plus homemade bread. He knew he would have a tough time getting me on board for a week of no bread. I generally like my food cooked, but Shawn has gone along with countless food schemes I’ve tried out over the years, so I’ll give it a try. I’m doing my best to learn about raw foods and to prepare a menu for our week. 

I was convinced I wouldn't like green smoothies (smoothies with greens), but I tried the blueberry spinach smoothie from the book we are  using for our week, Raw Food Made Easy, and it was great.  Even Joy drank it!  

Today i made almond butter.  Plain, it was not very tasty, but it was good with honey.  I made those tiny almond butter chocolate chip "cookies" for the kids and Paul could not stop eating them!

Earlier in the week, I tried a recipe for faux sour cream dip made with cashews.  It tasted kind of like baba ganoush.  It was good, we ate it all.

Lunch with Grandma Ely

 They finished the 100 piece snow white puzzle!

Kites

It was cold and windy.  The kids thought we should fly kites, so we did!

Climbing School