Organized Chaos

Weeks 28 and 29 -- Cross Country practice and Air Force cousins

The last two weeks have been filled with lots of cross country practice for Georgie and Sam.  Thea has been busy teaching classes almost every night at Tae Kwon Do while her Master is in Korea for 3 weeks.  I haven't taken any pictures, but she has been busy, busy, busy teaching TKD.  And then we had a visit from some Air Force cousins--the Dillows!  It has been a lovely few weeks. :)

 

Sam is prepping for Middle School cross country which is a 1.5 mile race and Georgie has been practicing for High School cross country which is usually 3.2 to 3.5 miles.

Dillows!

The weekend with the Dillows was just what we needed to recharge.  Lots of downtown playing, laughing, and hanging out with some of our oldest friends. :)

Just a few more weeks left of summer vacation...

Weeks 26 and 27--The slowdown of summer break

We have spent the last two weeks being lazy and hanging out around the house.  It is nice to have a some down time without much happening.  We enjoyed watching fireworks from our back deck on the 4th of July.

We have been doing a few crafts to keep ourselves entertained.  This project was fun.  It is a corkboard map from Target.  We used small pins to mark places were our family live (grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters and 1st cousins), places we have lived, places we have visited, favorite places we have visited, and places we would like to visit in the future.

The kids had so much fun thinking of places to mark on the map, looking those places up on a map and then helping me place the pins.  We marked well know places like Chicago and Seattle.  We also marked silly places we have visited like Metropolis, Illinois (home of a tall Superman statue) and Blue Planet, Minnesota (home of a giant Jolly Green Giant state).  Now I just need to figure out where I want to hang up the map.