TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR

Okay, these are the pictures we took the other night when we went to the park for our volleyball game and found out that our VB net was burried in about 6 feet of water. We took some other pictures too, but they are on my phone and I am not going to transfer them over anytime soon. This picture above is a picture of the pavilion at the JMBA (a private park owned by Jason's company.) This pavilion is actually built on stilts to prevent this kind of flooding. Bummer. Here are a few more photos of the JMBA.

The water went down quickly, though. These photo's were taken on June 9th, and yesterday, (the 23rd) the water was gone and they had a fresh load of sand brought in for our sand volleyball game. We won too! Our first win! We have a team made up of members of our ward who all work for SCJ. We call ourselves "Jerry's kids" named after our old bishop (Who is also on our team.) We are having a lot of fun with that and the kids love to come and play at the park during our games.

AND here is a photo of Will, who recently noticed that he did not have ANY pictures on our blog.

And below is a picture of Will outside with Pip and the bucket behind him is full of crayfish that he and the neighbor kids caught in our neighborhood pond. This is an everyday thing for Will. He loves catching bugs and frogs and tadpoles and crayfish, minnows, turtles, etc.

We are off this weekend to Jellystone Park for our Annual Neighborhood Campout. I will surely be posting some pictures of that next week.

Summer cuts

We are loving summer! The girls went to the salon with me yesterday for "a trim" and ended up getting a cute little summer cut. Kate went first and got her hair chopped and Kiley liked Kate's hair so much that she wanted the same thing done on her hair. They look so cute and Kate's haircut makes her look so grown up! She was very worried that dad and Will would not like her haircut. She was relieved when they loved it.

Tonight Kiley is off to her "Camp Rock party" at a friends house. She loves those Jonas Brothers! The rest of us are headed to Milwaukee for the "members night" at the zoo. They will let us feed and pet the stingrays and sharks. The boys are all over that! Then Saturday we have our last chance to get our tile and woodwork done in our basement. The carpet installation guys will be there next week to put in our carpet and then I can have my house back!!!





In other news, Jason had to participate in this 50 year anniversary for Pledge. He had a Elvis costume made entirely out of Pledge duster cloths (including the wig) and he had a co-worker dress up in the pledge costume that looks like a huge can of pledge. I am going to try to download a video of his practice run - where he was singing happy birthday to just a can of pledge - Elvis style. Pretty funny. Bad quality camera, though.

We can see the end in sight. Only 4 more days of school. The kids are loving this week with all the field trips, awards assemblies, and cleaning out locker type stuff. Baseball is getting pretty crazy but we enjoy spending the evenings at the baseball diamonds. Primary stuff seems to never end. I have a teacher inservice on Sunday that I am in charge of. Also, Jason is taking the boys to the Stake Father/Son outing this weekend. I think Lara is coming over to hang out with me and the girls while our hubbies are camping with the boys. Pride and Predjudice night perhaps? Lara just had a baby girl (Lucy) We had a big baby shower here at my house for her.

Hmm. I just realized that Lara actually isn't really in any of those pictures. Let me see if I can find a picture of Lara...

Here we are mini golfing with Mike and Lara Meier. These are our good friends here. We do a lot with them. I hate these pictures, though!

Other news. Well, Kiley got a part in her Jr. High play, OZ. She got the part of one of the main munchkins, LOQ. She did so good. Here are a few photo's.

Here She is as LOQ:

And as a Poppy:

And she is totally going to kill me for this, but Jason even took a couple of the guy she likes. He was a flying monkey. Kam, remember when we were flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz?
Okay. It is way past my bedtime. I will write more next week.