Day 95

We headed out to the lake Friday afternoon. It was cloudy and cold. But we had made our reservations for the church camp-out to be held this weekend several months ago, and come rain or shine, we were going to enjoy it!

This is what the sky looked like as we drove out there.

Day 94

Today was our weekly park day with the other homeschoolers. Just one week ago it was over 100 degrees every day, even breaking record high temperatures a couple of days. Just two days ago it was in the 90s. Today? It's in the low 70s, which is perfect! But, it's overcast and rainy. Actually, after the beastly heat recently, even the clouds and rain are quite welcome.

Last week we switched our park day meeting place to the spray park where we had the girls' birthday party a few days earlier, due to the heat. The kids had such fun, we decided to go back today. Even though it was overcast. There's a nice playground right next to the spray area, and even better, it doesn't have swings, so those of us with 4 year olds aren't being pulled away from the other Moms with cries of "Mom, come push me!!"

It was kind of chilly and cool, in the 60s, when we arrived, so the kids pretty much opted to play on the playground. We'd been there just over an hour when it started to sprinkle. And then to rain. I always have my umbrella and the two little princess umbrellas in the back of my car, so we got those out. I guess the kids decided that since they were getting wet from the rain anyway, they would just go play in the spray area. With umbrellas. It was great fun to watch all the kids huddling under my umbrella in the middle of the spray park!

This is one of my favorite pictures of Sarah from this morning. Click on it to see a larger version!


If you'd like to check out the rest of the pictures - the ones of all the kids under the umbrella are especially funny - please click here!

Day 93

We stopped by the office earlier today to pick up some paperwork and my cousin's son was there. He's about 20 months old and just the cutest thing. He was happy to walk around with one girl holding each hand and didn't even seem to mind Hannah trying to carry him around.


Sarah, Jareth and Hannah

Day 92

Slinky got out of the house when Sarah accidentally left the door open 18 days ago. We saw her a week ago and borrowed a live animal trap from a friend and we caught her this morning! She's settled right back into being our house kitty - she's sitting in her usual spot at my feet as I type! You can see by the pictures that she doesn't appear to be any worse for her experience, but I'm taking her to the vet for a check-up tomorrow, just in case.

Day 91

This is the side entrance into our garage. All those dark spots are where the hail from the storm a couple nights ago scuffed the door!

Day 90

Mmmm... biscuits and chocolate gravy for breakfast. A birthday tradition at Charlie's house as he was growing up. He has to continue it on in our family, naturally, and since Hannah had a birthday a couple days ago, he decided to make some. Before anyone says "ewwww", you should know that it's somewhat like a thick, semi-sweet chocolate pudding. It's not made with a savory base, like a meat gravy would be.

Soooooo delicious!

Day 89

Hannah turned 6 years old yesterday. I made her a dress to wear to church today that coordinates with Sarah's. Remember from 3 weeks ago, Sarah's dress is a pink background, has sleeves, and a ribbon at the empire waist. Hannah's, you can see, is purple, sleeveless, and has the ribbons tied in bows at the top of the 6 godets that are added to make her skirt twirl even more than Sarah's. Oh, and notice the matching handbag! Sarah has one now, too.


There was a crazy thunderstorm here this evening. It dumped a whole lot of hail on us, too. We were up swimming with some friends and the hail went around that area, so my Saturn was saved, but Charlie's car is dimpled all over the top. The hail was at least as big around as a quarter, and there was apparently a lot of it, because we found it drifted up in banks like snow when we got home! Below is Charlie's hand, not one of the kids! And this is about 3 hours after the hail came through, so it had already started to melt.