My Cousin

Yesterday, I was talking to the boys about cousins.  They asked me about my cousins.  I was explaining that My cousins on my Dad's side are all here locally (basically), and all the ones on my Mom's side are in Canada (basically).  Austin piped up and got really excited, he said, "I met one of your cousins!"  I was trying to think which of my local cousins he was talking about.  He said, "He has a beard......2 eyes, a nose, and a mouth."  I thought it was interesting was that he mentioned those features, rather than describe his hair or build.  I was about to ask him about this when he said, "oh, yeah, he lives in a pick up truck."

AHHHHH......I know who you are talking about!

He did not mention the hair because, well...he doesn't have any!

He doesn't exactly LIVE in a pick up truck.  My cousin, Rodney, was a truck driver several years ago.  He drove from Alberta to my parents house, and was able to attend Matt and Lana's wedding.  The boys were able to see his truck,  I guess it never occurred to them that he actually has a house somewhere.

Needless to say, whether he lives in a truck or not.  Rodney made an impression on my boys.

Sauerkraut

Last Sunday we were invited to have lunch at my parents house after church. We walked in the door and Austin says, "Ewwww, what is that smell?" Mom told him that was the sauerkraut that we were having for lunch. "Oh, well, the smell isn't so bad if that is what it is." (Austin likes sauerkraut!)

We sit down to eat and Mike and I are on one end of the table, Austin is at the other. Mike nudged my arm and said, "Watch Austin." I watched, I had to chuckle to myself. Every time he took a bite of the sauerkraut his eyes would close, they looked like they were close to watering. But he kept eating it.

It almost seemed like one of those things were you don't want to do or look at something, yet you just cannot stop! I'm glad he likes sauerkraut. Hopefully in the future he will be able to eat it where it doesn't look quiet so painful.

2012-2013 School Year

Tuesday was the first day of school for our school system. The morning was too crazy, I did not get a picture on the first day of school. However, I did on the second day of school.

Adam is now in 3rd grade with Mrs. Brown. He seemed really excited about learning cursive this year. His teacher is new this year, so I do not know her--Hoping for a great year!

Austin is in 5th grade and started Middle School. The first day he had a bit of trouble with his locker. Yesterday is was better in the morning, but still had some trouble in the afternoon. Today he said, "my locker was so easy today. It was like liquid. (I thought that was a great analogy!) He changes classes, and has 2 that are on an A/B schedule (even days he has A classes, then on odd days he has B classes. I think that would be confusing, but he seems to have the knack of it.)


Here is this years "beginning of the school year picture." Let's have a great year!!

Important Verses

The fair was here last week. We went on Friday evening. Before I left that evening, I went through the exhibit booth. There was a lady handing out "little Bibles." It was a booklet that had about 15-20 verses from the Bible.

Adam found this and was asking what this book was. I said, "it is a little book that has important Bible verses in it."

Adam responded by saying, "Aren't all the verses in the Bible important?"

Good point! How do you argue with that?

5K

This summer Lana encouraged me to do something I never thought I would do. RUN. I had done this a few times with her and she started to casually mention that there was going to be a 5K near my house--"we should do that," she would say. It took a little convincing, but I finally agreed to it.

Over the next few weeks, I would run, run a little longer, train this way and that. The day of the race I felt ready.

During the weeks that I trained, I had come up with some goals that I wanted to accomplish during the race. 1. I wanted to finish. 2. I did not want to be the last one to finish. 3. I didn't think I could do this one, but I wanted to finish the race in a time that was under my age. (37 minutes).
While running the race I kept looking over my shoulder to make sure that other people were behind me (goal #2), if too many were passing me I would get nervous and keep going even though I really wanted to stop, if only for a quick breather.

I could see the finish line (goal #1), others were still behind me (goal #2), I had NO idea what my time was so goal #3 was still up in the air.

As I got closer to the line I could see...
Adam waiting ever so patiently for me to finish.

As I crossed the line, he went under the rope,

and came to me with open arms.

I loved the end to that race. I will continue to run if that is my reward at the finish line!

**I did make goal #3. I finished in 35:51. I had 1 minute 9 seconds to spare.

And Then There Were None

Well, maybe I shouldn't say "none." He does have a FEW teeth left. Adam lost another tooth last week, so now he has quite a large hole on top.

I'm not sure if he could eat corn-on-the-cob, however I do know that there are some advantages to missing so many teeth.

You can make a "Rat Face"
or even do a "Vampire Face." The fun really does go on and on.

I just hope that some teeth come in before school pictures. Who knows what face he might choose for the yearbook.

When You Have Little Boys...

...you never really know what you might find.

This evening I went to set the table for dinner when I found this.


I'm not exactly sure what crime this poor man committed, but it looks like his punishment is to be bound to the pepper shaker. (I do think he is remorseful, just look how he is hanging his head)

Little boys certainly do add a little "spice" to their parents lives