So, Lisa and I have become addicted to painting pottery! It is so much fun and the girls like it too! This time Kenadee decided to do a mosaic flower which was good because it took her a long time! Jaycie painted a bear and a little ducky hatching out of the shell. Cameryn and Hannah painted zebras and Lisa and I worked on plates. I can't wait to see them when they are glazed and fired!

Our Three Girls

Dustin's Birthday Dinner

My brother-in-law Dustin's birthday is coming up on June 30th, so we all went to dinner at Genghis Grill. This is one of his favorite places to go and it is new to us. He thought we would all have fun trying something different.



So, you go through the line with your little bowl and you pick out what kind of protein you want. Becky and I had a hard time getting over the fact that is is all RAW! Jaycie almost cried when daddy put chicken in her bowl because it looks so weird. We laughed and made faces as we put stuff in our bowls. Next, you get to put your own spices, vegetables, or fruit in the bowl. There are many different kinds of sauces you can pick to have your food cooked with too. Then, you choose rice or noodles and they take your bowl away and cook it on a big round grill. It really is cool how they have it sectioned off and they use these big wooden stick things to move it and turn it.

Then they give you a number and you take it to your table and they bring you your food when it is all cooked. It actually looked pretty good! I have a hard time trying new and different things, but we'll see! Here is the finished product! Yum!

We all had a lot of fun and enjoyed eating at a new place. Dustin was glad everyone came and liked his special restaurant! Thumbs up Dustin!














Then after dinner, some of us decided to go next door and have some dessert at Piccomolo. It is Italian Ice Cream called Gelato. It is different. I'm not sure we really liked it. I think everyone likes regular ice cream or frozen yogurt better, but it was fun to try it. It is really cute inside with neat little chairs. The kids all had fun eating with the little shovels, lol!



(Silly Zach, sticking his tongue out, LOL!)



What a fun day, Happy Birthday Dustin!

Pottery Time

On Thursday, Lisa and I took the kids to paint pottery. We had so much fun! Cam and Ken painted the first letter of their name, Jay painted a bunny, Lisa painted a cupcake and I painted a plate with Cam's handprint in the center. I have a plate with all my girls footprints on it, but I don't have any handprint plates. I've decided I would paint one of the girls hand each time we go. So, I have to go back 2 more times! Fun, fun! This is after we finished painting, before they glaze and fire them. I can't wait until we get to pick them up!!

On this particular day, we were sitting around painting and laughing when the news of Michael Jackson's death was announced over the radio. We were all very shocked and sad to hear that he had died! I will never forget where I was or what I was doing on the day that Michael Jackson AND Farrah Fawcett died. Cam said, "I will tell my kids about this day," and Jay said, "Can we go to his funeral?" So cute!

Freckles likes to play with the geckos on my bathroom window, lol!

Here is the final drawing. Horses are hard! Way to go Jaycie!

Jaycie drew an awesome horse tonight at dinner! Who knows maybe a future artist on our hands!

~Life & Times at the Pool~

Today was a very interesting and eventful day at the pool with my beloved friends! We had one fiasco after another, lol!

• Maddy was very sunburned from yesterdays swimming and she was hurting,
• Cameryn was swimming with her eyes closed and didn't realize the water got shallow and she scraped her nose, lip, chin and elbow on the bottom of the pool BAD (chin was the worst),
• Jaycie was opening her eyes in the water and her eyes burned,
• Christian didn't have a swim suit,
• Christy took Cameryn to the store to get New Skin and waterproof clear band-aids, and a swim suit for Christian,
• Kyle pooped in his swimmie diaper and they had to clean the pool 20 mins, so embarrassing,
• Rae Ann and I had to clean up Kyle, so gross,
• Christy came back with a much happier Cameryn and a swim suit for Christian,

We all had a great time and LOTS of laughs! One of the funniest things was Kyle had a huge pixie stick that was empty and he walked along beside the life guards in the toddler pool just like they do with their pole. They had a good laugh too! So cute! All of the kids were worn out and sun-kissed! I love you guys!!

Cam playing with baby life jackets at wal mart. Silly girl!

Cameryn, such a cutie!

Our power finally came back on about midnight Friday morning. Needless to say it was off for about 30 hours! Now I have to clean out the fridge, Ugh! Stupid Storm!!

It would sure be nice if our power would come back on. It's been off since about 6:00 Wednesday night. Ugh!

This is a test of the emergency broadcast system :o)

Funny I said this today about noon so I could test my mobile blogger and then I really heard this test right before the storm hit about 6:00, LOL!