Our Evening

Most Friday nights we eat dinner with our neighbors that live across the street.  Tonight was no different. After much dialogue and off topic conversation - we decided on McD's Playland. This decision was made mostly to comfort the eldest after it was mentioned as a possibility. 

We made it through dinner only being asked twice if we were going to go play now. Finally MD said he would take B and they were off. D and I sat for a few minutes longer while I tried to get him to eat some of his dinner. Of course - after telling him umpteen times to eat this bit of nugget - he knocks the nugget onto the floor. Now I had to try to convince him that he shouldn't go down on the floor to retrieve it. Ugh. No luck with that but at least he didn't try to eat it.

D-man and I finally made it into the play area and B and D ran around for a bit.

At one point MD and I were sitting in the loud, very stinky room and I hear what I thought was water dripping.  When I found the source - I was relieved to see it was just a little girl cleaning up some spilled drink on the second floor of the structure.  But the funny part for me was when the woman sitting underneath that second floor looked up then down on the floor and said 'Was that puke?'  Fortunately we were able to tell her it wasn't but she still looked like she was going to be sick.

Hopefully we won't have to go back anytime soon.

Sunday Evening here already?

I don't know if my summer has filled up this quickly before.
We aren't even through April and July weekends are gone.

Summer goes so fast as it is and we still want to work in more camping and house projects. I told MD that we were going to have to plan to do house projects during the week and then play on the weekend.

I think we have all been suffering from the pollen explosion today. We are all experiencing rough throats and a little bit of wheeze. Lovely. 

MD cleaned out the gutters of all the maple crap and we were both surprised by the cloud of mosquitoes that he scared up. Yuck. Hopefully they were blown to Crystal and we won't see them again.

I have decided to give up soda in the morning. I suffered the first week - but last week was better with my morning coffee. MD helped me research a one cup coffee solution since that is all I want in the morning and that should be arriving this week. I am quite excited about that.

Our tent is also arriving this week. Its a long story but we should see a Half Dome 2 Plus on Wednesday. I am excited!

Have a Happy Monday!

Yep. She is growing.

What do you think. Does she have one more year wearing this super cute
outfit?

A little bit of wild in our backyard

My daughter the herpetologist?

B was out in the woods this weekend and found the friendly little guy below.
I wasn't there but I guess she was sad that she had to leave him in the woods.
But really... I don't know this was a 'boy' snake and B would probably insist the snake was a girl... such is our on-going conversation about gender.

Get ready for a flashback to the early 90s!

I just showed this picture to MD and said 'I WAS cute back then!'
I think I might have to consider going 'red' again.

I think this was my Junior Year in College at Luther. But it could have been my sophomore year. It is kind of funny to look at the other people in the photo.
I don't know that I remember this day but it looks like a football game on a nice Fall day.

Checking out Tents

Tonight's Singing

I just wanted to make a note that tonight's singing was really good.
I hoped that our new choir director would really push us vocally and help us become a better choir and he has done that already. 

I really believe that this change came at a good time for our group.

I am excited for the future.