The latest and greatest things here in Dykstraville...

This is the new basketball that Daddy took Andrew to buy. They thought they needed one that was "Andrew Size" just like they have at his PeeWee basketball class to practice with.
This is my newest bag that I've recently finished making.
The inside pockets.
The fabric close up.

Brothers

I was looking at the picture I posted yesterday about the beloved basketball shirt and I noticed something...

... go ahead and check it out on the bigger picture below.

We did finally get it out.

What happens when you stick your finger in your marshmellow gun?

It gets stuck!

Look at his NEW BASKETBALL SHIRT!

Yep... didn't even want to take it off for bed. Oh well.

(As I went to take this picture.... AJ runs into the frame yelling, "Me too! Me too!")

NERTZ!

At our Bible Study last night, which I must confess that not a whole lot of Bible got studied, I learned the game Nertz! What a fun, fast paced, chaotic game. Like Solitare on crack.

Like Paypal, but with NO STINKIN' FEES!

And - if you sign up, as a promo, they give you $25 bucks in your account.

Um... yea, I'll take that.

Don't rain on our BBQ!

Wow - it's been awhile since I've done a 'what are we up to' post. And without boring you with all the day to day activities... it's been a lot as you can tell from my lack of posting.

A few of the highlights are our two weekly Bible Studies with tonight being our last Wednesday night study for the summer. We are having a BBQ/potluck tonight, so I'm busy today getting the house ready and getting the grocery shopping done for that. By the way - we got soaked grocery shopping. It started pouring while we were in the store. The boys didn't like getting that wet as we ran to the car, but they thought it was hilarious that their mom got soaked since I had to put the groceries in the car, put the cart away, and buckled up two boys.

We are also having some plumbing work done today. I am praying everything gets fixed relatively inexpensively.

We've also had a few trips to the Garden's the past couple weeks that I haven't mentioned... and while I have some pictures, I'll spare you because, well, they look like all the other Garden pictures I've shown you already. But I will mention again... that I love the Gardens!! When we went Tuesday, it was just the boys and myself and God blessed us with amazing weather!

We also made a somewhat impromptu trip to Ohio last weekend. My past roommates and families were getting together on the other side of the state, so we hopped around visiting them and family.

Monday we were invited to a little dinner party with amazing food. Last night, Marc and Ryan took Andrew and CJ fishing, so Becky and myself with the little kids walked down to get ice cream. Tomorrow is Andrew's pee-wee basketball.

I am unbeleivably thankful that I am not working out of the home at this stage in my life... that I am able to do all of these fun things that makes our life so crazy. I love warm weather!

–verb (used without object): to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.

For awhile now, Andrew has been using the term "starving" rather loosely.

"Mom, I need lunch. I'm starving!" (mere minutes after breakfast) or "Can I have snack, I'm starving!" (when he wants to get back out of bed).

Last week, Marc sat him down and explained to him truthfully what the word really meant. Andrew got it too, as he hasn't used the word since. He just states now that he is "super hungry".

Well, Friday, during his lunch break, Marc played basketball instead of eating lunch. He then came in the house later asking, "What do we have to eat, I'm starving".

Andrew's eyes got huge as he yelled acrossed the room, "Dad! Are you dying!?"

Whoops! (as we laughed until we cried.)

Pee Wee B-Ball

The Wonderful World of Words.

AJ hs started talking non-stop and will literally repeat you like a parrot. He has two new favorite words that he over uses.

The first is"Okay" used both in the sense of "Is that correct or alright with you?" and also in the "I'm alright" sense.

"AJ go outside, okay?" or after he falls down with a car in his hand, "AJ okay. Car okay."

The other word is "Nope". No explaination needed.

He is also in phase where is says, "Hello" to and hugs e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. Mom, dad, the door, teh clock, his fork, etc...

As I type this (we are outside), he just said, "Hello, water" to the spickett then proceeded to say, "Hug water" while he hugged the spicket.