rachel's continued ramblings

sunday: rumors fly quickly through the neighborhood. people kept showing up. at one point the doorbell rang and the kid on the porch said, “we heard there’s a slip & slide.” monday: memory books DONE. tuesday: tragedy!!! my bottle dropped out of its handle in the parking lot and shattered! also tuesday: final band concert of the year. thursday: promotion ceremony for shane. friday: first trip to echo lake of the summer. also friday: new bar pit at the gym. saturday: they both needed a break from sanding all the green paint off the deck boards.

sunday: mother’s day! dave made ribs for dinner, i got new shoes and a cute new apron, layla did the dishes, and…. all the kids wanted to help me get the pictures ready for memory books. monday: huge crowd at the bus stop this morning! also monday: raining cats and dogs all afternoon, but they didn’t call the game until we got there. there were puddles and waterfowl using the field. also monday: plugging away, slowly but surely on the memory books. wednesday: micah built himself a shoe shelf out of wood blocks. friday: playing second base. saturday: happy girl/happy dog. happy girl/happy cat.

sunday: layla, micah, and dave got to go with my dad to a game in the All Star Club! micah was sad all day that the mariners didn’t win. but at least this year’s game didn’t end with vomit at 11:30pm. wednesday: a little extra time before i needed to leave for work and a forecast with no rain was the perfect opportunity for me to throw my daily load on the line. also wednesday: i told micah he needed to go outside and do something active in the fresh air instead of playing video games all afternoon… he decided the best thing to do would be to get the biggest shovel he could find and dig a hole in the middle of the yard. thursday: we have had this hairy menace for 3 years!! and he’s turned out to be a pretty good dog. also thursday: micah’s game ended in exciting fashion when a HUGE streak of lightning hit not far away, thunder, downpour, and finally hail! friday: this week we are adding a second injection to layla’s meds. hoping enbrel is magical. saturday: this is where i’ll be ...

sunday: quite frequently, our house is grand central station for micah’s friends. these are just a few of them, all playing tennis or bowling or something on the wii. also sunday: anxiously waiting for shane to get home from his trip to san diego… i guess utah is a little closer. monday: layla’s gymnastics awards banquet. she won most improved on her team. tuesday: the girl’s tennis shoes were falling apart. and she hated them because they were pink. these are the replacements and i’m SO JEALOUS!! i majorly want a pair of these. saturday: baseball field day and team pictures! this would be the silly one. speed pitch and dunking the coach in the dunk tank were just a few of the events. also saturday: keeping an eye on our neighbor’s dog this weekend. bonez helped. i decided to try a tandem walk, which worked out surprisingly well, considering how spastic they both are when they see each other. and that’s our week!