Busy Frizzies

by Lorna

Today's title comes from a picture book that Lane had when he was a toddler. It was actually called "Silly Monsters," but there were busy frizzies in it. To this day, Tim & I can both recite that book by heart because we read it soooooo many times. We also frequently use the phrase to describe us and our lives.

Saturday was a "busy frizzies" day. We got up at 6:45 am to get ready as we had to have Maren at a local high school by 8:30 am for Cheer/Football Jamboree. Maren cheers for our local Pop Warner league in a competition division and this was the kickoff league fundraiser for the season. "Kickoff" meaning the FIRST big fundraiser because it certainly won't be the last!

They had team and individual pictures taken in uniform. Here's a photo of her team! Maren is in the 3rd row, far left side in uniform.

The Jamboree is like a big fair with all sorts of booths, bouncing structures, etc. and each activity costs a certain number of tickets. Maren's team's booth was a Hair Salon. This consisted of seating your "customer" and spraying their hair with up to three colors of colored hair spray. Tim was the first one to work the booth for our team and aesthetics being his thing, he did a great job! Here's a pic of a finished product. Tim did not do this child's hair; he's the headless guy in the background.

Then Maren's team cheered for their football players at a scrimmage and we called it a day. Well, we called it a day at THAT event. There was more to come.

Saturday evening was my office's summer picnic which for the last several years has taken place on a party boat. We rent one of those double-decker party boats with a waterslide, the captain takes us out on the lake and we eat, drink, swim and generally have a great time. Our kids look forward to it all year.

The above photo is of Reed driving the boat with Maren and the Captain looking on. Captain John actually did let Reed drive the boat for a minute or so. Hope his boss isn't reading this! He went to go get something from the front of the boat, left Reed at the wheel and said, "See that boat dock over there? Don't hit it." Hey, he's only four, but you gotta start driving sometime!