post vacation

so, we arrived home on Saturday night, hauled our suitcases inside and that was about it.  I did go to the grocery store, R mowed the lawn and pulled some weeds and Dani unloaded all the kitchen stuff  we had but the suitcases and dirty clothes just waited for us.
They waited all day on Sunday (love that day of rest!) and then this morning we had a massive cleaning party.  Not everyone was excited about it, however in two hours we got it all done.  Dani did lots of work, Mackenzie also did, she's a great little helper.  The others took more persuading, but they did help.
After we went to the pool and swam, which was great and everyone enjoyed.

R got in a crash today.  He was leaving the base and there was an accident closing off one of the gates.  He got stuck in the traffic and he, along with many others were doing u-turns (over a broken line) to turn around.  Unfortunately he turned and didn't see the guy who also  turned and was then heading back.  That guys also didn't see R and t-boned into him :(  This is very sad.  We are glad and grateful that R is okay, so was the other guy..the car was towed though and we will know more tomorrow.   It is almost paid off and now we will have to fix it, and our insurance is going to go up.

When we were cleaning E and I were in the basement and I found a getting ready for 4th grade summer work book that H never did.  I gave it to him and asked him to do a couple of pages.  It was then that we discovered he didn't know how to divide.  I was surprised.  He said they never covered it in school, but I think he should have so I went over it a little, and he understood right away.  Tonight I told R about it and he worked with him on even more complex problems, E thinks it's great fun and asked for more and more.  Problem solved, he's now ready for 4th grade. 

We are really enjoying having Tate visit.  She is so funny.  She calls Sierra see-we-ah.  So cute.  She calls Millie "popcorn", and is very insistant on it.  "Come here popcorn" she calls.  Today we looked at a Clifford book with little windows to open for a long time.  She liked it.  She bit both Hannah and Dani today, she's part shark.  Everyone adores her.  I love watching how sweet E and Lu and H are with her.  They all play with her and watch out for her.  Very nice.

J is doing great at school.  She got an A on her first paper and 100%s on all her quizzes and tests so far.  She is changing her major to undecided and is going to a ball this weekend.  BYU is all I dreamed of ( :) )

We watched Knight and Day yesterday afternoon, it was cute.  We made fried green tomatoes for dinner (along with other things ) and they were tasty.