Stream of consciousness

Aunt Betty went home today. It was a great week with her, and we were so glad she was able to come up. We always have fun while she is here, and the kids just adore her. Thank you Aunt Betty for a fun week! The kids miss you already.

We have had a busy week. Wednesday we finished up a project Arlington did for school. I am mad I didn't take a picture of it before it went off to school Thursday afternoon, but I will take a picture when it comes home. She had to build a garden out of paper flower petals - a 1/4 of a petal for every 15 minutes she read. It took 1 hour of reading to form a flower. Over the last 2 weeks, Arlington had read enough to make 13 full flowers. And that was just her reading to herself before bed each night. So she did a nice job. And the poster "her flower garden", came out great.

Thursday Mat met us and we went out to dinner at a favorite local restaurant. It was great. We had yummy food and pie. Yum.....pie.


Friday Mat came home from work early and did some yard work. We decided to wait until next year to hire someone to mow and care for our monsterous lawn. This year we will just suffer through. We have an excavation project we want to tackle, so we are going to do that instead. When I got home from work, I had brought some free annuals that the school had given me after they did their annual planting. So Aunt Betty helped me plant those in the ground. After yard work, we went out to eat and Aunt Betty gave Cainan his birthday presents from her.

I cannot believe that next Wednesday Cainan is going to be 4. 4!! He has been home with us for almost 3 whole years already. That is hard to believe. He is so excited about turning 4. He asks every day if "today is the day". He got some cool presents from Aunt Betty which he has been playing non-stop with.

Today we finished with the mowing and watering all of the plants. Aunt Betty and I went to Arlington's softball game after we were done.

(Arlington is number 9 by the way)

I am glad she was here to see Arlington play. She has been practicing with her this week, and it paid off.


Arlington played really well. She hit the ball each time up to bat.


And she stopped the balls that came her way - and made some good plays.

She even had a chance to be the catcher today.

It was fun to watch today. Another game was going on at the same time - some kind of tournament with older boys. They hit homeruns into our field 6 times during the game. One went so far that it came into the in field of our field. Now, that is an arm.




After the game, Mat took Aunt Betty to the airport and the kids and I came home.

We ate lunch and played outside. Arlington's friend "J" and her mom, Karen, called for us to go to a movie with them this afternoon.

So we all went to see the new "Shrek". It was cute - we had a nice time.

Finley and I ended up moving close to the movie - she was having a hard time seeing it - even sitting about midway back in the theater. Everyone behaved really well.

We were going to go to dinner after, but we were all really full, so we just came home and ate light here at the house. Another time.

Now you are all caught up. Aren't you glad? Tomorrow is church and yard work. Monday is the local Memorial Day "parade" (I use that term lightly because the parade route is like 1/2 mile at best). Arlington will be marching with her Daisy troop.

Then we are having a picnic here with my friend Emma and her daughters. Her hubby is out of town, so they are going to come over and hang with us for the day. It is going to be fun. We can't wait!

Loving the three day weekend, and hope everyone is having a fabulous Memorial Day weekend! Only 14 more school days for me, and 15 for Arlington!! Summer is almost here!

Happy Birthday to my nephew "E" (the big one!!). He is turning 2! I cannot believe it. Happy Birthday sweet boy. I can't wait to watch you grow.