It's been a busy couple of weeks here at Camp Berger. Between my parents visiting and Squish's birthday, there has been plenty of things to do and food to eat.
While my parents were here, my dad and I had a chance to run a local 5k race. The race was run on a Friday night in conjunction with the local Balloon Fest. The weather didn't really cooperate for us. A couple minutes before the gun went off, the rain started coming down. But that didn't keep us from running a good race.
My dad took second in his age group (4 seconds behind 1st) and I took 1st female. The medals were really cool laser engraved wood.
On Saturday we spent the entire day at the festival and then went out to eat at a local restaurant. And there was a little bit of excitement.
We were able to watch one of the balloons crash land in the parking lot across the road. Thankfully everyone was okay.
Since my parents were here, we decided to celebrate Squish's birthday a few days early. He requested a construction cake, and this is what I came up with.
I think he was more excited that he got to play with the decorations after the cake was gone =)
Papa spent some time fixing up the kids' bikes... And then took one of them for a spin. (anyone else hearing the clown college theme song?)
Safety first!
Papa built the kids some new toys.
Sweet Pea took a break reading a book.
Out of the seven eggs we wanted to hatch, we got five chicks. Sweet Pea wasn't too sure about them and tried to keep her distance.
Sarge picked up a new cooking toy.
We filled it up with some meat, potatoes, carrots...
And set it to cook.
It was delicious and was more than enough for the 12 people who ate that day =)
So, you can see that I've been keeping pretty busy. I'm hoping that things start slowing down just a bit so I can catch up on all the chores that have gotten missed the last couple weeks (the kids don't really need clean clothes, do they?)
