not perfect day

Today was almost a perfect day. The kids (and me) slept in until 7:30 and then followed it up with a 11:30-1:30 nap. I guess summers been wearing them out. We ran right out to catch the 1:30 library show(songs and stories) And then walked over to get ice cream with some of the kids. We spent a couple hours on the deck playing. Thats when I took the photos and figured this blog post would be about the perfect summer day. But as we got in the car to go to my step aerobics class, it changed. We stopped to return our movies and saw the memorial of flowers. Cayla, the very young(twenties) woman who owed the movie rental place with her husband passed away. It has only been 2 months since she was diagnosed. Very very sad.

At the Farmers market

I think the photos tell the story here :0) I went to the farmers market with my friends Mikel and Danny, and our 5 kids! Joshi and Bailey got their faces painted.  Joshi was a tiger and stayed in character the whole time we were at the market.  Those 2 girls always play so good together. And they walked off hand and hand into the sunset(or the park)

Last Day of VBS

Last night was the last night of Vacation Bible School.  I had intentions of making sure I got a good photo of us 3 girls.  But the kids know I'm a push over and I'll let them use my camera.  So after having them take a couple quick shots of us the camera was gone.  Its never returned to me until the battery is dead. But they got a shot of Billi dancing with Joshi.  Billi was a crazed zealot as soon as the music turned on.  And by far she was the most popular person there.  Every girl wanted to hold her (and every adult too)

The popsicle meltdown

Ok, so here's how it went down.  Billi is enjoying a popsicle with her usual zeal.  Then covered in sticky melting popsicle she heads to the sand box to finish eating.  Upon stopping her and the impending sand/sticky disaster Billi reacts the way she always does to the word no.  Then she composes herself as to not miss out on the rest of the popsicle. Never mind that its fallen off the stick.  A fistful of popsicle still tastes the same. 

Vacation Bible School

Today was day 2 of Vacation Bible school.  Joshi loves it even more than she did last year.  And she really seem to absorb what they are teaching her.  You can't tell while she's there because she's either in extreme ecstasy dancing or goofing around at the marketplace(crafts) An old friend from preschool last year (McKenna) was there tonight.  The quality of the photos are bad but you can get the idea thats she's really into it.  Maybe I'll get a photo of me in my garb at the metal shop tomorrow night.

Pic-nic at Wildwood

Well, it was a good thing we took advantage of the sunshine yesterday and had a picnic outside because today it poured.  And it probably will for a while.  We get in the car at 6am to take Elwood to the airport.  We had a nice 4 days with him, now back to work.

kim on bike

you can kind of tell how high it is from this photo