Still Life Drawing

 Last week I taught art class at school. This is the 3rd year that the school has partnered with the arts center to provide art classes to K-8th students. We did still life drawing of apples. I was quite surprised, the kids really liked it.

Fish Fry

Trying to find the kitties.

Saige really wanted a drink from the hose.

Cooler evenings means fire!

All the kids took turns writing on Grandma Pat's cast.

Road trip

We just left on our first family road trip. We are going to Kansas city for a four day weekend at hollie and Michaels house then Ottawa for a night with Gigi and the studley clan. Plaza art fair, zoo, football on tv, relaxing. Grandma pat was sweet and made the kids a goody bag for the trip.

Homecoming

Today was football homecoming in Greensburg. I went to the daycare and watched the parade with the kids. They got a ton of candy. Neither of them were too thrilled about taking a picture with me. Today Amelia rode the bike with training wheels for the first time by herself. She was doing circles in the daycare drive way. It was good to spend time with them this afternoon. I went back to work for a bit, then left early to get the kids. We went to the soda fountain and library.

The sunset tonight at the football game was beautiful.

Amelia-isms

When Grandma Ann and I are tickling her, "ok guys, that's enough"

Driving by the hospital on the way home, "oh gosh, look at the flag"

Travis got new "shoes" called Vibram Five Fingers (google it, they are weird). Amelia says "Daddy you got your footprints on?"

Tonight we went to the football game and the speaker system was really loud and staticy. She said "do you hear that?" I said yes, did you hear it? She said "it the Russians." (thanks Clint)

Clint's 4-0

Ashley has been planning a surprise birthday party for Clint for months and we finally got to surprise him last night. Amazingly, it was still a secret and he was very much surprised. It was a beautiful day and evening and a great time to talk with friends and watch our kids play together.

Mom made this amazing cake. She's so crafty.

Ashley is the recycle queen. Gotta love her drink holder from a planter box.

He really was surprised.

Gotcha!

Amelia rode around all night on the tractors. Even after dark, she was still buzzing around out in the yard by herself.

The kids decided that green frosting makes good chip dip.

Toilet issues

This week the toilet in the kids bathroom wouldn't flush completely. It would if there wasn't any paper. Travis messed with it, plunged it, used a snake on it, and nothing worked. While in Lawrence, I bought a toilet snake. Travis went to work as I was getting amelia in bed. After a couple minutes he shouted, "I got it!" Then he told me when I was done with Amelia I needed to go look in the tub. Turns out Truman had flushed a small hairbrush.