Saturday, August 15, 2009

LEMONADE ANYONE?


THE KIDS DOWN THE STREET HAD A STAND SET UP SELLING VEGETABLES FROM THEIR GARDEN ONE DAY....WE STOPPED TO BUY SOMETHING FROM THEM. MY BOYS DECIDED THEY WANTED TO HAVE A VEGETABLE STAND....I EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT WE DIDNT HAVE A GARDEN BUT WE COULD HAVE A LEMONADE STAND ONE DAY. THEY KEPT AFTER ME FOR DAYS. FINALLY, I CAVED AND BOUGHT ALL OF THE STUFF, SET UP THE TABLE, MADE THE POSTER, AND GOT OUT THE UMBRELLA. MY FEAR WAS THAT NOONE WOULD COME SO I TEXT ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO STOP BY THAT DAY. WHAT WE THOUGHT WOULD BE A LITTLE LEMONDADE FUN, TURNED INTO A 37.00 PROFIT FOR MY BOYS. THEY LOVED IT!! THEY HAD LOTS OF CUSTOMERS AND GOT LOTS OF TIPS. WHAT A GREAT TIME!! WE EVEN HAD OUR PRETEND CASH REGISTER OUT THERE. IT WAS A GOOD LESSON IN COUNTING MONEY FOR MILES TOO. I WILL NEVER FORGET IT.

LUKE HAS HAD ENOUGH....


WHEN LUKE HAS HAD ENOUGH OF SOMETHING YOU MIGHT AS WELL CALL IT A DAY. HE IS VERY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT WHAT HE WANTS. WE WERE AT MILES' TROPHY PRESENTATION CEREMONY FOR TEE BALL AND IT WAS LOOOONNNGG. LUKE FINALLY PLOPPED DOWN IN THE GRASS WITH HIS FAMILIAR BALLPARK RING POP AND GAVE UP.....LUCKILY, MILES GOT HIS TROPHY EARLY AND I WAS ABLE TO LEAVE WITH LUKE AND LET KYLE AND MILES FINISH OUT THE CEREMONY. YOU GOTTA LOVE OUR LITTLE "GROUCHO."

T-BALL TEAM GOES TO THE SOUNDS GAME



KYLE GOT TOGETHER WITH SOME PARENTS AND KIDS FROM THE TBALL SEASON AND THEY WENT TO A SOUNDS BASEBALL GAME. I DONT KNOW WHERE I WAS THIS NIGHT BUT I WASNT THERE.....MUST OF HAD SOMETHING GOING ON. ANYWAY, THE BOYS HAD A GREAT TIME AND LOVED WATCHING THE MASCOT, OZZIE, WHO CAME INTO THE STANDS FOR AN UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL HELLO.