Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Monday Afternoon

I have a list of things that I should be doing right now, but I don't have any desire to do them. I'm going to regret that come Thursday afternoon when I'm racing around like a crazy woman trying to get everything done before we leave Friday morning. Oh well, I'll deal with it then, I guess.

We had a beautiful weekend here. We had showers in the mornings, but the afternoons were bright, sunny and, most importantly, warm! We were able to spend quite a bit of time outside. Kevin used the time to rake up the backyard. He worked his way from one side of the yard to the other, making piles of leave, sticks and dead grass as he went. Alison, the girl who wanted nothing to do with piles of leaves last fall, followed along behind him plowing through his piles and strewing them all over the yard again. Saturday evening, she found a stick in one of the last piles and proceded to sit in front of that pile and swipe the stick back and forth across it, flinging leaves and grass all over. She totally cracked herself up doing this. I mean she was litteraly sitting there screaming with laughter each time she flung stuff out of the pile. Kevin was not exactly happy, since he was going to have to rake it all up again, but he couldn't help but laugh at her.

Finishing up on Tuesday night.....

Alison got her first big boo boo of the summer Sunday afternoon. She got tripped up when she was a step or two away from the deck and when she went down she caught her chin on the corner of it. Fortunately it was just a scrape and not a gash, so there wasn't a lot of blood, just a lot of tears. **fast forward to Tuesday, she noticed her boo boo in the mirror today... it was so funny to watch her trying to look at it because she couldn't really keep her chin up and get a good look at the same time.**

Sunday evening we had youth group. It was supposed to be a study night, but since it was such a beautiful day, it was decided that we would skip the study and go outside and play games instead. We hit the parking lot and started out with "sharks and minnows." Kevin wiped out while he was avoiding some of the "sharks" and skinned up his hand and put his keys, which were in his pocket, through his pant leg. Later on, one of the girls slipped and fell and sprained her wrist. :( They played a few other games, including kick ball. Then came the best part. We walked over to the pizza/ice cream store down the street and we all got ice cream. For someone who hasn't had ice cream in a while, it was soooo good. A good time was had by all.

Monday proved to be a typical day. The temperature, after starting out at 71 degrees at 8:00 in the morning, took a nose dive and it was below 60 by the time we went for our afternoon walk. The wind was unbelievable in the morning, but it tapered off somewhat by walk-time, too. There was still enough for Alison to learn a new word, though: WINDY!!!

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