Blue Belt for Beau

Tonight, Beau performed his karate moves at the end-of-school-year performance. And he qualified for his blue belt.

Lazy Cat

Today, I made the bed around Trixie. An hour later, and she's still there.



But FINALLY I'm up-to-date on blogging.

Beau's Art Piece

Each spring, there is an exhibit of art work done by the Cambridge public school students.

Beau's tower (toothpicks, skewers, and glue) was exhibited as a piece from his school.

Memorial Day Weekend

On Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, the cub scouts helped place flags on the graves of the veterans killed in action.



On Sunday, we drove out to Tully Lake for the day. Some friends were there camping for the weekend, so we joined them for canoeing and cavorting.



Britt had his best day of fishing in years. This is a small bass. You should have seen the one that got away! (Seriously.)



We stayed through dinner and did the s'mores thing before we drove home.



Sunday, the scouts marched in the Cambridge Memorial Day parade. Casey is at the far end of the banner. Beau's legs are visible beneath the American flag that he is carrying.



We finished off the holiday weekend with a trip to the appliance store to buy a new refrigerator... but that's another story.

Birthday Celebrations

Britt claims that I don't celebrate my birthday but rather "birthday week." This year, it was only a couple of days of celebration.

Since this year my birthday fell on a Tuesday, which is cub scouts night, we had a family dinner on Monday: kebabs & veggies plus crepes for dessert.





Casey even did the washing up afterward.



Turning on the game at bedtime, the "boys" got sucked into the final inning of Jon Lester's no hitter. Can you see the anxiety in Casey's eyes?



With one out left to go, we were all tense,



but it was quite exciting at the end.



Next day, Mom arrived from TN, so while we all bustled off to scouts, she made a salad dinner for us to come home to.



We also had cupcakes,



and Beau serenaded us.



We ended the celebration by dancing the Macarena.

Early Birthday Present?

On Sunday, we finally got over our plot in the community garden. We got it cleaned up and put in some tomato and pepper seedlings and planted pole beans and squash seeds. Last year we got the garden underway on Mother's Day. This year, we got it in just in time to be an early birthday present to me.

Look: our plot is all cleaned up and it even has a "Beau" on it.

Butterfly Garden at the MoS

Casey's class is studying butterflies and their life cycle. So last week when there was an early release day at school, the kids (and a friend) and I went to the Museum of Science to the Butterfly Garden -- an atrium full of all kinds of butterflies. It was a warm, sunny day, so it was really warm in the atrium -- that's why the kids look flushed.



The butterflies loved the hot, humid air, so we saw many, many kinds.