Happenings

We got a little cake pop set a few weeks ago and Marian has been dying to try it.  I had hoped with a kit it would be a little less of a project, but alas, it was still rather time consuming.  Fortunately, being a kit, it only made about 15 of them.  Whew.

Marian was thrilled with the results and they were a surprisingly big hit with all the kids.  I didn't actually try one myself.  They were strawberry flavored.  Who wants to ruin perfectly good chocolate cake with strawberry?!!  Oh, these kids do!

Joshua the photobomber strikes again!

 There was a little base 5k, plus Kid's 1 mile Fun Run, plus Health Fair this past weekend.  Since Dan took Joshua camping, I took all the girls to the event.  I ran the 5k, and was pleased with a time of 27:36 for 3.26 miles.  The girls all wanted to do the 1 mile run, except for Marian.  I ended up walking the mile with Delaney and Rylee, but Callie rocked it!  She went out in her pink skirt and pink shirt and tights and sparkly shoes and she ran that mile in a little over 7 minutes!  She was second and a little miffed that some boy snuck in front of her at the last minute to win.

You can see Rylee in the middle.  She took off running and then got scared by the motorcycle.   The motorcycles were there to keep the kids from getting lost. 

There is Delaney, running along holding hands with her friend Andy.  So cute!  I'm so glad my friend Kelly got pictures!   That's me in the pink to the left behind them.

The girls really enjoyed the health fair.  This was one of their favorite things.  Rylee was determined to hula hoop.

 It was really funny to see her shake her little booty while the hula hoop dropped to the ground.

But she kept trying! 

(She's wearing her race shirt over her cute dress.  She was so excited to get a race shirt, even though it was huge on her.) 

Marian was amazing with the hula hoop.  She just stood there, barely moving and the hula hoop kept going and going! 

And Going!  She probably could have stood there forever.  I was impressed. 

Also this weekend we went to play at James's house.  James is Delaney's very best friend in the world and she spends more time at his house than at ours I think.  We hung out with them and had a great time.

 I really just wanted a picture of the raised sand table James's dad made.  The kids spend hours playing with this thing!

Delaney and James. 

The hammock was also a huge hit.  Rylee thought it was doubly fun to sit on Joshua and to swing. 

Joshua and Marian were the best at sharing and were so cute here.

And this.... this just makes me want to cry.

 I keep the church bag in the car.  It is filled with the books the kids can look at during church.  This scrapbook of our family from 2010 was in that bag.  Saturday, Rylee unrolled her window and I forgot to roll it back up.  It thunder-stormed and poured down rain all Saturday night and Sunday morning.  The huge drops of rain that drench you in a single drop.  That sort of flooding deluge is what we had. When I got into the van for church Sunday morning, there were puddles on the floor of the car and everything was saturated around Rylee's seat, including the church bag.  This book was completely soaked, along with everything else in the bag.  I was so sad.  I still am.  The book has mostly dried out, but it is in bad shape.  Let his be a lesson to you.  ALWAYS roll up the windows!  I won't be forgetting for a long time, partly due to the nasty smell growing in the van as it slowly, slowly dries out in this 80% humidity we have.  Sigh.