The Puddles

Madie has been a flower girl twice. Ainsley has never been in a wedding.  When she heard that someone she knew got engaged, I think she and Madie jumped at the chance to apply their charms to see if Ainsley could get the job.  Chris and I had no clue this was going on.  I knew she was interested in the position but I told her that usually couples pick a family member.

Well . . .Ainsley decide not to wait around.  She wrote a resume and submitted it to the bride.

And a few weeks later . . .  she received her answer.

And there was great rejoicing!!  She was absolutely giddy!

At 7 years old she doesn’t let anything stop her.  What will be next?

This picture is the moment that Madie sold her 1000th box of Girl Scout cookies. I think we ended up doing close to 50 booths (One booth equals one – two hour shift.)

Madie did a great job this year. She set a goal and reached it. Of course it took a lot of dedication from the entire family to make it happen. Ben and Ainsley attended a lot of the booth sales. Ben got really good at selling mango creams. He took a lot of pride in it. In fact any booth that Ben was at sold twice as many mango creams.

The second picture is a picture of the storage unit that out troop rented in order to store all of our cookies that we sold this year. The troop sold close to 10,000 boxes of cookies. It was a good year for sales.

If life wasn’t insane enough, I went camping two weekends in a row with two different scout troop at the same camp and the same unit. One weekend was beautiful and sunny. And one weekend was blustery and freezing. Of course the little girls had the cold weekend . We ended up leaving early because we couldn’t get the fire to even boil and the girls had every stitch of clothing on keep warm. It was crazy.

Ainsley is one lucky duck. A four of her grandparents came and visited her on her special day. They had her music program on the same day so they were able to see both. Her grandma grace was a surprise visitor. Ainsley didn’t think she was coming.

Then the grandparents took her and Ben to Panera for sweet rolls and hot chocolate. They were spoiled with sugar and then sent home with me. Pure evil.

Can’t see much but you can hear her. She did an awesome job.

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I love camping with my scout troops. We did geocaching this weekend and had sooooo much fun. The girls ended up earning five patches that weekend. The girls are growing up so fast. It makes me happy and sad at the same time.

Ben and I had a great time. They learned how a restaurant works and then played lots of games. I had the best time playing put put golf with him and watching him race. He just had the biggest smile on his face.

I am so lucky to get to go on field trips with my kids. It won’t be too much longer and they won’t want me to go with them. Then I will be sad.

Ainsley finally gets her iPod back after school on Friday (we don’t have screen time Monday through Friday). She brings her bean bag down to my office and joins me for my last few hours of work. A perfect way to end a week.