Mother's Day

My request for Mother's Day this year was a family picnic. While the weather is nice you just have to make the most of it here. We went to Bernheim Forest and had a lovely afternoon. The kids treated me very well buying me a special lunch and even finding me some New Zealand cheese from my favourite, but too expensive store, Wholefoods. The also bought me my very own MP3 player. Now I don't need to borrow the girls all the time to go to the gym. Thanks guys, I love being your Mum.

We always appreciate the wildlife and often end up with far too many photos. Here are a few. One aspect of wildlife we didn't appreciate this time was the deer tick that we found on Matthew the next day and had to burn off. Not nice.

Fishing in Kentucky

We had our first experience fishing a Kentucky river last weekend. Two brothers from church took the children and I. It begun before dawn when they picked us up, the next stop was McDonald's for the compulsory chicken biscuit and sweet tea, also compulsory was country music on the way. We caught no fish, probably due to several inches of rain the day before and a flooded river but the kids and I still had a lot of fun.

We were fishing down the bottom and up the top of this dam. apparently it is normally a trickle and you can easily walk across it.

Fishing here in America still involves putting a worm on a hook, not Anna-Marie's favourite part of fishing.

Ben and Anna-Marie

Joel and Rachel wading with Eli. The only catch of the day were fresh water crayfish which later escaped in our house. Anna-Marie found one by standing on it with bare feet; yuk! She wasn't very impressed.

Rachel and Joel ended up very wet. Joel fell in a few moments after this photo was taken as his hand is right by a snake that he hasn't seen yet. He got quite the fright.

Thunder Over Louisville

The Kentucky Derby is here. Louisville goes crazy over the derby and one of the things they do is called Thunder Over Louisville. It happens two weeks before the derby and begins with an airshow and ends with the biggest fireworks display in North America. It was incredible. These are not my photos as I forgot to take my camera. I borrowed these off the Internet.

Sunday School Class Lunch

Mark has been helping to teach an adult Sunday School Class on Manhood. We invited the class and their families around for a pot luck lunch and had a lot of fun playing "Around the world" ping pong and football.

Sorry I'm still having trouble uploading videos, but here is another link.
A video of the ping pong:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1347810864432063857

Welcome Noah

Ben and Chelsea, who lived with us up until December, have had a beautiful baby boy, Noah Scott Saunders. Matthew loves to hold him.

Basketball

The basketball season is over but I realised that I had not posted any basketball photos. Here are a few of Joel.

The Girls Basketball

The girls really enjoyed their basketball season. It was the first year that Dorothy Sayers had a team so everyone was learning their way but they had a lot of fun doing it.

More of Joel's Birthday

Just a few more photos of Joel on his actual birthday. Just trying to make him look taller than Mum, but unlike the girls he is not yet.