Wednesday, April 25, 2012

April happenings

We are in the middle of baseball, when it doesn't rain.  I'd say at least half of the games have been rained out.  It has been a great team so far though.  Austin is playing for the "Red Bulls" this year.  We have been in the season for over a month, and just last week found out that Austin's coach lives in our neighborhood.  His grandson, who is on the team, lives one street over from us (just goes to a different bus stop).  One other boy on the team also lives on that same street.  What great connections!  We have had a bit of a hard time meeting kids in the neighborhood that we can develop friendships with (boys in particular).  I'm pretty excited about that.  This is the first season for kid-pitch baseball.  It is a bit more challenging to hit the ball! 


For the last 2 years I have been an ebay seller (brinkley1702).  I have been GRADUALLY selling a collection of die cast cars that my uncle had in his house.  He passed away 2 years ago and lived in Olympia, WA.  Since I was the only family member that lived anywhere close to him, I agreed to take on the project of selling cars.  I started out looking for a buyer who would take the whole collection of approx. 500 cars.  That didn't work out so I started listing them on ebay and selling them off little by little.  After countless pictures like the one below and trips to the post office, I now have a very nice pay pal balance!  I have to say, it was a little bit fun to see the cars, see who bid on them, which cars actually had people bidding each other up, and seeing where the people lived who bought them.  Not to mention making a little money!  So now, that little part time job is done!


We took the kids to Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, WA, this weekend.  What a blast.  They swam their little hearts out.  Tim and I too...  Ezra surprised us by being brave enough to try some new slides, even 2 that he had to go down by himself.  They could have stayed in the wave pool all day.  It was nice not to be on a schedule, just relax together and have fun.  The whole experience of the hotel is amazing.  The rooms are so cool and it is very family friendly. 







These 2 special boys just finished their Awana books for the year!