Bible Pirates

B is going to vacation bible school this week. The theme of VBS this year is High Seas Adventure, so lots of sailing references. B has interpreted it as "Bible Pirates". He has been playing pirate since yesterday afternoon.

He decked himself out in his pirate gear and went outside to play. All was good until J went outside and found him with his treasure chest. I followed to end the commotion and found him building a pirate ship out of bricks. The pirate ship part of the game has now ended.

He is still playing "Bible Pirates" inside with his regular pirate stuff.


Mean Pirate


Happy Pirate



B did ask me where the pirates were. I said I didn't think there were pirates any more. B told me I was wrong. The Pirates play the Oklahoma State Army Guys and the Pirates beat the Army Guys. Oklahoma State's nickname is the Cowboys. I have no idea what sport and what teams he has been watching. I just nodded and said "O.K" It is way easier that way.

people are so nice

I have a friend from school. Her daughter and A have been in class together a few times. They played on the same soccer team for a couple of seasons. She knows I knit. Well over a year ago, she mentioned that she picked up some knitting thing off the clearance table at Borders because she thought it was so pretty. She was going to learn to knit but she never did. Denise decided that she would give it to me. Every time I saw her, she remembered that knitting thing.

Well, this morning after dropping the boys off at VBS, I saw her in the parking lot. She stopped me and told me that she had been carrying the knitting thing in her car for 6 months waiting to remember to give it to me. Now was the perfect time.



I was so excited, the lace patterns on the cards are pretty and it is published by Chronicle Books, one of my favorite publishers. I can't wait to put the cards to use. Of course, that means I need to start knitting again!

All about J

I pulled some photos from DH's blackberry and decided to make a post of it.

Our last day of school was May 28th. My sweet little J spent the last week of school crying every morning and evening because he knew it was his very last week with Mrs. F as his teacher. He loved loved loved loved her. On movie day, he pulled his chair next to her desk so he could sit next to her. He skipped singing in the choir at mass so he could sit next to her in church one last time. Oh, how he is going to miss her. I couldn't have asked for a better teacher for my J.



After our trip to the lake and a few days of doing nothing, summer has started. Last week J spent his mornings at golf camp. He had a great time and has a decent swing now. He wanted his coach to sign his bag, but settled for a picture with him instead.



Next week is a busy one. The boys have VBS in the morning and J has cub scout camp in the evening. DH & J went up to the camp site yesterday to help set up. Here is a picture of J with his doppelganger decoration. I didn't think it looked much like him because he isn't wearing his glasses in the picture but DH assures me that it is him.

B's beans

B's class did the lima beans in the bag experiment this year.


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He brought his seeds home when we started working on the garden. We decided to plant them to see what would happen. The ziploc of beans was left in his school bag over the weekend and I wasn't sure if they would survive. Luckily they grew.



We got our first pod of lima beans today.


B informed me that he didn't like those yucky beans and he wasn't going to eat them even if they did come from the plant he grew! I guess I'll blanch and freeze them for S#4 next visit. She was always the crazy sister who loved lima beans and ate them for after school snack.

First Day of Summer vacation

We did a lot of nothing today.

I spent a lot of time attempting to work and not getting much accomplished. My brain is just not in think mode yet.

I did no laundry from our vacation. We turned the water off to the washing machine while we were gone and I can't reach the faucet. I guess I'll do that tomorrow.

The kids stayed in jammies for most of the day. Lots of lazing around watching too much Disney Channel. I figure we could get that out of the way today so we don't do it the rest of the summer.

We have one more day of relaxation until camps start up. The kids are busy the rest of the month with DECATS (A), golf camp (J), VBS (B&J), cub scout camp (j) & basketball camp(J). Plus we have baseball/t-ball on top of all of that. I get to shuttle them everywhere. It's going to be a busy June!

The highlight of the day was dinner. Chicken was okay but the salad was very good. I used less dijon because I'm not a dijon person. DH loved it, kids not so much.

Memorial Weekend

We came up to Missouri for a long weekend. The kids got out of school at 10:30 on Friday. We met them at the park with the car parked with luggage and the dog.

It's been a typical lovely lazy weekend at the lake.


The boy cousins played with J in charge



We had a fish fry.







J got to eat the perch & bass that he and PaPa caught that morning.



We spent lots of time at the big dock









We went on long boat rides. Today it was a trip to Big Cedar with a stop on an island to geocache.













We head back home tomorrow. The kids aren't too happy about. J told PaPa this morning that he was going to glue his rear to the chair to that we couldn't take him home. I guess they like it here!

Baseball parade

Sunday was just as busy as Saturday. A & I had the mother/daughter tea at 9am. J's piano recital was at 2pm and the baseball parade was at 5pm. The parade was fun for all. I've got it down. I followed the parade 3/4 of the way around the track taking pictures and then A & I hoofed it to the food line, grabbed 6 burgers, a couple of plates of chips & as many waters as we could hold. The food lines are obnoxious if you wait until the parade is actually over. After the parade & playing in the baseball contest, the boys went to the splash zone and played in the water.















I can't believe it has been 2 years since we last participated in the tball parade. Look how they've grown!