Everyone has to pull their own weight around here :)

I have three slaves...er I mean...helpers. Pictured above is princess4 painting a hay feeder for daddy (needless to say there was more paint on her and the floor and her brother than the feeder when she finished but she was a great help). This same helper was "helping" me take pictures this week and dropped my camera and it is officially broken (HP says they can't fix it but will send me a new one for $100, but I think I will shop around a little more). You just can't be mad at her because she is so darn cute! and who lets a 4 year old take pictures anyway?? I guess that would be me. She has done it several times before, always with much success, she really does take pretty good pictures, I may have a budding photographer on my hands, and she is usually very careful. It was just an accident and accidents do happen. So no, she wasn't in trouble. My other two helpers went with me to Aldi's last night (while princess4 was with Whitney). Usually when we go into the store the first thing I do is put j2 in the cart but last night we decided to give him a chance to be a big boy and help with loading and unloading the grocery's in the cart. The more help the merrier right??? well, we knew what our budget was and daddy was adding everything up as the boys and I put it in the cart, j6 and I were very careful to tell him the price of everything we put in. He told us when we had reached our limit (allowing for tax) and we headed for the check out. It was a great team effort! After the clerk had scanned all our items she gave us our total and we were $3 dollars over, daddy and I shot each other a look because we both knew he was very careful and precise at adding and had allowed plenty for tax, but just shrugged it off and paid the extra 3 and went to box up our loot. As we were boxing I came across a box of rice I didn't remember telling anyone to get. I said to daddy "did you get this rice?"..."nope" was his response. Then I picked up a box of splenda I knew I didn't need, then another box of rice. By this time we are both laughing and the clerk is looking at us like we are crazy. Of course you can't be mad at this little helper either, because he is also so darn cute, and it was his first time on the job. So, had we not let j2 be a helper last night we would have been under budget but wouldn't have had a good laugh! p.s. any pictures I post for a while will be taken with my phone so please excuse the graininess (is that a word?)