About to go to sleep and I see a flashlight shining in the window…. look out see someone walking up the street looking at everyones garage areas……. We have had a string of burglaries…so I tell Mike to call the Police.   We see the guy walk behind a neighbors house while we are on the phone…..Police pull up the guy walks out…..Can you feel the excitement……….. Well turns out I just called the Police on my neighbor looking for his dog.  So anticlimactic….so embarrassing….I sent Mike out there to apologize for me and explain.

Luckily we have good neighbors and wonderful Police…. I think I owe each of them a batch of cookies~

Grants Spy Academy Party was a blast…..Here was the plan  Check in Station:

When the boys arrive, they will get a

1. fedora
2. mustache
3. glasses
4. id tag: Take the paper tag out and use the ink pad to get the fingerprint of the child.

5. Fingerprinting w/ name tags: Using washable ink pads have your guests take each other’s thumbprints. Make sure to have a box of hand wipes ready to clean their fingers afterwards.

1. Observation training: 2 people?

Game a: One at a time the boys will get to view a tray for 10 sec. During that time they must look at each of the items on the tray and remember them. Once the 10 sec is up, cover again and hand him the observation sheet, where he will put a checkmark in he box of each of the items that were on the tray.

Game b: While the boys are waiting to view GAME A, They will get the encryption sheet to work on.

Option c: When the boys are done with GAME A: take their picture in front of the height chart with the Caught having fun card. ( don’t tell but ht epicture will be used for the Thank you card)

Punch training number 1 on their ID’s

2. Bomb Bowling : 1 person

Set up 10 water bottles in the bowling formation.

Give them the Black coconut to bowl with.

After 2sets they can play in the playground

Punch training card number 2

3. Jumpy : 0 person

Follow Jumpy Guidelines

Punch training card number 3

4. Secret Mission :

Lazer beams ( red yarn) will be strewn throughout the room in a pattern. One agent at a time will travel to the center without touching the “BEAM” to retrieve their goodie bag.

1.LEAD: I can do this, its art of delegating. 2.FOLLOW:the leaders need worker bees .I can do this too, tell me what needs to be done,when & rest assurd it will be done. 3.GET OUT OF THE WAY some days are sweatpants & bad hair days & there is always someone younger, w/more energy, a nicer wardrobe & great hair to do the job, I’ll only slow down the process. I will relax, grab my diet coke,sit back & watch or take a nap,frankly I deserve it!

Kids off to school, Check

I was reading through some of my old posts and I came across my “Simplify my life” post. Hows that been working for me….you might ask?

Harder than I thought. But I think I am still on track.

1. We now have a 2 car garage that we can actually park 2 cars in….. only took us 3 years.
2. While I still dont have a handel on the STUFF it is much easier for me to say “Do we really need this?” and if not throw it away.
3. Saying NO. I think the Girl Scouts have helped me in this respect. I have a focus for my need to volunteer. Not to say that I cant lend a hand to my friends from school for bake sales, ect but I just wont be running them. I owe Joan , Becky, Michele, and Yeta for the whole quarentine from Mexico in the spring!
4. Baby steps……I really feel good about the small steps that I am taking in this.May take another year to get me where I want to go but I am on my way.

Wow….Where did the summer go? I have had so many of my friends ask the same thing. We had such a mild summer that it felt like no summer at all. ( I am slightly afraid of what the winter will bring?)

Now let the season of wacky schedules begin!

We just returned from a weekend in Indiana.  I cant believe how much we did in 48 hours…. Swimming,xbox, chase the dogs, burnt pizza, upwords/scrabble, chase the dogs,xbox, Big dinner, visit with family, chase the dogs, Ice Age 2( thank you Jan), Dairy Queen, Bonfire, smores, mini wiennies, Night Swimming, Upwords/scrabble, xbox ,chase the dogs…. WHEW~

Poor Auntie Beans was still in her castwrap…. so she didnt get to do everything with us but it was still nice to visit.

I think I am spending half of my day in the kitchen.  Between getting breakfast, cleaning breakfast, snacks, cleaning snacks, lunch cleaning lunch  mid day snacks…..and dinner… I think you get the picture.

Having the kids in full day school spoiled me!

  Now I am sure there is a fable in here some where , just cant think of one right now.  The kids had a carnival of animals at school and were able to pick their animals…..Cammie chose a Swan….She wanted to dance as gracefully as she could…..Grant chose a Donkey…so he can point his butt in the air and kick his feet!?!?!

 For Cammies outfit we had most everything on hand White boots, pants, furry sweater, and a tutu.  All we need was a boa, felt plastic mask and googlie eyes…. oh yeah and one of Michael’s socks…. I bet he is wondering where it is….well little does he know that it has been reborn into a swans head!

Grant’s was fun, Had the brown pants, brown furry sweater, masking tape and a pizza box… just needed spray paint.  Yes I did say Pizza box.  Grant loved that we made the headpiece from our Fridays nights dinner package.  He could smell pizza whenever he wore it!  A few cuts and bends in the right directions kept together by masking tape created a fabulous donkey head! He loved it!  Michael took video and I am going to try to upload it