rachel's continued ramblings

sunday: happy father’s day to my 2 favorite dads. we even got him lemon meringue pie. tuesday: empty peanut butter jar = happy dog. thursday:. apparently we are challenging grandpa at arm wrestling (and winning?), while also wearing our napkins like wild west bandits… friday: dad got donuts for the last day of school! also friday: FINALLY! last day of school!!! also also friday: starting the summer off with an outdoor movie! saturday: my dad got bonez a husky shirt! and the extras.

sunday: another week, another bubble soccer party with a bunch of boys. i convinced layla to play (after a traumatic experience a year ago) by organizing a “girls only” game. we got all the moms and sisters to play. wednesday: first time i’ve ever spotted a deer in our neighborhood! thursday: so this happened… after a long wait to finally get the settlement from the insurance (after shane totaled his truck by driving it into a ditch), we found him a vehicle that fit our parameters. AWD, less than 100k, not european, and not fast. friday: micah has been asking about the wooden trains for awhile now. I had stashed them in the attic a long time ago. so i got them out for him. he happily played with them for a couple of days and then packed them all back up again and i put them back in the attic. friday: how layla eats her blizzard leftovers, fresh out of the freezer.  saturday: micah had saved some money that he was itching to spend on a new lego set. also saturday: layla came up with thi

well, apparently this was the busiest week EVER, and i have no less than 4,000 pictures to deal with. i have no idea how all of these will go in the book, but i will deal with that later. sunday: cross over ceremony for the cub scouts! micah, and the rest of his den, made rank and earned their bear badges. last time as a bear and first time as a webelo. this is tripping me out a little. i swear they were just tigers. how are these kids old enough to be webelos already????   also sunday: oh, that’s just a picture someone snapped of my husband starring in his own motivational poster… especially great is the little girl who appears to be about to cry. *note: don’t play dodge ball with dave.   monday: shane and toby, enjoying some outside (being a real cat) time. and, i accidentally took this awesome picture of the bee.   also monday: shane teaching my dad to use his new mower. also also monday: this is just the way things are around here sometimes… dogs. tuesday: end of season baseball pa

sunday: more sanding. my skin was turning green. also sunday: filed under: life right now. monday: memorial day weekend concludes with more sanding… this was the slowest process ever. tuesday: new bottle!!! also tuesday: after dropping layla at gymnastics and before he had to be at baseball practice, we made a quick costco run. micah was an awesome helper. i pushed the cart and told him what i wanted. he loaded it all, and put it on the conveyer at checkout. then he helped me load the car. wednesday: most (not all, as i learned at on a subsequent trip) of my things out of my classroom. it’s for real that i’m not going back in the fall. now, what to do with this stuff? thursday: our family’s first orthodontist appointment! micah was pretty stoked that there was a wii in the waiting room. and he could see it though the door of the room we were in. verdict: no braces needed yet. but very likely later. saturday: finally starting the staining, now that it’s all sanded… dave had a