Luke's Archery Birthday Party

The boys had a great time.

Birthday Cake Celebration

The boys were the most rowdy at this point of the party. Luke had me make his favorite yellow German chocolate cake and everybody seemed to like it too.

Luke has officially given up the race car bed he has had for the last 5 years. He realized he is too big for it and needed a new bed. Here he is helping dad put it together. He was so excited you would have thought we gave him $1,000!

LUKE TURNS 7!!

We had the annual birthday dinner on Luke's actual birthday June 16th. He wanted to go to Red Robin....father like son. Grandma ordered the famous tower of onion rings, which was a big hit.

I wanted to dip my french fry into Luke's birthday sundae and as you can see he didn't want any part of it. It was pretty funny.

STARLIGHT PARADE 5K RUN 2007

Martin and Darin ran the 5k run again this year. They had a great time, but it was harder this year with the heat and amount of people.

MAJOR HOT RUN!!!!!!!!!!

This year was a lot hotter than last year's run. It was about 84 degrees and really humid. You can tell the heat was taking its toll on all the runners. Darin saw several barf spots on the course and one girl collapsed at the finish line and had to be taken away on a stretcher. I am glad I was just watching the run, because if I would have run I would have accounted for at least one barf spot and without a doubt would have had to be taken away on a stretcher!! There was also about double the amount of runners this year. They even ran out of water at the water station they had set up for finishing runners...YIKES!

The photo finish. Darin ran with Martin and was able to get some great action shots.

I was so proud of Martin. He ran really hard. The Gatorade was a good finish to the run.

SUMMER FUN!!!!

Here are shots of the boy's favorite summer activities. I still can't keep shoes on Martin. Apparently riding a scooter without shoes feels fine to him....I will never get that!

Martin and Luke decided they needed to have a box in their tree house to keep some toys in so they wouldn't get bored. Here are a couple shots of the process. Martin cut this all by himself...looking at his face you can tell it was hard. Sorry no power saws allowed for children in this house.

The boys creation after they dumped the bag of can all over the floor. They were very proud of it.

PHILLIP FOSTER FARMS FIELD TRIP

This was a great field trip. I love how "hands on" the trip was. The boys were able to experience all the different aspects of life on the farm in the old days. Below are the different stations they went to and what jobs they needed to perform that day. The farm is out in Estacada, long drive, but well worth the trip. Very educational and lots of fun!!

BUILDING THE HOUSE

This station was the hands down favorite of the trip. Life size Lincoln Logs!! This is the cabin that our group put together from the ground up in 15 minutes. Pretty good I thought, and the boys were happy with it.

LOADING THE WAGON

This station was very cool. The kids had to decide what was necessary to take on their trip in the wagon. They had to unload the wagon decide on two boxes they were not going to take and then repack the wagon. Martin was selected to be the "Pa" of the family. He was in charge of reloading and making the final decision on what was left. They decided to leave the tent and the china dishes. They were told those were great choices....great job "Pa"

BARN WORK

The boys were able to grind corn cobs and then grind them again into a fine corn meal. They also were able to go up toward the roof of the barn on a bail of hay that was operated by manual labor of pulling on ropes and a pulley. I was pulling them up that is why there are no pictures. They also saw what the farm equipment was like back then.

WOOD CUTTING

As you know we do our fare share of wood harvesting here on Pfeiffer's Farm, but we have never experienced the two-man saw before. Our boys cut through the entire log and was able to take the piece of wood over to the blacksmith shop for a surprise. Martin took the picture of me getting in on the action. I would have to say a chainsaw is much more efficient, but back in the day sharing the cutting process with somebody else was probably a lot easier than doing it yourself.

BLACKSMITH

The boys thought the blacksmith shop was very cool. The blacksmith burned a smile face on one side and a frown face on the other side of the wood piece the boys cut off of the log at the previous station. They were excited to take it home as a treasure.

STORE

The boy saw what merchandise was sold in the old stores. They wrote their names with a quill pen, dated and postmarked a post card to mail, and cracked walnuts with an old press.

WASHING CLOTHES

The boys got to see how much work washing clothes was back in the day. Luke was having a great time though. I think now it is not a big deal to help me do the laundry.