Heat Wave

How are you enjoying your days of 100 plus temperatures? It's even better with fur...or a cast! I will admit that the artwork makes the cast much more bearable!!

Summer in Breck

I've gotten a little lazy with this post and added a slide show of our trip to Breckenridge. (If an ad pops up at the bottom of the slide show you can close it.) Colorado is almost better in the summer. When I was a kid and we went on vacations we would drive to Elk City and stay at the Holidome. We would swim and play miniature golf and we thought we were so lucky. We had no idea places like this even existed.

Tomatoes for Sale!

Somehow when we were planning our summer garden Reid threw out the idea to sell our extra vegetables and give the money to the poor. If I didn't roll with this I figured I was going straight to hell.I jumped on board and now we have close to 40 tomato plants, 8 red and yellow bell pepper plants, and some herbs. My dad is beating us so far in the actual production of tomatoes so we have been selling his overstock. We are up to $49 which we be given to St. Vincent de Paul Society when the harvest is over. We like to use real farming words like 'harvest' to fool us into thinking we are on a real farm.
Today we moved our stand to Wilshire for some new customers and the cars were all stopping. At one time the kids had four customers at once. I think their new farmer look helps sales.
How could you resist? A pint sized farmer and home grown tomatoes for $1!

Jumpers

Aren't we nice? When Reid asked if he could raise some tadpoles into frogs we let him. I thought it would take a little over a week. It actually took 5 weeks of tadpoles in my dining room.
It's fun watching them grow, but then they start to get a little gross. Since Reid has the necessary Y chromosome to love all gross things he jumped right in. Then the big moment happened...
The big moment for Reid was that this thing grew legs. The big moment for me was that we got to get him out of my dining room.

The rest of the frogs were released a few days later. This time the kids barely got out of the car and I dumped the rocks, water, & frogs in the lake as fast as I could. I guess you could say it was slightly less ceremonious.

Stormchasers

Within 5 minutes of getting home from the day we took the brownie troop to the zoo this is what we were hit with. As soon as the media referred to this storm as a mega cyclone Reid checked out. Anything close to a tornado he envisions his toys being blown away to Texas. Good luck to you Texan children because he probably has something you want.
As thrilling as storms are they do some damage so we will be calling our insurance company in the morning. At least Emiline could enjoy some hunting for hail pellets in the meantime.

Bike & Trike

Bike & Trike day was stepped up at Reid's school this year because there were quite a few riders without training wheels. There was definitely more speed and if you are going to go fast you have got to look the part.
He was given quite a few traffic tickets. The best was the one that he got for lookin' too cool. Let's just say the ladies noticed.


Just six more days of preschool!

First Communion

First Communion for Emiline was this weekend and it was so sweet. For all of you non Catholics out there, get ready to feel like you need to convert.




Her dress was worn by her cousin, and the girl who did her flowers also did them for our wedding. Emiline made her rosary, and her prayer book was carried by my grandmother on her First Communion in 1934. I plan on making her sash into a pillow, but don't hold your breath. My project list is long these days.





After all the sweetness we headed off to the bricktown ballpark for bedlam baseball. Shockingly, no other First Communion families were there. Luckily my kids make the transition from church to ballpark in a snap.