A few house pictures!

Chocolate Pudding Fun

Kitchen

Hunter's Bed

Playing in the big boys' room

First french braids!!

Riding his trike in the driveway.  It extends another 50 feet or so behind where I'm standing, too. 
They all love riding in the driveway!
Oh, and I think I'm in love with my clothesline!  I use it all the time!

Here's the backyard.  Complete with climbing tree and trampoline!
(the neighbors behind us were paving their driveway, and all the kids loved
watching the tractors and steamrollers do their work.)

If you found Elderberries in the back yard..... wouldn't you think to "paint"
your hands and feet, too?! 

This is the 4 season room which we call the play room. 
The huge tub of legos is always out. 

Another view of the kitchen/dining area.  You are looking through the doorway into
the music/library room, and through there you can see into the living room.

He's Here!!

Zepherin Benjamin Britton was born yesterday! Aug 22, 2010 at 2:12am. He weighed 9bs 4 oz, and was 19" long! We are all doing great. The other children just adore him, and are very excited for us to be coming home this evening!

Speaking of home.... it's moved from the Bronx, to Pottstown, PA! So, we may have to change our blog a bit to accomodate our new location! We successfully moved in this past Thursday! We all just love our new home. It's so airy, and big, and light. All the windows are incredible. The backyard is perfect for the trampoline, and play area. We're right inbetween church and Ben's college. It's a huge blessing in our lives.

Summer Fun / Summer Home-School

Ben did an awesome FHE on the Putting on the Armor of God.

We rotate kitchen jobs each week now... This is one of the best things ever!!!

We've tried to focus a lot on the importance of work and education this summer. It's been great so far, and we're all having fun!

Earning points for doing things the first time when asked. Their reward was to go to the theater and see "Avatar: The Last Airbender".

Each day of the week we do a different subject. School time lasts form 1-2 hrs. the boys have been loving it! Fun ways to learn, and keep things interesting. I'll post some of their writing work soon!

He's coming.....!!!!

As of today... JULY 1st, 2010, we can officially say....
"NEXT MONTH WE HAVE OUR LITTLE ZEPHERIN!"
How exciting is that!!!!

A few more CO pictures

Here's the ranch. I love the huge dormers upstairs! There's a double bed built into each of them, and they're my favorite place to sleep while here!

Lots of Aunts and Uncles and cousins all exploring the ranch land

And still more!

A couple more pictures..

These are from the day we did the dinosaur museum, and National Park hike. Felicity just adores her "PopPop" as she calls him, and they had a great time together.
He had told her to hold onto his ears, and she dutifully did that the entire time! It was adorable!

just look at the view! it was incredible! I love this picture of Papa and Felicity. A true treasure!

Some CO vacation pictures!

We thoroughly enjoyed our trip out to CO this past week. We had a huge family reunion on Papa Brittons side, and it was wonderful to meet so many new fmaily members! We have got to get together more often. Here's just a couple pictures of our fun.
Hunter exploring...

Here's Gary on the first day... we flew in that morning. We all hiked out to the copper mine, and he's just coming back up out of it. Nathan and Hunter are in the background -- they made it all the way back with Ben.

Felicity and Grandy

Here's Ben going into one of the old mining shacks. Notice the copper-dust on his rear... they all slid down the hill to get down faster! I wish I had a picture of all of their backsides!

Nathan is inside the mining cabin. He had such a great time!

Hunter here, in the same cabin.

Getting ready to start a fire in the fire pit. Roasting marshmallows for S'mores, and hot dogs. So delicious!

My lungs could only take blowing up one layer of this pool. (Out of 3) But it made it just right for the kids to be able to get in and out by themselves.

Other highlights...

On Monday, Nathan, Ben and some other adults went on a big 6 hr hike down the Gunnison. Nathan did really great! He was so glad that he went. While they were gone, Hunter, Gary, Felicity and I got the pool filled. We played in that for a little while, then we packed a picnic, and drove out to the alabaster mine. We explored the cabins there, and had a picnic lunch. Hunter and Gary both got to help drive back!

One day, Ben and I took all the boys fishing at the lake. We took turns going out in the boat. Nathan was lucky enough to catch a trout! He was very pleased. Ben helped him clean it, and I cooked it, and we all ate it! Yummy!!

We went up to Grand Junction one day and spent some time at a dinosaur museum. It had a lot of really neat things to see, and to interact with. The boys had a blast! Then we went to McD's for ice cream cones, and some play time, then we drove through the National Park there, and did a little hiking.

One of the days, Nathan, Ben and Hunter left with a bunch of others, and went white water rafting in Telluride. It was an 8 mile ride, and Ben said they did really great until about the last 15 min.... at that point they were too cold to have much more fun. They had a great time telling me all about it when they got home, though. They loved it!

Hunter, Ben, Grandy and I took a couple mile hike out to the gold mine! I'd never been out to it before, and it was incredible! The rocks around it and getting up to it were just beautiful! There were so many that I wanted to take home -- all different colors and kinds. Ben picked out a few huge ones to decorate our living room with someday! The scenery was amazing. You have to be there to believe it. On that hike Ben and Hunter went off exploring while Grandy and I rested, and came back quicker than expected... turns out they had come across some deer pelt. Ben figured it had been killed by a mountain lion, and decided that was our cue to head back to the ranch! It turns out he was right about it being killed by a mountain lion, but it was killed back in the winter. (we talked to the ranch caretaker about it)

Everyone had such a great time, and we were sooooo not ready to leave. Ben says next time we're going to have to stay for a month! All the kids did a great job on the plane both to and from. Everything went very smoothly and we can't wait to do it again!