Has anyone else been getting the special Coke cans for the Olympics? Jamie and I have been keeping our eyes open for the newest one. Next will be Ethiopia, and then China. 
This happened on Thursday night---we went to a Rangers game at Minute Maid Park in Houston playing the Astros. A lot of people would just say we went to an Astros game, but we were there for the Rangers. I like this one because you can see so much of the stadium---and Larry!
Here's another track meet day, and another stop action shot. I am getting good using my camera settings. I usually get one shot of the takeoff, on of her in the air (like this), and one more in the sand using the quick three-shots-in-a-row setting (whatever it's called).
B and her friend were making up a skit for the little kids at our Circus Day at our summer preschool. It was silly, but they had fun doing it.
At school, we had circus day and J painted on this kid's face. But it wasn't circus-sy---it was Star Trek Trill.
I liked how these birds were nesting , even with the preventive fringes on all the sign's letters.
This part always got a good laugh from our audience---the shepherd carried the lost sheep back to the flock.
This was under a blacklight, and I liked how it looked. Even though it doesn't look like it did live. Interesting!
The church where I work (but not go to church) had their VBS this week. I ended up helping out my friends with the skits they were doing. This friend of mine is SO HAPPY because she found the lost coin in her couch cushions.
This is B's pancake shaped like a car. I love that we have time for stuff like this in the summer.
We got out a big table and scrapbooked this weekend. I got the kids' school-days albums caught up. And for people who have known me a while, you'd be surprised ot know that I was working on 2006 pictures! I am now into the 2007 ones. I hope to catch them up this summer!
I love the back of the plate as much as the front. The kids wrote their names themselves, and then the ladies at the pottery store wrote over their handwriting with the paint.
I got this as a gift from some of my students this year at the end of the school year. We had the kids do a thumbprint for each of them on the tree, and my print is the bluebird.
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Here's B in the air on her longest jump. It was 8 feet, 6 inches. Pretty good for a little girl! She wasn't able to jump over 8 feet last summer at all. Unfortunately, B didn't place this meet. The girl who won---the girl who got first place in every event she tried----jumped over twelve feet. She's an amazing athlete. I hope we can be cheering her on as the girls go on through school together.
B and I picked out a new lawn sprinkler, and it just spins really fast. Kicks up a lot of mist! This is the back yard.
Here are my summer students playing in "gloop"---cornstarch and water. It's so fun! It is both a liquid and a solid, switching back and forth right in your hands. Pre-school science!
I didn't know Cheez-Its had so many preservatives in them that they would last more than 1000 years!!
I can be as stylish as Sarah Jessica Parker! I can get a line of her inexpensive clothes at Steve and Barry's in my mall. These are shorts. No, you can't see my size! ;-)
One of the kids talked me into buying the baby bananas. They are cute! I needed some big bananas, too, so you can see the baby bananas' size in comparison. We better get to those baby ones soon!
My daughter is showing the other two girls how to fold their airplanes a little differently. Yes, we wore the same shirt every day all week! Of course, I washed them every day! ;-) 
I hope her mommy won't mind I am using this picture. We had cooking day at Girl Scout Day camp, and these are the soft tortillas balanced on her head. I love this photo!
We're at Girl Scout Day Camp this week. I volunteered for only Wed.-Friday, so today was my first day. Day three for B. I'm assistant Unit leader for B's unit. Our unit got to help with the flag ceremony in the afternoon, and the Unit leader chose B to help take down the flags. B is the one on the far side of the flagpole---I couldn't see her well at all from this angle. She got to do all the unhooking of the flags.
This isn't the greatest picture, but it's represenative of the night. J and Larry were nominated for Ovie awards this year with the acting troupe J is in. Larry did a show back around Christmas, I think. I have a headache and can't remember all the awards, but J came home with 2 and Larry did too. One of Larry's was for a character he played called "Gaylord Fontaine" that was on the Carol Burnett Show. J got a "Rising Star" award, and I think that's what he's standing on stage for here.
This summer we are having preschool on Tuesdays. This week, the theme was wacky science, and this is an experiment with milk, food coloring, and liquid soap. The soap makes the colors "dance" as the soap makes the fat in the milk move around.
Both the kids thought this improvement to the church building where I work was really neat. I thought so, too. There is a drain under that middle stone. Before, it was all plant life in there, but now it's a little sitting area by the doors to the administration offices. The company who does the work is owned by a member of the church.
We're done playing games this season! Time to pack it up and go home (and get out of the heat).
