Saturday, August 30th

1. Learning that Ella will have Howie's teacher (Mrs Keifer) for sure. We requested her for Ella but there was a slim chance that her class would fill up do to request.


2. Ella holding a snake. Yes, I am very afraid of these but to my surprise I walked outside to see Ella holding the one the neighbors caught.

3. Ella finally feeling better come Tuesday. Seems to be she needed tons of sleep because Tuesday Morning she woke up and was back to her old self. Including eating 2 Breakfasts only a couple hours apart.

4. We had a visitor come Tuesday night and tell me to get a quote for the van and that it would be taken care of by his friend who hit the van. I was very surprised that he would even have the nerve to show his face at my door because of how furious i am with them after lying to the police about it. (come Saturday night i have the estimate at almost $1700 but no one has returned to pay for the damages.)

5. Finally getting MI plates on both vehicles. Yes, we are procrastinators but the job is finally done now.

6. Going to the schools for a ice cream open house. Better then ice cream both of the kids got to see their classes and Howie got to meet his teacher for the first time.

7. All summer I have been meaning to take the kids putt putt golfing and just haven't done it. So we finally went on Thursday. The kids had a blast but after trying to keep fair score after 2 holes i realized it wasn't possible. Howie kept picking up his ball and moving it to a better spot and Ella kept sliding her putter until the ball went in the hole. It really was too cute. Howie kept telling me "Thanks Mom!" I probably heard it 5 times during our game. It was so sweet.

8. After a FAIR game of golf the kids rode the kiddie go karts. This was Ella's first time riding a go kart and she did a great job of driving. Howie did great too but when it was time to stop he didn't remember to pick his foot off the gas petal. He drove straight into a wall. I was afraid he was really going to be hurting Friday morning but luckily he seemed to bounce back quickly.

9. After a hot afternoon of outside we cooled down with Mcdonalds Ice Cream. Nothing better then a hot fudge sundae!

10. One thing I thought you would all enjoy this week........Ella has been watching "Sit and get Fit" I am sure you all know the show on PBS. Where the lady sits in the chair and does exercises. Well, twice this week I have walked in on Ella participating in the program, doing everything the instructor does. She is so stinkin adorable these days!

11. Saturday afternoon we had a family day. We went downtown and played at the park next to the Grand River. The kids enjoyed watching the river.


Over all our week was pretty exciting. We hope you all had a great week too.