Acting debut

Peanut played the Alice in a version of Alice in Wonderland where all of the different fairy tales come together and are lost in wonderland.  

She generally does not step up to play the lead role, so we were surprised that she chose to do this.  She did great!  Of course, I have should say that because I am her mom, but she really surpassed my expectations.  

She spoke clearly and worked hard.  

Alright mom, please do not take anymore pictures.  

Random Camping Pictures

We were able to get out a bit this summer and enjoy some of the local parks.  The great part about having the camper is that it is a constant reminder of how much we fun we have when we are on the road.  Sometimes, we just like to sit in it in the yard.  

Here are some pictures from our trip to Point Lookout.  Mr. T. was racing, so the kids and I went a bit early to enjoy the cooler weather.  

There was a lot of fishing to be had around there.  Even though I felt like I was driving to the tip of nowhere, we stayed pretty busy with all of the outdoor things to do.  

We also went to camp at the next county over at one of their local campgrounds.  

Below is one of the caches we found while geocaching.  It was a small container on the underside of a rock.

I was surprised that they had an outdoor movie.  We enjoyed a number of the activities they offered.  They had an enormous slip and slide, and a small popup store that sold camping treats.

Titan arum

The Corpse Flower opened at the Botanic Garden.  I am lucky enough that I can easily get in and out.  It did not smell as bad as we thought it would.  

The Ice Cream Run!

Before the end of the school year, and before our buddy left, we did a run that was part obstacle course part crazy town.

BabyP's best friend and familiar shadow.

Waiting for the chocolate slide. 

There was chocolate all on this slide. 

The lemonade obstacle course.  

Assateaque State Park

Over Mother's Day, we went to Assateaque State Park, which very well may be my favorite place to camp.  It is right on the beach and the ponies run wild through our campsite.  THIS is why we have a camper.  These are the memories I want to build with my kids.  

I also really want to build the memory of them doing work and having fun.  This kids complain only a minimal amount about doing dishes when we are camping.  

The KITCHEN

We are doing it again.  We are remodeling our house and putting in a new kitchen.  This project involved more work than we were initially anticipating.  We were not anticipating finding mold and ripping out the drywall and subfloor, but we did and now we have a working kitchen.  

I shudder a bit when I look back at these pictures.

It looks like we are done, but honestly, this is where the work got hard.  We ripped this floor out to build a new one.  

Someone approves of the soundness.  

And perhaps I made the mortar a little too thin so the tiles were sliding around.  That makes for a wonky floor, so we stopped.

It was REALLY STRESSFUL when all of the boxes were in the house waiting to be assembled.  There was a crew that came and installed our cabinets, and I am very thankful we paid the money to do that.  There is a strong probability that we would still not have cabinets if I had not done that.  

All assembled!  And this does not even document scraping the ceiling in the dining room and painting.  We did manage to come home to the the following one day.  The kids had knelt on the freezer too hard and broke the door off.  This was a very costly fix in that EVERYTHING in the refrigerator and freezer spoiled.  

Good times.  

We are still not done, but sometime soon...  say the next 7 years, we will be.