What the kids did Yesterday

I was going to post this last night, but I went to a friends for a jewlery party, had a couple glasses of wine and didn't get home until almost midnight. :)

One of the barn cats.

Yesterday, my youngest son Evan (8) wanted to go outside and take some pictures.  Since we live in Alberta, and it's February, I wasn't sure what he was going to take pictures of, but gave him our little camera and off he went.  He was just in our yard, but found some pretty cool stuff.

The picnic table after a light snow in the night.

The snow pile looking back toward the house.

A great gound level shot looking toward my clothes line and the garage.

  As you can see we don't have very much snow this year.  Last year there was at least 5 feet of the stuff!  It makes for a nicer winter, but the spring is going to be very dry for local farmers.

Self portrait with the melting snow and beautiful blue sky.

An extension cord wraped in a heart shape.

Then he played 'tractors' for a while with older brother Austin (almost13).  This is one of their favorite things to do together.  They know every make and modle of each piece of equipment.  They use pencil crayons and straws to set up roads and fields.  They cultivate, spray, seed, and harvest lots of stuff.  One guy usually does some custom work for the other.  They have pretend cattle that they buy at the auction market, feed, and then take to the slaughter house or another feed lot.  And much, much more.  They don't always get along, and sometimes the game ends quickly, but sometime they play this for an hour or more.

Evan setting up in the hall.

The farm expands from the hall into the living room.

This was one of those times when they didn't play together too long.  But that's the way it goes sometimes.

Evan and sister Sarah (10) then set up a resturaunt in the living room.  I let them use the china and some fancy silerware and glasses.  They spent most of the afternoon with this.  It then extended into the kitchen and we had a candle light supper. 

Sarah and Evan starting to set up.

The 'kitchen'

Dinner is served.

The older boys, Ryan (14), and Austin, spent the afternoon working on their 4H speeches and building with the Lego Mindstorm.  There also was some x-box playing in there as well.

I think we had a pretty great day.