Happy Anniversary!
I’m a week late, as I didn’t realize I’ve been blogging for a whole year. Oh my! Where has the time gone? Anyway, to celebrate my 1 year anniversary of blogging, I’m having a giveaway. Since I mostly blog about my kids, I’m giving away something for the kids - a CRAYON ROLL.
To win, just leave a comment and the winner will be picked at random on October 5, 2008.
Uncategorized | Comments (9)Homecoming
This past week was the high school’s homecoming. Not such a big deal since we don’t have anyone in high school right now, but it’s tradition here to let all of the kids out of school early on homecoming Friday and have a parade. Small town parades are great. The kids were encouraged to wear high school colors (green and yellow/gold) to school, so I did their hair cute and added the requested green and yellow pipe cleaners. I did Ada’s as well so she would match her sisters at the parade. We were at the beginning of the parade, and the amount of candy the kids got was insane.
I got a glimpse of what it will be like as the girls get older when a “float” filled with pee wee football players went by and several boys were yelling to Caemlyn and threw her a small football. Thank goodness she’s still clueless about it all.
Now that Zeph is in cub scouts, he got to join the local council and walk in the parade.
Zeph also had his 3rd soccer game of the season on Saturday. He was excited that he got to go in as goalie for the last few minutes of the game.
And not to leave my baby out, a pic I snapped of him this afternoon after he had snagged a couple of pacifiers (probably ones he had thrown out of his bed) and was laying on the floor with his monkey.
Such a good looking little boy, if I do say so myself.
Destruction
We’ve been going through our share of destruction lately, so I thought I’d share a bit of it with you. As you may recall, we were recently affected by a close lightning strike that fried our phones, satellite and some computers. You may also be aware that we have a very large spruce tree in our front yard. This tree is about 60 feet tall and causes a fair amount of destruction to our yard and property. Due to this, we have been getting estimates on having this tree cut down. One service came today to check it out, and noticed something we hadn’t seen before.
A fresh lightning scar. This tree is only about 10 feet or so in front of our house. I guess this explains the damage we experienced. Thank goodness the tree didn’t explode or crash down on our house, causing greater amounts of destruction.
Next on our list, is our front walkway. We have had a rather thick slab of cement in front of our house that served as a ramp/walkway. We’ve been in the process of attempting to remove this cement ramp, but due to the thickness of the concrete, it has been a slow, difficult process. Justin recent came upon a product that is somewhat like liquid dynamite - minus the explosion. It’s not cheap, but if it worked, we knew we’d save a large amount of time and energy. Last week, the product arrived and we mixed and poured it into the many 1″ holes that Justin had drilled into the slab. It took a couple of days, but it worked!
At it’s height, the slab was 16+ inches deep. We’ve only done a few sections so far, and still have plenty more to do before getting it all out. But, the results were impressive.
Last of all, I thought I’d share a bit of minor destruction we experience on a daily basis.
We don’t always remember to put the wipes boxes where Tyghe can’t reach them. lol
All About Kezia
My little Kez has had quite the weekend. On Sunday, she turned 6 years old. She had a great birthday and enjoyed every bit of it. I think this is the gift she was most excited about. lol
She had a very decadent birthday cake, known as a September 7th cake. Very fitting.
Here’s a pic of the inside since the outside doesn’t even hint at what’s inside. The cake is very spongy with a whipped cream filling and a mousse like frosting.
Not only did Kezia turn 6, but on Friday she completed 3 weeks in Kindergarten and this morning went to her first day of 1st grade.
(Thanks for the cute outfit Grandma!)
With 2 different classes on either side of her birthday, she got to take cupcakes to school twice. I’m taking a break from cupcakes for a bit. lol After the first week of school (which was only 1/2 days) her teacher told me that she needed to be tested for first grade. We filled out the paperwork and didn’t hear anything until the middle of last week. The school counselor called and said that the first grade teacher (the one that Zeph had, and I adore) observed her in class and felt that she was ready for first grade. No testing was done, just a meeting with both K and 1st teachers, the school counselor and the principal Friday morning and the decision was made. She brought home actual homework today and breezed right through it. Having missed the cutoff to start school last year by just 1 week (and learning a lot at home over that year), I’m confident that 1st grade is where she should be. Although, I will express my annoyance with the school policies that wouldn’t allow her to start K last year, but will so readily allow her graduate from K in only 3 weeks. I’m a little sad that the “rules” made my little girl miss out on the fun and experience of kindergarten.
All Grown Up
Now that Tyghe is walking all over the place, we decided that it was time for his long, hippy hair and baby curls to go. We were so sad to cut off that beautiful hair. He no longer looks like a baby, but like a little boy. Even days later, I’m still not used to the way he looks and wonder where my baby went.
In other events, Caemlyn recently competed in her first Pinewood Derby for Activity Days. She designed her car, but had a good amount of help from dad in making it.
