What to do in a Power Outage

when it goes out at 3:40 P.M. and it is hotter in the house than it is outside. You pull out the little smokey. . .


and roast some marshmallows for s'mores . . .

and set up the tent to sleep in the backyard (because the house is a full 20 degrees warmer than it is outside).

The power did go back on about 12:30 A.M. and we could hear all the neighbors shouting with joy, but it didn't go back on before school was cancelled for the day, now to figure out how to entertain all the kids today. :)

Busy Weekend!

This weekend has been a long weekend full of fun activities. On Thursday Zane turned 5.


On Friday we went to the bay and had a BBQ and bonfire (sorry no pics).
On Saturday we had Zane's party with 15 kids. They had so much fun at our water party.



On Sunday we had dinner at my parents and celebrated 3 other family Birthdays (once again sorry no pics).
Then on Monday the boys went fishing. They got the gear for Christmas and have been begging to go since then. Jeff finally took them.

Zane caught a fish. He was so excited! Can you see it?

Then we had a pool party in the rain at Aunt RaNae's. Zander loves the water and is now venturing around the pool on his own.




Also soccer started in the beginning of August. Here are the boys with their teams.