My Girls

I have an amazing set of friends who I had a fabulous night on the town with last night. We rocked out with our man Kenny.

We started our little, "girls nights" six years ago and they have been a mainstay in our lives and a constant connection to our true selves. We have been through a lot. Marriage, births, career choices and changes, finding our way as mothers, illness and loss. You know, life.

I love my friends.
They have become my family.
They accept me.
They ground me.
They support me.
They love me.

We know each others stories, we can tease each other and reminisce for hours with tears of both joy and sorrow streaming down our faces.

Thank you my friends, my sisters.
Thank you for a fabulous night out and a wonderful birthday!
I love you girls so much!

Here's to 60 more years of girls nights!

Craft Monday...finally

On our Summer List this year was to have Craft Monday...

Of the last 4 weeks since school has been out, yesterday we finally completed our first craft.

We used watercolors, pipe cleaners and coffee filters to make our own sparklers/firework decorations. I got the idea from The Crafty Crow which is an awesome site for kid craft projects.

Meg loved painting and of course made it better with glitter, glitter and a bit more glitter.


Isaac had fun too, but after about 20 minutes or so, playing baseball and climbing trees sounded like more fun to him.


While uploading these, I realized I didn't take any finished product pictures! I will try to remedy that asap!

Flyin' By

I can't believe the 4th of July is this coming weekend!

This is the last "lazy" week of the summer for us, so today I ran all my errands, except getting a new drivers license, so that we can just chill at home before the craziness sets in.


We are having fun though,
swimming


catching naps when and where we can

crafting, gardening and play, play playing!

Last day of school

Last Thursday was Isaac's last day of young 5's...

He was really sad that school was out, because he won't see his friends everyday.

(so sad... the long walk to the car)

I don't remember about what age that changes...

however, he's had a pretty fun week, so I don't think he's missing school too much.

(Megan needed to have her "last day of school" picture taken too, appropriately in pajamas)

A Bit of Random

Today was Isaac's field day. Man was it hot! I am so glad he is in the a.m. class.
poor thing didn't have as much fun as she thought she would.

Mark was able to come for a little bit which thrilled Meggie.

We went to our first Dragon's game of the season. Luckily it cooled off a bit before it started.

We had a great time, saw a home run and ate dippin' dots, which according to Meg, "cooled off her burnin' hot belly"

Lastly, I experimented with a new recipe (which for the life of me I can't remember where I got it)

It was pork tenderloin, grilled and basted with a honey/pineapple juice and red peppers. Served with pineapple rice. Yummm and it was healthy too!

First Race

Over the weekend our little town hosted a Community Days 5K with a kids fun run and then a school carnival... it was quite a day.

At the last minute a friend and I decided to run the 5K... all I will say about that is I finished and ran better than I thought I would, only walking once, and thank you Jamie for your motivation!!

After my race the kids had a fun run, which we were told would be one mile, but ended up only a quarter of a mile. It was so awesome to see Isaac so excited! He was so excited he pulled a tooth minutes before the race!!


(the least flattering picture of me, but Isaac thinks it's hilarious!)

He and his buddy Elijah had already planned on running the race holding hands, but we were afraid of an injury, so we talked them out of that.


Stretching... very important before the big race. (Meg was not happy about not being involved... plus during one stretch, she said, "this is just like with Jillian, I know how to do this!")




And... GO!!!!!


Isaac did awesome! He wasn't winded in the least and on his own decided to do an entire victory lap!!

Since I didn't register Meg, (she was to young) she and Mark did their race a few steps behind the big kids...


Meg made it the first turn, then Daddy had to take over until the very end...



And everyone finished and received medals! It was tons of fun.

Explore

When it stops raining long enough to get outside, we are climbing trees... which is this little guys favorite "hiding" spot especially now that there are leaves on the trees!

The blooms on the trees were short lived due to all the hard rains, but the were magical. There was one afternoon that was particularly windy and it was like confetti or snow falling from the trees, it was a lovely way to lose the petals if we had too.

So until it dries up around here, we are having fun splashing around in the puddles-

and wearing 3 tutus, a "scarf" and fancy shoes!