randoms

 Jaylee and her animal friends.
Anna in her 'special' bath.

 We went to see Coco with Oma

 We went rock climbing, Anna's friend Marcus was also there, so that worked out well and they had a lot of fun.

 Anna and Chloe had their big Irish dancing gig, they had to get all dressed up - which they loved.

 Kate came with to pick up her sisters from the bus, oh the joys of homeschooling.

 Caleb on his grill

 Jaylee asleep

They got ride in the tractors when they were hay bailing.

 Jaylee got purple hairspray for her birthday

oh the many faces of Jaylee

School assembly and Jaylee's 7th birthday party

 Jaylee was on stage with her class with a song and dance.
Jaylee also received an award. Nice Job!

Anna also sang with her school choir.

 Later that day Jaylee had her birthday party. we were able to salvage my attempt at baking a cake - it was burnt and raw at the same time. but it tasted alright and the kids did not seem to mind...
She had her friends from school over and cousins off course.
we went out to eat, the kids got a fancy drink, dinner and desert (so the cake did not matter lol)
Fun times.

Duckies

 So we had 5 Muscovie ducks, and while dealing with them we also found a nest of mallard ducks.
so we reared them from egg and they all adopted us as their family.

which was really cute but it does mean that they just waltzed into the house... but we could feed them by hand and they followed us around - especially Caleb , they were always his babies...

The mallards did leave us after a while. The Muscovies stayed.

these photos are over a 6 month period.
I just heard from Dad one of the Muscovies had a nest with 16 chicks. So They are now a part of Rivendel Gardens for sure.