Eye eye Captain!

Shrimp tours are pretty cool.  We did one years ago and decided to do one again.  Chelsi and Jaemin got to actually drive the boat...okay it was a modified pontoon, but they loved it.  Though Jaemin ran us through a sandbar and almost got us stuck. 

We saw our dolphin on the ride, so he was pretty happy.  Sawyer was so excited about the dolphins she saw. 

Jalapenos! HOTTTTT!

Chase absolutely LOVES jalapenos on everything.  The ones we had tonight, Chase says, were not hot.  However, Jaemin grabbed one off the plate and by the time we all looked at him, his whole face was bright red!  He took it out of his mouth and threw it at Brian like he was the reason his mouth was burnin'  It was SO funny!  Everyone at the table was laughing so hard.  We had to borrow his friend, Sawyer's, milk to calm down the burn in his poor little mouth.

This is from the shop next to the restaurant.  Jaemin wanted in on it too, so after the older 4 did a picture he got his pirate picture taken too.

ARGHHH Meearties!

YUM! Ice CREAM!!!

They really liked this evening's treat.

Flips n Flops

Chelsi had her last night of gymnastics last night.  She gets to progress onto the next class.  So, I guess later this year or next Spring she'll start working more on her cartwheels and eventually learn how to do back handsprings like she wants.  She's just so darn cute in her leo.

Cole had his 8th grade promotion today.  They don't make a huge deal out of it because the gym isn't big enough for all the students to bring more than 1 or 2 family members, at best, so I took off work to go and one of his grandmas was there.  I was glad to see him promote.  Even if he's not at the top of his class, it's just nice seeing him succeed in life, onto the next step.  They had a ton of awards that probably took the first 45 minutes.  It was, um, a little hard on this mommy heart.  Tons of PE awards for things Cole has no chance of earning.  Him not getting an award for good grades is totally his own doing, so while I was a little disappointed he never tried harder, it's okay.  I guess, I too have some getting over to do about his heart and the setbacks of ideals you have in life it may prohibit.  Needless to say, another year down and for that I'm happy.  I love you Cole...even when you think I'm being a mean mom who won't let you do anything, when in reality I'm taking the harder way out to keep you in this world with me as best I can.

My guitar star

If you turn the channel to CMT and the video has a guitar in it, it's a sure thing for Jaemin to run to his room to get his guitar and play.  He looks so natural and it's so darn cute!

Wonderful evening

It was a little cold for this time of year, but it was a nice evening for our adoption picnic.  Many international adoptive families came together and one of the homes.  Brian and the boys got to fish, while the little kids just did whatever they wanted.  They were on the slide, in the bounce house, riding all the riding toys, you name it.  Jaemin touched one of the fish Brian caught and then was ready to catch his own.  He's been wanting to go fishing so bad.  Chelsi got to play with her friend Cale, so she was happy.  It was a fun, get dirty outside kinda evening.