Zeria at baton practice. 

It seems my current pattern is to ambush everyone with pictures every Saturday.  LOL  So it must be that time again.  So here's Jeremiah and his serious pose.  He was up there hiding from the fire.  It was spitting little hot ash everywhere, and he was NOT impressed. 

My little tomboy ragamuffin after a hard day of burning.  (Thursday)  She had so much fun, and was so filthy although this picture doesn't show the soot.

Yesterday we went to town and bought ourselves a new vehicle.  And no I don't have a picture.  But its a big beautiful white suv Ford Excursion which we got for a terrific price.  Its used, as we just can't justify "new" vehicles.  But it should last us a nice while.   And since Jer's prayer has been recently please help the van not to break down too much...I think it was time.

It handles sooooooooooo nicely and is super duper quiet.  Its got all leather seats, and just beautiful.  I know I should have a picture maybe I'll snag one a bit later in the morning.

While waiting for the bank to fill out paperwork we headed to Carrie Blake Park and played.  It was one of those long business days and the kids desperately needed squirm time. 

I was thrilled with the lovely bright colors in that picture of Kaylin. 

After we'd all worked off steam and ate lunch we walked over to the duck pond.

I love my 12x optical zoom!!!!  Isn't that a great picture. 

The pond was just teaming with ducks.  And we had a great time walking around the pond and enjoying the last day of February.

Yeah she has her skateboard.  The two oldest have really gotten into it, and Carrie Blake has a skate board park.  We however asked them to join us when we did the walk around the pond.

Lots of ducks!

The beautiful sculpture/island

And the water fountain making a rainbow. 

It was a nice interlude in a long day of going to the bank, going to the car lot, going to the bank, and going to the car lot.    We have low debt, so they didn't even blink at us...which is always delightful.

And sometime in the next month we will be going back to re-finance our house and get us back to one payment.  As soon as I get the rest of the outside of our addition painted.  We had to finish our improvements, and then we will put our second and first back together which will cut the payment quite a lot.  It would have been better a month ago intrest wise, but hey we didn't have the roof on yet.   LOL