Back to School and all the fun stuff

So I have been super busy trying to finish all my projects until the fair that I have neglected Facebook and this blog.  I have a month until the fair and about 10 projects to sew plus I would like to finish a few knit and crochet projects.  I won't have as much for the fair this year but at lot of sewing.

Sheila went back to school on August 11.  Early start this year.  It was a dramatic experience that I will blog more about later when I download the pictures.  We got it all straightened out and she loves her new class and teacher.  She rides the bus most days.

Timmy is going through the terrible threes.  I have to watch him constantly because he takes out his aggression on Kimberly.  But he is usually a joy to have around and misses Sheila to play with.  He has started to play with Kimberly more and that helps.

Kimberly is cruising around the furniture, has one tooth, and has taken steps on her own.  She is very adventurous.  She has climbed on stools and other things to get to things she wants.  She was my earliest to teeth.  Got it just a week before her ten month mark (Timmy was 11 1/2 months and Sheila was 15 months.)

We are all going through our first round of colds for the season.  I was the last to get it and maybe half way through it.  I can finally breathe again.

Ray's birthday is today.  Not too many plans but we will try to make the day special.

Day 5: June 13, 2010

We drove from Erlanger, Kentucky ,to Morton, Illinois. We actually drove through Ohio and Indiana along our way.  It was a pretty uneventful day except when we were in Western Indiana our gas light came on.  Unsure of how long we could drive with the gas light on and pulling a trailer we saught the help of our GPS for a gas station.  Discovered there was one at the next exit.  We pulled off the freeway.  It told us to go left so we did and the gas station didn't exist.  A little bit down the road there was a burned out one.  I immediately put in the next one.  We had to make a U turn.  Not going to happen with a trailer so we start looking for a turn around or a road to go down and maybe make a square back.  The GPS kept telling us to go down these little dirt roads.  Soon we were in the middle of nowhere on a dirt road in a middle of a cornfield.  I was praying the whole time.  I really didn't want to have to be stranded out there.  Finally we got into a small town and found a gas station we could pull into.  We were less than a mile from the freeway and once we got to the freeway we realized if we had gone right instead of left (like the GPS told us too) than we would have gotten into that town.  We had just made a big circle.

Playing with her tongue during one of our rest stops.

We left at 9 a.m. and arrived at the Baymont Inn.  It was a fairly nice hotel.  Smelled like smoke in the halls and lobby.  It was older without an elevator but the rooms were updated and clean.  They also had a nice breakfast in the morning.

We walked over to Steeak-n-Shake for dinner.  Ray and I both love their milkshakes.  The kids ate free that night so that was an added bonus.

When we got back to the room we got in our swimsuits and went down to the pool.  We had it to ourselves.  Thank goodness the pool was inside because it was raining outside.  The kids enjoyed swimming on daddy's back.