IT WORKS!

Taylor came home from school a couple of weeks ago telling me about a conversation she had with Claudia. "Mom, Claudia said you CAN actually start a fire with a magnifying glass!" Claudia had tried it out and was able to successfully start a fire in the fire ring in her backyard, under her father's supervision, of course! Taylor ever since then has been begging Jon and I to sit in the driveway with her while she tries to set a leaf on fire. She is such a funny kid and I'm so glad that things like these seem to be much more facinating then boys for the moment. Well, Today is kind of a lazy Sunday and it is BEAUTIFUL outside. So here are the girls taking turns successfully burning holes in a leaf. Notice the water bottle within reach, just in case the fire got out of hand. Hopefully, I'm not encouraging pyromania! The experiment went off without a hitch and Jon figured that since everyone was outside he might as well clean his car.

The First Game

Immediately following the game Jon says, "The success of this season will be based in terms of improvement." Taylor went out there and gave it her all. She ran the entire time had a bit of an asthma attack, got back in the game and ran some more. Like Jon also said, It's like we're sending her out there expecting her to know how to play when she has never played soccer. I think all the girls on the teams have played for several years especially by the time they reach middle school. Anyway, she and Jon will do lots of practicing to get her up to speed. I told her I was very proud of her persistance.

Craft Central

Mom went home. We are ALL sad but we enjoyed her thoroughly. We could have kept her another week. Thanks Dad for letting us borrow her for an extended stay!! These are photos of her last night. She had the basement spinning with all the girls working on different projects. They were making sheets and blankets, flip-flops and headbands and hairbows. Mom is modeling one of the hairbows) It all turned out too cute and the girls loved it!

September Visitors

Jon's cousin D.J. came to stay with us 2 nights so he and Jon could go to the first Buckeye game together. They had a blast together. I know Jon was so happy to have a little reprieve from all the "girly stuff" that happens at our house. They went to the game, came home and watched more sports on TV and drank beers. Oops, with the picture of DJ and Jon I took the red eye out but I guess it also felt like leaving a couple of spots on Jon's face that weren't there. He really hadn't been playing in the ink.


Meanwhile, mom was downstairs in the basement having a jewelry party with the girls. They LOVE going through all the jewels. They put it ALL on!

Notice the shirt. This is SO true. Hey, did you know you can click on the picture and it will enlarge it? Several days ago, Jo asked to invite her new friend over to play. She is a little girl that is very nice and just moved into the neighborhood in July from Maine. She had never been over and I hadn't met her parents. When she came over, they played on the trampoline for a long time until it got quiet. I knew they had gone to the creek to explore which is fine but the silence was suddenly full of Jordan's laughter. The kind of laughter that only comes when she is doing something really naughty. I ran to the screened in porch and yelled, "Jordan are you in the mud?!" Silence. I said, "Jordan Schrock, come here!" Jordan and her new, soon to be former friend (because her parents had to have been horrified when she arrived home) slowly came out from the creek. When they were out in the sunlight I could see they were COVERED in mud. Sabrina was in her school clothes. They had mud top to bottom, front to back, so much so that they were having trouble opening their eyes. They had a no holds barred ,mud slinging fight. ALL Jordan's idea! Good glory child what is wrong with you? Being Jordan's mother is SO humbling, just picturing what Sabrina's parents would think. Sabrina's father greeted me later with a smile saying, "Are you the mother of the child who completely covered my daughter in mud?" I could have died.

Jumping on the trampoline with DJ in PJ's! They were funny to watch.

Here's the dog lady herself with Roxy. Mom has been visiting with us for a little while and is NOT a dog person! I have to say she has warmed up. So much so, that when she returned from visiting Ruth for a few days, she came back with 2 huge bags of raw hides and pig ears. She brought things to "keep Roxy busy". Roxy stays pretty busy doing things we don't necessarily want her to do, kinda like Jordan. Just kidding!! :)