HALLELUJAH!!

I feel alive again! My cell phone has been a trusty companion but frankly, the pictures just didn't cut it. We figured that with the trip to Utah and continuing goings-on this summer we simply didn't want to do without a real camera...however, the fact that we just replaced our lost one means that we should be finding it anytime now. If that be the case, we vow to sell it on Craig's List or some like-venue right away.
I think that I should let my ability to keep up on blogs dictate how much activity we engage in...I feel an urgency to get out of the house nearly every day but I can't keep up with the journaling...whoa is me, too much fun...or just too much.
On Saturday we went to Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. I remember visiting there when my family lived in MA during middle school. It's a recreated village from the year 1830 complete with working shops and farms and goofy history nuts in costume. I absolutely love history from this time period so I was excited to go back and take the girls. We've been learning more and more about the Colonial period and history of the American Revolution...we figure its a fitting time since moving here and the impending 4th of July (one of my very favorite holidays...too bad we'll be celebrating from the air...) I am constantly amazed at the weather here...the day was mid 70's and breezy in the shade, absolutely pleasant. The girls had fun and it was a perfect activity to tour houses, barns and shops with plenty of dirt roads, grassy town greens and old-timey games to expend all that little girl energy. This is Haley and Clark fishing with an "ole-timey pole" and stale bread.
Tonight was a special Family Home Evening treat. In preparing for our move here the girls decided that they wanted their own Razor scooters. And to sweeten the incentive and keep their eye on the prize, we gave Clark his own Razor for Father's Day. So as a "relocation bonus" and good behavior incentive we instated the "Scooter Scoreboard". They had to earn 100 points before getting their scooter. They were awarded points for lots of different things, though not always for the same thing...you know, to keep it unpredictable and fresh; things like obeying the first time, being out of their way kind to their sisters, getting their barf IN the bucket, doing extra chores, staying in their own bed all night, and so on and so forth...Today, they both reached 100 points!...(what a coincidence that they would reach it the same day...now thats team work) So after some other "family errand running" we went to Toys R Us and they picked out their rewards! We are now the totally geeky family. A family that scoots together, stays together.
(don't feel too bad for Mia...she likes to stand on the very front of ours while we ride and lean back on our legs while saying, "whoa, whoa, whoa"...its a good things she has little feet.)
We even appropriately labeled them and added cute ribbons...you know, so we could tell them on the playground at a glance...and they're cute ribbons, so, you know...don't worry, Clark's has a masculine "knot" instead of a bow. (and I earned my own scooter too, by not divorcing my husband or disowning my children through this move...)
Scoot on little family, scoot on.