Beau took us to his place so the kids could ride
We went to Lynchburg to do some shopping and celebrated the kids birthdays with Opa, Lauren got a new cell phone and Ryan got his own ipod.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Tennessee Trip in June
We went for another visit to Tennessee and this time Lauren invited her friend Taylor to come with us. We all had a great time. Here are some pictures, not in order but none the less lots of pictures. The girls played Chip in a little game of soccer before we went out to catch some catfish, 15 pounds of catfish to be exact.
We went to Lynchburg to do some shopping and celebrated the kids birthdays with Opa, Lauren got a new cell phone and Ryan got his own ipod.
We went to Lynchburg to do some shopping and celebrated the kids birthdays with Opa, Lauren got a new cell phone and Ryan got his own ipod.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Cub Scout Ceremony
Ryan had his cub scout ceremony for the end of the scout year, he earned his bear badge and is now a webelos. That means a new hat, kershief and shirt as well as more fun and exciting events, yeah Ryan.
After all of the badges were handed out and the ceremony portion was complete the boys got to go bobbing for apples. At first Ryan wasn't too sure about this whole thing but by the looks of it he did get into it.........
After all of the badges were handed out and the ceremony portion was complete the boys got to go bobbing for apples. At first Ryan wasn't too sure about this whole thing but by the looks of it he did get into it.........and success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs to all, Kim
Lauren turns 15 !!!!
OMG - I am the mother of a 15 year old, just shoot me now.
Lauren's birthday was on Friday June 5th. She didn't want to have a party or get together with any of her friends so we just went out to dinner at Chili's and invited Aunt Leslie, Grandma, Grandpa and Taylor. I made her this "Cookie" birthday cake, cute huh?
Aunt Carol - here is a better picture of Ruth and Ernie
Lauren's birthday was on Friday June 5th. She didn't want to have a party or get together with any of her friends so we just went out to dinner at Chili's and invited Aunt Leslie, Grandma, Grandpa and Taylor. I made her this "Cookie" birthday cake, cute huh?
Aunt Carol - here is a better picture of Ruth and Ernie
Hugs to all,
Kim
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Birthdays Times Three
Aunt Carol this ones for you...here is a picture of Ruth and Ernie tonight when we all got together to celebrate some Carpenter birthdays. My wonderful and beautiful mother in law and my dapper (even with the breathing thingy) father in law. Love you guys.
Ernie's birthday was on April 8th. Leslie asked him what he wanted to his birthday, he said a bottle of Absolut vodka to which Ruth said absolutely not (haha). Instead she got him a box filled with little bottles of all different kinds of vodka, just as good I think.
Alan's birthday was April 26th. We always say that we are turning into our parents, well Ruth wanted to make that so with Alan so she gave him a package of underwear since Ernie seems to get those at all his birthdays and Christmas. Uh-la-la, them are some sexy BIKINI briefs, wonder if they'll end up at the bottom of a drawer!! (this picture is a little fuzzy, sorry)
Leslie's birthday was on May 16th. We all went in together and got Leslie the Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Alan and I both have one and they are amazing. We have both been reading like crazy, not too much watching TV lately. If you haven't seen it, check it out at amazon.com. Anyway, since Les loves to read this was a must have for her. She was so surprised, she had no idea it was coming. I hope she gets lots and lots of use out of it.
That's it for the birthdays. We all had fun and ate tooooo much. I had two helpings of strawberry shortcake, oh oh, and Ruth makes the absolute best one around with tons of whipped cream and strawberries layered and layered. Um um good.
Ernie's birthday was on April 8th. Leslie asked him what he wanted to his birthday, he said a bottle of Absolut vodka to which Ruth said absolutely not (haha). Instead she got him a box filled with little bottles of all different kinds of vodka, just as good I think.
Alan's birthday was April 26th. We always say that we are turning into our parents, well Ruth wanted to make that so with Alan so she gave him a package of underwear since Ernie seems to get those at all his birthdays and Christmas. Uh-la-la, them are some sexy BIKINI briefs, wonder if they'll end up at the bottom of a drawer!! (this picture is a little fuzzy, sorry)
Leslie's birthday was on May 16th. We all went in together and got Leslie the Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Alan and I both have one and they are amazing. We have both been reading like crazy, not too much watching TV lately. If you haven't seen it, check it out at amazon.com. Anyway, since Les loves to read this was a must have for her. She was so surprised, she had no idea it was coming. I hope she gets lots and lots of use out of it.
That's it for the birthdays. We all had fun and ate tooooo much. I had two helpings of strawberry shortcake, oh oh, and Ruth makes the absolute best one around with tons of whipped cream and strawberries layered and layered. Um um good.Night, Kim
Cub Scouts Memorial Day Flag Planting
Today I took Ryan to the Veterans National Cemetary with his Cub Scout Pack. For the eighth year the Boy Scouts & Girl Scouts have been coming to the cemetary on Memorial Day weekend to plant flags at all of the grave sites. This is no small endeavor. The cemetary is 105 acres and there are 85,00 grave sites including 14 medal of honor recipients. It was an amazing experience (at least I think so). Here is Ryan with his Pack Flag....
They had to address the grave site, which Ryan did by reading the persons name out loud and we read what state they came from or in a few cases what country they came from. Then he planted the flag in the ground...
then he had to salute the person and move onto the next grave. Ryan went through a little over 3 bundles of flags and I think each bundle was about 20-25 flags.
This is a picture looking out at the cemetary prior to the event starting
This is looking forward after the planting was completed. It took about 20 minutes to mark 85,000 graves with flags----AMAZING american flags as far as the eye could see. It kind of took your breath away.
I hope Ryan will remember this for a long time. I think we will definitely participate in this again next year.
They had to address the grave site, which Ryan did by reading the persons name out loud and we read what state they came from or in a few cases what country they came from. Then he planted the flag in the ground...then he had to salute the person and move onto the next grave. Ryan went through a little over 3 bundles of flags and I think each bundle was about 20-25 flags.This is a picture looking out at the cemetary prior to the event starting
This is looking forward after the planting was completed. It took about 20 minutes to mark 85,000 graves with flags----AMAZING american flags as far as the eye could see. It kind of took your breath away. I hope Ryan will remember this for a long time. I think we will definitely participate in this again next year.Night all, Kim
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
A Request -------
Oh my, oh my, oh my
I've had a request, yeah.......
Erin here are the charms from the kids that they picked out for Mother's Day. Which one do you think Lauren picked out?
Wrong.......she picked out the peace sign and Ryan picked the soccer ball. Now every year they can get me new charms, I'm sure within no time the necklace will weight about 50 pounds :-)
Off to watch NCIS with Lauren - bye all.
Hugs to everyone, Kim
I've had a request, yeah.......
Erin here are the charms from the kids that they picked out for Mother's Day. Which one do you think Lauren picked out?
Wrong.......she picked out the peace sign and Ryan picked the soccer ball. Now every year they can get me new charms, I'm sure within no time the necklace will weight about 50 pounds :-)Off to watch NCIS with Lauren - bye all.
Hugs to everyone, Kim
Monday, May 18, 2009
Beach - Soccer - Beach - Soccer ???????
On Saturday we spent the day at the beach in Santa Barbara and I mean the entire day. We left at 6:45 am and got home at 7 pm. We had a soccer tournament, a soccer in the sand tournament. A first for all of our girls. They sure had a great time but were pretty exhausted afterwards. The team was split into two, we had Fusion (in wht Jerseys) and Fusion Too (in yellow scrim shirts). They each played three games and then faced each other for game four. I think they had the most fun playing each other. Here is the full team picture including the three coaches...
Here is Shelby in the blue scrim shirt, she was playing goalie for Lauren's Fusion team when they played each other and she rolled the ball out and ran with it all the way to the opposite goal while Lauren jumped into their goal to cover. Can you see that huge grin on her face? She has such a blast and almost made a goal. The game amongst themselves ended in a 2-2 tie, went into a 3 minute sudden death overtime and then in a 3 on 3 shoot out. After all that Fusion won by one point after the shoot out. The referee was having fun watching them play each other and couldn't believe we went to a shoot out.
Here is Lauren covering the goal when Shelby took off with the ball. She ended up jamming her finger in the first game so badly that she didn't play goalie for the remaining games. I even took her to the urgent care on Sunday because it was ver swollen and black & blue. Luckily no fractures just a really bad bruise. It's her left hand so it doesn't effect her writting but does hinder her a bit in doing the dishes, poor child.
In between games we all hung out under the easy ups. The girls all had swim suits on so lots of them worked on their tans.
Here is Shelby in the blue scrim shirt, she was playing goalie for Lauren's Fusion team when they played each other and she rolled the ball out and ran with it all the way to the opposite goal while Lauren jumped into their goal to cover. Can you see that huge grin on her face? She has such a blast and almost made a goal. The game amongst themselves ended in a 2-2 tie, went into a 3 minute sudden death overtime and then in a 3 on 3 shoot out. After all that Fusion won by one point after the shoot out. The referee was having fun watching them play each other and couldn't believe we went to a shoot out.Here is Lauren covering the goal when Shelby took off with the ball. She ended up jamming her finger in the first game so badly that she didn't play goalie for the remaining games. I even took her to the urgent care on Sunday because it was ver swollen and black & blue. Luckily no fractures just a really bad bruise. It's her left hand so it doesn't effect her writting but does hinder her a bit in doing the dishes, poor child.
In between games we all hung out under the easy ups. The girls all had swim suits on so lots of them worked on their tans.
The girls all had a good time. We have a tournament at the end of the month and then possibly another sand tournament in Santa Monica in June. I can't tell you how happy I was to get home and take a shower, I am definitely not a beach person.
Kim
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