Kid Free Zone - For Now

It sure is quiet around here. Compared to last night it's like a library or something. It won't last for long. Any minute now I expect to see Taryn and Mariah return, and Mike is leaving in a few to pick up Gib.

Indy is in Memphis enjoying a music festival with Trevor, friends & family (he's one of the guys she went to EFY's with). Most recently you'll remember the blog about his 18th b-day at BYU Idaho with HD dropping off cookies and saying "They wanted me to sing but that ain't gonna happen"). Trevor and a friend (of a friend) from BYU Idaho drove up from Memphis to pick up his sister and husband at our airport at midnight, everyone stayed overnight, and then they all took off this morning to head back to Memphis. In the pouring rain. All the way there going 35-50 mph it was raining so bad. But it's dry in Memphis which is good because it's an outdoor concert from 5 pm to well, probably after midnight.

We had a wild game of spoons and broke in our dining room table which I specifically chose because of it's Spoon game potential. Luckily, the table didn't actually break! It might have a few new dents and scratches, but I chose it because it can sustain Spoons damage and not show it. I did find out though, that had I thrown myself more vigorously across it, I would have discovered that the very heavy base isn't quite heavy enough to prevent tipping over, which only adds to the excitement of the game; and that I can't quite reach the person opposite of me to wrench the spoon out of his greedy little grasp. I was bitterly disappointed because I thought for sure I could. It seemed to work when I tested it at the showroom.

Indy will receive likewise hospitality from their family and return home to us tomorrow. I'm sure she is having a blast - because, like I said, it isn't raining in Memphis!

It is raining buckets here however. All day. I don't think it's projected to stop until next week. Ugh. The rain run off from the hill behind us creates a very nice water feature out back. It sounds like a running river. I love to open the windows and listen to the sound of rain and rushing water. I went out and took a couple photos. I should have gone earlier when it was really rushing, it is easing up some now and getting dark, but oh well. Here you have it:

Lazy River behind

the Crane

A little rushing rapids a few feet away

Taryn is doing my job for me with Mariah right now at a Girl Scout dinner. It's a end of the year dinner, but I had a big lunch at TGIF's and I can't possibly eat, and since everyone else is gone, Mike just fended for himself and Taryn chose to go so she could enjoy a yummy buffet at Guido's. Yeah, yeah, it's a Mother-Daughter and I'm not winning any Mommy of the Year points today by shuffing my duties on this one, but I can't even look at food I am that full. Besides, I am justifying it in my mind that they are having important sisterhood bonding time. After the closet fiasco a couple days ago, there are some fences that need mending.

Gib is volunteering at an Elementary school fund raiser with some other Scouts from his troop. Last I saw him, he was standing next to one of those giant inflatible 30' high jumpy house slide thingy's. 3 hours of FUN, FUN,FUN with wild children age 5 to 11!!! He just got a hair cut before we went there and it looks very nice. It's a little bit of a standing joke that almost every time he goes in, he's off to a Scout thing immediately after, and she has to rewash his hair after cutting it so he's not itchy all evening! We even have his Class B t-shirt in the car for him to change into we are so accustomed to the hair cut/Scout schedule of events. He's keeping his hair a little longer now. But he is talking about buzzing it before going to Philmont provided he will have close to a decent amount of hair before school starts again in August.