Parents, a princess and a pirate

Bees, butterflies and dragons - on my.


What a nice weekend we had. Brett is still busy training for his marathon, he did 19 miles with a 1 mile cool down on Saturday morning. I know he's really ready for the marathon to be done, the time he spends training is really wearing on him. On Saturday he left the house at 8:30, got home about 11:45 and had to rest, eat and shower so he wasn't ready to do anything until 1:30. I don't mind, I want him to do this marathon, but I know he's just tired and bored of the training. One more long run (20 miles on Labor Day weekend) and he'll be ready. His other runs between now and the marathon are all shorter, recovery runs.

Saturday afternoon, we drove up to the Art Museum. Brett had never been and the kids and I have one been once. Their gardens are beautiful. The Museum sits on property that was donated by the Lilly Family, as in Eli Lilly Pharmaceuticals, inventor of insulin. We toured their country house, the gardens and went through a few exhibits in the museum.

Saturday evening we had our friends, Coach and Barb over for dinner. It's been a while since we've had people over so we enjoyed that time catching up with them.

Sunday was church. Our church runs 2 services, 8:15 and 11:00 with a Sunday School hour inbetween. We usually go to the 8:15 because we like being home by 11:00 to enjoy most of the rest of the day. Well, the leadership has decided to move the 8:15 service to a 9:30, keep the 11:00 service and run Sunday School during both hours. Research has shown that the most popular time to go to church is 9:30. And by running SS during both services, we can double our space and offer more classes, something we can't do at this time. I think it's a great idea and am proud of our leadership for considering "mixing things up". But our SS class that we love will be meeting at 9:30 now so afterwards we'll go to the 11:00 service. Which means, we won't be finished until 12:15 or so. That means lunch and naps and our day is done. We'll adapt but it will be different. But I won't mind being able to sleep in until 8:00 now!!

After church we went to the zoo. They have a butterfly exhibit as well as a Kimono Dragon exhibit running now, both are finished Labor Day weekend. The dragons were really cool and just plain huge. Would not want to run into one of those in the wild. The butterflies are so fun, you walk around the greenhouse and feel like you're in a tropical rainforest, flowering plants and trees all you and the butterflies just fliting all around. Kylie and I loved it but poor Matthew freaked out whenever one came near him, he thought they were going to sting him. Guess he has some fear after his bee sting this week. Actually he won't go outside much right now because he's afraid of being stung. Poor little guy.

And now it's Monday morning. Kids are up, Kylie is dressed and we're starting a new week.