This time of the year is lots of fun, but it's filled with so many things I find it hard to write about it all! School is out in one week. Awana and youth group are finished for the year. We've already had our first camping trip of the season. We're riding our bikes and running and jumping on the hay bales. (Well, I'm not running and jumping on hay bales, but I'm pretty sure that's stating the obvious!) Braylen and Kaleb competed in a track meet on Saturday. Kaleb and Aaron have had fun field trips, and I was blessed to go along for both of them.
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| I took our boys fishing and Braylen brought a friend. They put their own worms on! |
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| Aaron's first books he checked out with his very own library card, all about turtles! |
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| Our Awana boys and Awana nieces |
Ginger had her surgery on 5/1 and is healing nicely. This afternoon I took her to the vet for a quick check--I was concerned her stitches weren't holding--but all is well. Poor girl has to wear the "cone of shame" for at least another week. At least she's coping better than she did the first two days.
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| She wears the cone of shame with dignity. :) |
We had great camping weather the one day/night we camped. I learned how much work it is to camp for one day...next time we'll stay at least two nights to spread out the work a bit!
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| The boys brought their Star Wars guys and set up quite a display! |
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Some of these figures belong to my brother. We'll give them back someday so my
nephew can play with them too! |
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| Of course Aaron found a toad, and worked very hard to keep Ginger away from it. |
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Derek's tradition is to play trac ball with the boys when we camp. In this picture
I see all 4 of them! |
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| A campfire is a must! |
On May Day I made some cute little "baskets" for the boys to deliver to the neighbor kids. Kaleb and Aaron used walkie talkies and stationed themselves around our house to catch anyone who tried to leave a May basket on our doorstep. I love May Day because the kids stay outside all afternoon and run around with the neighbor kids. Can't they do that every day? When Aaron prayed that night he said, "Thank you for this day that was so-so-so-so-so-so-so-plus-infinity much fun!" Braylen had fun delivering a basket to his buddy Hunter, but flat out refused to take any baskets to the neighbor kids.
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| Aaron made his May Day hat in school. Isn't it great?! |
At the track meet, Braylen placed 2nd in standing long jump, and 2nd in the 800 meter run. Kaleb ran in the 100 and 200, and placed 4th in the 200. We packed a picnic lunch and I realized how much I enjoy
watching track meets instead of
participating in track meets! Derek works with the boys to stretch their muscles and get warmed up before their races. I love that.
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| Braylen is the one in the red shorts, flying into the sand. :) |
Next time I will write about my field trip with Kaleb. It's late, I'm tired, and tomorrow I'm having Aaron's birthday party with his friends. Yes, his birthday was almost a month ago, and Derek's birthday is this Friday. But my motto is and will always be, "Better late than never!" :)
1 comment:
Way to go Aaron for getting 3 books about turtles! And great job to Kaleb and Braylen on their track meet accomplishments. I spent many hours on the bleachers watching track meets and I wouldn't give that time back for anything! (even if I didn't always know which one was my kid from way up there. Hey - they all looked alike in uniform. And it was usually COLD so they really all looked alike!)
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