Random Updates

A busy week in full swing! I had to get up at 5:30 to take Becca to school by 6:15 for her Raleigh field trip. Pictures of that will be forthcoming once I get some, I am sure. Swim team practice started this week also, and time trials are tomorrow night. Becca is also running a 5k on Saturday morning in Ballantyne, which means another early morning for Mom... yawn... She's quite the busy girl these days!

Broken things... upstairs A/C has broken twice in the last three weeks... repairman #2 scheduled for tomorrow. Garage door decided to break. Repairman coming this morning. We're having some landscaping started next week (don't know why I am lumping that under broken things). Vet bills! Clara went for her checkup and ended up having a needle biopsy of what turned out to be a lipoma (benign fatty tumor). Which is good news but the needle biopsy topped the vet bill off at over $400 for the day. Sigh.

That's all... countdown to the end of school / Hilton Head vacation is on!!! Three more weeks!

Random Weekend Pictures

Caroline at school Friday releasing the butterflies her classs hatched. Later that evening at the annual HawkFest carnival. And Becca volunteering at Mitzvah Day @ Temple Beth El on Sunday packing snack bags for homeless kids.

Future Statistician

Sorting and graphing her m&ms :)

An Armful

New Shingles

We had the cedar shingles replaced on the front of the house this weekend. Here is an in-progress picture. Of course I would have loved to leave them natural but they don't stand up to the elements well unless you use a solid stain on them. And, in order to avoid the hassle of having to get approval for a color change, we just had them stained the same dark brown as they previously were. Or , a very similar dark brown. Might not have been the exact one. It still looks a thousand times better than before! Of course right after deciding to get this ($2,000) work done, we got the almost $1,000 bill from the plumber and then yesterday our upstairs A/C decided to die (service technician on the way out right now -fingers crossed). Hopefully that won't be a huge repair, as we're also in the process of getting some estimates for some much-needed landscaping in front and back.

Triathlon

Becca and Amelia participated in a kids' triathlon on Saturday -- Becca's first and Amelia's second. Amelia won her division - way to go Amelia! Becca's division was very competitive (seriously I think there were some forged birth certificates, no way some of those girls were 10). Becca came in 9th overall. Her swim time was 5th and her run time was 2nd, which was fantastic! She needs to work on her bike time (12th). She was riding her new bike and had a couple of spills on it this week and a nasty stubbed toe and all kinds of scrapes and bruises that she battled through. Proud of my girl! Here she is right before the swim.

Talent Show

Becca and her friend Molly did a glow in the dark hula hoop routine at the elementary school talent show. Supposedly there will be video of the show provided, so when I get that I will post the link! Here she is after the show. Great job girls!