Bike Repair

Before: the guy I liked had a pink bike- I knew I should get to know him.
After: sporty husband style- not out to catch the way babes. (Just to pull the way babies in the kiddie carrier.)

Mike and I went over to the sporting good store to pick up his bike from a maintenance. The repair guy asked if Mike was the original owner. Mike bought the bike in 1988 for $250. The guy said these vintage bikes are in demand and Mike could get at least what he paid for it. In the parking lot Mike kept saying, "Vintage? My bike is vintage?" Then we came home and Mike took the pink handle bar tape off and put some blue "gel" wraps on. I guess we're both vintage.

Date Night

The sign behind my head says 3.14 equals pie. I don't think Jon would agree.

So, Mike and I went out alone tonight. We went and saw the Julie & Julia movie. It was a movie about food and blogging- how could it go wrong? I enjoyed it, Mike says he had no opinion if I was going to blog about it (he must have loved it!) After watching all that food and flops we had to go get some pie at Village Inn. It's nice to get out and talk about the kids when they aren't listening.

Kenny's a curly Q

A curlhawk (the cousin of the mohawk)

What have we done this summer?

Play games like hide and seek- I'm not happy when the game centers around my car keys.

Clean the floors and the house.
Mary says,"I can't do the password!"
Eat zucchini's every meal.
Jon plays computer games and listens to books downloaded from the library.
Kelly is the girl with the insatiable desire to ride her bike. It shouldn't surprise me when she was the child who rode off after we took her training wheels off her bike a few years ago.
Patrick bought a Star Wars game for PC with his birthday money. (His b-day was in January- he parts with his money slowly.)
Kenny is such a sweetheart he waters his brothers and sisters with the hose. Kenny!
We have splashed around at the pool. We have had our pool cards since 2002- the life guard was impressed that we hadn't lost them. (Megan's picture is when she was 4 and looks like the Dotes but we have it.)

Bargains

We rode up to Albertsons to get 10 boxes of cereal for a $1 a box (after the mail in rebate.) Mary was squashed with cereal on the way home.

Fruits of our labor

After all the dirt, plants and water we have put in our garden we finally got some...

$500 tomatoes

Bike ride

Before: at the trail head at Parker Rd. and Orchard
After: 16 miles around the reservoir