T-BALL AND JULY 4TH

JULY FOURTH- We spent the day at the docks with Andy's parents and Uncle Bruce. It was a blast. Uncle Bruce brought up 4 coolers of fresh shrimp and Crayfish. We chased Izzy and Xander with the Crayfish. They were frozen at that point, but they were still alive! Apparently they go into stasis, and we thawed them out to cook them. Really mean! But the shrimp were gone, and so just yummy. Xander pulled the whiskers off of one of them while it was asleep. AHHHH! Izzy held them a few times before they woke up, then when they started to move and after a few minutes of watching them she was brave again. Xander stuck his hand in the cooler of them all moving and liberated I think about 6 of them. They were happy and grateful I am sure. Dimon wanted to smash them, so we didn't let him touch to much. Izzy much to my surprise helped cook them. She just picked them up (with tongs) and put them in the pot. She was quite the little cook. Xan helped liberate a few cooked one as well. But we had a good time. We also fed the geese off the dock with Grammy's help (otherwise known as Chi-chi). Xan really liked that. Dimon was sleeping when we did that. But it was a fun day, and later that night we went to see the fireworks at the bypass with my parents. We had fun and we even inherited a chair that someone left at the fireworks. (Good thing too, because our Colts foldy chairs broke.


Next on the agenda was Tball for Izzy. It was only a 6 week thing, but it was twice a week and she had a blast. She went from being afraind of the ball being thrown at

her face, which her daddy hit her first time out! Right in the nose! Very sad. But she recovered by the end of the 6 weeks she was tagging people out and catching the ball with no fear! She has a great arm and can throw really far. She also has a decent hit. Xander and Dimon sat on the sidelines an cheered. They were really good the whole six weeks. here are some pics of them. Xan loved the mulch and pulling the bark off the trees. He also really liked the playground that was across the field. Dimon would fight to get onto the field to play with the balls. Imagine that Di wanted the tballs! So we spent a lot of time holding him. My fave picture of Xan is the next one of him playing with his stuffed animals. He would set them in the tree (an evergreen) and watch them bounce on the branch. It was too cute! Iz got a trophy at the end of the 6 weeks and she is so proud. She tells everyone with this cheesey grin that she won! We are very proud of her. Next on the list for her is soccer and Karate. ( I think) Xan will do another round of gymnastics ,and I think Di is going to start gymnastics as well. So it should be an exciting fall!



Next interesting thing on the list for catch up is my friend Jenrie. She came home from an archeological school in Montana to find the floor in her room ripped up down to the subfloor! It was insane and her lovely landlady says after 3 days of her being home and moving in with us "Oh my husband laid down a drop cloth on the floor so you should be able to put a bed in there now." Oh my gosh!!!!! So she is living with us till her new lease in her new place starts on the 15th. Its kinda nice to have another adult in the house. I'm gonna be in a lot of trouble when she leaves. We all have a lot of fun, though she may never have kids after living in our crazy house! Love ya Jenrie! The above picture is of us playing throw the ball with a sheet.

Xander's Occutpational Therapist, Scott moved away to work in Louisville. And so at the goodbye party A Sundae to Remember we took a couple of shots. Here they are! Xan is missing him alot, and he said his name for the first time that day. AHAHAHAH.

Lets see what else has happened this summer..... Oh we had kittens!Naru our lovable fuzzy> person (the smaller one) had 5 kittens. 4 white ones and one little grey tiger calico. These are the only pictures I have of them, not sure how that happened. they were playing in the dryer the other day and out came the camera!




The one to the right is the one we are keeping. He doesn't have a name yet. We'll let ya know.
I think that catches us up for now. Let me know if I missed anything! love ya all!

Playing catch up....

Ok so the reason there hasn't been anything meaningful about us on the blog lately is because of time constraint and caziness at the house. So we'll start with the End of May, beginning of June and go from there. Pictures will come up later, seeing as how my cord to download pics is at Joe and Mel's.

May 27th,

We have kittens!!!!!!!!! Naru finally popped! There are 5, 4 whites and 1 grey! Too cute!



May 31st 2008- Izzy's Birthday Party

Izzy had her 6th birthday on June 9th, but we had her party for all her firends a little early since school let out so early this year and we didn't want to risk the kids forgetting about it. So we planned a Pokemon Party and had a blast. We played Pin the tail on Pikachu (thanks to Audrey for draing the Pikachu!) We had a pinata that Andy painted to look like a pokeball, the thing that you keep Pokemon in when they are resting. We had ringtoss to catch a Pokemon and a waterballon fight, jumping on the trampoline with the hose on and all kinds of fun. The kids were great and Izzy had a blast with her friends. It was great, and the house was the cleanest its been since I don't know when. So thank you to all the Grandparents who came as backup adults and to all the kids for having a good time.



June 11th? or so

Summer session started for me. SO after a 6 week break Im' back in school. I have Spanish 200, Finite Math, and Introduction to the New Testament. Yea rah! Doesn't seem to bad at the momment. Oh yeah, I also have my "intership" for credit at the Museum.



June 20th

Ok I lied! Spanish sucks and Math sucks even more! Plus I have to fight my way into the math class. after waiting out the waiting list and getting my little permission paper signed by the teacher, who by the way is an idiot! I was told that I had to appeal to be let into the class because apperently you are only allowed to take so many hours in a summer session and with my practium at the museam, I am over the limit of 10 hours. AHHHHHH! So i am going to take my first test and see how I do, If I don't do so well I will just take it in the fall, if I do well, I will fight my way into class.



June 30th

Kids started school, summer school that is. They seem to like it and they are doing very well. The only downside is that school starts at 815 am, so the bus picks them up at 745 am, and we all know how well these kids do in the morning with waking up.... Its getting there.



July 4th

We spend on the boat docks with Andy's parents and Uncle Bruce. (and Cousin Ashley and her boyfriend.) There was a dock party and Bruce had brought up 4 coolers worth of seafood. 2 full of huge shrimp, and 2 full of crayfish (crawdads, for all us hoosiers). IT was kinda mean, the crayfish were frozen and so in statis, and we thawed them out, and threw them in boiling pots of water to cook. Seems really mean to me. Though Izzy thought it was cool. But yes when we first opened the coolers I did chase her around the dock with a frozen mini-lobster. By the end of the day she was picking them up, with tongs, and putting them in the bowl and delivering them to Uncle Bruce for cooking. She was quite the little helper. Xander liberated about 6 live ones into the lake, and about 7 cooked ones. He had no fear, and in fact he pulled off the antennas of one that was still in stasis, I didn't know they were still alive at that point, and when I found out I felt really bad. Dimon thought they were cool to watch, but really just wanted to splash in the water of the cooler. He did stick he had in the cooler of waking crawfish right after Xan let some go. We had a blast and everyone laughed when one tried to touch me and I screamed like a little girl, it just caught me off gauard cause I don't think they were awake yet!!!!!!!!!! Yeah just laugh its ok.
Later that night we went to see the fireworks off the bypass just like we do everyyear with my parents. The kids loved it, though they kinda bother Xan's little ears. Izzy wouldn't sit still long, so we spent a good amount of time telling her to sit and not get to far away, and telling Dimon the same thing. IT was fun.

July 5th
So my friend Jenrie came home from Montana, she was at a archeological field school and found that her landlady had ripped up the flooring in her room. Not just the carpet, but down to the subfloor. So we kidnapped her and she is now living in Izzy's room until her new place is available. Its fun, I've not had a roommate since Jenni lived with me in VU. We're having fun. The kids like her and love to jump on her and invade her personal bubble.

I promise I will post pics asap.
So that is the short version for now.