We took cupcakes and ice cream to our bible study at Lester’s and Esther’s house. Everyone stuck around for a good while after meeting to just talk and eat really fattening stuff. Even I had both a cupcake and a scoop of ice cream. After all it was my birthday. Still, I am back down to my lowest weight since we started this death match. It turns out that it was Youngin’s and Madelaine’s birthday on the 19th. Everyone sang Happy Birthday for me, then sang again for Madelaine, but not for Youngin because she did not fess up until it was too late. I put them into my calendar now, though, so we will be ready for them next year. We are going to have the “main” party for me on Friday evening. It is funny how, the older I get, the more I am interested in using these kinds of events as an excuse to eat food that will cause me to gain weight, so all we are going to do is hang out together as a family and eat shrimp and steak. How much better does it get than that?!??
All we are trying to do now in homeschool is get everything completely completed (if that makes sense) leading up to the trip. I do not want anything hanging over the kids’ heads while they are on vacation in Mexico. I might have them do a little math, but other than that I am going to leave them alone. I think I am getting soft in my old age.
We are anxiously waiting to see where Lyle comes in now that he is back in the game after convention!
July 15, 2004 – Newspaper front page photo of Kelly (Photos)
July 16, 2004 – Joe and Kevin come to lunch