You know you're busy when....

there's about five posts sill stuck in my brain and on my camera that I'd (until last night) forgotten about. Between youth group stuff (meetings and fundraisers), school and homework (I'm talking about the kids here. I'll probably go back to school in the next couple of years though.), unpacking.....still, killing mice and ants (okay, I'm technically not doing the killing, but you get the drift), and taking care of the house......no wonder some posts slipped my mind.

Get ready for some randomness (if that's even a word).....

Essy was reading this morning. She told me that she wasn't very excite to start on her new library book (I'd picked it out for her), but she started it anyway. Low and behold, she loves it. Then she said "The cover didn't look so fun. That's why I wasn't too excited to read it. I guess I can't judge a book by it's cover!". Where she heard that phrase I'm not sure. She's also started to fix her own hair, and doing a great job too.

Ben (the kids helped) worked so hard and built a fabulous deck.......in 4 hours! Then we put our cragslist gazebo over it. He accomplished this all for under $80. Way to go, Babe! Now we just need to set up our pool and we can say "Summer here we come!"

Our budding scientist, Sam, is always asking to pull out the microscope and examine things he finds interesting (bugs, bark, feathers, grass, food-you name it he wants to examine it).

And these lovely looking things are our mouse traps. My amazingly girly girl was ecstatic about this whole process. In fact, she's so interested, she used her recess time on Wed. to check all the traps. It was a reward to her!

Lastly, the kids have been playing the game of marbles. They love it! They get these ideas all on their own, but I love it too!

It's supposed to be a beautifully, sunny week-end! HALLELUJAH!