another week gone by again!

Curt, Brooke and Amber goofing around
Isn't she cute?
Trying to get a decent picture...
This one wasn't too bad!
She's cute again! It's hard to believe she's 5 months old already and the little stinker is pushing herself up on her hands and knees, rocking back and forth. She scoots across the floor pretty fast as well, turning around and going in different directions!

Another busy week even though the open house is behind us! We are on a 9 hour schedule at work again now until the third shift starts up in August so we got home late every day this week. Amber, Brooke and Curt went on the youth conference trip to Hyles Anderson College/Church and they left Tuesday morning and came home late Friday night and then to their dad's Saturday morning. Jeremy and I went to Heather's on Tuesday and worked a little, stayed home on Wednesday and Thursday went to the property and cleaned out the camper to get it ready to drive down to the Nazarene campgrounds in Howell, MI for Jeremy's dad to use for the week. We ended up hauling it down there Friday night and it was late so we stayed. His dad didn't stay down there this weekend. He came back Saturday morning and Jeremy ended up staying to help install a new dock system they bought for the other lake on the grounds. That took them all day. While they were working on that, I took Isaac, Erin and Lyndsay to the playground, then swimming at the lake until we got rained out. We went back to the camper and watched "Stranger in the Woods", then to see how Daddy was doing, then back to the lake for more swimming after it stopped raining. I got a lot of exercise walking back and forth, pushing the stroller with all three kids in it at times or 2 with Lyndsay in the backpack. Saturday night, we decided to stay and go to the first camp meeting church service in the morning so we went into town and ate at Applebee's, stopped at Meijer to get some church clothes and then back to watch a movie because it was raining again (no campfire:(). So, we went to church this morning at the campgrounds, then ate lunch and I took Erin and Lyndsay and a few other kids that were hanging out with us to the playground while Jeremy took Isaac fishing! I was going to go and check out their progress, but Lyndsay fell asleep and I took her back to the camper to sleep in the comfort of air conditioning! We left Howell at 3:30pm and came home, stopping at Heather and Brian's on the way before coming home to get ready and go to our church. Good news: Heather starts work 7/28 at Orion Assembly! One of my many referrals I have put in over the years has finally gotten hired! It will be a whole new world for the Walsh family but hopefully all will work out for the good! Ok, this is not quite "G" rated for my blog (sorry), but it is hilarious if you have children. Isaac was watching Lonesome Dove with Jeremy at the hotel a few weekends ago and got this from that - I have no idea how, but Tuesday night, he was running around the house with 2 white balloons from the open house, holding them up to our behinds and saying what big b--ts everyone has (mom already had one to begin with, of course). I finally told him enough and to stop. So, I heard him running around saying something about big "pimples" and looked at him to see what he was doing now. He was holding them up to his chest talking about having "big pimples". I again said to knock it off, enough and he laughed and said mom, you have small pimples and I have big pimples! He was definately done after that:) Out of the mouth of babes (sorry Grandma and moms!), but kids can be so funny and brutally honest sometimes, I tell you! So, that was my funny for the week! We had a great time camping and hope to take the whole family back down there next weekend. They have an awesome water slide the kids would love - could get some great pictures from that! Here are some pictures from Amber's camera from recent times - I forgot to take mine this weekend - especially because I only thought we'd be spending the one night and coming home in the morning! Have a great week! Chris