The F.O.O.'s

We had a great day with the kids' maternal family of origin (hence, the F.O.O.'s).

Check it out! 

Senior Picture Practice

The Siblings

On the road again . . .

All of us together

One more of the sibs

Allison with the kids

 

From Texas with Love . . .

After spending an entire month in Texas and NOT seeing a single armadillo, 

our boss dropped us off at the airport with the following gift . . .

My very own armadillo refrigerator magnet!

Then this came in the mail yesterday from my friend, Sarah,

of my 600th blog post fame!

Now, if you're in Texas and reading this -

I do have room for a few more armadillos!

Grout Cleaning!

Here's the lap pool at the Y - only it didn't look like that yesterday!  The water was drained Monday night and staff started cleaning it on Tuesday.  I showed up bright and early Wednesday morning and spent the next three hours cleaning grout!  It took four of us two hours to do the leisure pool, but only one hour to do the lap pool which is bigger.  Why you ask?  Well, two hours in, one of our staff remembered that if we got the tiles well and then sprayed on "Foamy C & A" it cleaned better - and it did! 

Oh, Poop!

Or a better title may be "just a random happy thought!".  You see, our dog likes to poop and that means whoever is walking her, has pooper scooper duty and mostly it's me.  But my random happy thought is with a Monday holiday this week, some people didn't get the memo and put their trash out a day early.  Full trash cans are fair game!  And Tuesdays trash pick up will now be on Wednesday and Wednesday's will now be on Thursday . . . and I'm going to have a full week of fair game!  Poop on - and I don't mean the mustard!

 

Did you know . . .

. . . that from 1926 until 1962, the American Public Health Association mandated nude swimming classes and that included the YMCA?  But when I forgot my swimsuit this morning, I was not allowed to swim nude at the Prior Lake Y!

It's been SEVEN years . . .

Since Matt and Micah went to the same school at the same time in the same vehicle!  Obviously, someone was not happy that I wanted to capture this momentous occasion!

A Different Reality . . .

Africa is tough.  If you go there, and you're with the people, it's even tougher because they become a part of your heart and then you realize how much you have and how much they don't and your reality becomes different.  I've attached two pictures that are not for the faint of heart, but Ebola is a reality and right now it's in my corner of Africa . . .  

A burial team from the Liberian health department sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman suspected of dying of the Ebola virus on Aug. 14, 2014 in Monrovia.

An Ebola clinic in Liberia, with the living and the dead.