Jeff's birthday

My dear husband had a birthday today. The girls made cute cards and we took him out to our favorite restaurant...Chinese of course. We had a good day together.

Brainiacks

BRAGGING TIME! My dear loving (most of the time) girls both came home with A honor roll report cards. I was worried about Ruth, but after another conference with her teachers, she saw that I was serious about her grades and cracked down and got all A's We are so proud of our girls!

Thanksgiving

We (including Cooper the dog of course) traveled to my parent's house for Thanksgiving and had the usual wonderful food prepared by my mom, assisted by my sisters, nieces, and the professional turkey slicing by my father, who was caught a number of times "dropping" scraps to the dogs. . . we know!

We did our usual all night card games, did a little shopping, visited my long time friends Ruth and Richard, who are remodeling their entire new house by them selves....they are very handy.

Indoor soccer now

Ruth and Sara are on the same indoor soccer team. We got Sara's goggels the day of the game so she can play, and good thing we did because she took one to the face....ouch....but then she was back in. They lost to a team that are VERY good and have been playing select (the cream of the crop) soccer for 3 years together. All in all, our team heald their own and lost, but played a good game.

Wildlife refuge

Jeff took the girls to a local wildlife refuge. They had a great time, and I got some quiet time. They saw many animals and enjoyed themselves. Notice the shirts the girls have on...the ones they wore the first time they saw each other. They say "blame my sister" and how true is this? It was a beautiful cool day.

Camp Carter

Sara is in 5th grade this year, and they are divided into 3 groups. Sara is 5C. On Tuesday Sara left for Camp Carter, a YMCA camp. They will be gone for 4 days and nights....a little quiet in the house LOL!!! Tonight we are driving to the camp to see the skits they will present, and they will be home tomorrow. This is the first time Sara has been away and she was getting extra hugs and kisses for a week to store up for when she was away....remember these times beause. . . . there will be a time when she will be too busy to get even a single hug and kiss, but I hope it is not for a very long time!


Sara is home and had a blast and would have stayed another week or two if she could have! Ruth can not wait to go next year. We are considering sending them for a week in the summer.

Recyclenators

THIS IS GREEN WEEK across the US! Last year Ruth was on the GREEN TEAM at school, the kids has to apply for the position. They were in charge of the paper recycling in each classroom. On Thursdays, they would collect all the papers from each class' recycle box and take them to the back of the school to the two large recycle bins. We continued it big time this summer, and still continue it this year, though they are no longer officially on the GREEN TEAM. On Thursdays is our recycle days in our town. Everyone has a recycle bin for their glass, aluminum and paper goods. We leave a little early for school and hit as many of these bins until the back of my van is full. Paper for the school and cans for Sara and Ruth. Sara's teacher is collecting the pop tops for the Ronald McDonald homes, and the girls recycle the cans for their allowance. This week we are having a phone book drive and dear Jeff brought a bunch home from work from his coworkers.