Lemonade Stand

You know, I love watching my kids come up with ideas of things to do. However, when it involves me, sometimes I just want to shoot their so called ideas down. During the summer, London, like every kid, wanted to do a lemonade stand. I kept putting it off and putting it off and creating one excuse after another. Well, I ran out of excuses and the possibility of sunny days. So our neighbor down the street was having a garage sale last weekend and we asked if we could come down and profit from her crowd. We took 2 pitchers down, one grape and one lemonade. Miss Betty (neighbor who was having the garage sale) always watches out for our family and is constantly giving without expecting anything in return. But she gave the girls some crackers to sell with the lemonade and told them to keep the money. London was so excited about that. We started out with $2 in change, and came home with $8.50 so they were thrilled that they each got $3.25. Wow! Wouldn't that be nice if we could get excited about that amount of money, that just might buy us a gallon of gas. Because I had to keep running back and forth between the houses, Betty and other neighbors helped the girls if they needed it. Thank goodness for great neighbors. This was actually a fun time and an opportunity to put London's math skills that she has been learning about in school to good use. Betty's husband took these pictures of the girls. Thanks to him for capturing their first lemonade stand moments. Laurel, one of London's best friends joined in on the action a little later and I think that is when London really started to have fun. It turned out to be a beautiful day and on top of making a little money, they got to take the sombrero hats home from the garage sale. YEA!! Brooklyn actually convinced Betty that she didn't want the hat and got her to give her a bell instead. I don't know which is worse, the constant ringing or the huge hats. Oh well, at least they had fun and can stop pestering me about having a lemonade stand for another year.

Greg's Birthday

Saturday October 4, Greg turned 34. Wow! He is old. I remember meeting him a week before his 22nd birthday. It is crazy how fast the time goes. Undergrad, a dog, med school, lots of moves, residency, and 3 kids later we arrive at the place we are now...HAPPY! Even though things have been tough, we have always enjoyed the journey. Happy Birthday! Thanks to Angel for getting Greg his favorite Dairy Queen ice cream cake.

Finally we had an excuse to go out so to celebrate this day oh, I mean his day, we went to PF Chang's. Angel, whose name fits her, has been a great friend to our family, volunteered to watch the girls. That means fun for all of us. After we left, who knows what they did. Last time is was mani's and pedi's for the girls, this time Angel even documented their events so I will share and let the pictures speak for themselves.

cards for daddy

It's the hand giving him a spanking on his bum.

Then it was some sort of salon time with cool do's. I even got in on the action when I got home.

Pigtails for all of us! Greg is surrounded by girls and I know he wouldn't have it any other way!

Other Crazy pictures of the Birthday Bash

Can't forget the baby

or the dog kissing the babyBrooklyn helping Greg find his present