Happy 10th Birthday Evan!

Evan celebrated his tenth Birthday on August 2nd, 2009. The Bingaman family rules include only have birthday parties on big year birthdays (5yrs, 10yrs, 13yrs, 16yrs, etc.). Since this was a big year, he chose to have a big party which included several of his friends, a sleepover (in a tent outside), and a play date for the next day. The boys had a great time.

The Party Guests included:

Asher

Joshua

Cade

Judah

Matt

Josiah

Cake Time:

Evan drew the picture that is on his cake.

Present Time:

Game Time:

Marshmallow Towers

Charades: Click Here for awesome for charade ideas.

Outdoor Relay Races:

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I am planning to post about our summer happenings. You don't want to miss it!

Summer Recap

Where have I been all summer? This about sums it up.

Summer 2009 Happenings:

Lydia starred in a puppet show at the local Library.

We saw this peacock on the road near our house. We were able to watch it for a long time.

Playing with Pap while visiting Nana in the hospital.

Joshua won all those tickets playing one game at Chuck E cheese. He kept getting the Super Bonus.

We found this caterpillar at Pastor Dave's house during the staff picnic. It's a good thing Eric Nehrt wasn't there or he would have had the kids eat it!

Hanging with the Kindall girls.

We took a trip to the Wolfgang Candy Factory in York. The kids were loving the hairnets!

My Little Entrepreneur

I am learning that I must be more thorough in my answering of Joshua's questions. Last year he decided to collect the slugs that were in our yard. He then proceeded to go door-to-door selling them. He didn't get any takers. I totally had no idea that he did this until one of our neighbors told me they thought it was cute that he was trying to sell slugs! I learned that I need to watch him more carefully when he is outside.

One day last week he came up to me with a bucket of various toys (foam shapes, broken airplane, farting putty, etc.). He asked if he could sell those toys. I said sure. Before this, we have been getting our unwanted items ready to take to our family reunion. Naturally, I assumed he was also wanting to "sell" his things there. A few minutes later he went outside to play. I didn't think anything of it and went back to cleaning. He comes running back in the house all excited and said, "Mommy, I just made 2 dollars!" WHAT?!? He explained how he went door-to-door selling his toys.

I was torn as to what to do. I didn't want to crush his spirit but I also needed to discipline him for doing that without my permission. I asked him what houses he went to and luckily, he only went to the neighbors who would think that was the greatest thing. I walked with Joshua to their house and explained how he couldn't keep the money because he did it without my permission. They are such great people they insisted that Joshua keep it because they always wanted farting putty and and airplane.

Joshua and I had a great talk. I see him being the president of a huge company one day. He loves to come up with new business ventures.