Look Anew

There are times when you simply need a different perspective.

OH SNAP! SUMMER IS HALF OVER!

And what a busy and wonderful summer it has been so far!

We celebrated the end of school with a trip to the Evergreen Speedway with some seriously crazy Semi Truck races and School Bus figure eights (pictures or video to follow soon) Man talk about a fun late night evening. The kids were even able to take a ride on the school buses around the figure eight and lap track!

A few days later we headed down south to a "Let's Hoot" program. I am a member of a local organization that is involved in watershed habitat restoration and offers some amazing educational programs. I, unfortunately, left my camera at home and have failed to figure out how to get my camera phone pics from my camera onto my computer otherwise you would behold some truly amazing and up close pictures of owls (and I am talking four inches away from my camera close!) So we spent the evening looking at the cutest rehabilitated owls in the world and all the amazing facts that went along with them. BEST two hours EVER!!!! AND I think we may be able to assist Sarvey Wildlife Center and release a couple of rehabilitated barn owls over at my girlfriends house! I will definitely let you know if we get to witness that!

The following weekend we headed to nearby town festival for a car show and local farm for a strawberry shortcake eating contest. I mean really, for a kid, what could be better than that? I will post the video to that at the bottom of this post. TOO FUNNY!!!

Then we kicked off the summer reading program in our town and started in on the dreaded summer homework packets that my children's mother always forces them to do every stinking summer.... Yep, that went over as well as it usually does but hey, we are soooo close to mastering those dreaded multiplication facts!!!

Next came a four day camping trip with my girlfriend and our children and her children's friends. My children are seven and ten. Hers are fifteen and seventeen.... You can imagine that my children picked up a few things over that long weekend! Email me and I will tell you a very funny story about "girls." I will add a few camp pictures in the next couple of weeks. I am overwhelmed in house projects at the moment!

The night we got home from Camping we headed back out and went to a "Let's get Batty" program and saw bats up close and personal and all the amazing reasons they are vital to our lives. Just ask my kids!!! They will start spouting facts all over the place. (Just think, no more bananas, cashews or Excedrin if anything happened to the cute little furry things!)

So now we are back home with a full Calender for the rest of the summer. We have a trip to a kangaroo farm in the works, a junior stream keepers academy, several hikes, some rollerskating a little ice skating and a bunch of other things on the agenda. It is going to be a whirlwind of a summer with some great lasting memories. Catch ya when I can!!!

Oh yea! and dont forget to pause my music player before you start the video!