the things kids say.....

We are watching a documentary series called wild China. It is fascinating. However, as we were watching tonight, they showed secveral clips of the Chinese people eating using chop sticks. After seeing it several times, Shelby says "I dont get how they eat with pork chops."

HA HA HA HA HA HA :)

Belated Birthday, Colesy

We had birthday chocolate pudding again this year. With a blop of icecream. Yummy!

Shelby really likes it! hee hee. She's gonna kill me when she sees I put this on here! :)

Presents!

My favorite nuts! :)

All of us.

Tim and Carol.

Grammy and Papa

We had Colesy's birthday dinner. She requested grilled hamburgers, favorite noodles, sour cream and onion chips and then the chocolate pudding. She's silly, but it was good! yum yum.

Jr. Eagles Soccer

The girls had their first soccer game on Saturday. They had fun, they did good, and the orange team won!

Colesy in action.

Shelby surprised us all with a power kick that is awesome! Here she is playing defense.

Again, defense... She played offense all first half. She did great. She stayed with the ball and was mildly aggressive. :)

Here's my girls!

YEAH ORANGE!!!!

silly

Matt was spray painting some things the other day, and the fumes were strong. We were laughing about how many brain cells he was killing.
Several days later, Colesy says to Shelby: You know the other day when Daddy was killing our brain cells? I think it is sorta a good thing.
This is where my ears perked up! I wanted to hear the good in dead brain cells!
She continued: We get more hair.

??? Huh?!

Oh! I then remembered how several days before, I had told them that their hair came from dead cells......

So, in Colesy's head, that all made sense.

drama queen

so, Shelby came down stairs the other day crying. I pulled her up in my lap and asked her what was wrong. She snuffles out that she doesnt want to have surgery. Me "?" Why,I ask. She goes on to tell me that she just really doesnt like the smell of the gas they make her breathe.
Well...... I guess she'll be okay. No surgeries scheduled that I know of!

I guess when you run out of "real" things to worry about, making them up is the next best thing! What a nut!

[That is a brief glimpse into my life with an emotional pre-teen.]

Swinging Bridge

We got up this morning to a chilly day. Hurricane Earl swept through and dropped the temp by about 25 degrees. Yesterday we enjoyed the cooler weather by staying inside with blankets on, reading books and watching movies. It was a relaxing quiet kind of day.
Anyhow, this morning, even though the weather was cooler, the sun was shining!
We laid around and ate a late breakfast. Then we decided to go on a bike ride. First though, somehow the 4 of us ended up on our bed. Tickles and Giggles and fun ensued. Finally we got ready.
The swinging bridge is 7 miles from our house. We really like it there, and makes a nice destination. This is the first time we made it this summer, although we have attempted a couple other times. Once, we walked with mom and dad, and, well, it was hot, and we tired to drive most of the way, but parked too far away..... we did have a nice adventure that day though. Another time we tried and had to turn back so we were not late for church, since Matt was running the sound board.
We made it! The girls did a great job biking. I'm always so proud of them! We had a really fun time going back and forth across the bridge.



It is like a mini Trinity walking bridge. More happy memories.....

Side note:

Okay, so most of this happened behind a tree and I regrettfully did not see it. However, being the mom, perhaps I am glad....

At the swinging bridge,, once you get across it and go down to the river bank, there is a rope swing - again, reminiscent of the one down in the forest, but on a smaller scale... Colesy asked if she could swing on it. Matt said he didnt care. (I would have said no, but I'm trying to be braver...) So, she hops on, and according to Matt, she put her feet up over her head, but her butt scimmed along the surface of the water. I thought Matt was going to bust something he was laughing so hard! Poor Colesy had wet pants for the rest of the trip. Matt didnt know how she could have drug, since her feet were so high, but she must have started out too low on the rope. She was able to laugh at herself. And she was mostly dried out by the time we got home.

Shelby

I was cleaning up the kitchen last night and found this paper in front of the door. I thought it was odd, and went to pick it up...

When I got closer, I realized it was purposefully placed there in front of the door.....

[study in car! Ahh]

Someone was worried about her first Geography quiz! She did great! Only got one wrong and got partial credit marked off for forgetting to put her last name on, and misspelling one word. She did better than some of the 8th graders in her class!