Austin and Lauren ran around in the rain on Friday. They love playing with the umbrellas.
Julia had her friend Elizabeth over in the afternoon. The power was out when Elizabeth arrived, and she, Julia, and Austin played the game of Life by candlelight until the lights came back on.
Austin also tried to rig something up with some of his pipes and the gutter downspout. Not sure what exactly, but the pile of pipes is still sitting in the grass!
Saturday Julia helped at a bake sale for 4-H. It was a benefit for a local girl with cancer, who is now 20. The girl had been in Julia's 4-H club from the time she was 9 through her Sr. year of high school. We don't know her, but the club encouraged everyone to help out. Brian picked Julia up when her shift was done, and bought tri tip sandwiches someone was selling to help this girl. Yum!
In the morning Brian took Austin to Santa Maria so he could buy his own playground ball. Every day at recess Austin plays handball with lots of other boys. He comes home excited to tell me about the "Hardy" or "Baby" he hit that day. :) There are other terms too, and it makes me smile to hear him talk about it so seriously!
Anyway, he's been trying to play handball at home with his little superballs, and they just don't work quite the same. Brian also bought a Dora ball for the girls, but mostly Austin's been using both balls. When one rolls away, he gets the other! Brian also set a sheet of plywood up outside for Austin to hit against, but most of the weekend he was using our front door as his court. Believe it or not, it works well. And we've had no broken lamps or plants or windows. ;)
Sunday was church, but we only went to Sunday School, as Brian had started getting sick with a cold. He probably would have just stayed home all day, but it was the last week of a special 6-week marriage class we'd been attending. We didn't want to miss the last week!
Lauren wore these 3 braids in her hair. I thought it was a pretty hair style. :)
The kids had watched the Sandlot movie, and one of the girls in it wore her hair like this. Saturday, Lauren wore her hair like this and said she was going to ask the Sandlot boys to play with her. She said I could talk to them, but only she could see them!!
Sunday night Julia spent the night at her friend Emmaline's house. The next morning Emmaline's mom drove Julia to the girls T&T (Awana) director's house. Julia was one of the top share-earners this trimester (?), so got to help organize the store items. The top 2 earners from 5th and 6th grades get to do this before the store night, which was yesterday. They also get to see all the items, and see what they want first. :) Then on Awana store night, these 4 got to go early and set up all the store items at church, shop first, and eat pizza. :) Fun!
Julia bought a diary with a lock (very important to her!) and some glow-in-the-dark stars for her ceiling. Austin and Lauren said they're going to be sneaky and read her diary--which is why Julia likes the lock. ;) This picture is her playing paper dolls Monday night.
Brian didn't feel well most of the weekend, but is gradually getting better. Now Austin is croaky again. But says he isn't sick (cough, cough).
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