Things have been typically busy around here the past couple of weeks. I just finished off 5 night shifts in a row so haven't had time to update much. Nights are hard anyway, but 5 in a row was an effort. But, given how bad it could have been, I'm not complaining. God is good in protecting us when we need a little breathing room.
Ben has started back to football this week. He has been looking forward to it the past few weeks. Fortunately the weather has been pretty good this week. He did a decent job working out this summer so he hasn't done too bad in the first two practices which have mostly been conditioning work outs. Tomorrow they put on pads for the first time so he may get to do a few tackling drills. I think he is looking forward to this season. He will be one of the older kids on the team (the league allows kids up to 14 to play) as well as one of the bigger kids. If he hasn't quite passed 6 feet tall, he will by the end of the season. He looks pretty thin too but weighs around 153 (and he'll probably be up to 158). The rest of his team looks small but we will see how well they can play as August progresses.
The little girls continue to grow. Kate's new thing is to get into EVERYTHING. Today, I walked into the den and found half a box of Cheerios all over the place. Jack was trying to eat them as fast as he could. I ended up using the vacuum cleaner to clean them up...there were probably 300 Cheerios out.
Amy's vocabulary is growing...she doesn't seem like a 2 year old anymore. A friend from work gave me some tomatoes from his garden. One variety he likes to grow is yellow tomatoes. I was eating one the other day and Amy, who loves tomatoes, was watching me. Finally she said, "Those are so strange."
Sam spent last week at Day Camp at the elementary school around the corner. In the mornings we would bike over together and he'd lock his bike and go in. He enjoyed meeting the other kids and playing a variety of indoor and outdoor games. This week he has been reading a lot (mostly because we put him on TV restriction). He enjoys reading when he reads, but he would rather sit in front of the TV. He'll probably be on more TV restriction the rest of the summer.
Sarah has continued to enjoy the summer reading. She has read several books including To Kill A Mockingbird, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Let Me Be a Woman, Brideshead Revisited, and is currently reading The Prodigal God. Tonight she is scrap booking with Marti. She is working on her Utah trip while Marti is finishing up the book on our Europe trip. And speaking of Sarah's Utah trip, below are a few of my favorite shots she took while there.
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