Kindergarten Meet and Greet

A couple of years ago, the elementary schools in our district started having a before school open house--a chance to come to school a couple of days early and bring in supplies, find your classroom, locate your cubby, etc without the rushiness (made that word up) that the first real day usually entails.
Tonight was Beckett's school's planned meet and greet and Beckett got to do all of the above as well as practice putting his apple into the right bin (to tell the teacher if he brought a home lunch or if he's having a hot lunch), putting all of his supplies into the community tubs (while I got to write his name on every. single. twistable. crayon.
He says he's excited for Thursday to come. There WILL be an update--HA!

Summer's Last Blast

The saddest time of the year is here =( Yesterday was the last opportunity to go to the public pool and enjoy ourselves. Our pool closes SO stinking early (you KNOW we'll have a run of 90 degree days here soon!), it is always closed before Labor Day weekend. The arguement is that "all" of the lifeguards have gone back to college, which is completely false because plenty of them are HS students!
In the last couple of days, both sets of Grandparents made it up to see Paxton doing his thing off of the diving board and Beckett being his usual goofy self on the big slide. The boys tell me not to be sad and remind me that they'll fill it again in May and we can swim again, but it's awfully depressing to see that big blue empty space as we drive by in the meantime =(

Parker the plumber, minus the butt...

Papa's right hand man was put to work again today in the continuing (but approaching finished!) bathroom remodel. The tub drain had a bit of a leak and a smaller hand (why don't you do this, Mom?!), but a strong one was needed to fit into the tight space to seal and tighten the connection. He learned a lot about righty-tighty/lefty-loosey and the difference between clockwise and counter-clockwise! He also wasn't thrilled with camera flashes, but since he was sitting in the closet with his arm in a tight spot, its not like he could get away =)

Crossing Fingers

Today I received a phone call regarding a nursing postion I applied for and they went ahead with the phone interview right then and there! (Totally caught me off-guard!). But with any luck, I made a good enough impression that the nurse manager of that unit will want to visit with me face-to-face. She said I should hear something within the next week.
Soooooo, crossing fingers!!! (but I like this image of the flower!)

Final Floatie Night of 2011

On Sunday nights, our local pool has "family night", which basically means you can bring inflatable toys and such into the pool during the night swim session. A few weeks ago I picked up surf boards for the boys and we got our money's worth the very first night they used them.
Tonight was the last night for floaties for this year (next Sunday's night swim is a "doggie dip", don't get me started on my opinion on THAT). Although when we got up there, the UW football team was there on its annual pool outing, so when you fill a pool with 100 football players, it becomes hard to navigate a raft around!

Happy Golden Birthday, Arielle!

My first-born is 20 today! So 20 ON the 20th means she's having her golden b-day (although she's more looking forward to 21, eyeroll).
Just posting a few pictures from previous birthday parties (back when new Barbies and American Girl clothes made her one happy little camper!!)

More picnic pictures

Just a few shots of the boys playing the games they offer at the PFD picnic. They both popped balloons and did the ring toss for 2 liter bottles of soda. Beckett won "wegwawer" pepsi! (Regular pepsi) for his Momma =)
Excuse the "funny" tones on the dart picture---the setting on my camera got changed somehow, but I like the picture!!