It's Saturday!

Anna with "my girl"

She even went off the slide for Katherine.

Isaac & Ellie have fun while Anna has lessons.

We started this week Sunday at the VBS program at the UCC church. The kids were loud and squirmy the whole time. After that, we headed to our church, as John was filling in for someone who couldn't do the sound. Later, John took the older 2 fishing at the boys' pond in town for a couple of hours. After supper, John and I took the older 2 to the movie "UP" in town. Both kids got a little scared and Anna wanted to go home, but we stuck it out and they did ok. We about froze to death in there, though-they had the air conditioner cranked!

Monday, Anna started private swimming lessons since she is too little for group lessons. She is loving it and loves to go see "my girl", who is Katherine, her teacher.

Wednesday, I took the older 2 to Jr. Creations for an hour. They got to paint, so they were happy.

Thursday, it rained a little & brought a little bit of a cold front, so swim lesson was canceled. We will have to make up the lesson next Tuesday, which is turning into a very wild day. Instead, we played in the yard in the afternoon w/Briana coming in and out of the yard a few times. When Isaac went to feed his calf, which he has done a very good job doing this summer, it freaked out somehow, crashed through the fence and took off. I chased him through the south pasture, which was open since the pig pit cleaner people were parked there. He eventually went out the gate, but the dog chased him more and he went to our north trees, eventually finding a hole in the fence and getting in w/the small group of cows in the north pasture. John soon came home and got him out. Later, we did a little fishing in our south pond w/a net and help, but only caught a few carp & bullheads, a bull frog & a snapping turtle. We threw back the bluegill -they need to grow a lot yet. We wanted to get the big carp & bull heads so the smaller fish could grow.

Friday, we went back to the pool, which was COLD. Anna got to sit on Katherine's lap after swim lessons and play w/her whistle while she warmed up. It was a rather slow day at the pool.

Today started w/Isaac & I getting our fair entries finished-nothing like waiting until last minute! Later, while I was putting Ellie down for a nap, Anna & Isaac broke one of my pictures hanging on the wall. Isaac tried to pick up a lot of it-he did good for a 5 yr old. Anna was no help. They each accused each other of breaking it. So, I spent a lot of time trying to make sure the glass was all gone-which I am not convinced that I won't find another piece or 2 later. I'm more worried about Ellie finding it or one of the kids cutting their foot on one.

After lessons today, we are taking our entries to the fair since entry time is this evening. Tomorrow, I plan to not do much, as next week will be another whirlwind week.