Yeah, about the fish...

Well, before one of my dalmatian mollies died(my poor betta Gil was the other fish that was lost), she left me with a gift of 8 (or that's all I've been able to count so far) baby mollies. Wasn't that nice of her... So I went from 5 fish to 3 fish (or so I thought) and back up to 11. It's been a crazy weekend in the fish tank.

fish

I went to Ohio last Thursday to visit my sister (I'll post a blog about that later) and left Jeff in charge of feeding my fish and my frog. When I left I had 5 fish. When I got home tonight I had 3.


My question is what's going to happen when we have kids....

Insaniquarium!!

I finally got to set up my big aquarium this weekend! I am pretty excited. Last night I purchased 2 Black Mollies and 2 Dalmatian Mollies to start the cycling process. Now comes the hard part, waiting 6 weeks for the cycle to be complete before I can add any new fish! My patience is definitely going to be tested. It is a work in progress and I will have new pictures to post as I add landscaping and more fish family members. YAY!

The setup

Mollies

McKenna is 4!

Yesterday we had my niece McKenna's 4th birthday party. She actually isn't 4 until Saturday but she is getting her tonsils taken out Friday and wouldn't have been recovered enough for cake & ice cream so they just had it a week ahead. Here are some pictures (of course Aunt Andi took lots of pictures ;) to share.

It's the birthday girl!..I mean, birthday PRINCESS!

A pretty new dress for school!

She blew out all of the candles on her princess cake in one breath!

playing in the new sprinkler

Her big present was her "twampoline"

Hey, is that McKenna or Hannah Montana?

VBS 2008

This week was Vacation Bible School at Bethel. My brother was in charge of the games and I was the official photographer. Here are some pics of all of the fun games he had for the kids to play(I took pics of everything else too, not just games, but these just happened to turn out the best!). It was a blast and the kids were great. Looking forward to next year.

Dodgeball!!

Popcorn Races

The infamous Mentos and Diet Coke

The little ones loved Bear in the Air, there was a girls team and a boys team and only the girls figured out how to work together to get their bear way up high

This one started out about Jesus helping Peter be brave enough to walk through the storm, but quickly turned into a plain ol' water fight...

Ava with her science experiment. She is too cute!

Jo Jo's Nose

Well, it hardly surpises me that Jonah would be the first of my brother's kids to get a broken bone. This kid was born without a sense of fear and an incredible pain tolerance. It was just a matter of time. Aron and Dawn had a new bed and dresser delivered and set up Monday and it took about 30 minutes for Jonah to find the new footboard with his nose. It doesn't show up too well in the picture but you can see the swelling and the black and blue a little bit.


He was born with a daredevil streak like I have never seen (for some reason the older two missed out on it..) so I'm sure this won't be the last trip to the E.R. or the last post about a broken bone for Jo Jo.

Gil and Kermit

Fish and Frog are now Gil and Kermit. I was looking online and some people come up with some really out there names (Lady Lavender Mackenzie for a fish? It's a fish...). So I just went with plain ol' Gil and Kermit(thanks Charity!).