I want Jana to make me one of these hats:

Kort's last Pine Wood Derby (ours too)

He knows how to lead a flag ceremony so well that he is almost always

the one leading it.

He didn't care about speed this time.

All he wanted

was to have his car look like his 

new favorite pastime...

The Master Sword

from

The Legend of Zelda on Nintendo DS.

We had to scrounge through the tool box for anything to make the car

weigh more, since most of the wood got whittled away.

Then,

his car ended up taking 1st place of the Webelos den.

Kort's car wins one of its first races:

Kort is awarded a ribbon for 1st place of Webelos den:

They had random people put together cars out of Legos on the spot, then they

raced them in a "just for fun" race.

Only one of those cars even made it to the finish line...

Look how close 2nd place came to finishing...

2nd place might have had a chance had it not lost its back wheels

halfway down the track.... hahaha

Nothin' but swim team!

Koby, and his lightning fast reflexes at the start:

(he is in the lane closest to me.)

I don't know who this is, but

 So far, so good: 

scratch that!

Yep, scratch that...

100 Breast Stroke 

Pine View boys in lanes 3, 4, and 5.

lane 1 is at the top.

Koby is lane 3

Kash is lane 4

Matt is lane 5.

Matt noses out Koby who noses out Kash.

(Kash usually beats Koby in this event...)

Men's 400 Freestyle Relay:

Koby, Creed, Mitch, Zach.

Kash's start, 2nd from bottom:

400 Freestyle Relay this day:

Kash, Koby, Mitch, Zach.

Koby taking the 2nd leg of the relay following Kashton:

 Our turn to time the swimmers...

The 200 Free Relay this day:

 The men's 400 Free Relay:

Kash takes off...

in case you missed it:

the

Judge Memorial "flare"

Kashton perfecting the FLY!

Region is Friday!

Only 2 1/2 weeks to go!

Competency hearing coming up.

Bro Benson has had one evaluation, and he needs a second one.

He is scheduled for a competency hearing next week.

The word on the street is: dementia is OUT. Schizophrenia is IN.

(dementia was just my own guess, anyhow, since I am so experienced in the psyche world)

I'd have never guessed schizo in a million years, never saw it in him, not once. 

But, then, I've never known any one with schizo before.

(unless my one aunt has it, I dunno, my uncle keeps claiming she's crazy, for reals,

he has "legal custody" of her and everything.)

I am not sure if the sons were able to get in to see him soon after the episode or not; I don't think they did. The jail's rule is that Bro. Benson was not allowed to have visitors for 30 days. I heard that Bro Benson did not recognize them when they came to visit.

That's a good thing.

We all knew there was something big going on inside his head that was not normal.

http://psychcentral.com/disorders/schizophrenia/

I heard he was combatant with the prison guards and had to be put in isolation.

That's strictly hearsay, could be true, though.

Madelin has saved the day for me so many times already.

It seems like once a week at least.

I may need a flat cookie sheet for the oven, and voila,

I find the one she gave me the week before she was killed.

I need some large serving spoons.

There they are in the bag of stuff she gave me.

Need a spice I have never heard of?

she gave me a twisting rack full of those.

My rubber gloves have worn out,

I need some ham for some soup,

I need a clean measuring cup,

another potato peeler,

etc,

etc,

etc.

I can't even remember all of them.

He told Madelin that morning that the Devil was inside him,

and that he felt like he was going to kill her.

She brushed it off and sent  him to sit on the couch to relax

while she made him some breakfast.

She was killed in their kitchen that morning.

Gosh, I miss them both.

Let's make a DEAL....

...I told him.

Our deal:

I will find a babysitter

AND get a job 

AND pay for his rehabilitation 

AND possible assisted living center

IF

and ONLY if

he is wearing a SEATBELT 

when he gets into an accident.

The deal is
OFF

if he is in an accident

while NOT wearing a seat belt.

Now, I will wait and see if that helps him understand the importance of it!!!!

(This deal is NOT with my child, either.)

He will pay me back.

 for postage.

Mr. Ebay seller sent me the wrong item, BUT he will compensate me for the postage to send it back, (to save time, cause it doesn't make sense to send me a prepaid postage label for me to stick on the item to return it.)

He is making a lot of assumptions here:

that I live next door to a post office

that gas is free

that I should donate my time to his cause/mistake

It is close to a whole gallon of gas in my car, plus at least most of an hour of my time, for a mistake that WAS NOT MINE.

I am having a hard time feeling charitable with this one...

Eee Hee, Blondes can be more fun

We were driving past Skywest Airlines Corporate Headquarters that is across the street from Target. Kinzie pointed at the big buildings and asked me if that was the other airport.
I said, "Umm hmm, and they take off from inside those buildings, too!"

She looked at me all confused for a moment as she contemplated the size of planes that could do that.

Eee hee! She was pretty upset with me when she realized she'd just had a blonde moment.

She doesn't have those very often.