Jacob wanted to be in the pictures....ended up only his fingers were in the photo! The girls did not plan it, but all of them were wearing hot pink! So, I had to get a picture of that. We grilled dinner and played games late into the night. Lots of laughs and stories told by Bob and Gene that I had not heard before about their trip to Canada alone when Bob was 16. One of which included being "pulled over" by a Canadian Royal Mounty....and Gene said he didn't know the speed limit was in kmph instead of mph. Purple hazing, fireworks off a deck, Muffler exploding in the middle of traffic on a bridge in Chicago. Next time I need to record the conversation because there is no way I'll remember all this craziness.
While we have the yellow trash bin, we decided to take one of the decks down. It was in such sad shape. We haven't even gone out there except to practice our fire escapes from our bedrooms! It was really dangerous.
It was only nailed down. The boards were warped and broken.
We had some happy helpers for a few minutes.
The best part was hitting the boards up from underneath....with the SLEDGEHAMMER!!!
We got our school schedules/teachers in the mail. Everyone is happy with what they were assigned. Jacob got the same teacher that Emily had last year. Emily got the teacher she wanted. Tara was placed in the honors Soc. Studies class because she did so well on the TCAP test....no one told us til yesterday. She will take choir this year instead of art (that she took last year). She wanted to take band, but you have to choose an instrument in 6th grade-one year too late. Oh well. We will see if they are still this happy about things in 2 weeks!
2 comments:
Jealous you know your teachers already. I don't even know when we'll be able to find out!
Good luck on the decks!
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