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Monday, May 16, 2016

DC day 1

Not much to say about today. Henry and I got on the bus at 5:30 AM

This is Henry and his buddy Justus. We were all excited to see that the bus had outlets but that's about all the bus has.

Due to traffic, bathroom breaks and lunch we arrived three hours late! We headed straight to the Capitol building to get a class picture.

Dinner at Golden Corral then we got the sack. Bed by 11 and in the bus at 7am for day 2....

Saturday, May 14, 2016

DC here we come!

Friday night Henry was at a birthday party so BryanLuke Nate and I took a boat ride to the lighthouse. The boys wanted to fish a little after dinner.

They caught six fish

Running club map for the last time this week. It ended up being a great year. I had 188 kids participating. I had four kids earn their 50 pendant. My top runner ran 73 miles!

More fishing.

This morning Henry and I are headed on a 5th grade field trip to Washington DC! We will return late Thursday night.

Modern busses!!

We love our cats so much that we decided to foster baby kittens for the animal shelter. A litter needed a home on Wednesday so we went to the shelter right after running club to pick them up. It was a mother and her four babies. She was feral. Someone had set a trap and caught her hoping to help her because she was going to starve. We brought her home and immediately fell in love with this new job.

On Thursday I realized she had something wrong with her so we went back to the shelter and they told us that she had worms but she had been dewormed. I won't go into the details of that.

Even Brian who did not want to be foster parents has softened and is happy about the kittens living here.

Our job is to get them healthy and friendly and ready to be adopted.

Two of the kitties have Ines actions but they are doing much better.

It really is a wonderful family mission. We have sat on the porch together for hours looking at the kitties, talking about the kitties, and watching the kitties nurse.

Today I got brave and gave mama kitty a bath. She looks so much better now

Luke says over and over "mama I just can't believe that we have these baby kitties here. I never thought it would really happen."

So far even though the babies are adorable my favorite one is the momma cat. I can't believe how loving and friendly she has become in just four days. She has the best personality.

Sunday, May 01, 2016

April.... May!

Lots of catching up to do so I will start with today. We are currently fishing down at the docks.

Early this morning around 445 lightning hit our house. It took out two TVs the Xbox and our Internet. It also turned off the refrigerator and the garage doors. Brian had to work all day.

These boys are awesome at fixing anything that goes wrong in our house however the TVs and Xbox are toast. I am looking forward to bedtime because no one slept very much after the storm.

This afternoon we went to target. It's good to know they are still good people in this world. Luke dropped the $100 bill he had been saving for months. Yes this is the same one that he took to the Valentines carnival that Elizabeth had to confiscate!

Someone turned it in and he was thrilled to claim it again. After this episode he decided not to spend it on the Lego set he wanted. He is going to save it a little longer.

Brian got the boat working and we enjoyed a little tubing yesterday before bad weather came.

Friday was early release and we had a great time playing and fishing with Griffin Reese and Collin.

Here is Henry with the game ball from his baseball game Thursday night. He hit the ball and it bounced off the scoreboard. He made it to second base and two runs in.

Running club was quite eventful last week. On Monday I had a fourth-grader decide to run away. We found him safe down the highway past the store. Needless to say it was a big wake up call for running club. It is now like Fort Knox.