Day of Bowling

We decided to head out of the house and do a little bowling today. Riley had a blast. Every time the ball went down you would turn around to "MY TURN, MY TURN". We had to explain that everyone gets a turn several times today.





The low point for Riley came when she got a strike. She was so upset she didn't get to roll the ball twice.



McKenna said she had a good time but sometimes It's hard to tell with a 12 y/o. She spent more time trying to look cool than actually bowling.

2011 Pics

2011 was much easier to get some pics done, in 2010 we managed 10 total pics. This year we were up over 40. Riley had an absolute ball, laughing, saying "cheese" and climbing all over McKenna.

Pretty girls :)

Let's get ready to rumblllllllllllllllle!!!!

And in this corner....weighing in at 33 and 1 half pound, Riley Jean Curtis, Curtis.

Riley is always coming up to the dojo when I hold classes, she loves to hang out up there and watch the activities. She also likes getting into all the gear.

Here she's thrown on my wrestling shoes and she's ready for some grappling. She is truly a pioneer, not many get geared up while still wearing a dress.




Then she ditched the shoes for some gloves and headgear, try her hand at a little sparring.



She's a jumping maniac and she's been trying to master the summer salt. She did one pretty good one but for the most part she just sort of flops to the side.

Cuke-zilla!!!!!

The garden is rolling in full swing. Cucumbers are abundant, we've picked 10 so far and we don't think we've scratched the surface. Krista put her flip flop in the picture for scale, the 1 tomato in the picture fell off while staking. We did lose the squash but the watermelon are coming in quite nicely. There are probably 10 watermelon coming and the thing is so big we think there are more we haven't seen yet. Tomatoes? Each bush has too many to count and they grew so big the cages and plants fell over, we've had to add stakes to keep them up right! Good times.



OK, that's Riley's flip flop. :)

The New Ride

It's been over a month now and we are pretty happy with the new ride. Looks nice, drives nice, more room and not too bad on the MPG's. The cars name is Opie Teema.












We took the new ride to the Zoo today to see some animals. We made it about 3 hours in the oppressive heat! We've just been trying to get pics of the animals we haven't had a chance to get yet. The Red Panda!





Jason was lost for a bit, finally found him taking a nap.



The Monkeys were signing like crazy today.

Inch by Inch

The garden was started a little late in the year but it is coming along nicely. The difference between Memorial Day and this fine 4th of July weekend is crazy.

Watermelon, growing right out of the box.


Cucumber, also growing out of the box!


This is a close up of the flowers that will turn into squashes. squashi? squashen? Squeesh? Heck, I don't know.


To think, when we planted Mikka you would barely notice her under the desk and now she fills up the whole space!



Couple of peppers. Middle front.



Krista checking out the squeesh, in the front here I had to build another box for our 4 cantaloupe. Can't even see the tomato cages anymore.



About 35 days ago it all looked like this.....



Those cages are still in there, you just cannot see them anymore.