September 9, 2010

I have so much "back log" of blogging. I'm hoping to get caught up in the near future!

These pictures are from a spontaneous visit to the park. I can't remember if school got cancelled for the rest of the day or not. Probably. We still have only done like 3 full weeks of school. Pa.The.Tic.

It was very "dew-y" that morning. I took a towel to help dry the slides off. C still wasn't too pleased.

As we were driving out of the park, we saw these deer in the field across the street from the park. We stopped to watch (the kids wanted to stay longer. I'm not sure why; they were just eating). While we were pulled over, some guy zoomed past (between me and the deer) in a little bit of a hurry. Slow down dude and enjoy the nature!

The end result

Did I ever show you the end result of my garden? Next year I plan on doing a much bigger one. Especially more tomatoes.

And here is my "un-gardened" garden.

And even though we didn't purposely grow him, this caterpillar and a friend grew very well in my garden.

Let it snow!

We went from this on July 10th (which doesn't seem like that long ago).......

......to this today. I saw on the news that we got 2.6 inches of snow. When we went to bed Friday night it wasn't snowing at all. When we got up in the morning there was quite a bit on the ground and it didn't stop until late afternoon. (BTW: K girl took this picture. Pretty good, huh?)

And here is how I shovel snow--from the safety of the garage as the supervisor!

When K came in her feet and hands were a nice bright red. (Poor thing doesn't have boots) C has nice boots so his feet were OK. His hands were a little pink but not like K's. She said the warm shower made them sting and itch. Poor thing. Guess I need to look for boots and real gloves.

The Children's Museum-again

I love that place! And I love that we have a membership and can go anytime we want. This time Daddy was able to go with us. And he took his really nice camera so we got some really nice pictures. 322 of them! I wonder what Blogger would do if I tried to download them all.

Here are the highlights.


K loves the carousel. Absolutely loves it. We went on it twice and both times her smile was this big and she clapped and waved at everyone (she's gonna be a mayor one day) and had the best time.


C was pretending to be a dinosaur and lay eggs. Silly boy.


This is the outside of the museum. Pretty impressive.

I think the effect of this picture is so cool.

Notice anything wrong with this backpack? Look at the name and then look at the picture. This was hanging in the "house" in the Egyptian exhibit. Wonder if they noticed the "FAIL."

In the Barbie exhibit, there is a number you can text the word BARBIE to and you will get a call from Barbie. K thought that was pretty cool. When I asked her what she said, "Stuff."

At the drawing board making new creations for Barbie's line of clothing.

I think what the wall says explains it all.

The current traveling exhibit right now is Polar Bears to Penguins. So K got to dress up as a penguin and slide down the ice. Did you know that a polar bear will never eat a penguin? Do you know why? Polar bears live at the North Pole and penguins live at the South Pole. Interesting.

Here they are measuring the distance from our city to the south pole. A long ways.

K was selling tickets to the train. Looks like she's in jail.

C and his "bright idea." Goofy kid.

I know this is blurry but I wanted you to see it anyways. The light kept moving and changing colors and shapes. So the kids were chasing it all over. It was kinda fun to watch them. Wish I had that much energy.

And this is my favorite picture of the day. Even though the kids aren't in it. I thought Daddy did such a good job capturing the carousel. Isn't that just so neat? Good job Daddy!

Mixed emotions

It has been quite the week around here. There have been ups and downs.

The up: My little K girl asked Jesus into her heart today. So sweet. She had been asking many questions but we never felt she was quite ready. Some of our 1st conversations: us--how many gods are there? her answer--2; one for each world (a little too much Star Wars maybe?) her--mommy I asked Jesus in my heart last night cuz my finger hurt. me--ummmm OK? But lately she had been giving all the right answers and we felt she really knew what it meant. This morning while we were in the bathroom (side note: a lot of our conversations with her had taken place in the bathroom) she said "Daddy when can I ask Jesus in my heart?" After some more questions, we were able (all 4 of us) to listen to her ask Jesus in her heart.

The down: The above 'up' made the down a little sweeter. Daddy was able to be home and witness all this because he lost his job Tuesday of this week. Needless to say, it was a huge shock. He had been there almost 10 years. All we have known since we moved to Indiana was this company. It was (and still is) a great company to work for. I worked there for about 18 months until I quit after I had C. The company is going through a hard economic time (they are about 18 months behind the rest of the world in the economy due to the nature of what they do). They actually let almost 500 people go world wide. (They are a huge world wide company). I think 22 from our Indy location were let go.

My heart hurts that Daddy has to go through the job search/interview "yuckiness." I hate it. But the Lord has a reason. We are hoping that maybe this is an opportunity for us/him to expand his possibilities.

Please pray that we/him will be able to find something quickly and that he will only go in the direction that the Lord wants him to go. I'm sure I will keep you posted when anything happens.

(Side note: it will be interesting having him home every day. Could have quite a few fun stories from it)