Ten on Tuesday

1. Last Saturday, we took our friends Molly & Mark to the archery range. It was a first for them, and good times were had by all. :) Molly managed a bullseye on her very first shot (we won't talk about the many shots after that, lol) and the boys arranged for both Molly & Mark to get to shoot at and pop balloons. (Popping balloons is very satisfying, if I do say so myself.)

2. After archery and feeding boys, we four adults headed to the Fort Collins Brewery for a late lunch and a tour. Nothing against those of you who love beer, but Nathan and I find that it's not our thing. :) We've given it a number of tries but are now ready to call it conclusive that we're not beer people. (Feeling fortunate that we're on the same page there, actually, lol.)

3. Nathan found these pichuberries when grocery shopping over the weekend. Strange but good...they taste a little like a Rainier cherry and are rather fun to open.

4. Old Navy rolled out a new size in boys jeans! Hip, hip, hooray for size 18!! Whew. Now I can probably get through another half a year with Noah before having to struggle again with men's sizing.

5. I got those containers finished out front!

6. On Monday, we had our advising appointment for Noah to select classes for the fall semester. Yay! He'll have Algebra II, Geometry, PhotoShop, Biology & English. And, his classes don't start until 9am (though his advisor did suggest perhaps showing up at 8am every morning anyhow to work on a good study habit routine). We're still all pretty happy with this program and choice...

7. Took the boys swimming at a friend's neighborhood pool after the advising appointment (first swim of the year!). The boys had a great time, but I discovered that I need to get one of the younger two boys new goggles...right now they're the same and it makes them very difficult to tell apart in the pool, lol. 

8. Asher had his first demo team performance of the summer this morning. (They perform for elementary school summer library programs.) It went well...I love watching the little ones trying karate for the first time. It makes me remember four years ago when mine started...it's amazing how far they've come. :)

9. You may have noticed in some of my earlier pictures but our front yard neighbors recently replaced their fence (which borders most of our front yard). It looks great. One of our three backyard neighbors just now told us that they're also having their fence replaced in a couple weeks. This is all lovely for us (means more than half of our fences will be beautiful). It raises the question, though, of whether we should replace segments of our fence that aren't covered by neighbors. Bleh. It wasn't really in the plans but we're wondering whether we can't get a discount for scheduling at the same time as our neighbors (since the segment we're looking at is adjacent to the part that's being replaced). Really, though, I'd rather look into having someone come do some work in the backyard...

10. How is it June already?!