A Pirate Adventure.... and golf

On Memorial Day, we spent the afternoon at a pirate-themed miniature golf place. It was a really warm afternoon and right during our MK's nap time but we all had so much fun.

Here they are on the ship!

Looking closer, Daddy is there too!

MK getting some help!


Resting by the waterfall!


Arrrggg!

After digging in the bag of loot, W could not wait to put on his eye patch over his sweaty head. When he looked at MK, she said "Mommy, he is scaring me with his big crazy hair!". His crazy hair went to the barber two days later, but the pirate memories will last for a while.

Pre-K Graduate

Our sweet boy is five years old and he said I can just call him Indiana. We will go with an initial for this blog though. He is W. The following are some pictures of him recently.

This is W and his Cubbie leader. He just completed his last year in Cubbies. After the summer, he will return in Sparks since he will be in kindergarten.

W loves to ride his bike. Here he is celebrating his win after racing his little sister on her trike.





W loves to build and his Granny is holding his little boards together while he hammers the nails. He must have some talent with the hammer and there was a lot of trust.

W graduated from Pre-K. While I am a bit sad this time is going by so quickly, I am thrilled to see what kind of boy he is growing up to be.

Journals

Welcome to my very first post!

I have made grand plans in the past to journal. I even have a stack of blank journals. That is not entirely correct, one journal does have one entry. Oh, they are beautiful enough and the time it took for me to select them almost guaranteed them being written in, right? (or are they too beautiful?)

Three years ago, after having our youngest child, I headed to the bookstore looking for journals again. It had not worked out well for my personal journals but with the children I had envisoned much more dedication. I had even selected the nicest pens that were going to be just for my journal writing. As many other mothers can agree, it may be when they leave for college that I have time to fill in their beautiful journals. By then, I can artfully cut and paste pages from this blog and it will be almost the same.

I do enjoy a handwritten letter and seeing the handwriting of my favorite people. Years from now, maybe there will be more words here than I would have had time to write on paper and maybe they will understand why I did not have time to keep their beautiful journals updated.

I would not have had the chance to have written the words in this post in a journal...even with a nice pen. So for now, this is a step in the right direction.

With only our children, I would have plenty of adventures to cover in this little blog but I hope to define a little more of me here too.