Memorial Day Band

Cami wasn't in band since it doesn't fit in her schedule.  Mrs. Koz made the band an optional thing this year for Memorial day.  Bad choice.  She had six students show up to play.  

Cami was asked to play the snare drum so she asked her mom to play and it grew from there.  Clare and I both played the flute, Sammi was on bells, Tom on crash cymbals and Erin on the bass drum.  Without our family, she would have been up a creek.  

Mrs. Koz taught Brock to play Taps and they played it together.  

On the down side, there was one saxophone who played so loud and badly that it really ruined what we were trying to do.  Still, it was fun to play and support the school and community!

 

Bedroom Refresh

After arriving home from our mission, I did a lot of painting in our home.  I didn't do our bedroom though as it didn't need it.  

While we were in Grand Cayman, Pat said he'd like our bedroom to be the color of the ocean so I've been thinking about that for quite some time.  

If I'm painting our room, then I'm painting over the woodwork.  It isn't quality wood so I don't have an issue doing it.  I just knew it was going to be a lot of work.  Once Andrew was done with his semester, I figured I had a couple of weeks to get it done.  I painted all of the wood except for the actual windows.  I need them to come out in order to do a good job on them.  

I love the crisp clean look of the white wood.  I also love the color called "Sea Cruise".  Our bed and dresser are wood so now they also need a refresh.  Those pictures will come after I get started with that project.

I LOVE IT!

 

4K Recognition

I was invited to Eli's 4K recognition program.  They sang some silly songs for us.  

They played a variety of instruments as well.  

The best, by far, was the song they sang where they had to do some silly actions.  

Eli was the best!  Especially when it was knees together and back side up.  

He sure got us giggling.  Off to Kindergarten next fall!

 

Rummage Sale Wolves

Tom and I went to Shawano and needed to drop something off by Andrew.  We then went rummaging with the gang. 

I found a table cloth for a quarter.  The last place we went to was Pam Moede's.  She hugged us and gave each of the children wolf ears.  

We needed to send her a photo so here's what we got.  They are supposed to be howling. Tom's ears were given to Butch as he requested them.  I love these little ones!

Bonny’s Headstone

Last summer I took Bonny to an appointment.  While we were out I though to stop at the monument place and have her decide on a headstone as long as it could be paid for by her WisPact trust.  She picked out the type of stone and the size and the font.  Then we went through books of things of how to embelish it.  She chose music.  

I told her we needed to make sure that everyone knew that she was the mother of Bradley and Shane.  That was a no-brainer for her.  

Since she is being interred next to my parents I told her she could do something on the back of the stone as well.  She did!

It was delivered mid-May and it looks very nice.  

Track Stars

I was able to attend one of the middle school track meets where I wasn't working so I could finally watch the Gourley boys compete in their field events.  

Adam has been working on the discus.  He's not horrible but I could tell it was his first year throwing.  

He's having fun and he's improving so that's a plus.  

Brock has decided to high jump.  He doesn't have coaches that know how to teach it so he just does what he sees the other kids do.  

He made opening height so I was so proud of him.  He didn't place but he's willing to learn.  Perhaps next year I will help him do just that.  Or maybe this event isn't for him.  Who knows?  It took me and my high jumper children a little while to learn just how to do it too.

I was glad to be able to attend their meet!

 

Apple Trees

The apple trees haven't been pruned in a couple of years.  This year Pat cut down the Cortland because it was mostly dead and the Yellow Transparent because we didn't really like them.  The deer ate most of the apples off of those trees anyway.  

The Sweet Sixteen got a good haircut.

I discovered that a robin built her nest on top of the ladder that was left outside all winter.  There were three eggs in it.  After we hauled away the remnants of the Cortland, we found two baby birds on the ground.  I picked them up and put them in the nest.  The mom took care of them for a few days but ultimately, they were kicked out of the nest.  I don't think they were robins.

The babies hatched and just last Saturday I saw that they were out of the nest and the mom was doing her best to help the fledglings to fly.  All is well.  We all need to be kicked out eventually and learn to fly on our own.