Evan turns 13

This is not Evan, it is a raccoon I saw one morning while drinking coffee.  He was taking a bath before heading in his hole to bed.

This is not Evan either.  Dania and I planted the most beautiful hyrandgeas I have ever seen.  One was a purple/blue while the other was a vibrant pink.

 

 

 

Here is the birthday boy, he is now taller than his mother. Nate took these pictures and the lighting and comp was so bad I had to post them in sepia.

Evan wanted a small sleepover with 2 of his friends, pizza and an ice cream cake.  One of his friends who had one broken arm already, fell off the tree swing and broke his other arm.  I spent several hours in the ER with said child.  It was so sad and I felt terrible.  I think he managed to still enjoy his birthday, although I never asked. Happy Birthday dear Evan, this one was a birthday we shall not soon forget.  

Motorcross main event Atlanta

Motorcross is big in our house and every year we make the trek to Atlanta when the main event hits the Georgia Dome.  Dania and I have opted out the last two years, and it has become a father/son thing for many of our friends as well. This year they headed down with the O, W, H families and had a great day, while Dania and I ate, cleaned the house, and watched a strictly girl princess movie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenge of the teeth

The month of April has us going to see the dentist 10 times. 

Our family has had perfect teeth until now, although Dania had a cavity when she first came home, so I can't really claim perfection.   For starters, I am almost 42 and have NEVER had a cavity, I even still have my wisdom teeth and crowding has not been an issue yet.  I now have a nice big cavity in an upper moler that needs to be filled, and I am feeling quite chicken about having it filled.

Evan has 3 cavities to be filled in 2 appointments this week.

Luke has no cavities but has to get skin removed from in between his two front teeth, and they told me in another year or so he will have to have braces.

Dania is the only one that has a single appt. since she came back looking good.

Austin is scheduled next week for upper braces.

We are going to be spending a lot of moola since we have no dental isurance.  On the bright side I am able to completely keep up with my school reading and pleasure reading while I sit in waiting rooms around town.

Spring break

This spring break we did nothing but recoup from the hiking trip, and get some much needed yardwork done.  I finally am going to have a garden this year and Nate helped me to make it look spectacular.

Doing a little extra reading



Caught a glimpse of this guy chasing girls.

A little help goes a long way

 

Never get tired of this kind of help

 

Even Roxie loves to help

 

This is the best dog, she loves the outdoors and has hypochondriac tendencies like me.

My steady guy

After a long day of hauling pine straw

 

The littles took a break for some fun double swinging

 

 

 

 

The finished product.  Three 4 x 8 square foot gardens.  I am going to leave the last one without grids and put the tomatoes and the climbing squash over there.  One of the things that I am going to implement from the aquare foot gardening book is to stagger the planting weeks and think about sections that I want to harvest every week.  That way I can have the veggies I love all summer long rather than it coming in all at once.  I am excited to get started this week with the planting.

The back yard

A little beautifying in the house as well.

The Appalachian Trail or Trial

The oldest Kissack invited my hubby and eldest two to accompany him and his eldest two on an Appalachian adventure. The trip also included Sandi who had accompanied the Kissacks last year.  They were to have left Wed and arrive back Monday evening.  Due to extreme weather they called for a rescue pickup Friday evening.  They did cover 35 plus miles in those three days, and for my crew that was a big feat.  Nate has bad knees and ankles and Evan was one day off medication for a vicious staff infection in his foot.  I was pretty worried about him, but he manned up after some literal pushing from his Dad and found his trail legs on day 2.    Nate came home with a swollen ankle that he rolled on the trail, Landon came back with his feet on fire, Evan came home limping from a pulled butt muscle.  The rest of them fared much better.  All in all they had an adventure and the rest of the weekend was full of stories and teasing.  I had a lovely time with the littles in school and evenings with Tonya and her littles that didn't go.  

The pictures are of course out of order.  One day I will remember how to post them in order. I was just so happy Picasa was going to cooperate this time.

I guess he was a paid sponsor for these products

A lovely wild plant

The view from atop the fire tower

The climb up

A place from Middle Earth, the Wringwraiths are closing in.

The rain descends and Micah transforms

The hunchback made it along after all

The dorks in all their glory

I laugh every time

A father son moment  in the midst of a downpour

What the rescuers found on the side of the road.