Rides are so FUN!!

It was a hometown fair type of weekend. This past weekend we headed out to Sugarcreek to experience the joys of greasy, over priced food and rides at the Swiss Festival. I was shocked to discover a ride pass came at the cost of $14 a child. That is ridiculous IMHO! We managed a few rides, cotton candy and the traditional apple fritter, accompanied by lots of begging for stuff from the dear children!

Monday for some crazy reason I subjected us to another day of greasy food and rides at the Coshocton County Fair. This time it was $8 a person so we made out better, I guess - you see this time I had to pay too. Oh well, we had more time and Kailyn rode lots of rides for her money. Poor Javin was stuck in school. Oh the joys of preschool freedom.

She loved the Dizzy Dragons and managed to make Mommy very dizzy. She kept asking if I was bizzy instead of dizzy. It was so cute. Her other favorite was the super slide. Wheee!

Kailyn's Preschool World

Kailyn is just loving preschool these days. She goes Tuesday and Thursday mornings for 2 hours and 15 minutes. She has made several friends already. Although she can't remember their names, so she calls them all by the same name. It is cute.

I got to go to school to be the helper last week. So Kailyn was the special helper. She declared what the weather was outside and counted all the days with a pointer for the calendar. Doesn't get much better than that. She loves to dress up in her skirts to go.

Kailyn's favorite part about preschool is the dress up clothes and the housekeeping area. Speaking of dressing up, she just came downstairs, after I had put her to bed, with a lady bug costume on, a pirate's eye patch and hat and a hook arm. So much for going to bed early. :(

It has been kinda weird for me to come home to an empty house during preschool. Although I am usually out running around on some errand. Times are definitely changing around here.

Here she is on the first day with her new pink backpack.

Soccer in full swing

Javin is getting out all his extra energy at soccer these past few weeks. Not that he has a lot of energy left from school, but he does manage to find some to spur him on.


Run, run and run some more. He sure sleeps well on game nights.



It has been fun to watch him play and have a good time. Park District soccer is great because they don't put the emphasis on winning but having fun. Cause if we were keeping score...it wouldn't be good. BUT they are having fun and learning how to play as a team.

Go Black!

Color options

An update on the car...it hasn't happened yet. I love not being pressured to make a decision as all car salesmen would like me to be. So here's the deal, I don't really care that awfully much about the color as long as it is a good car. But I need to pick one, so what color do I pick? Augh! I don't know. The options are: Nighthawk Black Pearl, Glacier Blue Metallic, Borrego Beige Metallic, Whistler Silver Metallic, Tango Red Pearl, Royal Blue Pearl, Green Tea Metallic, and Taffeta White. Who in the world comes up with these names? What is Borrego? I have no idea. I looked it up in the dictionary and it is not in there. Why would that make me want to buy that color? No idea. Needless to say, the Borrego is my least favorite, absolutely will not buy color. The Whistler I am steering away from because I just had a car that color and want something different. So, what color do you think is just so Angie and crew? Here a link to look at the colors: http://automobiles.honda.com/cr-v/exterior-colors.aspx Click the comment link below and submit your color ideas.

Cavernous explorations

It was a hot and muggy day...but we discovered a whole new world below ground.

On a whim Mom and Dad and my crew took off for Delaware, Ohio and the Olentangy Caverns on Labor Day. As we descended the steep stairs to the underground world, we were met with wonderful, natural air conditioning. Caves are always 54 degrees no mater how cold or hot it is upstairs. We had a fun time exploring the various rooms, like Catherdral Hall-it had a really tall ceiling. Some of the rooms were very spacious and some of the passageways were a tight squeeze to get through. We learned about how the Indians used the cavern for protection from enemies and as a meeting place. We also found out that the caverns flooded 3 times this June from a sink hole on the property. Pretty interesting stuff.

We added a picnic lunch, some hiking through the woods and a replica of an old town to the menu. Topped it off with Handles homemade ice cream and it turned out be a great little adventure.