Osaka

Days of insanity...here we come!!

August 9, 2009
Days of insanity…here we come!

Top Eight Events of the Week:

1. We finished the Book of Mormon as a family again, so we went to Osaka to celebrate. Man! That food is so great! They cook your food in front of you and have a little show. I took a couple of pictures while we were there.

2. Marisa has taken drivers ed and has been working all week on French. We also found out that she earned an academic letter for school last year because she kept her grade point average so high. She is also receiving special recognition in an awards ceremony in Iowa City for her high ACT score as a Freshman. She is rocking it over here!

3. I took the kids to see “Up” this week and it was the sweetest little movie I have seen in a long time! You have to go see it. So adorable!!

4. We did all the school supply and clothes shopping for the kids this week. It took forever (and we are poorer…haha) but I think we are now all organized and ready to go.

5. We got the kids registered for school and then Marisa, Kayla, Tyler, Alayna, and I helped run the registration for Excelsior for several hours on Thursday.

6. Kayla applied for and was chosen as a member of Myfi. She helps all 6th graders during their orientation to Middle School. She did her 6 hour training for it on Friday and will help with the orientation all day tomorrow. She also starts on the school volleyball team in only two weeks.

7. Our garden is just flourishing! We will have to start canning our salsa, tomatoes, and chile in the next few weeks.

8. Bob and Tyler bought me pink roses “just because”. Man I love it when that happens!!!

Saturdays crop

Isn't this sweet?

View from our porch

from the garden

Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.

August 2, 2009
Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.

~Marisa drove us to church today! And we are all still alive to tell about it. She actually did pretty well. She is a cautious driver and for now I am grateful for that. She started her drivers ed last week and it will be great to get that out of the way before school starts. She is also plowing her way through French, but worried she may not finish by the time summer ends. She has pulled many a late night!

~Kayla was able to spend the night at a friends house this week and go see HP again! (I still haven’t even seen it yet)

~Tyler got to go with a friend to a huge water park called “Lost Island:” for a whole day and he thought that was pretty awesome.

~Alayna woke up sick this morning. I am hoping she doesn’t have this nasty cold/flu thing that is going around our ward. Its supposed to be a doozy. We don’t have time for anyone to be sick!

~Marisa, Kayla and I did a MASSIVE 7 hour shopping trip this week to get clothes for school. It was actually a huge success even though I could NOT move a muscle by the time we got home.

~My new favorite series is “Jericho”. I raced through both seasons in a week and now I am on a manhunt to shoot whoever’s brilliant idea it was to cancel it. What an idiot! I am trying to get Bob to watch it with me now.

~Yesterday we worked on the garden for a while (weeding and picking). Then we made 3 batches of zucchini jelly which Alayna says “is to die for!” We made orange, peach, and experimented with tropical fusion. I will let you know how it turns out. This was my first time ever making jam so I was pretty proud. We also had a MASSIVE green bean crop so I froze several bags full and then we took some to church which got picked up almost as soon as I put it down. Next week we will be doing salsa and canning tomatoes all day Saturday.

~We have a busy, busy week ahead with some physicals, dentist appts, hair appts, and buying school supplies. I CANNOT believe its almost time to go back to school. Wish us luck…