Let’s see, what’s been happening since my last post? Our social calendar has anxiously grown exponentially. Well, when you start with no social gatherings to many in a two week period, it’s bound to happen!

Pool Time! We’ve had a couple of pool dates over at our friends’ home. It’s been lovely. They called last Tuesday or Wednesday for some pool time and then we went back on Friday. The kids are getting much better at swimming. Madeline is completely fearless, as long as she is wearing one of the vests. Sebastian doesn’t use any flotation devices, but stays mostly in the shallow end. Keegan on the other hand, took a little while to warm up to the idea. The first ½ hour or so he had a vest and two kick boards to be safe. By the end of the first day, he was sans everything and jumping in to the shallow end. On Friday, he only used the vest when he decided to go into the deep end. What a trooper! After sitting and watching everyone else swimming I decided to take the plunge and get a bathing suit. Ugh! I have not bought a bathing suit since 1990. Imagine the fun……but I did find out and ended up jumping in the pool on Friday. I can’t even remember the last time I was in a pool, but it was fun. Actually thinking of adding it to my workout routine. Maybe go swimming once a week and do some laps. Okay, back to the party….so Friday night our friends had two other families over too. It was great fun. Pizza, beer and pool. Who could ask for more? The kids (all NINE of them!) had a great time swimming and playing with each other, while the adults enjoyed some pool time and sparkling conversation.

Farmers Market Saturday we got up and met some friends at the downtown Farmers Market. I am so glad that they moved this from Wednesday to Saturdays this year so I can go. This was our second time going and will probably head back there again this weekend. For under $40 we picked up a bag of Fuji Apples (so yummy!), a bag of mixed fruit (plumcots, apricots, and white nectarines), two small pies, croissant, and two drinks (coffee for me and green tea for John). Not to mention the fun we had shopping. I just really enjoy it. Unfortunately all of the fruit was all but eaten the following day. Didn’t get nearly enough to feed 3 kids and 3 adults…..will have to get more this Saturday.

City of Heroes They say the first part of recovery from addiction is to acknowledge that you are addicted. Hello, my name is Brie and I’m addicted to City of Heroes. Yes, it’s true. I know there are those WoW fans (Larry and Cindi) but, CoH rocks! I now have 3 “toons” on the server and was playing all weekend. It was double XP (experience, which is how your character gets stronger and gains more powers) weekend, so my latest toon, a defender (healing/electric), went from level 1 to level 27. Now, a lot of this had to do with some help from the SuperGroup that John and I both belong to, but it was great fun. I’ve gotten surprisingly pretty good (for me) and am gaining more and more knowledge from John and Sebastian (who also plays). The trouble now is I can’t stop playing. I get home and I want to play. Played all weekend. Will probably play next weekend. Oh well, knowing me, my short attention span will kick in and I’ll stop playing. Plus summer school starts next week and I’ll only have 6 weeks to master intermediate algebra. Yikes!

I think that’s about it. Kids are doing good. Maddy is almost out of school and will be home soon with the boys. It’s getting hot now, which is always fun. Brody went to the groomers last week and got shaved down. There really was a tiny dog underneath that mop of fur. He looks a lot different, but so much cooler (temperature-wise). You can really see that he is the size of a Chihuahua, but with the looks of a Jack Russell Terrier. The only real thing poodle of him is the gobs and gobs of fur, except it’s not poodle curly. Too funny. Hannah is settling right in and has now realized that she can be queen over the two boy pups. Last night she was chasing Jack. Funniest thing watching this 150 pound Dane run away from this 10 pound miniature dachshund. Brody just sat back and watched the show.

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