7 loads of laundry!

Wooo!  Finally done w/ laundry!  SEVEN loads of laundry from kids being at camp this week.  It was teen week, and they had to dress nicer for evening service because it was also revival week there.  All my kids in teen camp.  Hmmm, not sure how I feel about my babies growing up!

Arriving at camp.
Rebekah in the flag shirt, Bethany in the lavender, and JohnDavid is #27.   The others are their cousins.

duh!

Crazy sign in Hardees this morning!

lol

egg on the floor

JohnDavid got me good! (and Bethany was in on it, too!) He told me to stand behind the door and put my thumb and finger thru the crack like the letter C. Then he put an EGG in my grasp. Now I was stuck holding it there or dropping it on the floor!!!
Then I thought he had his hand below mine, so I let go of the egg, and it broke on the carpet!
He cleaned it up, tho.
What a cool prank!  (especially since HE cleaned it up!)

my "invisible" deer

Coming down my driveway today, I saw a deer partly hidden behind a limb of a tree about halfway up the last hill. I could see his legs.
"Oh, I wish someone were with me to share this. Hey, I have my camera in my pocketbook!"

I put the camera on video mode and zoomed in.
I slowly inched the car forward, watching... finally the deer stepped out! I pressed the shutter. Two seconds later, he bounded across the driveway into the woods.
"But I got him running for a few seconds at least," I thought.

I pulled up to the house and pressed the buttons to make the video play back.
"Hmmm, I don't see the 6 second one... this one is 29 seconds... Maybe it kept recording."

I pressed play.... and I saw... my lap, the steering wheel, the speedometer...NO DEER.
I had videoed the part where I was inching down the driveway!!! And when I saw the deer step out and had pressed the shutter, I had STOPPED the video! lol.

So here is my picture of my invisible deer. He had been standing about halfway up that hill, on the right just behind some protruding tree limbs.

my "invisible" deer, lol

4th of July!

We celebrated the 4th of July at my brother-in-law's house!   =)

…grilled pork chops, potato salad, corn on the cob, lemonade, watermelon… volleyball, popcorn game, basketball, playing in the tree house… Grandpa’s birthday card, arrowheads (we presented to him - found on "our"/HIS land where we live =)… looking thru old picture albums, singing with Grandpa, playing the piano… fireworks,roasting marshmallows...lots of fun!
I can hardly get a pic of JohnDavid... he won't let me!  In pics, it seems like I only have 2 kids... =\