Friday Funny

G (after making Katie laugh so hard that she spewed water from her nose): Well, I can check that one off my bucket list!

Friday Funny

G: (checking the ratings on a video) That interview [of the Hunger Games cast] is marked 'unrated!’

E: Is that movie rated ‘R’ for disturbing images?

Summer

Summer is for resting

Painting bathrooms

Replacing toilet lids

 
Anniversary Celebrations


Refinishing tables

 
 Practicing words


Getting ahead on P.E. hours for freshman year



Hiking

 
Post Card Exchanges

Earning badges

 
Summer Camp


Teaching sewing

Amusement parks


Movie Theaters


And Drive-Ins


Libraries and Harry Potter's Birthday


Swimming

Camping in a cave

 
Building Round Pens (for a ministry that rescues horses to serve people, mostly children, who have suffered trauma)



Recruiting for AHG

 
And resting (with Gam's puppies)

Back to School

...to recover from our last two weeks.

We have had a joyfully busy end of summer.

The older two girls and I went to an American Heritage Girls' summer camp.  They earned lots of badges, and I taught badge work (beginning and advanced sewing), did dishes, handled health and safety at my end of camp at night (I was the person to wake if someone was ill or to watch the cabins to be sure girls stayed in during a lightening storm...it was a peaceful as could be expected), manned bounce houses, hiked out with the girls building their shelters to spend the night in (Yay! Gabby!), and sat in with some Leaders in Training (young ladies under the age of 21 who taught badge work, but needed an older person there to maintain the guidelines of our organization.  Justin had the younger ones at home, going on hikes, doing all the meals and laundry, and generally keeping them busy.

Last week was three days of working with a young lady in our troop on her Stars and Stripes Project (a 100+ hour service project for a non-profit, planning, fundraising, and executing the project, while supervising younger youth).  I heard we moved between five and seven metric tons of gravel on Saturday (5 girls aged 8 to 17, their moms, and two fellows)!

Last week we also saw the orthodontist, visited the eye doctor, made a final trip to our YMCA pool for the summer, went to a double feature at the drive in (and didn’t get home until a quarter to two!), dropped by the library, drove to meet my parents to let Ellie visit with them for two of those work days, Justin and Nate went camping (in a cave),  the older girls and I went to visit my parents (and their new puppies) for a quick visit and to pick up Ellie, and had lunch with my sister too.

So school...we'll stay home a little more and see if we can catch our breath.  Don't breathe too deeply though. Trail Life starts tomorrow!