Doghouse Birthday Cake

Tomorrow is Emmy's birthday party with her friends at the bowling alley so I spent the afternoon putting together her cake. I'll try to post pictures this weekend from her party, but she was excited about her cake, so I thought I'd put that picture up now.

And the chocolate chip cookie bar "ground" was a fun addition to the cake. I'm going to claim that I planned on the chocolate chips looking like they do. We'll just go with that. yeah....

Take Me As I Am - FM Static

This is my favorite song right now!

Bria's Photos

Here is a slideshow of a bunch of the pictures that Bria took this morning at the playground - the kids had a great time and I am hopeful that we can head back there this afternoon maybe too!

Guest Videographer

This morning I took all 8 kids to the Kelly School playground for awhile to run around, burn off some energy and enjoy the warm weather. Bria was our photographer and videographer for the day. I think she took 128 pictures/videos in all! Here are a couple of the videos she wanted to share

Busy Fall Days

We have been taking full advantage of these warm November days! Most mornings in the past week and a half we have made it outside on a nice long walk and for some playtime and we've been outside playing afterschool almost every day. The kids thrive on the fresh air and it's healthy for them to be outside running around and playing hard. We'll keep taking advantage of it as long as we can. When the snow starts falling we'll still try to make it outside as often as possible, but the kids won't be playing outside for as long stretches of time as they get to now.


Hopefully tomorrow morning we can make it over to Kelly School playground so everyone can run around and burn off some energy since there is no school. Then we'll have a nice quiet afternoon so the littlest ones can nap and hopefully head back outside later on in the day.

Bria and Emmy had to dress up like they were wounded for Awana last week, so here are my injured children.

Pumkin sacks - thanks for the idea Katie!
enjoying real food

playing in the leaves

H1N1 Vaccines Available

H1N1 Immunization Clinic

CONTACT: John Bernstrom – 746-4636
Sarah Kotelnicki – 780-2444

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Grand Forks, ND – Grand Forks Public Health and Altru Health System will hold another H1N1 immunization clinic on Thursday, November 5, 2009 at the Alerus Center for children 6 months through 18 years of age. The clinic will run from 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm or until the vaccine runs out.

People are asked to enter through door #5 on the east side of the Alerus Center. Doors will open at 4 pm.

Both injectable vaccine and flumist will be available at the Thursday’s clinic. Flumist can be given to healthy children ages 2 through 18. Both forms of H1N1 vaccine are free.

If you have any questions regarding influenza the State Health Department has a hotline available at 1-866-207-2880. The hotline is open Monday-Friday from 8:00 am – 5:00 pm.

Residents can also follow the local H1N1 flu fight on our Facebook Fan Page “GF H1N1 Flu Fight.”