4 weeks

Today, Madison brought the girls over.  Evelyn wanted to swim, and she needed a snack (it’s so sad how they don’t feed her).   Evie had all sorts of plans. Before she could swim, she needed to play with aunt Saige.  Before she could swim, she needed to watch some videos with aunt Harper. Before she could swim, she needed to ask uncle PP some questions.  Finally, with all her problems solved, we got in the pool for a little while.  She spent the weekend with Andrew’s dad and step-mom, who were in town for a visit.  We didn’t see her for a couple of days and we could definitely tell!  When she got done in the pool, she couldn’t go home until she got her snack!  

Even crazier than Evie is the fact that this child is 4 weeks old today.   How the heck fast does time fly?   She is a sweet, easy going little sweet pea.  We notice how much more alert she is!   She also holds her head up, and loves to lay on the floor and stretch.  Madison said she rolled over once this weekend.    She is such a blessing and we are just so in love with her.  

It is no secret that I love tropical fish.  A few months back, I decided to switch over to some old standard choices that are fairly easy to maintain.  Guppies, mollies, and a few platties.  We also have a green cat, and 2 giant plecos- one of which we put into the tank with the African dwarf frogs.  One thing about the easy breeds, they are also incredibly prolific.  The guppy had babies a couple weeks ago.  Unfortunately, they didn’t get found in time and only 1 survived.  Today, I baby netted 3 black mollies who all look like they will pop at any minute.  I hope we can save a few babies.  The females are black mollies, the males are sunburst (orange).  I am excited to see what the babies look like.   

I mentioned it is fair time, and we are hard at it making finishing touches on projects.  Orrr in this case, starting on projects.  Saige was the club cookie jar committee chair.  Actually she is also the entire committee, As she was the only one to volunteer.   Last year, our club celebrated its 90th birthday, and the kids all got shirts.   We decided to mimic the shirt theme on the cookie jar.  Thank God for my mother and her craft room!  She helped us so much!  We are not done, but for tonight the varnish is drying and we have the base done.  Tomorrow we will add the details and finishing touches.  Tomorrow, Madison is coming over to help the girls bake fair cookies and cookie jar cookies.  The contest Rules say the jar has to have 5 different types of cookies.  My co-leaders are each making 1 type, so that leaves us 3 types to make.  Luckily, I have 3 girls who only need 3 cookies for their fair entries, which should leave us with plenty of cookies to fill the jar. This jar will then be auctioned off at the livestock auction and the money will go to council.  It’s sort of a pain, but it goes to a good cause, so I guess it is worth it!   

Had to include this photo of Colin with his friends.  They noodled all these fish.  

Preston reported that sky diving was scary, and even though he is glad he did it, he doesn’t think it will be something he needs to do again!   The original plan was for him to spend the night last night but our area was hit with some pretty bad storms. Colin got called for working in the KC area, so he and Preston both headed this direction in the middle of the night.