FOUND MONEY

The weirdest thing happened. I have found a life insurance policy with my name on it, taken out by my grandfather, who died in 1979. A privacy notice was mailed to Sally Buck to an address I lived at until I was 5. Suzie knows the people that live in that house (in a round about sort of way). And they gave her my mail. There was a policy number on it, so I called and sure enough, it was no junk mail! While I'm not a millionaire, it was worth $700.00! He took out the policy in August of 78, and he died in June of 79. So, its been out there for almost 30 years and I had no idea! Thanks Papa!

LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY!

I saw a bear on my street this week. Just walking in someones yard. Freaked me out! I thought it was a dog at first as it was walking on all fours. And it took me a second for my brain to catch up and realize that was no dog. I came back home to get Steve and we went back to see it and it was gone. I wish I had stopped and taken a picture on my camera phone. Im not that smart. Ive heard of them being in the neighborhood, but this is the first time Ive ever seen one.

RYAN SCOOTCHING

He was in the upper right corner of his playmat. He scootched this far in less than 5 minutes.
Hes only 5 months old!

STEVE BEING FUNNY WHILE MOMS AT WORK

Obviously this is staged, incase anyone got worried. Click on the pictures to enlarge them and check out Steve's face in each one. Hysterical!

Ps...Zachary built that ramp from scratch!

Hi everyone! Sorry its been a while. Ive had a busy few weeks. My dad and step mom were up from Florida, my uncle died, we had Ryan, Steve and Ally (my niece) baptized, I went back to work, and Zachary has been on all kinds of trips with explorers, Its been just crazy. I survived work Ok. Poor Steve. Ryan was giving him a hard time when I was gone. When I called home he was cleaning carrots out of the babys nose, and (jokingly) said he was looking for my work number to call them and tell them I quit! I said "its not too late! I will find the number for you!!" He did just fine. He is a great dad. He is better than a great dad, he is the best! Im not worried what so ever. Im actually enjoying working nights. I have all day with the kids. Ryan is now 5 months old already. I can hardly believe it! He has grown so much. He is about 19 lbs and already so smart. He reaches and grabs for things (like Steves chest hair, he grabs and twists, sending a grown man to his knees. He also likes to pull my locks from the roots.) and he just started rolling over a few weeks ago. He is a busy kid. Constantly moving or squirming, jumping and bouncing and twisting. Makes it hard to hold him sometimes! We were at the Doc yesterday who called him the energizer bunny. He always has to go go go. Ryan is gonna RUN before he walks! He is already starting to crawl. Not quite a crawl, more like a scoot. Today I put him on the floor in his room, on his playmat and surrounded him by a bunch of toys. I was in the bathroom (right next to his room) drying my hair and he was talking up a storm. I go in there, maybe 3 -5 minutes later and he has scooted himself about 6 feet toward the door of his room! Ive got to be careful, cant do that anymore! I will post a pic of that later. He has started on baby food and cereal. Its fun to have him try new foods. The only thing he doest like so far is peas. Zachary is getting out of school tomorrow. Explorers has kept him busy. picnics, rope obstacle courses, fitness training, shad derby security. Its such a cool program. He went to NYC for the day, saw a ground zero, a police museum and even had free time in Times Square (in groups). I was a wreck all day worrying about him! He has a girlfriend, but now that schools over Im not sure how that works. He doesnt actually communicate with her outside of school. I try to get the 411 but the last thing he wants to talk to me about is a girl!

FROM THE MOUTHES OF BABES......

While at church, kneeling at the alter and receiving communion, the pastor is breaking the bread and serving the doll house size cups of grape juice, my 7 year old niece Ashlee, sees the bread and her eyes get as wise as quarters and she says " Do we get butter with that?" (Apparently its her snack time ) then when she gets up she turns toward the congregation and rubs her belly in a clockwise motion and rolls her eyes back and says 'MMMMMM" The innocence of youth is a beautiful thing.

I don't know if anyone else is having the same problem, but Windsor is infested with mosquito's this year. A friend of ours went out to garden for an hour and when she came inside her husband counted over 60 bites on her. That's bad! She went to the town and complained. I'm about to do the same thing. There are so many outside that they are everywhere in my house. I was killing them in the shower! Some one's going to end up with West Nile in this town and with my luck it will be me!