The Lemonade Stand

We had a yard sale last Saturday and the Os wanted to have a lemonade stand. So here's a picture of them at their stand with our neighbor, Leanna. They staffed their stand for all of about 30 minutes before losing interest. They ended up with $2.90 in their till and $1.00 of it was the change I gave them to get started.

Businessmen they are not! They are however very generous. They took the proceeds and bought Popsicles for themselves, Leanna and Leanna's brother when the ice cream man came by.

Wheeee!

We got a trailer bike for Owen off craigslist and he said it's the most fun ever! It'll be great once I get my bike and a bike trailer for Elliott. We can go on family rides on the Chehalis trail!

Bye Bye

Kiss the Girls

Oliver spent the better part of 20 minutes or so chasing the girls to kiss them. They just smile and giggle.

Elliott at the Park

Here's the big guy! Nearly 9 months old and still mostly bald. Ain't he sweet? I took these today at the park near home.

Mother's Day?

The question mark is there because it wasn't the greatest Mother's Day for me. I won't go into detail because, well, I would prefer to just forget about it. There were a couple of bright spots though. On the Friday before Mother's Day, Owen's preschool class sang a couple of songs for us and gave us gifts. His card (written by a teacher) read, "I love you. Thank you for making me dinner. Owen" I'm glad someone appreciates my cooking! LOL The mother's day song they sang was very sweet and of course I shed a couple of tears. Oliver's school-made gift was a hand-print flower with a poem. He was quite proud of it. His card (written by him) read, "I love my mom becos she is nis to me." REALLY? Ok.

On Sunday, Mother's Day, we went to Linda's house to visit with her, Alex, Vanessa, Mark and little Leon. He has the sweetest face! We ate a lovely lunch, too much dessert and played most of a game of Cranium before we had to say our farewells.

Lyrics to the song.

Owen was so sweet and gentle with Leon. He kept telling Leon how sweet he was and that he loved him.

Twister!

Santa Claus brought the game of Twister to our house last Christmas. The Os hadn't been very interested in playing until lately. Santa thought it would be hilarious to watch the kids play it. Little did he know the kids would want to play it with Mama and Daddy. Oh, the pain! I never realized what a workout that game is. No comments about my derrière, please.

School Carnival

Our school carnival was a lot of fun! I hadn't been to one since I was about Oliver's age, I believe and couldn't really remember what it was all about. There was a rubber ducky game, a lollipop tree game, a throw the toilet paper roll into a fake toilet game, pony rides, a dunk tank that the principal staffed for awhile, a cake walk, a concession stand, a raffle with tons of different baskets of varying themes and a whole lot more. I didn't actually get to see everything because I volunteered to work the whole time. That left Brian taking care of the three stooges. Let's just say he didn't have the best time. But Oliver and Owen had a great time! They won prizes and everything. I think everyone was a winner at everything though. ;o)