Waiting for Sandy

Look at my crazy husband on the neighbors roof.  He cleaned out the gutters yesterday and needed to do it again today.  Things are very quiet right now.  It's windy outside but you can't hear anything in our house.  There is nobody on Route 9.

My God son Aiden is here since they had to evacuate their house.  Rachel is over at work feeding the National Guards.

 

 The kids are having fun doing crafts. Since I haven't put any decorations out I asked them to make me a banner.

I finally got it hung up it took awhile since they glued it to the table. :) 

crazy kid

Why oh why would my son be up and dressed for school at 5:30 in the morning?  He must be crazy! 

Girl Scouts bug theme

Our girl Scout troop is off to a great start already.  We have 70 girls in our troop.  Last week we brought in a couple of sewing machines and had the girls practice sewing on them.  They made a basic tube dress. That most of the girls cut the bottoms like on Tinker Bells dress.  They decorated wings. and  today we watched the Secret of the Rings and had pop corn.  The girls really enjoyed it.  I wish I had pictures of them.  I brought my camera last week but was so buzy I didn't have time to take any pictures.  Of course I just forgot to bring it this evening.  I have to learn not to go anywhere with out it. 

Kateri Center

We had a trip to the Kateri Environmental Center today.  They took the kids on a hike through the woods and taught them about plants and trees.  The first one on the stop was my favorite poison ivy. :(  I was itchy the whole hike.

Freehold Spooktacular

Yesterday we went to the Halloween Spooktacular.  They do such a wonderful job.  It's all about the hayride.  They used to go around the streets through downtown and volunteers did little skits in front of their houses.  They now moved it to a park.  It is so much better.  We saw a lot of friends there.  Michael was right up front and he got so scared he jumped in my lap and cried and cried.  I was trying to figure out what scared him the most.  I think it was the headless horseman.  The guy did a really good job but when you asked Michael he said everything was scary.  I'll post pictures when I take them off the camera.

Another Face Painting

Pop Corn Blitz

It was a chilly day today and we got only a few of the kids to come out and sell pop corn.  We didn't sell a lot but we made more in donations.  How can you resist that cute little face?

Quail Hill Catch and Release

We headed out to Quail Hill for the Fishing Derby.  Ed spent most of the time fixing the fishing lines.  We didn't catch any fish.  They family next to us kept pulling fish out like every minute or two. 

Michael and his friend had more fun playing with the worms.

I sat on a bucket and was trying to crochet a blanket fast to keep me warm and towards the end I did go down closer to the water and caught a frog and a couple of tadpoles for the kids to hold that way they didn't feel to bad about not catching a fish.  Then they had to release them pack into the water.

Doing laundry

These are just a few of the things I pulled out of my kids pants pockets today.

The first Wolf Den meeting

Our first den meeting was feat of skills.  The kids had to do a few exercises.  I bought the kids gym mat for them.  I love this picture.  Michael jumped out of the way and fell back into a pile of book bags.

I have a lot of great picture of the kids playing and racing.  I'm trying to use only the pictures without the kids faces in them.

My son who is not athletic at all let his best friend drag him to the finish.  We also taught the kids how to fold the American Flag properly and the parts of our state flag and what they mean.

The kids also made a banner for their den with their hand prints on it.  Here are some moms trying to glue everything on.  The glue would not hold very well.  I had to buy three different types of glue to get it to hold.

Here is the banner with all the hand and letters re glued.  I just have to sew the pocket for the pole on top.  I'll probably take it with me to the pop corn sale so it will give me something to do while I have to sit around for a couple of hours.