Staying Home (ish)

Well, no grand adventures have happened since we got back from camping with the Leaches. We have however been enjoying a lot of time at home and around our neighborhood.

Thursday the 2^nd we woke up in our own beds... and stayed there for a long time. We eventually got up and had a lovely breakfast of blueberry pancakes and cheesy eggs. We went to free lunch, swam in the pool, and watched Top Gear UK. Ru played with his friends Grace, Cheyson, and Destin. We took a lovely drive to a workshop of a master guitar builder to have my guitar repaired. We cruised by Fred Meyer and got a bike lock for the new bicycles, and some new sandals for Ru (He blew out a flip flop) Our evening consisted of video games, and a movie.

Friday the 3^rd we woke up in our own beds... and stayed there for a long time. We eventually got up and had a lovely breakfast of blueberry pancakes with bananas. We took a bike ride to free lunch and rode to the market for dinner supplies. We came home, swam in the pool, and watched Top Gear UK. Ru played with his friends Grace, Cheyson, and Destin. Destin refused to wear his helmet because it had little teddy bears on it so we did some modifications.  I gave them supplies (including popscicles) and we dramatically improved it.  Flames baby.  Its so fast its got flames.

From teddy bears to flames. Dramatic helmet improvement.

Ruben is getting back into the idea that he's going to be a 4th grader and yes school will start again someday.  I told him for every 6 pages he does in his 4th grade workbook he can have an hour of video game time.  So he went to work earning video game time.

Hard worker Ruben

I made cole slaw

Saturday the 4^th we woke up in our own beds... and got up quickly to beat the heat. We had a lovely breakfast of oatmeal blueberry pancakes with bananas. We cleaned the house quickly and hung up signs for a bike wash.  The idea was to get the kids here and wet and happy and fix and wash bicycles.  One boy showed up, and now Ru has a new friend, Brandon. Then we swam in the pool, and watched Top Gear UK. I did some online music shopping and we discovered that if you play music loudly in the dining room you can dance to it on the back patio under the sprinkler. That's the way to beat the heat! Jeremy came over to jam for a while then we finally fell asleep in front of the fan around midnight.

We have a mustache stuck on our door (just for this purpose), Gracie put her face up to it. 

Sunday the 5^th we woke up in our own beds... and stayed there for a long time. We eventually got up and had a lovely breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast. I tackled my desk mess and after watching some Top Gear UK we went to the pool. I made lists of all the things to do (and buy) before school starts while Ru had an epic water fight with (it seemed like) every kid from our apartment complex. Usually there is only a handful of people in the pool but it was packed. I ended up having to disarm a kid because he kept getting my lists wet. I've had an itchy rash all over since our camping trip so I stayed dry but Ru had a blast.

We journeyed to Winco (about a mile from home) and bought provisions for the next week or two and came home to find kids waiting to play. I gave a guitar lesson to Gracie and then we went outside just after dark to play with Ruben's new glow in the dark frisbee. It was a disappointment. Next time we'll get one that actually lights up. (A note about Gracie, she sounds exactly like Sandy on Spongebob Squarepants.)

Lovin the water fight