Dog Sitting

We are dog sitting for Bobbie Jo's new puppy this weekend (Labor Day). This is Piper. She and Mickey have become very good friends over the last couple of days. They spend a good portion of the day playing together and would like to share a kennel at night if we would let them. They are both really cute as you can see.

Tumbleweed Festival

Today was the start of the Tumbleweed festival. Betty, Nana, and Jer were here for it 2 years ago. Last year I took Bobbie Jo's kids and they begged me to do so again this year. It is a fun festival with kid crafts, a kid stage with different entertainment, and also two other stages with different musical acts all day long. It's a lot of fun. This year it was a bit warm (96 degrees or so).

Here are Brendan, Trevor, and Macy doing a craft.

Macy doing another craft.

Trevor getting his face painted (they all had them done)
Macy and Brendan both got picked to help in this little show.

Then there were Indian hoop dancers and Macy danced in that. Here she is on the end.
And here she is again (the little one just left of the Indian)
And this year we also had Grant. He had a pretty good day as well.

It was fun, but I am now a bit tired. A long day in the sunshine with just me and the kids (Dan had to work).

Later we went to a luau dinner that was going on down at Garden Valley, where Fuller's apartment is, so we all went there and had dinner and enjoyed ourselves.

Now it is home and relaxing a bit before bed and church tomorrow.

Hot Air balloon festival

This weekend a lot is going on, a hot air baloon festival, the Tumbleweed festival, and a luau. And, that's just today - Saturday.

Here is Brendan, Trevor, and Macy in a hot air baloon basket this mornng.

This is before they got in and were just checking it out.
The balloons didn't get to launch this morning as planned because it was too windy, a common problem in Southwest Kansas, but they did get to take off later. The kids had a good time going around and talking to the people and looking at their stuff.

sorry!

Sorry it has been so long since we last posted. No pictures today, but just wanted to update what we were doing. Bible Bowl started today. It's going to be a learning year. It is from the Old Testament - 6 great prophets. It should be a lot of fun. Dan and I are going to join the kids and learn the verses for the quoting bee. There are 200 verses that are memorized over the year. It should be a fun challenge. Dan is also helping out with the jr high youth group this year. I think he is going to have a great time. He really enjoys working with youth. It should be a fun and busy year. More pictures later. T

Five gallons of fun?

Actually I think that he would probably fit in a one gallon bucket, but this is the one that was laying out while I was working on the yard.

Hello Family

Today we welcomed home with us a eight week old puppy whose name is Mickey. He is a Mix of Bichon Frise and Schitzu, both small lovable dogs. Mickey is the runt of his litter, small, loving, and just plain friendly. He awaits the chance to sit in any lap.Mickey playing with a new rope toy. The blue nalgene water bottle in the forground is taller then Mickey who is around 5-6 inches tall.
Another picture of Mickey playing with his new toy.
Tara holding a ruler over Mickey while playing on the floor. The ruller is just a little smaller then Mickey and as close as we can tell he is only 13 or 14" total in length.
Casper is probably not sure about the new playmate, but we hope that the puppy youth will rub off on Casper and keep him a little more active as he gets older.

A garage being built...no not ours!

My parents are building a garage, this is kind of the process in the making.

He had gotten a bunch of sand and packed down the pad and leveled it. Poured the cement base.

Then he laid cinderblock edging because he raised up the heighth of the garage so he can pull in a truck with the toppers on and all.
Kevin and his brother Craig built the walls and this is right before they pulled them up.
This is them getting the last tressel (?) up and finishing up the roof.
And we came out to Eads this weekend and Dan helped with working on it a lot today, this is him up there putting sheeting on the roof. The got the sheeting done tonight and called it a day.
So that has been our great weekend in Eads...we have had a great time. Also we had a wonderful steak dinner! It was yummy! Thanks mom.

Yard Work

This weekend we did a little yard work. I thought especially Betty and Al might like to see a few things. This is a picture of a couple of our Aspens (some of them have gotten huge. Also the rhubarb plant is big and this is the third time I have picked it bare. We'll see how many more we'll get this summer.

These are some of the flowers on the butterfly bush Betty and Al got for us last year.

The butterfly bush and one of the Aspens. The bush has gotten really big.

A couple more Aspens (they were barely twigs last year when we planted them)

Last Day - Atlanta

Starting to load the trailer

Outside of the World of Coke. A group of kids in a coke bottle (the cement is shaped as a coke bottle in the middle)
Then we fond the CNN Center. It was really neat.
Centennial park (from the Olympics)


And I believe that that is it for Atlanta - thank you for putting up with the delay in posting...

Atlanta again...

On the way to the Braves game, we took the subway. Most of the kids hadn't been on one before, so we rode for a little bit.

The stadium

More Atlanta 2

The team after their dinner out.

The kids enjoyed this statue we found downtown.
Dan and one of the guys on the team.
Dan with 'his' team. We each had a team assigned to us that we followed and made sure they got to competition and kept track of their scores and whatnot.
One the way to the Braves ball game. More of those pictures to come as well...

More Atlanta

Our fearless leaders

Quoting bee
Speed Tournament


Sorry about the delay in posting, I will try and get totally cought up today. Maybe one more this morning and then I'll get it all done at lunch.

Kids at play

This is the last batch of photos for now. I don't have a whole lot left to go, but I will finish up later tonight.