This weekend

Here are Sammy and Jordan wearin' the green to school on Friday. They were very concerned about getting pinched!




Friday night we went to the Family Fun Night at Sammy's school.

Here are Jamie, Jordan and Sammy doing the macarena.





And here they are doing the limbo.




After that was over, we dropped Sammy at her mom's house and when we got home it was bedtime for Jordan and Jamie and Claudia built our annual leprechaun trap. They got a little more elaborate this year and went beyond our traditional box-propped-up-with-a-stick contraption. Next year we may have all three girls each research, design and build their own trap.




Here's a video of Claudia demonstrating it (we'll right-side-up it soon):

Leprechaun trap.

But, as usual, the leprechaun took the coins we used for bait and left us with a bunch of chocolate coins. And he also turned our drinking water and the water in the girl's toilet green.



Sunday we went to church where Jordan learned about Joshua and the battle of Jericho and Claudia continued to work on her utopian society. The adult service centered around the death penalty and Jamie and I are wanting to get involved in that, but we're probably doing too much right now as it is. There are five issues we're particularly interested--homelessness, abolishing the death penalty, gay rights, abortion rights, sex education--and that's really a lot to work on all at once, especially with all the other stuff we have going on. So, we'll see. After church we went to Einstein's Bagels in the Broad Ripple district for lunch with a group of friends and that was really fun. There's a billboard across the street from the restaurant of eyeglasses made from a bunch of junk and it always reminds me of The Great Gatsby for some reason. I would go back and re-read it to find out, but I hate that book.

And now it's late Sunday night, Jamie and Claudia are out shopping--they're picking up a few things we missed off the grocery list this weekend and also searching for the new Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, Steven Colbert's Americone Dream that Claudia is dying to find, and I'm making Sammy's birthday cake. She wants all home-cooked stuff instead of bakery/going out. For the cake she chose the cinnamon chocolate cake we always make but with vanilla cream cheese icing. Yum! And for dinner tomorrow night she wants roasted pork loin, rolls, "my" mashed potatoes (with roasted garlic) and steamed broccoli with butter.