rachel's continued ramblings

Crossover, troop meeting, more swimming, ball-winding, high school band, and Freedom Invitational.

Disk golf, honor band, Battle in Bellevue, and getting ready for crossover. 

this was apparently a very odd week for picture taking. as in, i didn’t. but i did take one walk with the dog on friday, in which i was struck by the blueness of the sky and the awesome fall colors in my neighborhood, and so i couldn’t take 5 steps without stopping to pull out my phone to photograph some pretty tree. fortunately, when paired up, these pics resulted in exactly the right number i needed for the week. but first: sunday: pack meeting for micah. getting his advancements for the summer/fall from mr. smith. and a visit from the fire department. friday: it was so nice out, and warm even, that the kids decided to take their books to “the rock” to do their reading. i decided to walk the dog. and that’s all she wrote.

sunday: another year of selling popcorn outside of walmart. also sunday: there used to be this guy who lived 2 doors down from my parents who would water his lawn every evening by sitting in a lawn chair with a beer and the hose. layla has always thought that story was hilarious. tuesday: she actually got the basketball stuck up there. wednesday: almost every evening, we watch a show after the kids go to bed. and almost every evening, i fall asleep on the couch. this night, i was determined to stay awake, so i had some tea after dinner… this was dave’s response to that. friday: the trees at the library always have such amazing color. saturday: senior year homecoming! shane and bailey, and their friends, had an interesting time getting pictures taken… it was POURING rain. eventually it let up enough to make getting to the gazebo down the path manageable. everyone was freezing and a little wet! shane borrowed a big fancy truck from one of his bosses for the occasion.

first week of summer!!! sunday: it’s “fun sunday”! after church, we had lunch at MOD, then went mini-golfing. it was fun, but WAY hot. we were melting into the astroturf. more fun sunday. we grabbed shane (who had been at work all day) and hit the theater to see cars 3! we had all been looking forward to its release. now i’ve seen all 3 in the theater with shane, who was 5 when the first one came out! monday: leaving to take micah to cub scout day camp and we spot THIS! balloon was landing in a vacant lot just under the freeway. so we totally had to pull over and watch. tuesday: second day of day camp. i wound up being a volunteer for the rest of the week, so i got to take some pictures. archery is always a favorite, but they also made “rovers” out of old computer parts, and since the theme was “bug hunters”, they had a tent full of ladybugs for them to go in and explore. micah would have stayed there all day. wednesday: layla’s newest instrument arrived! we are borrowing a saxophone s...

sunday: pinewood derby day! Dave and his committee pulled off a great event. micah’s car turned out not to be very fast, but he did win the “best hot rod” award that the scouts vote on. that was the one he was going for, so he was happy with that. layla and dave both made cars for the charity race. layla’s was meant to be a bobsled. at the community center, a gal from interstate batteries had one of their race cars there for the boys to have their picture take in. and then there was the after party. we didn’t mean to have a party. it just sort of happened. the weather was super nice, and it all started with eric and martin showing up to help dave unload stuff, which he was already done unloading. except they brought beer. and then andrea came, and martin called his wife, so they came, and then layla went and got her friend and her friend’s brothers and parents from down the street (also scouts), we had a few more including my dad show up and it was a party! it was definitely not warm...

there are a lot of pictures this week, and i’m still figuring out how all of these are going to go in the book. i’m thinking there will definitely be an insert. sunday: another meet. monday: i made micah super happy when i brought home a poster of all of the presidents of the usa for him to hang in his bedroom. he’s busy memorizing names, dates, etc. also monday: pinewood derby weigh-in in our garage, plus trophy assembly station. this is what it’s like to be married to the race commissioner. tuesday: you can’t really see her, but layla is somewhere in this crowd of 6th grade musicians. we had a crazy evening of gymnastics, followed by band concert, while micah was at batting practice. people were going everywhere and nobody ate until 8pm. but the exciting part of all of this is that, now that layla got her kip, she was allowed to get bar grips. so, still attired in concert clothes, she’s trying them out.             wedn...