VBS: Jungle Safari

This year's theme for VBS was Jungle Safari. Some years our leader does good in making everything "match" with the theme. I think she could have done somewhat better, but who am I to judge? I"m not in charge (thank goodness!) She did rent some really nice costumes for the Bible story time and for the "backdrop" for pictures. Otherwise, there wasn't much.

Daddy is always in charge of taking the kids pictures, printing them, picking them up, and passing them out before the night ends. It usually works well. This way each kid gets their pix--just in case they can't be there the next night. Thursday night's pictures have yet to be delivered. It POURED right at the beginning of VBS and there was no back-up plan for what to do with the kids (the entire VBS night is usually outside). So Daddy wasted a lot of time at the beginning, so therefore the pictures weren't printed in time. Hopefully we will be able to find all the kids on Sunday (our VBS runs Sunday afternoon through Thursday evening-sooo nice to have Friday night off)

K and I missed Tuesday night (due to her ear surgery) and Thursday night (due to a VERY bad little girl--she needed early bed). K would have had her picture taken Thursday night, so I don't have one of her with the VERY LARGE animals. So here is C's picture.

Picky, picky

My kids are picky eaters (some of you are saying "Duh!") For lunch we usually eat one of 3 things: hot dogs, pop corn chicken (for C; K won't touch it) or mac & chz (for K; C only eats it if he has to). C will eat left overs if they are pasta or tacos. Otherwise we are stuck in a rut. So Wednesday I tried something new. I made grilled cheese and cut the sandwiches into shapes with my cookie cutters. There were moons, stars, hearts, and another shape (an X maybe?). Plus they had a "sample" of all our chips (BBQ, Pringles, Cheetos, CheezIt, nachos) and a sample of every fruit that we had in the house. C gobbled everything down. The "trick" worked for him. K loved the samples of the chips and fruit. The sandwich--she saw right through it. She ate it, but it was still a long drawn out process. SERIOUSLY?!?!? K is on this kick right now where she likes NADA, even the things that she usually loves (mac & chz, sausage, cheese). She drives me nuts! And she is just like her Papa--if she doesn't eat, she gets very grumpy! (love you Papa!) Everyone says she'll eat when she gets hungry or when she goes through a growing spurt. Oh I did forget: she loves her tomatoes! Just like her Auntie. She will eat them until the juice runs down her arms. I'm actually trying to grow tomato plants for her (when will the tomatoes be here?) We went to a Mexican restaurant the other day. C got a taco and I asked for his tomatoes to be on the side, for K. They brought a HUGE scoop of them for her and didn't charge us any extra. So very nice. She loved it! Can a person live on tomatoes?

By the way, for those of you who care: this was a very hard post for me. I struggle EVERY TIME with spelling the following words: sandwich, tomatoes, restaurant. And these words were in this post multiple times. Thank goodness for spell check!

Surgery and hard work

K had ear surgery Tuesday. She had her left ear tube taken OUT and both holes patched. We had to be at the surgery center at 7 am. I'm still not sure why they have you be there so early. Guess what we did? WAIT! Try doing that with a tired and hungry 2 year old with nothing to do. She actually did well, considering. And some of the time she got to watch cartoons so that helped. The surgery was very quick (we were home by 9:30) and everything went well. She was a little groggy and just wanted Daddy. She did well the rest of the day but just to be safe, she and I didn't go to VBS. Wednesday morning she seemed extra whiny, so I gave her some Tylenol and that mellowed her out. We go for a check up in 4 weeks and if all has healed, she can go swimming and dunk her head (hopefully we will have swim lessons too)

On to the hard work: our neighbor came over and helped (maybe Daddy helped him) fix the outlets in my kitchen. It took about 4 hours. What a mess! What a hassle! But they work! YEAH!

Our garage sale

Well we had our garage sale this past week. Sometimes I wonder why I go to all the trouble. We spent Tuesday and Wednesday out in the garage setting all the stuff up. The sale was Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Thursday we had to leave for about 2 hours for C's golf clinic. Saturday we had to close up early for C's game. I'm not sure if all that hurt me or not. All together we made about $140. The kids made $14! They sold candy and some of their old toys. We had our old HUGE tv cabinet that I wanted to sell. It is still sitting in our garage. UGH! Saturday after the sale, I pitched a lot of stuff. Stuff that hasn't sold in the past 3 garage sales or so. I figured that was a hint. I'm hoping to put our broken tv to the curb tomorrow. I tried to give it away for free, but no one wanted it. If we could just sell the cabinet, we could have our garage back. I've put it on Craig's List but haven't had any response. Anyone want a tv cabinet? :)

For those who are wondering, C won both of his games last week. As he said "I actually smoked the Rays."

We also started VBS yesterday (Sunday) so that will make for a very busy week. If I have any interesting stories, I'll be sure to share. K also gets her tubes out of her ears and the holes fixed tomorrow. (I'm not planning on VBS Tuesday night)

That is our week in review and pre-view. Hopefully I can keep up a little better in the future.

C's golf clinic

Daddy found a near-by golf course that every year has a junior golf clinic. After some checking, we signed C up for the clinic. It's 2 days (Tuesday and Thursday) from 9 am -10:30 and it only cost $25! I thought that was an awesome price! So we spent Tuesday and Thursday morning at the golf course.

Tuesday was HOT! K and I sat and watched. She actually did pretty good. She ended up taking pictures for me. So I thought I'd share. Thursday was cold! We actually had to have sweatshirts on. K got bored and into trouble on Thursday, but what's new?

On the golf front, C really enjoyed it and seemed to learn some stuff. I would recommend it and hopefully will do it again next year. (To back up to Saturday, Daddy took C to drive golf balls Saturday morning--just so C would have some sort of expectation for the clinic.) C did good on Thursday but did get a little bored near the end. But I still think it was worth the money.

On the picture front, I took the 1st picture and K girl took the rest. Some are good and some are bad. Oh well, she had fun!

This is not C's golf bag. K just like how it looked and so took a picture.