jury duty, rendezvouz and more

Last week was a full week for us. In fact, this entire summer has been full and going by way too fast. With Cole finishing up baseball on top of everything else, I had to split up the posts from last week. I was summoned for jury duty at the beginning of the week, but fortunately, did not end up having to return the second day (hooray).

The boys and I also met up with some others and kept ourselves busy with a few different activities. We went on a little hike (more like a leisurely walk because we were late) at Idler's Rest, biked on the Chipman trail, participated in a cooking and nutrition class, and went to Rendezvous for kids (a local festival for kids). Cole and Bryce really enjoyed the hands-on "art stops" they participated in at Rendezvous, which is held at one of the local parks in Moscow. They made some Tie-dye bandannas, yarn art, flags, bookmarks, snack art, blew bubbles, and had their faces painted.

I also managed to smash the end of my finger in one of the lawn chairs at the city pool. After going in to have to Doc look at it, apparently I smashed it so hard that it fractured the bone on the end of my ring finger. However there is nothing really they could do for it. I was more worried about losing my fingernail (yuck). It's healing and doing just fine...and I've learned my lesson with the lawn chairs. Here are some pics of the boys at Rendezvous for Kids.

Bryce was so proud of his yarn art that he secretly

got the Scotch tape and hung it in the window in his room.

The boys each made their own tie-dye bandanna.

Bryce hanging out at the snack art table

making a caterpillar out of melon balls (the kids got to eat their art).

Making bookmarks with stamps.

Bubbles