Last week Bailey and I took a four day trip to Camp Grady Spruce in Possum Kingdom. It's an outdoor education camp with lots of fun activities. Anytime I go out of town things get kinda' crazy and this week was no exception. I did my best to prepare Jeremy,
Nadirah and Riley. I made all the arrangements for rides to school, drill team and soccer practices, plus the kids Wednesday night activities. I even made an organizational chart that I emailed to all who were helping and left individual notes and reminders for Jeremy,
Nadirah and Riley. So at 8:30 on Tuesday morning I get a call wondering who was taking the kids to school...oops. I wasn't even out of the city of Keller and already the kids were late for school. Luckily that was our only chaotic moment and my friend was able to leave work, get the kids and take them to school. But onto our week ~ it was absolutely fabulous. Bailey and I hiked a mile and a half up to Johnson's Peak, learned about
orienteering, shot a bow and arrow, rode horses, took a nature hike, climbed Devil's Island (we were like two feet from the edge of a cliff), ate
S'mores, sang campfire songs and so much more!! One of the highlights for Bailey was seeing her teacher and principal get pushed into the lake. The camp tries to make the kids aware of how much food they're wasting while so many go without. At the end of every meal they weigh the amount of food waste and if the school as a whole can get less than 10oz. at two consecutive meals they get to push two teachers in the lake. Well, the school has been going on this trip every year for many years but no class has ever been able to make it until this year. The kids started off with over 7 pounds of waste but got it down to zero!! The kids and the camp counselors were super excited and unfortunately for the teachers the lake was super cold. One of my favorite nights was Thursday sitting by the camp fire singing songs with Bailey. It's moments like these that make me so thankful for the
privilege of staying home and having the time to make these memories with my kids. The only down side to the trip was leaving my pillow at home which did not help make for a restful four nights sleep.
On Friday Bailey's got to participate in Fabulous Friday. Every nine weeks the kids who have good attendance, grades and citizenship are rewarded with a Friday filled with various fun activities. Well being the last nine weeks some of the kids also earned a trip to Johnson Rd. park to eat a picnic and play. Bailey insisted that I stop by and I love how much she still wants me to be around because you never know how long that's gonna' last.
Yesterday we celebrated Memorial Day/Eric's return to Texas with a pool party at Jesse's. The kids love swimming at my brother's plus Riley is allergic to chlorine pools, which Jesse's is not, so we were happy all around. Bailey was in the water all day long!! She only got out to eat and even tried to bribe my brother into taking her home so she could stay longer. Normally Jesse would've caved but he had to work super early today. 
Guest Blogger: Jeremy
On Monday Bailey was scheduled to have play day (which is basically field day but you compete against other schools not just your classmates), but when we woke up it was raining pretty hard so naturally we assumed it would be canceled. I took Bailey to school and decided to go in just to make sure the day had been called off. Clearly not the case ~ they decided to go ahead even in the rain. So even though it's already May it was really cold out there in the wind and rain. I had to go home and get warm clothes for me and Bailey (you can see all the kids were prepared for warm weather wearing shorts and t-shirts; I'm glad we live close to the school). Bailey competed in four different events; all running events so apparently she's pretty fast. She won first place in the 50 meter, 2nd place in the shuttle relay, 3rd place in the 90 meter and 4x100. I'm so glad I was able to go for the whole day! It was super fun for me to watch her compete and win!!
