June came fast! School is out, tee-ball has started, Wayne is busy taking classes for his Master's and driving kids for Driver's Ed, doing yard work and attempting to find time to sleep.
In all his chaos we decided back last fall while taking the commitments of Driver's Ed and Master's classes and sports camps that the boys and I should just take a long vacation this year "back home" to NE. At that time I had only had one part time kid enrolled in my daycare/preschool. Since then we have spent a couple hundred dollars in advertising and got a couple more kids, then quit advertising and enrollment boomed to nearly full! In fact I received 8 calls while in NE! So I did let each of them know I would be closed but did have back up care available for them in my absence. I continue to receive calls and will have to start turning little ones away soon. This is a milestone and we are excited.
Andy playing new keyboard for Grandma T from G&G T |
Lego Table from G&G T |
Back to the SCHOOL's OUT
Andy & Mrs. Huffman |
Zach's first time at bat. |
Andy's first bat of the season. |
Zach switch hitting. |
Andy running to first. |
Fast Break Yellow Team |
Good Game Red |
cleaning party break time |
all by myself....its clean |
Annual Garage Sale |
One of the things we bought at the neighbor's sale was 100+ bottles of hot sauce!!! If you follow my Kandi's Kitchen Keeper's blog, you may have read about Wayne's obsession with Tabasco. Well our neighbor Tracy's mom Bev Banks (School Board President and photographer Western web Photo) has collected hot sauce from around the world over the years and no longer has anywhere to store them so she sold them for $1 a piece. Wayne went and bought 20 of the hottest before the sale then went and bought the rest after it was over. There were Senator Obama ones, ones with alligator feet, ones she had to sign a waiver for stating she was over 18 and understood the risk of using such a devastatingly hot sauce and one that looks like a lava lamp with lava as sauce. We are going to feature a sauce on the blogs from here on out until they are gone. He already finished one and I am nearly done with one as well.
The boys spent this weekend with G&G T and I picked them up on the way down to NE on Monday. It allowed them a shorter ride, us an anniversary date night and spared us Andy the emotional hoarder for the garage sale. They were very spoiled and got to go to the Mammoth Site and be the ones who carried around the giant bone for everyone to see like the kid on the advertisement. They each got a very cool glow in the dark shirt they couldn't wait to show off and were very excited about the new hot tub with the fountain and changing lights. They had a great time.
Pactola Picnic
Kids jumping off picnic tables into the lake |
some places are still flooded |
Playing with Pattern Blocks Daddy got from Master's Class |
His Master's classes he is taking this summer, one in Rapid and one at BHSU campus in Spearfish ended up using identical worksheets, tests and discussions, though titled different and with different instructors. He was bummed as were a couple others in both classes. He is still taking the class as he gets credit for both and stipends for both, just boring to sit through. They are also geared more toward elementary math. The instructor he has at BHSU has been trying to keep it interesting for him. He decided to challenge him to come up with the probability of drawing 4 Aces in a row from a randomly shuffled deck of cards. This ends up being 1 in 5,500 some.
Wayne's new Plum tree he got himself for Father's Day |
The dirt Wayne hauled down by wheel barrow. |
Our Holdrege Trip was a blast. We did so much and this post is so full already, I will make it the next post. We are so very happy to get home and are trying desperately to mesh into our old routines. The preschool kids are trying as well with much frustration to having to return after many of them had 3 weeks with their grandparents as well. They all seem so much bigger when they come back, it makes me sad. I did get a new 13 month old GIRL!!!!!! Who started this week. This makes the ratio 5:2 for boys to girls. I was so excited I got out some barbies and bought some Polly Pocket sets and dolls at a garage sale. She is such a sweetheart and it makes me truly enjoy by career switch when I get to hang out and help these little ones develop, learn and grow. We had bug week this week and made bug jars, caught bugs, made toilet paper tube bugs, stencil bug collages, played the Ladybug Game, Elefun catch butterflies game, read many buggy books and started our Butterfly garden where we will watch caterpillars eat and grown and spin cocoons then emerge as butterflies. It has been a great theme for our first week back.
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