Today we got up and started getting things packed to go to the beach. Logan was getting dressed and he was singing again he was singing Noooooooboooooddddy looooook aaaaaat mmmmmmmeeeeee. Singing it over and over from his room, talk about cute. There is a lake near our house, about 30 minutes away. Emily gets everything packed up the bathing suits and towels and beach toys. She packed up Logans, Brendan, Hers and Meghan’s stuff. We told David he could go if he behaved himself. Tim and I had to run up to Walmart to pick up one of mine and Logan’s prescriptions as well as a little bit of food and some Jelly. Emily was going to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as soon as we got home.

While we were gone we got a call from Emily saying it was raining out and cloudy at our house, it was doing the same at Walmart. Emily sounded so upset. We told her that my sister Lisa had invited us to her house tomorrow and that we would be going swimming at her house and having a bbq there. The kids were all so sad they really wanted to go to the beach.

So we got home the kids had lunch. Lunch consisted of 3 loaves of bread, 1 large jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly and a bag of chips and a gallon of iced tea. Emily was a good girl she made it all. So we rewarded her with a pack of sugarless bubble gum. After our trip to the dentist the other day, sugarless gum was going to be it in our house. Any other sticky type sugary candy was not going to be purchased by our money. We also got a call from Amanda who had to get picked up at her friends house. They were having septic problems and had no bathroom services. So we left the kids there and went too pick up Amanda. So we drove over to pick up Amanda which is about a half hour away.

We were gone for over an hour and the kids kept on calling. First Logan calls, that’s right Logan called and he said that Brendan was missing. I asked him to put Emily on the phone I could here David messing around in the background, Logan put down the phone and left. I hung up and called Bradley to ask what was going on, of course he didnt know. I asked where TJ was. He said TJ went to someones graduation party. So I told Bradley to find Brendan and call me back. Emily calls me says that Logan told her to call me, she says that she is hiding Brendan because David keeps teasing him saying he is going to put glass in his foot and that they keep fighting. Emily is such a good girl, protecting her younger siblings. I would rather she just kick David’s but and get it over with, I know bad thing to say. But he is always bothering them and they need to just stick up for themselves to end it.

So we get home and yell at David, lotta good it does and we tell him that he is not going to Lisa’s house tomorrow. You see we only have one vehicle right now and as you can imagine 9 kids + 2 adults do not fit into 1 mini van. Well TJ has work, so that leaves 8 and David is not being punished so that is 7, just need to exclude 1-2 more and we will be all set. We also have a smaller car but TJ decided to use it without permission. The air in the tire was running low and he bent the rim on the tire and we simply have not had the time or funds to get it fixed. We have been giving TJ so much money to keey our other car going when his car bit the dust. TJ’s cars transmission dropped so we gave him one of our cars, well he decided to take our 3rd car because it is a convertible and he ruined the tire in doing so. Now keep in mind we have all older cars a 1997 and a 1999, and the one we game him is a 2000,.

So it has finally stopped raining and now it is sunny but is is 415pm so it is to late to go to the lake but we can take them to the playground, that is always fun. I will be back

The playground was alot of fun. It was just Me, Tim, Emily, Brendan, and Logan.  You might be sitting there because I used the word “just” when most people do not even have 5 people in their family and I use the number 5 like it is hardly anyone. For us to just have 5 of us, it seems like a very small group. So we played on the playground for a while and then we went to play basketball which is where the excitement began. We started with a game of HORSE. You know how that game goes. The person to go first tries to make a basket and whoever makes a basket first sets the criteria for everyone. We all must make the shot from that spot or you risk getting the risk letter of the word HORSE. Before long Logan had an H and he was pouting because he did not want a letter. Emily said to Logan just be glad you are not a Ho like I am. Most of us were Ho’s except me, I was a Hor. We all started laughing. What a bad game, eh. Emily ended up winning the game because we all went from being Hors and somehow turned into Horses. Next we played a team vs team game. The teams were Tim and Brendan vs. Me and Emily. Logan decided that he was going to be the coach for both teams which was really funny. He called us over and said to us “Ok we wanna have a good game so no punching, kicking, biting, spitting, pushing, or shoving. Now let’s have a good game.” With that we started playing. I played a little rough, well we all did, and Logan kept stopping us to tell us the rules again. “Guys, guys, no shoving” At the end of the game the girls won, that’s right, Emily and I won, I kind of think, Tim let us win. Brendan was not happy. We all left the court except Brendan. He threw the ball back into the basket and proclaimed that it was now 6-5 and that the boys won. We went back over to the play ground for a little while and let them play on the playground for a while and Tim and I just sat on the bench and talked. I cannot even begin to tell you how nice sitting on a bench and just talking is. It is the absolute best. It is like we are alone, except for the fact that kids are running around the playground.

When we got home we made hamburgers and french fries for dinner, 16 burgers, and 3 pounds of french fries, and 3 pounds of corn. Dylan and David made dinner because we decided to be nice to them and let them go and see the Transformers with TJ and that we would pay for the 3 or them to go. So the kids stayed up late watching movies downstairs and Tim and I watched movies as well.

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