Eat, Spit, Be Happy

Eat, Spit, Be Happy....that's what it says on the front of the sunflower seeds package....and that's what we did last night! It's a baseball summer at our house for sure - Andrew is on the LCS 2nd grade team, Alex is on the 4th grade LCS team, and Bruce is coaching the LCS Legion Team...so we're spending plenty of time at ball games! (Amanda is on the LCS Jr High Volleball team, too, but I think we'd probably get in trouble if we started spitting seeds on the gym floor!!)

So, we are going through plenty of seeds....in fact, Bruce bought a huge box of them at Sam's Club to see us through. Well, last night, we were at Andrew's game and Alex said "Mom, did you know that some people can put a whole bunch of seeds in their mouth and then just open them and spit out the shells...all without using their hands?" So...guess what Mr. Alex learned last night! By the end of the game, we were having contests to see who could spit their shell the farthest! Gotta love summer!!

This is where we lived when.....

We closed on our old house and were there for one last time on Monday. Sitting in our empty living room, the kids and I played "This is where we lived when..." and each person took turns filling in the blanks. It was just short of 5 years that we lived there, but SO much happened during that time, and it was really neat to reflect back with them. Here are a few of the things we came up with :

....when we got Molly
...when Amanda fell off of the rock climbing wall
...when Amanda broke her arm
...when we started the Homeschool Band
....when we started going to "real school"
...when we met Alayna (a neighbor girl)
....when we met ALL of our new Lincoln friends!
...when we got our first hamsters (also when they died!)
...when we got our aquarium