TICK

Monday night we spend the evening in urgent care having a tick removed from Ariel's leg. Mike met up with us after work.
We spend the first hour waiting outside riding scooters.

The next hour and half riding scooters in the hall and waiting in the room.

It was a small deer tick and we are on the lookout for lyme disease for the next two weeks.

Isaac lost tooth number 7 too!

Tinfoil dinners

Tonight we made tinfoil dinners. They were delicious. Beef, potatoes, cream of mushroom, carrots and bacon.

my friend Terri

I have a friend who use to be a serious jewelry designer in southern Florida. She gave that up a moved back home to a very SLOW paced life here in Wisconsin and has taken up gardening and bread making for a living instead. She is insanely talented at everything she does. Anyway, we trade haircuts for jewelry and this is my collection so far. She uses semi- precious stones and wiring. The stones below are amethyst, blue kyanite and tiger's eye. There is something exciting about getting new great jewelry.

Most days she is so sweet I just want to eat her!

Ike Man

Earlier in the week (last week if we are counting today as a new week) I went running for a few miles around dusk. Isaac rode his bike along side of me to keep me safe as it started to get dark. He was fun company and most of the time had to wait for me to catch up. I have spent the last several years waiting for him to catch up to me and I quite enjoyed having the tables turned. Watching him ahead of me as I ran I was realizing how much growing he is doing and soon he will not be a little boy at all. Yesterday we went to a friends BBQ. They had a DJ and some dancing in their garage. Isaac and I had a blast dancing together. These photos are quite embarrassing of me, but it was such a good time. I am loving this age and this boy!

Little Rascals

Major Jim comes to town

My brother Jim is an A-10 pilot and is in Wisconsin right now for some kind of ground training. The other night he drove 1 1/2 hrs from a base to come visit and have dinner. We were thrilled to have him. I think my boys were most excited though. Lucas' eyes were lit up the whole time Uncle Jim was here and he and Isaac were arguing over who got to sit by him. After dinner we had s'mores and went to the drive thru zoo for a little wildlife where we said goodbye. We are hoping we can see him again before he has to leave.

Hear Ye Hear Ye

King Mike and Queen Lisa were proud to celebrate the birth of their great son Isaac. Isaac thought the best way to celebrate the joyous day would be to have a knight and princess birthday party.
The party was a lot of fun for all of us. When guests arrived they either decorated their coat of arms on their knight tunic or added jewels to their princess hats. Then the boys were knighted and the princesses were given their wands. We gathered dragon eggs on the castle grounds before they hatched. We overlooked two of the eggs which caused much havoc because the eggs hatched and the two baby dragons took prisoners. The knights and princesses took turns going through many obstacles to rescue the prisoners. The kings treasure was then stolen and through a series of clues was thankfully recovered. We played pull the tail off the dragon and perfected our knight skills by winning three legged races and climbing trees.

Sir Isaac's Tournament Celebration

31

We celebrated my 31st birthday last week. Mike was not around on my birthday so we celebrated a day late. Mike took the boys to get a present for me before the party. Isaac got me a gift card to target. Lucas gave me a remote control. Mike got me a really fancy video camera. My favorite touches to the party were the party hats Mike got along with the numeral candles 31.