Band BBQ

Can you find her?

She's in the front...by the flag girl.

Last week Mardi was at Band Camp from 8-12 in the morning and again from 5-9 pm everyday. This past week was a bit easier since they only went M-W from 4-9 pm. And today they had a "BBQ" for the families of the band members. Aunt Cami, Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Randall and Cousins Garron and Mathias were all here. (Aunt LeAnn's plane was delayed so she didn't make it.) It was fun to have extra family members in town for this. Mardi was glad they were here to see her play.

Big Boo-boo

Evidently she was sitting on the couch and suddenly launched herself over the armrest. It just so happened that she landed on the sharp edge of our tiled stairs. Not a lot of blood, pretty good gash though. You can't really see it in this picture because I used liquid bandaid on it. It's the yellow stuff. Works like a charm. It has antiseptic in it and you just paint it on. Much better than trying to get a bandage on it and get her to leave it there. (Or having it stay while she slept.) It looks like it will scar but we can't really tell how badly. Could have been so much worse.

17th Anniversary

This is where we went for our 17th anniversary. We enjoyed our time alone together. We went to a nice place in the hotel for dinner. And then we went to see Harry Potter 7 part two. Yes, I'd seen it but Joel hadn't. He didn't want to watch Captain America in 3D and I was more than happy to see it again.Having said that, let me warn you not to stay in this hotel. Check in took much longer than I felt it should have. We had a suite on the 11th floor that faced the pool and the music pulsated and blared loud enough to make watching t.v. unpleasant. The pool closed at 7 and the music stopped then. The walls of the rooms must be paper thin because we could hear everything going on out in the hall (at all hours of the night) and also, the people in the adjoining room. (Who tried more than once to open the door between the two rooms. The last time was at 2:30 am.) I got the worst nights sleep in months. Pass it on.

Anarya's 1st watermelon slice

Anayra has four teeth up front but she hasn't had much experience with biting food off to eat it. She really wasn't sure what to do.

At first Joel helped her hold it.

That wasn't effective enough evidently.

It was easier to pull pieces off.

Until there wasn't much left on the rind.

This girl loves watermelon!

Bowling

Joel took the day off yesterday and wanted to take the family out to do something. But, Mardi wasn't feeling well and the baby was still out of sorts from having gotten her vaccinations. So we went today instead. And we got them up at 8:00 am to go.

Joce had spent the night so we took her with us.

For the first game, Anarya watched intently, clapped and cheered when we did and was a very good baby. (Not so much for the second game.)


In her second game, Shinara got a strike. And Keddi got close at least twice!