Make Lunch Fun

Sophie sitting on the grass. She was a little distressed at first, then decided it was fun to be free outside and got over the prickly feeling on her legs.

Bella dropped most sparklers, she gets a bit paranoid about being burnt. I like that she errs on the side of caution, unlike...

...This kid, who got too close to all of us with hot metal on fire.
Traditional tank wars. I believe Terry won this year. Nate bought the kids a few tanks and we were surprised to find they had wheels. It was good to see everyone jump and run as the flaming tank came barreling toward us. I would have snapped a pic of this, but I was jumping and running. If not for the curb, that tank would have been in the backyard.

5 Good Things:

BBQ

Excited Kids

Clean House

Fun with Family

Freedom

You will be thrilled, I know I am!

Holly posted our primary talent show! I actually had a fun week getting ready for this. I knew about how it would go, so not a lot of apprehension there, and let's face it, I am all for public humiliation.

L to R: Terri, secretary; Michelle, Pres; Holly, counselor; and me.

In Memory

Elery John Thielen

December 11, 1926-June 26, 2008

I'll miss you grandpa.

Stale

On Sunday, Jack and I went to church while Nate stayed home with a stuffy coughing Bella and a sleepy Sophie. Sitting in sacrament meeting we were both noting how quiet it was without the little girls there and how we would have to pay attention better than usual. It came time for the sacrament and I took a piece of bread passed the tray to Jack then realized the bread was a bit off. Something in the texture made it hard chew and swallow.

I looked over and saw Jack thinking the same thing, he was giving me a 'where can I spit this out' kind of a look. I whispered to him to just swallow quickly and the water would be along in a moment.

In the mean time he asked me to give him a book to find a scripture in. I said to find something in Ezekiel. He turned to Ezekiel 3:2 and quietly read to me: "So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat that roll." We both got the giggles and couldn't look at each other for a good five minutes.

Date Night

Honey BBQ Steak

Oh, you don't have one of these?




I don't know why we don't have these more often.

Thanks for the great date Nate!

Slowly Improving

We finally finished screen door installation tonight. It turned out great! However, we are painfully, inexplicably slow. I would say we put in 8 man hours on this door and we are totally not perfectionists. I suppose we both have a healthy fear of messing up and having to call in a professional or replace something expensive. And maybe if we install another screen door ever, it will go faster. But not that much faster.

I must mention this, though the photo evidence did not turn out. We had a water activity for the primary on Monday. It was supposed to be on Sunday, but it was super cold, so we moved it. Anyway, for said activity, I filled billions of water balloons. The easiest place to do this is sitting on the front steps using the spigot that comes from the house. As I began the filler became clogged with some unspeakable things. Like a yellow thing wrapped in cottony stuff with a raisin like thing on the inside. About six of these came out much to my disgust and dismay. This is culinary water, not irrigation. Last year all sorts of leaves came out of this same spigot. We called the city and they said hmmmm, don't know, maybe something is putting the leaves up there.

So my question is-what is putting these alien seed pods up into my spigot!!! Is it a creature of some sort, an insane neighbor. I don't know but I am totally grossed out and curious at the same time.