Catching up

Well, my stint watching children is now officially over.  I can't remember if I told you about this yet, so let me sum up.  There was a single mom working out at camp this summer so I was watching her kids while she worked.  I had two young ones and we had so much fun together!

We picked wildflowers and flowers from our garden.  We played with play-doh, ate snacks, played in the pool, in the lake, played mini-golf, went on walks, played board games, and other fun stuff.  I have to admit, it was a tiring job.  Kids take a lot of energy from you!!!!!

Also, my sister-in-law leaves for China in 3 min according to my computer (time: 2:57).  My husband and I just got back from saying good-bye.  We took some time off from the crazy busyness of camp so we could be there to say goodbye.  I know she will grow a ton while she is over there, but it will be hard having her so far away for so long.  We will get to see her at Christmas this year (only 5 months away) but then it will be an entire year before she is back again.

To celebrate her birthday and going away, we all went down to the Old Market in Omaha.  It is a really neat place if you didn't know.  The buildings are really old, and super fantastic!!!!!  I was able to get some really neat photos.  I'll post a few here but if you want to see more, check out my other blog experimentography.blogspot.com.

the 1880's style sibling photo

The 2011 Style Sibling Photo

Our Not-Christmas Photo of the year.

Inside one of the book stores we visited.  Awesome!!!

Mom thought they would be Harry Potter look-a-likes if they wore the glasses.

This is Jen, making a classic Harder photo face.

We bought a new car yesterday!  Exciting!!!!!!  Also we were able to pay cash which is good and bad.  Good because we don't have to add any more to our debt, but bad because we had to total our other car in order to get the money to pay for the new car.  But our mistakes are God's blessings.  We bought a 2000 Oldsmobile Bravada.

Ours looks pretty much exactly like the one in the picture.  And no, this in not a picture of our car.  I was lucky and found one just like it online.  The guy who owned it prior to us, was an older man and he took really good care of it.  The inside looks and feels new even though the car is 11 years old.  It has a pretty smooth ride and heated seats!  We found this out when we were riding in it and my legs started getting really hot even though the air conditioning was on full blast!!! It took us a while to figure out how to turn it off, but we finally found the buttons on the side of the seat.  That was a mini adventure!!!

We love the car and we hope it will last us quite a while.  Thanks to our brother-in-law Jerry for finding the car for us!!!!!