Falling Trees

We finally decided that the king palms needed to come down. Brent was about ready to purchase a 40 foot ladder to trim the dead fronds, however, I think he finally came to his senses (or decided it might be a good idea to live awhile longer) and agreed to have them taken down. Here is the tree falling and I will soon post the new trees that went into their place.

Kamp Kerr 2009

Summer vacation began June 4 with a visit to the dentist for both boys to have more cavities filled...we are working on better brushing/eating habits so we don't have our flexible spending account drained again just by the dentist. I started calling the week of June 8 Kamp Kerr since we did not have any outside camps scheduled. Monday we started at the gym so I could have someone else look after them for 1 1/2 hours, then off to the other Y where there is a water slide!! They loved it so it looks like we will repeat that adventure a few more times this summer.

Today, Tuesday, we headed to the gym earlier so we could make the 10am $1 movie and then home for afternoon swim time with mom and smoothies (special since they were made with sherbert instead of just yogurt). I looked out at one point and they were toasting each other.


Hopefully the rest of the week goes by as nicely as the first two days... tomorrow is the gym (again) some shopping, and crafts at the library. Thursday brings another dentist visit for Andrew and Friday more swimming at the Y and my first water aerobics class!

Who knew the dentist could be so boring

here is Nathan at his appointment for a pulpotomy (take the pulp out of a baby tooth) they did the numbing and while waiting for it to take effect, he decided to take a nap.

Drip, Drip, Drip

On Saturday Brent decided that the drains in the house needed to be cleared. He started with the kids bathroom where he cleaned out disgusting old hair from the drain, then moved to our shower where he found more hair, of course this is not disgusting because it was mine. Then he thought, how about the kitchen?? Here he found the wood under the sink soaked! Hmmm, maybe a problem here?? By the time he got to this sink it was dinner time and I was trying to get dinner on the table and here he is fiddling with the faucet, turning the water on...turning the water off...finally I got dinner ready and we sat. Not for long though because when Brent has an issue he has to devote all his energy to fixing it....now. He called our neighbor for a second opinion. It was finally decided that the old faucet was dead. (Picture Amy doing a happy dance, in her head of course). I really did not like the old faucet! However, now it was closing in on 7pm and out I go to Lowes. It would have been nice to have more time to really think about what I wanted, but here I am alone in the hardware store staring up at multiple faucets. Once I narrowed it down to the brand and color I had three choices. Low price, medium price and high price....now which one did I like?? Of course the one down the way in the "special" section where there is not a faucet under $400...but I kept myself in the reality zone and bought......

TWO! I could not decide so I came home with two different ones. Once again we called on our neighbors to help decide what looked better and then that nice, nice man helped Brent install the new one!

I guess my tampering to get a new faucet worked...what I can I move on to next?? HA! Just kidding, it is nice when what you wish for comes true, even if it is a kitchen faucet.

Church Choir...Holy, Holy, Holy

I did not get the best sound quality, but I had to record this.