Start of the week

Here it is, another Monday and the start of the week.

We had a nice weekend. Saturday the Casparis came up and we hung out for most of the day. The kids really played well together all day. We spent the morning mostly out at the Dragon's Lair*. Then around 11:30 or so (after the kids had eaten some PB&J) headed over to the pool to swim.

*Yes, I know, I promised pictures of the Dragon's Lair ... they'll come, eventually.

Oh yeah, we also hit Auntie Karen's art show over at her place in there too. In the later afternoon, the adults made Lasagna, led by Chef Dave, and the kids did more playing. It was a fun day. After Casparis left, we stayed up late and went down to the lake to see the fireworks that a rich guy put on for his birthday. Here's a link to the coverage of his birthday party last year. We heard that this year's theme, for his 66th birthday, was Route 66. Anyway, as rich people are prone to do, the whim was have the supposedly 9pm fireworks at 10:15, so we didn't last that long. It was still fun to hang out at the dock for a while though.

Sunday was church, then after church we had a potluck at camp and a silent auction for camp scholarships for church kids. It was a big success and the better news for the DeVries was that Emma, and especially Timmy, were able to swim at the lake front and enjoy themselves there. We had a kind of slow rest of the day, complete with a thorough straightening of Emma's room, which desperately needed it.

This week should start slow and then gain momentum. Midweek we have some friends from church in Fountain Valley stopping by for a couple of hours on their way through town, then sometime on Thursday, Lee will be coming to town* for several days, so that will be a lot of fun!

*Lee (and Kim for the first part of the trip, though she had to fly back home for the start of school) drove across the country for Jon's graduation from the military school he's been attending. He's learning about power plants and how to set them up and has really done well!