Bubbles & smores!

Daddy was gone this weekend. I felt I had to come up with something fun that the girls and I could do over the weekend to have fun and create memories. Something that Daddy really wouldn't give a hoot to do, but something that the girls and I would enjoy. So while working on cleaning the garage last week I came across a bag of charcoal. It's the kind that is presoaked and all you are supposed to do is light it and walla you have a fire. I bought all the items to make smores and I had the bright idea that we would drive to the lake, find a place to light our fire and make smores. I mean it sounds easy...right?

Things started out differently than planned as my stepson and his girlfriend broke up Friday. We suddenly gained one more person at our house. We are playing musical beds right now to get everyone a good night sleep. So Saturday afternoon we headed toward Pomona Lake and a area that I thought would be the perfect place to make smores and bubbles. Well, that place was reserved already. We drove around the lake to few other places and each of those were either busy or was marked as a no burn area. By that time I had realized that I had forgotten a few major items needed for our treats. So it turned out that we just drove around to a few different places at the lake. As the day became shorter, I had already decided that we would be checking out other areas tomorrow. This evening found us heading to McDonald's and we picked up the movie "Hoodwinked Two" to watch at home.





Sunday morning dawned bright and beautiful. After lunch we gathered up the rest of the items needed and off to Shawnee Lake we went! The charcoal turned out to be a little harder to get started than I expected, but we did get enough flames going to "roast" our marshmallows! And the sun warmed up the candy bars so we could squeeze the chocolate on the graham crackers. It was a fun, sticky day!






Sunday was bright and clear. Today we would definitely find the right place for our smores fest! We headed to Shawnee County Lake. I also made sure that we had the missing ingredients this trip! It was pretty easy to find the right place to have our smores party.

And the birthday girl is......

Jordis Li Meng!! She is NINE years old! And boy did we surprise her at school today! Dad and I arrived at her school while she was still eating lunch. When her class entered the room they were all happy to find a cupcake and drink waiting on their desks. Her teacher called her up to the head of the class and we all sang Happy Birthday to her.





Her choice for supper tonight was Chinese food! Zora and Rae kept asking if we were going to have cake at home later on and a party. We were teasing and told them that we had already taken cupcakes to school so we were going to probably skip cake at home. So after arriving home, everyone had to get busy on their homework. I was having trouble trying to get all the girls out of the kitchen after they finished their homework. I then brought her cake and present into the house and surprised her yet again!! Jordis is so fun to surprise!!







I can tell you that she went to bed tonight one very happy girl. Happy Birthday Jordis Li....we love you sweetie!! XOXO!!!

First full week of school

I am not quite sure why, but our school district started school on Friday, August 26th. Maybe it was like a trial run?! So this week was the girls first week, five WHOLE days in a row, of school. Good thing we had a three day weekend to recover!! By Tuesday night we had several cranky girls!! You know when the whine is over the top that bedtimes need to be readjusted!




Daddy had a busy day Friday while Mom was at work. ZoraLin had a major meltdown before school and wouldn't get on the bus for Dad. She had a change of heart after Dad told her how bad she was going to be grounded. Five minutes after the bus left, she was dressed and asked if he would give her a ride to school. He had barely made it home when he received a phone call from RaeAnne's school that she had broken her new glasses. When he arrived at school with the old pair he also was told about her black eye. Seems she and another classmate crashed into each other at P.E. Fortunately, Mom purchased the insurance plan on our glasses and they just happened to have an extra frame in stock. When I came home from work I was shocked and surprised that she also had some bad scratches on her face very close to her eye.




Today our social worker and her hubby arrived to do Tessa's 12 month post placement report. I have all the photos ready to send to our adoption agency.