A Day in the Life

We were so excited to see the shuttle launch today, that we sat and had mac-n-cheese and skipped the nap to watch it. Dang good for nothing, don't ever drop us any rain, clouds had to get in the way. Couldn't see anything. On a positive note, Dan did find a toad to play with. Had fun chasing it around the yard in the 100 degree weather.

Kyrie received the coach's award for most team spirit, or as she called it, the loud mouth award, for her lacrosse season. She also earned 14th place state wide in her french exam out of a couple of thousand students, and had one of the top 10 GPA's in her class.

Kade had his strings concert last week. I am always very impressed with the strings program at their school. Took many vids. Promise to load them and pics soon. Lost his 2nd play-offs game, so is now done with bball. Whew.

Jake has another play-off game tonight. Lost for the first time last week but his team could still win the tourney. I'm just ready to be done, so really don't care either way. His team never has practices, except that the 6 coaches do get their kids together to practice all of the time, just not with the entire team. How ridiculous is that? Then the coaches get mad if you try to coach your own kid from the stands. Well, someone's gotta do it.

Dan got a big kid bike because as he put it "his old one stops." He still likes to ride around the house on his trike, but is doing really well with his training wheels on the new bike.

Wade's idea of a nice Mother's Day surprise? Run to the grocery store after church, grab a cheesecake and ice cream, come home and inform wife that he wants to invite a couple over for said desert even though the house is a mess. I put my foot down and said no way, not toady. Then after sitting everyone down to eat the dinner that mom cooked, says, wait, I actually made something else for Mother's Day. Opens a pot that has two rubber chickens in hot water in it and declares it chicken soup. Hardy har, har. Even though he doesn't know how to do gifts or make special occasions "special" I still love him.