Our excitement for the day....

So I'm looking high and low for this book the kids are supposed to be reading. Supposedly they are enjoying it, but 'someone' has misplaced it and 'Not me 1' and 'Not me 2' won't lay claim to it. I head into 'Not me 1's' room and can't seem to find it...I head into 'Not me 2's' room and search around. I decided to look in the dress up bin since many things seemingly find their way in there. I unloaded it...nope...so I move the bin to check behind it and something flashes by...WHAT! Yeah, something flew by along the baseboard!

I quickly load most of the stuff back into the bin, but the shields are still sitting piled on each other with the thing that flashed by underneath them. So I carefully pick up the ones on top while calling for the kids to get in there and bring a glass dish with them. Most of the time those two move like molasses on a cold day when you ask them to do things, but they'd heard me squeal and hollar for a dish so of course they act like their fannies are on fire now!

Not Me 2 hands me the dish and I tell him to get into position with his hands blocking the way. Great mom I am. I don't even know what the thing really is yet and I'm telling him to use his cute little hands to block the thing...he doesn't blink an eye as he pops his hands into place!

I lift the last shield and off runs this quite large gecko! Not Me 2 did not catch it, but managed to send it back my way and I trapped it under the glass bowl, slid a paper underneath and prepared to take it to be released back where it belongs! How it got in or survived in that boy's room I'll never know, but it sure was cute! Of course he wanted to keep it! Not Me 1 kept fretting over it not being able to breathe and to hurry and release the poor thing.

It seemed to be glad to be off into the flower bed...

Oh and I still haven't found the book....I guess it ran off to where all the socks, belts, shoes, etc go to.......................

Tennis...

I don't profess to be good at sports. I didn't really play anything in school unless it was at recess. I was more into band than running around. Steve has been wanting me to play some Tennis with them, so we all went today. It was warmish, breezy and beautiful outside. The boys were kind enough to share their racquet's with me. I have come to find out that I have a serious problem rating my swings, lol. I can sail a ball out of that fence very easily and make it go far!

Steve's favorite picture of me trying to hit those balls that Little Man was serving over very well. I was not so great at returning them!

He serves...

Steve returns....

Little Man returns back...
I loved this shot...look at it closely. That boy really gets into it and he's pretty darn good too. This was only his 4th time playing and he plays much better than me!

Attempting to return the ball. I think I actually hit that one, but I'm sure I sent it out of there!

And this is where you can find Tall Girl on our tennis outings. Reading a book. She's always reading, but she had just got this one and couldn't put it down.

I'm done!

Not too excited looking now, am I?!

I got my book and was out of there by 12:02 am! I read aloud to my friend as we drove home and then read to about page 200 once I got home and situated on the couch with some ranch corn nuts and a bottled water, LOL. I headed off to bed (at around 2:30 am!) and slept until 10:30! I managed to read, get 6 loads of laundry washed, hung, and folded, dinner cooked, dishes done, and my lesson prepared for church tomorrow...then I read some more and finished by 11:00pm! I loved it and thought it ended well. I can't wait for her to finish some of the other books she's planning. Now I'm running through the books that I'm to be reading aloud to the kids this year....that's a bunch of reading!

I've been waiting for this!

Tonight I'm heading out with some girlfriends to eat at a new restaurant downtown-they all love sushi and I'm okay with some of it, LOL, but I'm game for just about anything, unless it was slimy in the life before it was cooked...snails, eels, etc! EEEEEW!

We've been reading some books by Stephenie Meyer called the Twilight series. The fourth book, Breaking Dawn, comes out tomorrow and we preordered ours at Barnes and Noble. We will be attending the pre-release party tonight to get our books at Midnight. I stayed up late this whole week to be prepared! I also warned Steve that I will be sleeping in tomorrow...I'm sure I'll be tired after reading a bunch that morning. LOL!