Last Week's Highlights

In no particular order....
1. Shea's 1st violin recital - fabulous - Dad hears her potential and has said she could continue through the summer.
2. Zumba with Sumha
3. Asa playing his final tournament games
4. Rett hanging out with his friends in the man cave
5. Painting Shea & Ivys' room BRIGHT orange
6. Shea and Rusty's Daddy daughter date
7. Mountain biking with Rusty, Dan, and Katy (& having good friends who'll watch your child at a moments notice - thanks Sarah)
8. Rett cleaning the bathroom toilet to a T
9. Double Date with DK listening to Loose Shoes and watching Big Al on the harmonica
10. Discovering Twilight
11. Finally getting new tires for my gas guzzler (after 3 failed attempts)
12. Helping Ivy run the bases at end of season baseball party
13. Asa's crazy grooves

Freckles

Okay. The nitty gritty is that I REALLY like Natasha Bedingfield (sister of Daniel..."I gotta get through this."). I had her last album and LOOOOVED it. So I've been curious if her new album would be equally enjoyable and it is. Put a good word into the Father of my children (for Mother's day). He accidentally left the Amazon thingy open so I discovered one of my May 11th gifts. Woohoo! Anywho, I saw this song called "Freckles" so I had to click on it because, as you all know, we are the freckle family. Well once again...Natasha has done herself proud. It rocks (pardon the pun). Click on it below and you will see what I mean. We now have a theme song for our family. ;o)

It's my brother's fault...

So says trash talker, Asa. It started so innocent. Nice Sunday morning. We have the before picture of Asa happily swinging in Rett's newfound talent (literally minutes before the episode), homemade hammocks. Then there is the after picture (36 hours later) of Asa with a nice quarter sized wound. The story was that Asa was trash talking to Rett, Rett got heated under the collar, released the heat by surging sticks in Asa's general direction (but UNINTENTIONALLY meaning to hit the little trash talker), one stick LANDED above Asa in a tree, he looked up as the stick came down, and skewered little brother. We had Asa wear the red shirt to school to answer the repeated questions. ;o) Funny thing though, we saw a friend at the store a couple of days after the incident. He of course asked "What happened to you Asa." Asa pointed at Rett. The friend, knowing Asa and Rett well, then asked, "What did you do to Rett, Asa?" I couldn't help but laugh. I told our friend he was a wise, experienced parent (he had been Rett's former scout master and probably realized Rett wouldn't intentionally hurt a flea).