• Aug. 25, 2008 - Insanity!!!!
Life here is just getting busier and busier. We started school on the 11th, and are also in our fall session for swim team. That lasts until the end of Sept. Then Friday I was hired to coach the DHS swim team! Today i spent time running around getting finger printed and my TB test. As soon as I am cleared I get to start coaching.
Thurs. we took the boys and Morgan to Six Flags for the day. We hadn't been there in 10 years or so! I cannot even tell you how much fun the boys had! We did find out that D is bad luck when it comes to water rides. He got soaked every single time! I think it was worth the trip there just so the boys could shoot water cannons at the people on the water rides. After riding one of these, we were busing spraying people and I noticed a very young couple on the bridge being all lovey dovey. I pointed them out to H and told him that they need to be sprayed. So he walks over, drops a coin in, hits the button and walks away as the stream of water soaks them. It was classic! It was great to just hang out as a family, and to have Morgan with us.
Then today H took the boys to get these;  So tonight they did some riding.
LV was able to ride on his own, but had to prove himself with Dad on with him first.
LM was riding pretty well, but didn't get to go alone.
And D just looked so stinkin' cute with his helmet on! Notice it is wider than his shoulders.
My 2 bobble heads.
And D riding with Daddy.
What a blast for all of them!
I need to get going. H is waiting for me to watch a parenting video.
Goodnight.
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• Aug. 13, 2008 - Tooth Dollars
I took the boys to the dentist yesterday only to find out that all 3 of them had cavities!!! Grrrrrr...... They had a lot of cancellations today, so LV and D had appointments today to get theirs taken care of. D is having the same problem with his teeth that i had. His permanent teeth are coming in but the baby teeth are not falling out! The dentist told me to bring him back in a month to have those teeth pulled if they had not fallen out.
So I took D in for his fillings (his first, so he was pretty scared), and he was a trooper! Even the dentist kept commenting on how great of a patient he was. As the dentist was finishing up with the fillings i said that since D was numbed up he might as well just pull those teeth. The dentist checked to make sure D couldn't feel anything, and then popped out those 2 baby teeth! D didn't even know they did it until I told him!
Tonight D has his first 2 teeth under his pillow waiting for the tooth fairy (which he does know who that is), and for his "tooth dollars." |
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• Jul. 30, 2008 - The Big 4-0
• Jul. 26, 2008 - A day off
I cannot believe how busy I have been! This coaching gig takes up more time than I thought it would. It's all good though. The boys made it to 2 sessions of VBS this summer (thanks to D being in the choir and leading worship) and had a blast both times. They award points throughout the week for good behavior, doing something kind for others, memory verses, etc. LV and D both won awards for most points in their classes the first week. LM was bummed because he didn't win, but he tends to be in his own world a lot of the time. He is a very sweet boy. He just doesn't take notice of a lot of things going on around him. The 2nd session we never turned in the form for their memory verses. But they had a great time learning about the Lord.
Like I said, this swim coaching has taken up a lot of time. Our team hosted it's annual 3 day invitational last weekend means every waking minute Friday-Sunday is spent at the pool for many of the team families. But I must say, our Invitational is always one of the favorite meets in the league. So the parents' hard work must be paying off. Anyway, LM decided he wanted to try swimming the 100 free at this meet. The most he has ever done is a 50, but he has a lot of endurance. So I deck entered him Fri.afternoon. Before he swam he came to talk to me about what he was supposed to do in his race. I gave him his pointers and he headed back behind the blocks. When it was his heat he got up on the blocks, started with his little jump/dive thing he does, and he was off! He swam his 1st lap, got to the end of the pool, bent his little body sideways, and turned around for his 2nd lap. He never touched the wall! (If you don't know anything about swimming you must touch the wall at each end of the pool). He did that 2 more times never touching the wall the entire race!!!!! I was dying! It was one of the cutest things I have ever seen. After his swim (he got last place), he came back over to talk to me. The 1st words out of his mouth were, "You told me the wrong thing, Mom. I lost." I don't know that it ever occurred to him that he is not as, umm, experienced as the other swimmers. So i then asked him why he didn't touch the wall. His classic response, "I don't know how to do flip turns." Okay. This was never a problem in the 50. That made my weekend. Seriously. I was so proud of him for trying, and I love his (ir)rational thinking. So sweet and childlike.
Wed. night we had a dual meet against a team much smaller than ours. D was not last in anything he swam (which puts a smile on his face), and he and LM both asked to swim the 25 fly! They are my boys! LM has been telling me he wanted a white ribbon. After every dual meet I give him his ribbons. He doesn't care what place they are for. He just wanted a white one (that would be 3rd place), and Wed. night he finally earned it! He is so proud of his white ribbon! He has a 1st and 2nd place from that night, but that 3rd place ribbon is his special ribbon! This kids cracks me up!
Then on to this weekend. The team is up in the mountains swimming and I am supposed to be at a homeschool conference with H. We were loaded up yesterday, dropped the boys off, stopped in to fuel up before dropping the puppy off with my uncle when H noticed coolant under the van. He looked under the hood to find that the radiator had a crack in it! Now we have 2 other vehicles, both of which are not dependable for a 3 hour drive right now. So, although I was disappointed about not going to the conference, I got an unexpected day off (or 2) and got to enjoy just hanging out with my hubby. My mom was kind enough to keep the boys for us. So I don't know what I will do today. The boys will come home at some point. H has to get me a new radiator because I have to head up to the swim meet tomorrow morning.
One more week until championships, then after that H and the boys head to scout camp. Then we need to hit the books. I like to do school year round, but it didn't work out for us this summer. After taking a few months off, it is time to get back to school.
For today, I am going to enjoy my day off.
And just to note, it is still pretty smokey from the fires. Yesterday was about 1 mile visability. |
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• Jul. 10, 2008 - Recent events
Yesterday i started an entry about what we have been up, but I accidently deleted it somehow. Grrrrrrrrr. So I just decided to wait. It wasn't worth sitting at the computer being frustrated over. So I will try again tonight, starting with the 4th of July.
We spent the morning of the 4th planting the veggies that have been in pots on the front porch for months. The boys helped a bit with that, but spent most of their time outside picking peaches off the peach tree. I don't know how many LV ate, but I was very surprised he didn't spend the evening alone in the bathroom! He did smell so sweet from the peach juice (which he inadvertantly wiped all over his face and neck) that a paper wasp decided he was a peach. Before he realized the wasp was even on him, it stung him on his left jawline! He went running in the house yelling, and by the time I got inside to take care of him he was already washing it out. I gave him an ice pack, and he spent the rest of the morning on the couch reading. It kinda put a damper on the day for him.
Once it got too hot outside, the boys and the man : ) watched movies while I made a peach pie. My first ever!
Once the pie was done we packed up and headed to Craig and Carleen's for a 4th of July bbq. We had a nice time just relaxing and visiting. All of the kids ran and played their little hearts out. Around 9:00 we headed home. On the way we passed the race track and noticed a lot of people waiting for the fireworks to start. So we pulled into the Costco parking lot, found a space (not easy to come by), and waited. And waited. And waited. Finally around 10:30 (or later) the show began! The boys had been getting restless (not to mention tired) and we almost went home, but we were glad in the end that we stayed. The bummer was that it took us 45 minutes to get from Costco to home! The boys were filthy dirty and sweaty, but they just curled up in their beds that night and went to sleep.
Sat. was the usual day at home and church in the evening.
Sunday we went to Sam and Charlotte's for dinner and came home with a Bengal kitty. Her name is Lulu, and she is the sister to Neko , our Bengal that we had who ran away the night D was born. So now we are in the process of getting Missy and Lulu used to each other. A puppy and a kitty in our house now. Crazy!
Monday the boys started VBS at church. Then Tues. and Wed. nights they had Cub Scout Twilight camp. It was supposed to go through tonight, but they had to cancel due to the fires. As it was last night, they had to move everything indoors. Tonight they were supposed to do an egg drop from a ladder truck, and they seemed to be having problems locating the ladder truck. My suggestion was to go to the fire camp at the fair grounds because there was sure to be one there! Hee hee. Needless to say, my boys are exhausted! Tomorrow is their last day of VBS, and hopefully we can rest this weekend. We shall see. There is a swim meet scheduled for Sat.. and I'm waiting to hear if it is still going to happen. Hopefully by then the smoke will have cleared a bit.
A good rain storm sounds so refreshing right now. |
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• Jul. 10, 2008 - Apocolyptic
| This was a word used to describe our area right now, and it is so fitting. The smoke is really bad again, and this time there is a lot of ash falling. The sun and moon are red. Visibility is about 1/4 mile. I can only imagine what the towns closer to the fires are like. Many more people have lost homes, and the fair grounds are full of tired firemen. To top it all off, the temperatures have been up in the 105 - 110 range! Miserable. Apocolyptic. I wish I had a digi camera so I could post some photos right now. It is just intense. Even in this, God is in control. |
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• Jul. 1, 2008 - Boys!
D just came in and showed me the lump on his head from jumping off the top bunk and hitting his head on the ceiling fan!
(Do you think now he knows why he's not supposed to do that?) |
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• Jun. 28, 2008 - Guess What I See!
| I see blue sky!!!!! Seriously! After a week of living in this smoke, this is a major deal. There was a breeze today which helped to clear out some of the smoke, and hopefully they were able to get the planes and helicopters in to help put out the fires. Of course, there were more thunderstorms today which possibly started more fires to add to the 1,000 of them already burning in CA. Crazy, I tell ya. |
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• Jun. 24, 2008 - It's smokey out there
| Just a week after getting the other fire under control we had thunder storms come through. It was the weirdest weather. And it started hundreds of wildfires in Northern Ca. We had to cancel swim practice indefinitely and I am not sure if the meet this weekend will be canceled or not. The air quality rating is "very unsafe." The boys and I spent the entire day indoors and i managed to get a lot of cleaning done! Hopefully tomorrow will be as productive. Praying for the families who have lost so much in the past few weeks and for the firemen to get the fires out soon. |
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• Jun. 15, 2008 - Fire, water, and preaching
Fire update: The fire is 50% contained, evacuations have been lifted, 74 homes destroyed, 8 outbuildings, minor injuries to 8 fire fighters. Keep praying for the firemen that the progress will continue and for those who lost everything.
Water: We had our first meet of the summer, and I am happy to say it went well. I only had 8 swimmers, but that is just fine. It was a good way for me to get back into the swing of things. I forgot how tiring it is to sit there all day in the heat. We are off to a good start.
Preaching: And a story I need documented. When I coach my boys play in the picnic area at the pool. They are getting to know the other kids on the team, and the parents are getting to know my boys. I got a report from a mom by the name of June about LM. Apparently he shared the Gospel with her one day during practice. He told her all about Jesus, and then about Satan and what a lier he is. She told me she was so blessed by what he said! And then she made the statement, "I think he is going to be a preacher some day." That would so be a God thing. My son who struggles with reading and writing and stutters becoming a preacher. It would be just like God to use him in that way. We shall see... |
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