WHILE YOU ARE AT IT..........

"Can we get two more kids instead of one??? A girl AND A BOY???" the girl had to ask. I think NOT!

SPEED DEMONS

It was one of the best buys I ever made. I purchased Big Mama a couple
of years ago much to dad's dismay. It has been put to good use ever
since. Usually I would only let Mimi drive it in our backyard however
this year I purchased several yellow warning men to put into the
street and the kids just go to town on Big Mama. Mimi really has a
good te playing with Shad and his little sis Micah. Although she still
likes playing with Blake she says she would rather play with Shad
because
Blake is getting really bossy with the girls.

SPORTS CAMP CARNIVAL

It is called a carnival but there are no rides. Mimi could not contain herself this evening. We saw the air slides go up and that's all it took to get her excited. However I forgot about the food that they were providing and cooked dinner at home. Oh well, I prefer the yakitori chicken and rice over the hot dogs anyways. When we go there Mimi says to me "Mom, you know the best thing about this carnival is that we don't need tickets!" The price was included at the registration. All of $15.00 total. So she had her snowcone and was quite content until she saw Zoe and ditched me ;-(

FLAMING. GEISER

On our way home from Japanese Main Buffet the other day, I thought
that I would stop by Flaming Geiser State Park. On the way we saw a
mama deer and her baby. That was the highlight of Mimi's.
Unfortunately I only had my phone camera so the picture needs to be
blown up.

SPORTS CAMP

Since the girl was 5, she's been going to Hope Fellowship Sport Camp.
It is organized by the Hope Fellowship Church here in Covington.

I swear almost every kid in the Maple Valley/Covington area shows up.
Must be around 1,0000 kids here and that is no joke.

Not bad for $15.00 for the whole week and 2 1/2 hours each day. It is
really, really well organized, non-competitive fun and the kids have a
blast.

Although I had signed Mim up to be on Erin's team, she was put on a
different team. Erin, Zoe and Halliwell are on the same team. Mimi
thought that she would not know anyone until she found out that Tessa
from her gymnastic team is on her sport team. They are the Blue 2's.

I keep meanning to update our blog but ever since coming home it has been one activity after another. When I have the time, I just don't have the energy and vice versa.

Just came home from a whirlwind of a trip to Long Beach, California. We saw friends, family and Disneyland. Will post pictures later. Left on last Thursday and came home this past Monday. My plants did prettty well. Krista only killed off two of my Fuschias. Hopefully I will be able to revive them. Now it is back to work, piano lessons, gymnastics, karate and sports camp for this week only. Phew!!!

Butch and Stanley did pretty good too. However somewhere along the line Butch got a bit of an eye infection so now it is antibiotgic time for him.

Oops! Just noticed the time. Gotta go and pick up Mimi from gymnastics, give her a quick dinner of fried rice and leftovers, then on to sports camp. Later this evening we have a team parent meeting back at the gym. I tell you, the older she gets, the busier.

DILLY BARS

There is no doubt about it, Mimi absolutely loves ice cream. During
karate practice tonight, her Sensei said that next week he will test
her because
he feels that she is ready to move up to a yellow belt. That's our
Karate Kid for ya'!