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The girl is a cat and the boy an alien this year. They have a carnival at school with all the proceeds going to charity. This way, they are nice and sugared up from all the stuff at the carnival, before trick or treating!

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Booed!

This sign showed up on the front porch the other day, along with a bag of stickers, crafts and other fun things for the kids. They are having such a fun time trying to figure out which neighbor sent it. What they like even more than getting the gifts was shopping with me and planning what neighbors would get booed from them. They ended up booing the three kids next store and a brother and sister two doors down. They were so excited, they waited until it was dark and then dropped the goodies, rang the doorbell and ran. The next day when they were all playing outside, their friends were trying to figure out who booed them. It has been fun to watch. We are lucky to have such great neighbors!

Friday, October 25, 2013

An Athletic Performance

The girl was named student athlete of the week at school. The school picks one girl and one boy athlete a week from the hundreds of kids that play sports for the school. The criteria isn't solely on athletic ability, though that is one of the factors. The other factors are teamwork and sportsmanship. We are so proud of her! Since the picture of her with her certificate has a lot of personal information on it, we substituted a pic of her and her best friend after the game. Her friend G, has also been student athlete of the week, which she very justly deserved.

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In other volleyball news, the girl was on fire today helping her team win their second to last game of the season. She was able to maintain her serve 11 times in a row, with more than half of them aces. She is really enjoying volleyball. It is a very busy, but short season.

Friday, October 11, 2013

Just Thought This Turned Out Interesting

It's amazing how far camera phones have developed over the last few years.

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Weekend Update

We went to a church carnival Friday night. The kids had fun and luckily didn't win a fish in the ping pong toss. We made Aunt J come with us and we all ate a bunch of unhealthy carnival food.

We are in the midst of volleyball season and the girl is loving it. Today was a big tournament and we were in a gym for hours. The girl's team ended up winning the most games and took first place.

This afternoon I got to spend time with my Godson for his birthday. We went to Chuck E Cheese and Toys R Us. Chuck E Cheese happened to have a train game. Since A is really into trains, it was perfect! We had so much fun!

Tomorrow the boy starts football season, he is so excited!

Sunday, August 25, 2013

Good Times

This has been the summer of nice visits from relatives that live in Oklahoma and Texas. M came to visit for a few days. We always enjoy her visits and this time was no exception. Not only did she make lemon meringue pie...twice, we also went to San Francisco with her. M taught the girl how to make M's Mom's lemon meringue pic recipe. It was nice seeing them in the kitchen cooking, while I relaxed! M has a niece, L that recently moved to San Fran. Her niece came down to see us last time M was here, so we went up to see her in SF this time. Since L is a professional chef, it was an easy decision to head up to SF to enjoy the day and have dinner. L and her roommate G have a cute apartment that overlooks the bay. We were able to watch the America's Cup racers from the picture window. L and G had us out walking up and down hills, past Lombard Street to Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli Square. It was so much fun. It made me realize that we need to make an effort to get to the city more often. The kids had a great time seeing all of the sights. L and G were perfect hostesses and we had a delicious meal. Even the kids loved everything. G had better watch out though. Both L and G are pretty, blonde girls and the boy loves blondes and obviously older women. Don't ask me why. He has been like that as far back as 2. It was funny, wherever G would be in the apartment, the boy would be next to her chatting her up. He sat next to her on the couch, walked with her around the city and staked his claim next to her at dinner. She is very sweet and answered his questions and gave him attention. She is the oldest of 5 kids with a little sister that is 10, so she is very good with kids. The happiest place on earth...for the boy. He was so excited when we finally made it to Ghirardelli Square. Of course we went into the chocolate shop. The best thing was, the free samples!

The small island out behind the tall masts is Alcatraz. It was a really beautiful day and there were a bunch of people swimming in the bay.

The kids in front of Lombard Street. I couldn't believe the amount of tourists on the street and on the street below, where we were. There were police officers directing both the car and foot traffic. So, of course we had to add to the traffic and stop and get some pictures.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

A Scare By The Numbers

1 Reese's pieces that the boy mistakenly thought was a plain M&M, while at camp. 1 friend's Mom who recognized what was happening. 1 Epi-Pen and ambulance ride. 2 pretty EMT's that the boy still managed to flirt with, while hooked up to oxygen and an IV.

7 hours in the emergency room. 1 additional treatment, once the boy started to have another reaction 5 hours into the ER visit.

2 parents that lost 5 years off their lives. 1 little boy that has recovered and is running around like nothing happened. 1 very thankful family.