A Fun Couple of Weeks

May 25, 2009

I can't believe how busy the last few weeks have been. It seems like the weather got nice and now things are moving again. The last couple of weeks of school are really crazy. Almost every day is a "fun" day. There are picnic's, movies, field trips, and field days. I wonder why they don't just let them go at the end of April. With all those "fun" days comes many opportunities to volunteer, and like the dork that I am I volunteered for ALL of them!!!

We are going to start however with a church activity. K is involved in Activity Days at church, it's for girls 8-11, they have activities and do some really fun things that correspond with learning different teachings and setting goals. Last week they had a Mother Daughter Fashion Show. Each mother/daughter duo (and in some cases trio) was to come up with a matching modest outfit to show. I left the deciding up to K and she decided that she wanted to make matching PJ pants for us. So off we went to the store and got matching flannel and the night before the show sewed us up some PJ pants. She made her own and I made mine. The turned out so cute and I think she really enjoyed spending one-on-one time with me for a couple of hours. So here we are in our fashion show.

On Friday O had a kindergarten picnic at school. Chris actually got to take the day off and volunteer with me, it was the first time he had done that and I hope he can do it more. Kindergartner's are so cute, they tell you the funniest things, I don't know how teachers make it through the day without busting a gut. 105 6 year olds pretty much ran around a huge park for 5 hours while slews of adults prepared mounds of food, and refilled 3, 5 gallon water jugs about a million times. The line leading to the water "trough" was never ending. O had a fabulous time and only got a little sun burned.

For Memorial Day Weekend we went camping with several families in our ward. It is a yearly tradition that some have started. We went the first year we lived here but were unable to go last year and were really excited when they invited us again. We stayed 2 nights Saturday and Sunday, and came home Monday. The kids had a blast, all of their friends were there. I think the kids out numbered us 3 to 1 but what do you expect at a Mormon gathering? There were only a couple of mishaps, which mostly included C. He had a rough weekend but was a trooper and didn't whine much, notice I say "much". First off he went fishing at the lake that we camped by. The dock they were fishing from was a floating dock. Well long story short, Chris stepped one way and C went flying off the dock into the GREEN water. He could not touch where he was and doesn't know how to swim. Luckily, Chris was right there and grabbed him up. He only went under for a few seconds and actually kept his head above water pretty well. He also never let go of his fishing pole! He did smack his head on the way down and got a cute little bruise. I happened to snap a picture after the fact (I wasn't there for the real thing) of him dripping wet.

He also fell into a fire pit (one that we were not using) and banged his head and has a bruise from that. Later the same day he got hit in the eye with a Frisbee and has a black eye, and has numerous bug bites all over him that have swollen to the size of golf balls (yes Mom, I did use repellent).

Anyway the rest of us were on the camp out it wasn't just C. We all had a really good time, playing, eating, and visiting. Between keeping the raccoons out of our stuff at night, and making sure I had a potty buddy every time I got up to pee it was a trip I will never forget.