Home Sweet Home

We're back from Iowa. For those of you who didn't know, the fam drove out to Iowa last Wednesday for my little brother's wedding. My sister-in-law gave me the honor of being in the wedding, which was absolutely beautiful. I'm still getting over the fact that my little brother is married. It doesn't seem possible, but he's found a wonderful girl and I am so happy for them. I'm also very thankful to be home and sleeping in my own bed tonight. N. took most of the pictures that we have from the wedding. It's interesting looking through a five year old's eyes. I'll try to post some soon, if the computer cooperates.

Hair

So I've been thinking about cutting my hair and donating it. I've done it before, and my brother's girlfriend just did it recently, which made me think about it again. The thing is, that if I cut my hair I don't just want to chop it off, I'd like to style it in some way. I've never styled it before, only just cut it off short, so I'm not sure what would look good. Any suggestions?

Labor Day Weekend

We went camping at Pymatuning state park over Labor day weekend. We had a lot a lot of fun together as a family. The boys enjoyed helping their dad set up the camper, and start the fire.


On Saturday, we went to the spillway to see and feed the carp.
Disgusting, yet somehow fascinating. The boys mooched some bread off of some friendly folks and then I bought a couple of bags. They still wanted more, but come on.... look at those fish..... I don't think they needed any more of our money. One of the highlights of the day was after our picnic lunch. Dan showed the boys how to make "straw rockets" from their juice pouches by blowing them up, bending the straw, and then stomping on them. What great fun. Why do we bother to buy them all those expensive battery operated things. Let's just go out and buy a box of CapriSun and we'll be all set for hours and hours. If you look carefully you can see the yellow blur that is A.'s straw shooting out of the the pouch. After lunch we went to the wild life learning center. It was a really interesting place with all sorts of hands on things for the kids. Unfortunately we showed up about fifiteen min. before it closed. N. was so fascinated by it and so disappointed when we had to leave that we ended up going back Sunday afternoon. Sunday after coming back from the wild life learning center we went fishing. Dan caught a couple of little fish.
A. Enjoyed petting the tails, and both the boys insisted that I take their pictures on the rocks.

So much going on....

There seems to be days and days when I can think of nothing to write about. I don't do even mundane things that I might be able to make into something interesting. And then all of a sudden, I'm busy, or I start thinking of ideas. This past weekend we went camping as a family. It was a good time. (That's one blog, or maybe two or three) I'm planning on writing something soon and also posting some pictures, but before I can do that I have to take some stuff off of our computer so that when I upload the photos from our trip I don't fill up the hard drive and bog down the computer so much that I can't do anything. (That's another blog) Today N. and I started school. I have all these ideas floating around in my head of what to do, but nothing concrete. He's been talking about it for a while and has been excited to start school and excited about the fact that he's going to have school at home, but this morning when I told him it was time to start he dug his heal in and didn't want to any more. (That's another blog) Only with God's strength and His continually teaching me patience and helping me to grow will N. and I make it through this school year and actually consider doing it again next year. Why did I have to have a son so much like me?