Bye

Goodbye to 7 days once again.... until next time, the Summer 7 days run.  I'm super excited for it because it will be LeakyCon!! And I'll meet a few online friends.


(87/365)

Six

Getting Leia to do a trick.  Carus day 6.


My new gnome.  I'm not usually a fan of garden gnomes (they tend to creep me out) but I found this guy last weekend and I liked him, so I brought him home. I haven't decided what his name is yet.  Any suggestions?

5th day

85/365
I made ribs for dinner. I was taste testing a piece before putting the platter on the table.  They were a preseasoned package I got from the grocery store and they were okay. Not the best ribs I've had though.



Carus's day 5

"Can you guess what I'm watching?"

7 days, day 4

84/365
Today was my last vacation day.  I took the kids shopping to Walmart specifically to pick up The Hobbit and to Goodwill to look for a new suit for Adam and band concerts (see below for a pic of how that went). I broke both pairs of my sunglasses recently so I'm in the market for new ones - I tried on like 50 of them today....didn't like any of them.



Adam suited up!

Reading.

Day 3

New earrings from a friend - clip-ons.


83/365
Making dinner, like I do.  Sometimes it feels like its all I do - make dinner...

But since I'm still on vacation I didn't have work today so it didn't feel as much of a chore as it usally does.

Dinner:
Oven fried pork chops
Roasted red potatoes
Salad

Dessert:
Cheesecake sampler (Choice of two from - regular, chocolate, strawberry swirl, and caramel apple)

7 Days is Back!

Day 1, 81/365
Wine with dinner.  My second glass, actually.  We were still in Washington visiting, and having a grand time. The boys had spent the day on the shooting range and the girls shopping Hobby Lobby (I need one of those stores near me....or maybe not). It was also day 1 of 7 days, spring. I nearly forgot, but thankfully a browse through Instagram reminded me.



Carus's day 1.
Sophie was mid yawn.


Day 2, 82/365
Road tripping home.  The drive home was much quicker, and went better.  We had Leia stay in the back and though she occasionally tried to climb over onto the kids, she did much better.  I'm going to start working on her riding-in-the-car manners.  Her car rides are usually to the dog park, 2 minutes away, so it's very exciting and very quick.  Yoda got to chill on top of the pillows and folded blankets.



Carus's day 2.
Can you find her?

Last week and road tripping

Wow, I'm nearly a full week behind in uploading.  Hadn't planned on that.

But really, does anyone plan to get behind in things?

Anyhoo - I left off at last Tuesday, with an evening full of band concert attending for this goofball. Just a quick "look what we can do" concert.
77/365

 I think most of these concerts are to encourage parent support up through high school.  High school is where they get really good and I think it's where the band teacher, who teaches 5th grade through 12th grade on very limited funding and purchases sheet music out of his own pocket and drives to 3 different schools everyday (middle school and high school classes during school hours and then upper elementary band after school hours), gets to enjoy all his effort.  He really loves to listen to them play, and to teach; and that shows.

78/365
Knitting to unwind after a lllooooonnngg day.  Changing colors, which I learnt thanks to Youtube.


79/365
Playing with Leia after work before I had to start packing for our spring break road trip we took this weekend.


80/365
We went over to eastern Washington to visit some family friends for the weekend, and had a lovely visit.  The drive out took longer then it should have, and then we expected, because Leia is a turd and wanted to climb into my lap (no room for her with Yoda on my lap) and/or Robert's lap (which doesn't work well with him driving). But we made it, and a good weekend ensued. They have a 4 month old shihtzu puppy, Sophie, which Carus attached herself to and carried around all weekend.  Thanks for having us Dave and Eula!