Our Little Babies

The eggs in our hanging basket have hatched! At this point, I gave up on watering the hanging basket (it is under the eave so doesn't get any rain), as I don't want to disturb the babies. Aren't they cute?

Busy Life

We've been pretty busy the last couple weeks. We drove a couple Saturdays ago to Creston to get the windmill from Scott's Grandma's house. It needed to be re-painted, and eventually we decided to go with Hawkeye Black & Gold. On Sunday afternoon, we went outside and started scraping all the rust off the windmill, and eventually about 3 of the neighborhood kids came over and they all wanted to help scrape--so we let them! After a while they went in to supper, and I started spraying the primer. Shortly after that, another kid that lives down the street (who we hadn't met before) walked down, sat in our yard, and talked to us for about 45 minutes...I think he needed a friend. Anyway, here is Scott scraping and painting the first coat of black.

Earlier this week I noticed that a couple birds were hovering near the porch, and when I went to water my hanging basket, I found this inside:

Update--I think some bigger birds have now taken over the nest, as yesterday when i got home two of them attacked me. Not nice.

Scott got a box in the mail the other day, and it was a retirement gift from the Army! He got a flag, a pin, and a couple window clings.

I did some experimenting with burgers this week. I bought ground ham and mixed it with ground turkey, green onions, and some soy sauce. I grilled those, and also grilled some pineapple rings. Put a dash of teriyaki sauce on the top, and voila! They were pretty tasty!

Phoenix

At the end of May my co-workers and I went to Phoenix for USA Volleyball annual meetings. This is what I spent most of my time doing:

But don't worry, we had a little time to wander around downtown and enjoy the sites! The Suns were in the middle of their series with the Lakers, and they had put a giant uniform on this statue:

The last night of the meetings is the Boyce Banquet, when USA Volleyball hands out all their big awards, and we have a chance to get dressed up. I don't often wear heels, since they make me taller than Scott, the Boyce Banquet is also the one time a year I wear heels knowing that all those volleyball people will still be taller than I am!

The table centerpiece. This year the shortest person at the table got the volleyball, and it was not me. :(

I had mushroom stuffed ravioli for my meal, and it was DELICIOUS!

I am having so much fun!

We won the Region Website of the Year award, and here we are showing off our award.

The meetings and Adult Nationals overlapped the Phoenix Comicon Conventions. Comicon is a big covention dealing with comics, anime, horror, sci fi, fantasy, Star Trek, etc. The last night I was in Phoenix there was a zombie parade through the streets!

Oh look, it's some escapees from Raccoon City! You may be wondering what Raccoon City is...it's the city from the Resident Evil series of movies/games, of course! How do I know this, well, I will admit that I am kinda a scifi/fantasy geek...but I didn't attend Comicon!

These orange-shirted Ambassadors prowl the streets of downtown Phoenix all the time, helping tourists figure out where they are and telling them the good places to go. They don't normally look like zombies, though.

I wanted a picture with the sign, and a zombie jumped in as well.

You may note that I wore my Chewbacca t-shirt for the occassion!