It's Been A While (800th Post!)

Sorry about the lack of new posts...we've been continuing to recover from camp. Well, there's that and the fact that there really hasn't been anything of note happening around here.

Jacob only has one more baseball game left and he couldn't be happier. This team has really sucked all of the fun out of playing for him. It didn't help when he ran into a bunch of his friends that are all on another team last night. Like Jacob told me yesterday, the boys on his team are all too worried about being "cool." Wow. I don't remember that starting until at least 5th or 6th grade.

We're trying our hand at making root beer. Daniel doesn't get that you have to let it sit for a few days for it to come together. It should be ready Saturday. I'm pretty scared. LOL!

Yesterday, we got the invite to the neighborhood block party that will be in August. Amy and Dave (neighbors that set this up every year) have booked a Jimmy Buffet cover band to play this year. It should be a lot of fun. Anyway, Amy knocked on my door this morning asking if we support the block party. I told her that we absolutely do, why? She told me that she went down to the city offices this morning to get our permits and someone on our street has already lodged a complaint trying to block it from happening. The "on our street" part surprised me. I know that a couple of people from the street behind us called the police but they're not the ones with the complaint (yet). Amy suspects it's a family up the street that doesn't allow their kids to play with any of the other kids (which is a shame because they have 6 kids, 5 of which are boys around Jacob and Daniel's age). That family also didn't' participate in the party last year. Amy told me that the lady with the city told her that if she could get the majority of the residents on our street to sign a petition in favor of the party, she'd issue the permits. I can't imagine it'll be a problem but she really wants to get more than just the simple majority and several families are out of town this week.

It's a shame that one family can suck the fun out of having a block party. I'm pretty sure it'll happen as scheduled, though.