Off To Camp

Frank and I are free for one whole week! What are we going to do with ourselves.

We dropped the girls off at Girl Scout camp. They come home next Saturday. While I thought this is going to be great, I was already missing them when we drove off. I hope it doesn't rain too much for them. They are going to try and go canoeing and sleep outside. I hope Frank and I don't kill eachother while they are gone.

MacKenzie, Taylor, Bailey and Dulce.


Dulce and Bailey.



Home away from home for one week.

MacKenzie turns 12

My beautiful baby turned 12 this past week. She has grown to a lovely young lady. Still silly as ever, but a sweetie none the less. This years birthday celebration was low key. We spent her birthday going to lunch at Red Lobster and then the movies. On Friday, we had a small bbq with my sister and grandparents... a couple of friends too.

Swim Team

This is the second year the girls have been on the parks & rec swim team. It is probably the best deal of the summer. The swim meets are not mandatory nor are the practices. If they want, they can swim every weekday night (weather permitting). Swim meets are on Saturdays and they don't have to go if they don't want to. Because we have been so busy this summer, the girls have swam most night but only made it to 2 meets. They can choose the events they want to swim. Bailey chose the 25 butterfly, 25 breast stroke and 25 freestyle. MacKenzie chose the 25 breaststroke, 50 backstroke, and the relay. It does not matter what place you come in, everyone gets a ribbon.
This week they are off to horse camp.



Bailey doing the breaststoke.






Mack doing the freestyle.



The backstroke.

Acting Class and Family Night

As usual the weekends fly by. Below are a couple of pictures of Bailey as she completed her acting class at the Albuquerque Little Theater. While she did not get the leading part of Thumbilina, she did a fabulous job as the mother mouse. The week long class included making a mask and costumes and learning how to really annunciate words with "character". Bailey had no

problem acting out any part..

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The weekend was a little rough. I took a big fall on my training ride on Saturday. Go to my traning blog for more information. http://mypurpledragonfly.blogspot.com/ We needed to finish up the condo since we had people moving in on July 1st. Frank has been working like a mad man and will need to extra thanks and attention from me when everything is done. Sunday we decided to rent movies and stay home. We bought a dough ball from Dion's and made our own pizza and for desert Frank lit our chimnea and we had smores. It was perfect to just sit around

and do nothing.

MacKenzie the gangsta girl.

Mack loves marshmellows.

Silly, silly Boo.

Jazzmine joining the fun.

Osa was also trying to get goodies.

The Dancing Boo

Bailey took a dance camp last week and she had a little performance at the end. She too got her hair cut when I got mine done.

Hair Cut

For the third time in my life, I have cut my hair and donated it to Locks of Love. It took me about 3 years to get it this long, and it took my hair dresser 5 minutes to chop it off. While I liked it long I am glad to have it short for a while. The haircut he gave me has lots of layers in it and I don't think I like them much. But it is hair and it grows back. He took about 12 inches total and now the hair is above my shoulders.

Camping

We had a great time camping with our bible study group. It was three days of resting and eating. I did do one hike to try and walk off all the food that was around. The girls adopted two of the men as "uncles" because they took them out fishing all the time.

The girls also took their bikes and went everywhere on them... fishing, scouting out the campsite, fishing and more fishing. Bailey is now a fishing fool and Mack did well also. Frank had fun fishing too.

Frank and I got camper envy for a little while. We have a nice pop-up and every one else had regular campers with bathrooms, showers and big refridgerators. Then we realized that while our pop-up is small, it is perfect for us for the time being.

We made it home jus in time to go to my company picnic at the zoo. Good times...