Cleaning can be FUN!

Mopping the bathroom floor with hands, knees and feet. Cleaning the tub with his bath soap, in his swim suit. Getting ready to clean the kitchen counters with whatever soap we picked out to use.

Justin got the smallest counter and I got the biggest. We smelled each others counters when we got done and Casey's won - good job Casey.

At first he was scared to get up there, but then when he was done, he wanted to stay up there...haha. I put a towel under his body, but he did most of the cleaning with his body.

Look at his arm and you will see how dirty it was up there.

*They like the cleaning, when I make it fun and it still gets the job done. Don't worry Casey cleans to, but for some reason I don't have that many pictures of her.

Farm Land or Not?

For 3 years we have been living here and we have been told that this land use to be a farmer's field, but what was it before it belonged to them? For 3 years I have been finding pieces of glass on one side of the front yard. They are not just clear pieces, some have prints like a plate, but they are never big enough for us to figure them out. *Well see the big yellow one, I just found it the other day on the other side of the yard and we think it might be from a flower pot or a big bowl? It is neat finding them, but is a mystery figuring them out.

What happened to our Apple Tree???

I know it looks small,but it has been producing apples for two years now. Look, the limbs have been ripped right off.

See the one TINY apple behind the dragonfly?

There are the only two apples and yesterday, we had about 15 on there.

Here are some of the limbs, but I didn't see any sign of the apples.

*We are thinking that a Racoon or something else got the apples, but not the dogs. What you think???

Lightbulb or not???

While I was cleaning today this is what I found...

A new shaped lightbulb in the nightlite or not???

No, it was an pencil eraser stuck in the nite lite. I wonder how it got there??? Well my guess is a child...HAHA!

*You never know what you might find, when you have children around???

I Love our Car!

Our 2001 Kia Rio didn't cost us a lot of money, when we bought it, but man it has been very nice to have it around. Since we have lived here in the states, it has been in a 'Hit n Run' and today the car got it's back window busted out. While Luke was at softball practice, someone threw a ball and the other person didn't catch it - so out went our window. I was on base today, so I stopped by to see Luke at the softball practice and I was thinking someone's car might get hurt, because they where practicing right near the cars. Just as I was driving off, someone's car did get hurt and it was our's.

It ain't no biggie, the guy who threw the ball is getting it fixed for us. Thank goodness we have three vehicles, so Luke can drive the truck while the car is getting fixed.

See, no back window. The front left corner was the hit n' run happened. We are not getting it fixed, because it might cost as much as the car cost....haha.

We have been driving it like this for almsot 3 years now, so we can continue to drive it like this. No biggie!

SAT Awards

Casey with her new hair-do.... ...lots and lots and lots of very pretty curls.

Showing off her pretty self. Wow, she is looking a lot older then 10 here and I don't like it. We might have to lock her up soon...haha.

A VERY proud Csaey - wearing her SAT medal and holding the program. She got the ribbon from her seat.

Up-close picture of her medal, that she and us are VERY proud of.

We are so very proud of Casey for getting a SAT Award and she is very happy about it also.

Before we went to the Awards on Tuesday night, I went and took her to get her hair fixed.

Kids only get an SAT Award, if they make a 90 or above for the first three 9 weeks of school.

Oh yeah an SAT is an (Superintendent's Academic Team) Award, isn't that GREAT?

Norfolk Botantical Garden

Our goofy kids...haha. Gotta love'em.

Pull Casey pull!

Having fun in the water. I didn't know they had this at the gardend, so I didn't bring the 'right' knid of clothes. Oh well, they enjoyed itanyways.

Our crazy boy!

Taken by Casey

Casey, Serenity (new neighbor) and Justin