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Meth Party

Our check book, stolen from our car was apparently passed around at a meth party. Nice. No wander so many people were trying to cash them. It is very sad when I think of it. I am not mad or anything but it is just weird. I wander if I went to the jail where they are and if I met them they would at all care. I wander if I put a face on the check book they stole if it would matter? Maybe to a few but not to some. I hope they all come to know God and can be free from the addiction of drugs. It is strange to me that the some of the people who were caught trying to cash checks, some as much as 500 dollars and some as little as 60 will spend two years in jail for that on top of the years they are spending for other crimes. The police called us today and told us of a particular man who was sentenced four years and now he is getting two more just for using our check book. It is so strange to me. Anyway that is the scoop, no word on our car but I am very happy with our new Suburban. We are getting an alarm, we have a club and Gary even cleaned out the garage so we can park it in there!! That is a miracle in and of itself. You should have seen our garage. So Barney is now safe in our garage, locked away. Yahoo!

just for fun

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our adoption blog

So So funny!!!! I feel like this sometimes, just a little different

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/the-lawrence-welk-show/727501/

Goofy husband

On my last post my goofy husband was supposed to edit my last bit and then post it but apparently he added his own sentiments while I was out riding bikes with the kids. I did not crash into a 300 K trailer, I did not fall off the banana bike, too low to the ground. I did however find it difficult to steer with my giant butt as the guiding force.

I forgot to add something a bit funny. We played baseball as a family the other night in the dirt lot by our trailer. It was girls against boys, I was batting and Abby was on third. I hit the ball and began to yell to Abby to run home!! My poor baby ran to the trailer, she ran right past home base and straight home, literally. In the end she was embarrassed because Gary and I were laughing at her, it was so cute. I found her little head bowed and a not so peppy Abby sitting on the steps of our trailer. Her big brother had his arm around her and was encouraging her telling her "Next time you can be on my team." It was so adorable.

San Diego!

Well we have had a great time in San Diego. Once again the KOA has not let us down. Half off this month for people who keep their trailers here, so that is 25 bucks a night!! Currently the kids are riding thier bikes and we just got back from the science center FREE, that's right. FREE. We came along with our homeschool group AZVA and there was not admission. Yesterday we went to the San Diego zoo, FREE!! yep no admission. I am sitting in my air conditioned trailer, Nettie is watching a DVD, Judah is sleeping. We are planning on heading out tomaorrow. I think we are going to the beach this eveing to watch the sunset. This afternoon we had a picnic at Balboa park, it was splendid. We sat in the shade and watched the kids play, the butterflies and the falling leaves. I was able to meet two nice famililes from our homeschool group.

On a different note it is amazing to me how much Nettie has grown and how much English she knows now. She has left her life in Ethiopia behind her, which is sad. I never expected or wanted her to forget who she was, and I hope as her English improves she can tell me about her life in Ethiopia. We may go to an Ethiopian resturaunt here in San Diego tonight before the beach. The last time we were here she had just been home a week or so, and looking back on that time I can see how much she has grown. Gary just stepped back in so I am going to take the kids riding. I hope I dont fall off and scrape my knee or bash my head or roll over or crash into one of the kids or ruin a $300,000 camper.

Barney Mobile

Well we got a new suburban! 2005, thank you very much! My friends were laughing at me because I can't work all the gadgets, but I am learning! We got a great deal at an auction! It is very nice. It was missing a radio so Gary went down to Best Buy to have one installed. Leave it up to my do it your self husband. They installed the radio then realized the speakers were blew out. So the tech told Gary he didn't have time to do the speakers, well we leave tomorrow so .... it had to be done. Gary asked the tech if he could stick around and install the speakers himself! They said yes, and with a minor tutorial he was able to put our speakers in, hanging with the Best Buy techs in the back. Gary saved us 80 dollars in labor cost! Plus the funny part is that they offered Gary a job! He may take it! He would be installing alarms and stereos and he feels the experience and extra money would be good for us.

Anyway our car was a great deal, in part because it is two toned. Lets see what it has been lovingly called thus far, "Barney" "Pimp mobile" "Ghetto Fab" "Mobile Disco" I think it is funny. It is purple and silver by the way! It is growing on me, regardless it is different and that I like.

I know I keep saying it but we will post pictures, life is so busy and I can testify that the more kids you add the faster it goes!

Ethiopian Chicken

I posted a recipe I made up as a short cut to Doro Wat

www.livingloveoutloud.blogspot.com

Update

Well as I was getting ready to blog about my car and what we are doing about it finally, Netsanet appeared before me with a bald spot the size of Texas smack dab in the front of her head. Her beautiful hair!!!! I could cry. She stood with a pair of scissors that her Grandmother gave her looking so very guilty. Acutally almost in tears, I think she realized it was bad. I sent her to her room. She was acting sneaky earlier, apparently she was hiding scissors when she disappeared.

I will deal with it later.

Mason is currently sifting dirt to finish out our project on Nomads. I will blog a picture.

A mummified chicken????!!!!! groooosssssss.

but so cool!!

Home school

You know you home school when you have mud bricks the size of tootsie rolls baking in your oven and not yummy brownies. :(

History, Nomads, lesson. :)