Life as I know it.

We headed out earlier this week for a nice little family camping trip. I originally wanted to go to Glacier National Park but with gas prices we decided to stick a little closer to home. So we went to the Southeast corner of Washington. We started out at a park about 6 miles from Clarkston on the snake river but since we don't have a boat and we don't particularly care for skunks as neighbors (we spent most of our 1st evening watching a skunk meander around the campsite next to us, prepared at any moment to grab all of our things and run into the camper should he get to close) and wet everything to hang out on (in the morning they start up their sprinklers which cover every square inch of ground along with the picnic table and most of the driveway that the truck is parked on) we moved on. We ended up finding a really nice KOA park a little further SW. It didn't have much in the way of amenities but the sites were nice and they used their sprinklers at 3am so that things wer...

I had the best birthday today, probably the best birthday I have had in many years. It started out with mom taking Bug and I out for breakfast, then Bug and I headed to church, we hadn't been there in awhile so it was nice to see everyone. Bug told his friends in class that it was my birthday so when I came to pick him up I got a bunch of "happy birthdays" from the kids and a card that he had made for me. Then we went out shopping a bit and out to lunch at Applebees. I went and got my free ice cream from Maggie Moo's and then headed home. When Blue got home we opened up all of my cards and they gave me my gift. A new Wii fit. I loooovvveee!!!! this gift. It is very very very cool. It tracks your weight, BMI and fitness level. Everytime you work out on it it keeps track of what you did and how many minutes you spent on it. Also it tracks your age so anytime one of us would hop on it it would say it looks like alykat's birthday is today, yeah me. After that we went ...

I had to work today and I had no one to watch Bug for me so he came along. Which worked out perfectly because a little church, just a block away from my work was having a free carnival today. They had hot dogs and Popsicles and a bounce house and tons of little games to play including a cake walk where Bug and I both won some delicious cupcakes. Here is Bug playing some darts. Here is Bug wearing one of his prizes. Here is Bug doing a little fishing. And lastly here is Bug working off all that energy (and the sugar from the Popsicles). It was a really nice carnival very well put together. We had a blast.

Bug has really been enjoying his week at VBS, tonight they put on a performance for the parents. I had to work today of course, I hurried right over afterwards and made it just in time to watch him perform. It was very cute. He also had his last swimming lesson today, he has made such tremendous progress this summer when it comes to swimming he was actually swimming by himself a little bit today, I am so proud of him.

This week Bug is going to a VBS at a local church, it runs from 9-3. Which is very nice in a way but also very strange. I took him in this morning and hung out with him for a few minutes while he got adjusted, then I went to the grocery store. Which was all fine but when I had to pass back by the church to head home it felt weird not having him, then all day at home I went back and forth between enjoying my time getting things done around the house and checking to see if it was time to pick him up yet. I got there to pick him up about 15 min early and waited around anxiously, when he finally came out he looked so tired, he seemed to have a good time but he did say "they sang for HOOUURRRS" and did not get to go out and play on the playground, but he is looking forward to going back tomorrow. This will be a strange week without him home all day. But it will be good practice for him because he will be going to a campfire day camp in a couple of weeks where he will be picked up ...

This weekend my work had their annual get away. One of the ladies opens up her lake place to the rest of us for the weekend. It's a time to relax, drink and hang out on the water. So after I got off work on Sat (around 1:00) I headed over there. I had such a good time that next year I will have to take Sat off and head over on friday, I guess that was the big drinking day. It was nice to get to spend time with my coworkers and get to know them better. Since I am an LMP I really don't see them much at work since when I am there I am generally back in my room doing a massage. We even all did a bead project to remember our weekend by. I made and anklet I will have to get a pic of it to put on here, it turned out really cute.

As anyone who knows me knows, I am not much when it comes to domestic things. So today i am so proud of myself. This week on Mon we went up to a local farm with my MOMS club friends and picked 12 pounds of strawberries. After I got home I thought what the heck am i going to do with all of these. So 1st I took the biggest, ripest ones and washed and stemmed them then put them in the freezer to freeze and use later in my smoothies. Then I stemmed and cut up another batch to make strawberry shortcake. At this point I still probably had 7 lbs left. So I got online and looked up recipes to make freezer jam and on Thursday I made 4 1 1/2C containers of fresh low sugar freezer jam and they turned out delicious. I then cut up the rest of them and set them aside to bring to Bunco on Friday for strawberry shortcake. Who knew I had so much dommesticity in me.

You never know what you will hear coming from my boy, he always amazes me with the things he comes up with. This morning while he was getting ready to feed his guineas he was playing with this wooden star that they have to chew on. He said "mom let me teach you something," so I said sure. He says "see how the left side of the star looks like the right side of the star, now watch if I turn it, see it has rotational symmetry (though he pronounced it semetry)." He then proceeded to show me how it works on a few other objects. Cool huh, like I said you never know what you will get from him.