Daniel discovers comedy

Daniel's formula for every joke he tells:

Why did the *random item* cross the road?

To get to the other *random item*!

for example "Why did the blue milk top cross the road? To get to the other Diego!! HAHAHAHAhahahh"

Lazy (but productive) days

The kids have been having a ball having sleepovers in each others bedrooms

I decided to clean out the storage room aka, my bedroom. Here is Mt. Washmore before:

You really CAN move mountains!! see my cool Barbie phone too?

After watching High School Musical 3, we were inspired to have a picnic with pizza and chocolate covered strawberries. They were delish, the kids went nuts over them of course!

I think every Chin has one of THESE in their house!

My garden is doing wonderfully, I have actual blossoms on two out of three tomato varieties. A cucumber plant is growing despite my complete neglect of it (thought it was dead, whoops!) I'll post a few pics soon :)

Fun at the cottage

The kids and I had a wonderful week at the cottage. We did some swimming (well they did some swimming, I hid in the shade a read my book!)

and we visited Grandma and Grandpa King up in Gladwin

Grandma gave the kids some 'do-si-do' rides on her walker

Grandpa had a pocketfull of pennies for the gumball machine

We had a great week, but are relieved to be home :)

a couple of fun weeks

We had a couple of fun weeks! We went to my cousin Nyaring's graduation open house. She had some wonderful Sudanese food there, it doesn't get more authentically ethnic than that!
Outside their church there was a really fun wooden train the kids had a ball on!




The next Saturday saw us at Craig and Mollie's wedding, Alexis had her first dance with a nice young man, they even tangoed lol

I am also making headway on my container garden. I've got two sorts of heirloom tomatoes planted, I can't wait!

Darn tourists!

today we were tourists in our own town! Since we only had a few hours to tour, we decided to spend our time in East Lansing. We started at the Bug House where we met Rosie the Tarantula



Met a very cool walking stick
And some hissing cockroachs from Madagascar!
Second, we went to the MSU dairy store and all got some wonderful ice cream
Alexis enjoyed mint chocolate chip

and in typical Daniel style, he got Death by Chocolate

On the way back to the Cata bus, we came across this interesting lab

Truly a Chin

After talking to her dad outside on the phone, Alexis called my cell phone to put in her order for dinner. Keep in mind she was about 20 feet away. And the screen door was open.

Daniel's wish

I almost forgot to tell what Daniel wished for when he blew out his candles!

"All the chocolate bars!"

that's my kid for sure!