We had a family outing last Thursday to Kiddie Land in Bartlesville, OK. It's this great little kids theme park where they can ride most of the rides for a quarter. It's pretty cool - a lot of rides you would see for little kids at an amusement park or fair. People have been talking about it to us for years & we've even made plans a time or two to go, but something always came up. So, we finally decided to try it out & we wound up having a great time. I've posted a "Kiddie Land" album [not currently active] in the gallery with pictures from the evening. I've got Emerie at the office this afternoon. She's sleeping in her stroller in front of me as I am typing this. Every time I look at her it seems she's grown again. She had her 3 month check-up last Friday where she weighed 15 lbs. 7 oz. & measured 25" high (or long, I guess).

The boys are at the house with Jonathan & Josh Jenkins playing in their new Slip 'N Slide. I wish I had the digital camera out when Si finally started getting the hang of it. At first he would run really fast & then right before he got to the sheet he would slow down & just kind of fall on top of it. We hadn't thought about how hard it would be to describe to he & Micah what they were supposed to do. Si finally started getting the hang of it & was having a blast!

This weekend is our last youth event for the summer (Hoorah!). It doesn't mean that things will come to a screetching halt all of a sudden. It does mean, however, that things will slow down a bit. The longer I'm married, the older my kids get & the older I get the harder it is to be gone from home during the summer. Glorieta was hard enough being gone 8 days. I think this trip is just too quick after we got back (3 weeks later) & I'm still feeling separation anxiety a bit, I guess. It will be a cool trip, though. It's called "Destination Unknown" & it is an entire weekend of surprises for the youth going. They pay us $35 & then just show up to go without any clue where they are going or what they are doing. It's going to be a great trip, though. I'd tell you more, but I'd have to kill you. Ha! Actually, I'd better not leak any details just in case one of the youth wanders onto Emerie's web site before we leave. I'll give all the details when we get back.