Happy 100th Birthday Boy Scouts!

This year for the Blue and Gold Banquet Jaden and Jeremy had to design a cake to represent the 100th birthday of the Boy Scouts. So with a little help from mom and Family Fun magazine they came up with this...

The story line is a old man and a young scout hiking together to show the generations of men and boys that the Boy Scout program has helped to mold. We are so grateful to Sis. Crow for teaching Jaden to mold people out of clay (not only teaching but also making the young scout). He has loved learning art from her and is so excited when she comes every week.


Jaden received the "Coolest Cake" award for the evening, and when everyone was done eating he did this with the leftovers...

Can you tell that I was not able to attend this event? This moment would of never happened had I been there. It's probably better I wasn't, I think this was his favorite part of the evening. I would have hated to take it away from him. Happy Birthday Boy Scouts!

What have we done!

This weekend has seen many blunders and bloopers in the King family household.

The first, I was sitting at the computer when I hear what sounds like a barrel of marbles being spilled on the other side of the wall which is my closet. I go to investigate and find everything as it should be. I yell, "Jeremy are you in here? What was that noise?" I hear the bathroom door screech open and Jeremy's voice, "I knew I was strong, but I just picked it up and it went poof" I open the bathroom door the rest of the way to find this...

Jeremy kneeling on the floor surrounded by thousands of pieces of glass that were still snap, crackle, popping. As he was moving the shower door his supper human strength crushed it into dust. Needless to say after a morning of showers involving sliding the one remaining door back and forth to which ever side was getting more water, I went out and bought a shower curtain so we can remain clean without soaking the whole bathroom till we figure out a more permant solution.

Blooper number 2.

I have a beautiful dog who we all adore. She is perfect in every way, except for her constant shedding.

I had many resources, including the groomer that told me if i shaved her to about a 1/4 to 1/2 in. It would decrease the amount of hair she loose in my house! Yeah. I thought that was a great plan and wondered why no one had told me this before. It would have been very useful for the last three years I have been complaining of this hairy problem. So today was the big day. We took her into the groomer at 8 am. Imagine my suprise when I picked up my...


Inverted skunk with my dogs head. I did not know that my dog was white under all that black fur. You should have seen my families reactions. Jaden just covered his mouth and said, "What have you done? Poor Mya" Jeremy walked in the house and said, "Mya, you look ridiculous!" It was slightly embarrasing taking her to the park but we are looking into getting her a coat, or maybe a can of black spraypaint.

The Bubonic Plague

Don't you love the cream puff pustules:)

and the cutest flea bearing rat ever.

A Night in the Dark Ages!

This was the culmination of what we've been doing for home school so far this year. We have been learning about the Dark Ages and are slowly moving into the Renaissance. Recently we have covered Monks, Vikings, Charlamagne, Richard the Lionheart, the Crusades, King Arthur and the round table and Genghis Khan to name a few. Jealous? In preparation for this event the children made shields and swords, baked knights in armour in the middle eastern sun, built castles, carved viking long ships, made ink out of boiled walnuts (you should've seen the maggots squirm)

Jaden loves making meatloaf

to create this porker.


Merlin the wizard creating
homemade ale (root beer)

Queen Lissa announcing the guests

The ladies in waiting displaying their trenchers.

Lady Clara exclaiming over the

delightful fish with it's head on

Jaden thoroughly enjoying

the blood pudding

St. Shumway riding to save

the damsel in distress...

from the hungry dragon

threatening to eat the Princess.

When peasants attack (I think the shield

could be used more effectively, just my opinion)

The Grand Finale! The poor knight did not

make it inside hte castle before the battle

began.