Happy Birthday Andrew!

Andrew turned 8!! We had a family party and plan to have a friend party the day he is baptized.




There's been a big dirt field across the street since we moved in and now they are building houses there. The boys are always playing in the dirt and now they like to build their own houses with the construction scraps (the house below is for Rocky - their pet rock). But soon the field will be full of houses and they won't be able to play in the dirt anymore. I do cringe everytime I see them just sitting in the dirt. It's so dirty!



One of the fun things about being 8 is that Andrew gets to go to cub scouts. He loves it! The other day I brought him home after cub scouts and had to run to the store. I watched him walking towards the door and then he stopped and came back.

"what are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm watching to make sure you get inside safely."
"oh" He turned around and walked back to the door and then dramatically fell to the ground as if he was dying. Then he giggled and got up and waved goodbye. I got one of those endorphin rushes I sometimes get when my kids do something tooooo cute.

Some dad's answer the door with a shotgun....

Megan and her friend Kristy like to go to the mall and try on clothes and perfumes. It takes them about 2 hours to get ready just to spend an hour at the mall. A few weekends ago I dropped them off and as I was driving away I had what I thought was a random thought about the girls talking to strangers.

As soon as I got home I texted Megan and reminded her not to talk to any strangers - and by strangers i meant anyone I hadn't met.

About two mintues later my phone rang. I guess the teenagers call this "butt dialing". I could hear them ordering food at dairy queen and then......I heard a male voice talking to them.

Good thing I live 3.7 minutes from the mall. I didn't hang up as I drove over to the mall and headed for dairy queen. (Your heart is no doubt racing about now and you are thinking that they were in danger). Turns out it was a 15 year old boy that was friends with Kristy and he is the number one chess player in the state. He shook my hand and offered to leave after I explained that Megan was too young to be hanging out with boys. I told him he didn't have to leave, I would just hang out with them as their chaperone. I texted Jason to let him know what was going on and he wanted to come chaperone too.



What you can't see is that he is wearing his FULL scout uniform. That includes the scout shorts and the scout socks (pulled up to his knees). He even brought a patch for this young man.