Today has been a pretty awesome day... The kids and I all woke up fairly early, considering how late we all stayed up, after my morning meditation we got right after the chores on the chore chart, everyone was working and we finished everything on the list and then some. We had an afternoon thunderstorm roll in that was pretty cool, the rain drops were gigantic..and the kids were all amazed at the watermarks they were leaving on the concrete, it didn't rain long but the summer storm for sure gave the ground a good soaking which was great for the lawn and garden. Carly walked the dogs and spent some time with some "boys" she met this past week in the neighborhood, who have apparently taken a fancy to both Carly and the dogs, I suspect they like the dogs cause they chase them boys while they are riding their skateboards. They better not fancy anything about Carly other than she is the keeper of the dogs.. or there will be you know what to pay.. :) I suspect she is going to have a difficult time dating once she reaches the "dating" age.. isn't that like 30? ;) Between her brothers and myself I am sure boys will have a hard time getting close enough to her to even think about asking her out on a date.. :) Carly came home a short while later with zeus (Clayton's Black Lab) the two of them have been inseparable since Clayton brought him home. Of course he thinks it's "home" here and makes himself pretty comfortable once he gets here. But with the menagerie of "animals" we have here, he sorta just fits right in.. In fact if he isn't biting at your feet, chasing you around the room or 'trying' to play with the cats, we hardly know he is here. Kelsey, Colten and myself messed around and had some good laughs and talks, although if you ask them I am sure "chatting" it up with their mom wasn't the highlight of their day, except for when the topic of dinner came up.. ;) I swear I should run these boys in and have them checked for tapeworm, hollow legs or something, they can eat non stop and don't gain an ounce!! Kelsey was up for making dinner tonight and I had no objections to that. Although he was a little unsure about how much dry spaghetti it would take to feed us all, and asked AFTER he had put it all in the pot, needless to say we may have spaghetti all week. :) At least they all like it, well right now anyway, so I am going to have to make a cookbook on 7 ways to use up leftover spaghetti if I slide through all the leftover spaghetti that is now sitting in the fridge..

Carly and I set up the game that we were all going to play after dinner. Kelsey did a good job on dinner (even though he made enough for the block) and even Kasey pitched in with making some garlic bread. For me dinner always tastes great when someone else makes it :) It was hilarious for all of us to watch Kyson devour his spaghetti, the boy was slurping it up, honestly at one point I wasn't sure why he was even using a fork. Clayton stopped by to pick up his 'child' and visited for a short while, it was perfect timing as we had just finished dinner and were just sitting down to play the games.. Rummikub was my pick and I killed em. Carly claims she is still figuring it out, but I know she has won many times before.. Nice try though Carly. :) After that we had a friendly competition on the wii, I just love that thing.. Bowling is my favorite, and Carly's is the cow jumping game. The boys prefer the 'hunting' and war games, although they are good sports about a few games of bowling on occasion. So the night has wound down and the kids are just finishing up their movie and Colten is sleeping so he can go back to work tonight. I am so grateful for the many blessings that each day brings us, I am so blessed to have such peace in our home and have such great kids.. (most of the time.. ;) No honestly I am one proud momma!! Don't get me wrong our family is like no other, we can be loud and crazy and behave like we hate each other at times. But no matter what, everything we have is because of who we are and what our family is and at the end of the day, we LOVE each other.