Tidbits

Rachel loves to paint:

I turned 41 (dogs Caleb, Mocha, people Rachel, Zac, Sarah, me and my favey DQ ice cream birthday cake!, Josh, Alisa and Jessica in our garage).  I injured my back the day before, so I headed to the doctor for some birthday pain meds to help me make it through family camp.  Back pain is no fun.

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Jeff’s work (Philips Healthcare) held a “take your kids to work” day (in the summer!  So great.)… so much fun for them! Rachel and I joined in for the first few hours.

A controls engineer gave a science/physics talk for the first hour.  He did every cool experiment in the book!

Zac practiced ventilator assembly:

Jeff shows Rachel how to run the Solid Works cad package (heh heh):

Water dripping from the dining room ceiling… is never a good thing.  And sadly this is the third time for us in our home.  Plumbing has never been our home’s strong suit.

Our upstairs toilet backed up, so water (thankfully clean water!) filled our bathroom floor, and gravity took it downstairs to be captured in blue buckets.

A few water stains in our ceiling… we may have to get some drywall repaired, but it could have been worse, right?!

Look, mom!  A waterfall in the dining room:

Our boys love their legos.  City Legos, Chima Legos.  It’s all good:

Pearl, our sweet cat.  We used to have 2 cats, but we lost one recently… Rex is sadly no longer with us. 

Let’s end on a happy note though…  Evie, Siena, Renee and Sarah… 4 sweet wet suited friends: