Game On!

Alex's tball team, the Mets, are doing great this season. Alex is quite the player this year. He has played first base & pitcher quite a bit. Last Saturday he earned the game ball. During the game, he caught a hit & then tossed the ball to first for a double play. Way to go buddy!

Dusty time

We enjoyed taking care of Dusty the guinea pig again. He is Conleigh's class pet but one of the kids in class is allergic to him, so now he travels week to week from home to home. We had him for a week & I think we may get one more week with him before summer.

Another family bought this fancy house for Dusty. It was too big for our liking, but it fit Daddy's head perfectly!

Yesterday & Today

Yesterday a dancing queen...

Tonight, she is a sweet little girl with a fever, and I suspect strep throat.

I'm glad today is done. I worked with my regional manager. Great guy with no intentions of finding something I'm doing 'wrong', but stressful none the less.
Sadly, Campbell has cratered. Her bestie had strep last week, and now I guess she has it. Unfortunately, tomorrow is a meet Spicewood activity for the kindergarteners for next year. I guess we'll miss it. Bummer! Headed for the doctor instead.

Do you See what I see?

Baby birdies! They are waiting for their mama to come back with worms. Their sweet nest is in a hanging basket on our patio.

Too short a visit

We love the Lin's. They drove into Austin last night after a 24 hour drive from San Diego, Californ-i-a! We love having them here & wish the visit could last longer. Tomorrow they are on the road to Dallas.

The girls had a very successful lemonade stand this afternoon. $8.25 profit.

The boys played broomstick hockey during the sale.

None of us really understand why Alex was sweeping the floor with his rear as he clung to Kevin's leg??

We accidently froze a watermelon overnight in the freezer, so we ate frozer melon this afternoon and Peter finsihed it off with a big slurp.

Karri reading to the girlies.

Night, Night!

Bedtime means the men put together an Ikea dresser for Campbell's closet and we turn on Due Date. We love having the Lin's here. Come back soon.

Conversation

I want to write this sweet conversation down before it is dust in my mind.

Alex: "Mom, do you know what lunchables are?

Mom: "Yes, I do."

Alex: "I really want to have one for my lunch."

Mom: "Oh, Alex. Those have so much salt in them. They aren't really good for you. Maybe I'll let you try one, but we aren't going to make them a habit."

Alex: "What's a habit?"

Mom: "A habit is when you do the same thing over & over."

Alex: "So, a peanut butter & jelly sandwich is a habit!"

Hahahaha! So funny to me!

Have you ever had this happen?

Campbell & I were headed out to the grocery store last Thursday. We walk into the garage, and I hear a 'pssssshhhhhhh" sound. It was strange, and I said out loud, "wonder what that is?" Then, it happens again. I hustle out of the garage, and this is what we see:

I think I shrieked, and told Campbell to watch it while I got the camera. For the next 20 minutes or so, I was laughing I couldn't believe we were seeing this.

This hot air balloon landed in front of our house!!! What are the odds of that happening in your whole lifetime? The man in the balloon said he left downtown Austin about 7:15am. He was aiming for the golf course near our house. He landed here about 9:15am. There was a posse of folks that had followed him here and were ready to help him keep the balloon down and help him pack it up.

It was beautiful!
Campbell said, "this is the first time this has happened." I told her, "honey, this is the only time this will happen in your life."
After all that excitement, Campbell & I made our way to the grocery store. The checker gave her a balloon, so we had our own balloon release when we got home.

We had the pictures printed, and all three kids took them to school the next day. At Campbell's school, many teachers said they had seen that balloon in the air on their way to work on Thursday. Peter had seen it too.
Conleigh's teacher thought she was playing an April Fool's day joke on her uuntil she produced the photos, and Alex's friends wanted to know more about it when I stopped by their lunch table.
What a great experience. I am thankful for being home with Campbell that morning.