A week of pictures

It is 8:00 Sunday evening and we just got back from a wonderful day with the Douthit’s at Hazel’s Pumpkin Patch near Lodgepole, Nebraska, about an hour away from here. After Sunday School today, we came home, changed clothes and took off for Sidney for lunch at Perkins. Eden ate an entire plate full of macaroni and cheese and was then ready for the pumpkin patch. You can see from the slide show that Daddy had the most fun and came away with the biggest pumpkin. But I think I can speak for everybody when I say that everyone except Lars had a great time. Lars never really has any fun if he doesn’t get a proper nap. On the way home, we stopped at Dairy Queen for a supper of M&M Blizzards and French fries. All in all, a near perfect day!

The city is still working on getting 13^th street back to driving condition, and on Tuesday they poured the concrete in our driveway. Eden and Lars will be remembered forever, as they imprinted hands and feet in the wet concrete. That was fun. They will probably finish our driveway when we are out of town and my Blazer will continue to cook in the hot sun on the dirt road out front until we return.

Also Tuesday, if you didn’t know, was National Day of Baby Powder. In our house, we celebrate by Mommy going to a hospital meeting and daddy babysitting. This entails Eden then waiting until Daddy is rocking Lars to sleep. She then enters Lars’ bedroom, stealth-like, and grabs the 15 oz container of baby powder and reduces it to about 0.1 oz by shaking said bottle all over the furniture, carpet, walls, book shelf, toy box, crib, crib sheet and crib toys, rocking chair, blanket box and clothes dresser. The celebration ends when Al, who has a sleeping baby in his arms, comes to put the baby in the crib and finds the freshly dusted room. Eden then ends up in her room for the rest of the night, crying herself to sleep. Don’t worry, Mom did not miss the whole event. Dad called her in a frustrated panic twice during her meeting… event was shared with doctors, nurses and other EMTs and we were all in stitches.

Comment of the week; after several weeks of a naughty little girl, a crying baby, a barking dog and road work non-stop with noise, Al says, “I almost feel guilty for going to work every day”

Newspaper laughter of the week, found in the sheriff’s report, “Report of a large pig wandering on highway 385 between Bridgeport and Broadwater. Owner contacted.”

Friday was Bridgeport’s Homecoming Football game. The parade was at 4:00 p.m. and Eden was riding on the float for Courthouse Kids, the daycare she attends. Daddy was supposed to be walking beside, but as you can see from the slideshow, he was riding shotgun in the Tahoe. I had to work EMS for the game that night, and Al ran the siren and lights for good plays. The game ended, 7-6 with Bridgeport on top, their first win this year.

Saturday was the Husker game vs. Va Tech, and we all went to a party at Milo’s house. Eden loves parties at his house, because she can wander all around his big house and find candy that his girls leave behind when they leave at the end of the summer. At half time, I ran home to feed Samson. I heard laughter, and found Eden three doors down, riding on some kid’s tricycle in their fenced in backyard, with a big Husky standing by, watching. At least she wasn’t in the road.

Lars and Samson have been buddies this week. The bigger of the two is becoming more tolerant of the little tyke, and Lars laughs constantly when they are playing. Samson sleeps well at the end of the day.

The kids and I are heading to Michigan this week. Moose A. Moose (youtube, below) is singing us off.

I am very disappointed that nobody commented on my youtube video last week of Sonseed but I hope you all watched it and got it stuck in your head, as I did.

Happy Trails!