A Hard Days Work

Dillon and I were watching Reading Rainbow one afternoon. They were talking all about children who have started their own businesses and interviewing different children on their keen sense of entrepreneurship. This is when Dillon got this great idea to have an orange juice stand. We had about 30 minutes before we had to leave to pick up Molly from school, so we put a few things together. I convinced Dillon that we had lots of limes and he agreed that we would have a limeade and orange juice stand. Dillon decorated the sign. We ran by the store on the way to the school and got cups at a price of around $2.25. Dill decided on a sell point of 10 cents a cup. But really for your dime you got a cup or limeade, a free refill of orange juice, and a Vanilla Oreo. That's a steal if you ask me. We set up at the playground at Molly's school and were sold out in less than 15 minutes. There were LOTS of kids. Total earned $5.70. That's a profit of $3.45 folks. Good Job Dillon.

Family Bowling

Here are a few highlights from our most recent bowling trip in Mentor...
Check out Molly's form. You can also check out her lip where she fell and split it open into a gaping mess. It has since healed up, but there is definitely a lasting scar. Poor girl.

He's so proud of his game. Or at least he was for the first three frames, then he got bored and wanted everyone else to do it for him.


Charlee is a little pro in the works (thank you bumpers).
Isn't it great the way the ball matches me shoes? You got to love those bowling shoes.

Last but not least, the man with all the bowling talent in our house. Daddy.

Dance

Molly had a dance recital in March. Dillon and Charlee brought her flowers and Grandma and GG were in town and able to see the recital as well. Molly did great and the girls all looked really cute up there on stage striking their various poses.






A future dancer perhaps?

Catching Up

I have a TON of catching up to do. This is from Molly's choir concert a few months back. She loves this song, so I wanted to get it on here.

My Solo in TX

So my best friend Lana (left), whom I grew up with in Austin TX and moved out to WA with after high school, convinced me to meet her in Austin, without our husbands and children, back in March.

I had a FANTASTIC time. We got to catch up with some old friends and spend some quality time with our families. Thanks Lana for convincing me that there are some definite good times to be had away from it all.


My beautiful mother taught me how to make tamales. I need to get a bunch of women over here and get an assembly line going so we can whip up a bunch at once.

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A trip to the farmers market with my bro and his lovely wife and daughter.



This is a picture of my dad with the kids from his visit here just before I went down there to visit. I thought I would throw this one in, just cause it's so cute.


Lana and her nieces on the Congress Bridge waiting to see the bats.

Man, I love this city!

My kids started early this morning with things like " There's a centipede on your head!!! April fools mommy" They have been looking forward to this day for a while and I know I'll be hearing about it all day. I'm trying to come up with something good for when they get home from school. Any ideas?

Welcome...

Baby Anderson Cordell, born March 17th, weighing in at
8 lbs 11 oz(well his dad did play college football),
and measuring 19 inches long. He was truly an angle to hold and I was so happy to have been there(Austin,TX) to help welcome him into the world. You did good little sister. I miss you guys.