Bikes, Cookies, and more...

Today we went to pick up Girl Scout cookies for our troop and delivered them to our cookie mom.. We were able to pick up our 300 boxes of cookies (of which we've only sold about 50 boxes) while we were there. We're going to be very busy over the next few weeks selling cookies:)

After we picked up our cookies, we went to Grandma's and Geri's house to deliver cookies and pick up the girls big birthday presents. Then we went back home to give the girls their big birthday presents: And then we met a friend to try out their new birthday presents:Then I brought them all home to play the Wii because today was Flea Market Day (whatever that means...). Anyway, we all had a wonderful day and we're looking forward to more of the same tomorrow!!!

We're back!!!

We had a wonderful time at Great Wolf Lodge!!! The kids are finally old enough and can swim well enough that I didn't have to chase after all of them at once. They were pretty independent and loved every moment of our vacation there. They were even on their best behavior!!!

I'll post pictures later. I have to cook a yummy dinner for my poor starving hubby. He has been home alone for the past few days and hasn't eaten as well as we have...

Off the computer until Thursday night...

I'll be away from my computer until Thursday afternoon. I'm going on vacation with the kids and won't take my computer with me. Have a great week!!!

What a wonderful day with friends...

We spent the day with our friends Mandi and Steve and their three beautiful children. First we went ice skating for two hours and then we went to Mandi's mom's house and had dinner with their family. It was great to catch up and just kind of talk about what has been going on in our lives in the last five years. Of course, I forgot my camera and can't share pictures of our day. Mandi has promised to send me the pictures that she took. What a great day!!! Tomorrow we're leaving for Great Wolf Lodge. I'll try to get lots of pictures, but I'm not sure about taking my huge camera in a hot and muggy place like that. Wish me luck...

And another one (or two) bites the dust...

Strep throat has been running rampant in our house in the last two weeks. First John came down with it, then Nicole. The latest victims are Nate (diagnosed on Wednesday), and Amanda and I (diagnosed yesterday). Now that it's finally run its course, I'm hoping that our family can move on and be healthy!!! Everyone is on antibiotics and feeling much better.

Today I'm packing for our trip to Great Wolf Lodge on Monday. John is driving down with us on Monday and spending the day with us there all day Monday. Geri and Mom will join us later on Monday, we'll have dinner with John and then he'll drive back home (he has to work on Tuesday), then we'll stay until Thursday afternoon. Geri and Mom will drive back with us and we'll go pick up Sassy then go home. The picture is of the kids at our last trip there. The kids are so looking forward to this trip and so am I!!! I just hope that everyone stays well enough to go...

Amanda was the "Bee in the Spotlight" today...

We visited Amanda's class today and watched as she shared many of her favorite pictures and toys with the rest of her class. She really enjoyed playing the teacher and answering a lot of questions from her classmates and teacher. She got to introduce her Dad to her classmates too for the first time. She was so excited!!!

The whole time Amanda was sharing with us in her classroom, Nate was wallowing in misery in the van. He called us several times to make sure we knew that he wanted to go home. He has strep throat and is the third member of our family to get it in the past month. He's feeling better tonight after a dose of antibiotics, but it's going to be a long weekend...

And Nicole was, well, being Nicole. She was happy as could be reading her book after she came home from school. She has finished the whole Sister's Grimm series (4th-5th grade level books) and is now working on Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism (level 5.5). She's almost done with it now and is moving onto something else. I just can't even keep up with her right now! Did you notice her missing teeth? She's finally starting to lose teeth and she's almost 8 years old!!! Better late than never I guess.

Our Science Day...

We had the Cub Scouts come over today to earn their Scientist badge. John set up experiments to demonstrate Bernoulli's Principle, Pascal's Law, and Newton's first law of motion. Don't ask me what those are about because I'm definitely NOT the scientist of the family. John and Nate really enjoyed it though, and I suspect they ARE scientists at heart. The other Cub Scouts enjoyed it too. The best part is that they earned another badge to add to their uniforms.

The moms and I enjoyed chatting while John and another dad led the boys through the experiments. In fact I enjoyed it so much that I might have forgotten to take the camera out to get some shots of the boys performing the experiments. Just picture six boys and two dads using air, water, and heat to perform science experiments. It was great fun!