Summer Vacation Is Ticking By...

Hard to believe there's just over a month left until classes begin again at Challenger Elementary. The summer has gone by much faster than expected, but we've managed to cram a lot of fun into the summer break so far. Next Monday brings Vacation Bible School at Trinity and both Andrew and I have been roped in to helping by Kristi Grochow. Andrew's helping with games/snacks and I'll be assisting with corralling the kids and moving them from one "station" to another. It runs Monday through Friday next week in the evenings after dinner in the fellowship hall so it will keep the evenings occupied for a few days. I think Andrew's a little hesitant, but he acknowledges kids seem to gravitate toward him, so he should do fine.

A quote from Aaron this week:

"What's wrong with you people?!!"

Daniel's two cents (about his toy laptop):

"It frozed up, Daddy!"

We have started a new tradition here in the evenings otherwise. As of last night, the boys and I have begun taking a walk around the neighborhood. If I can just get Daniel to keep his shoes in one place so he's not stuck wearing his cowboy boots... Aaron looks forward to it and I think Daniel will too once his tootsies are comfortable. We headed North on Duluth about 4 blocks and then West towards Arnold and actually found what appears to be a Christmas tree farm down there last night. We'll have to mix it up with some bike riding to keep it interesting, I figure. A fair amount of the playing the boys do with their buddies is stationary, i.e. throwing a ball around, sitting in the sandbox, etc., so I thought I'd add a kinetic element to things and add in a daily walk. Should do us all some good.

Andrew is making up a scrumptious dinner for us tonight consisting of a 14-egg scramble with tomatoes, mushrooms, bell peppers, onions, and cheese topping and hashbrowns. We're having at least a couple vegetarian meals a week thanks to him and they have been pretty delicious, the last one being a fried rice dish with scrambled eggs (He's not vegan, so he can have eggs, cheese, and milk).