Zip Zip Hooray

And I wonder why I am exhausted.

We have had a whirlwind week.

Here are a few highlights-- Greer turned the big 13.

Yikes another teen.  Heaven help us.

Byron helped the girls make the cutest flip flop cookies

out of Nutter Butters for her pool themed party.

 Greer planned it all-- just handed me a shopping list

put the rest of us to work.

She played a series of "Minute to Win It" games...

from seeing who could eat a donut the fastest

without it falling off a string....

  to moving Oreos from the forehead to the mouth using

only facial expressions, to playing "Junk in the Trunk"

where they had to shake their booties to shake

ping pong balls out of empty Kleenex boxes..

Of course, I was too busy running around to take many pictures.

But I did get cute ones of them swimming in the 84 degree pool

(thank you Gobily's for spoiling these kids).

 And I got pictures of some of Greer's food spread--

her flip flop cookies, her Veggie platter with the sign: 

"take a dip"...

 Her blue Kool-aid:  "Pool Water", peach rings that were labeled

"life preservers", licorice labeled "pool noodles"-- you 

get the idea.

She obviously knows her way around Pinterest.

 They roasted S'mores, played, giggled and jumped

on the trampoline.  Greer must have thanked us ten times

for such a fun party.

Kind of nice to get thanked when she did most of the work!

 The next morning, Holland and I got up before dawn

to help out at the Bubble Run.

My friend Jeanie and I set up and manned the Baldapalooza booth.

We were the charity partner for the race.

 It was pretty cool-- for the first time they've run the race 

here in Boise, they had over 7 thousand participants.

Not bad.

 The race track snaked around the fair grounds

and was filled with lots of families covered in

colored foam and bubbles.

 Case in point-  here's Holland along with two other friends.

And they were just the volunteers.

 I think everyone got drenched and dyed.

 If not running through the "bubble bogs" in the race...

certainly at the end when they had a field of foam

they launched out over everyone and everything.

 It was a blast.

We came home tired and happy.

Oh, one more thing.

This is what Greer unwrapped from her family.

Can you guess what her present is?

It is all she wanted and my husband (aka MacGyver)

built a top notch- much higher quality one than we could get on line...

drum roll please...

Zip Line.

 It goes at least 200 feet across our upper yard.

And hasn't stopped being used since he put it together

Saturday afternoon.

 Even Kean is addicted to the speed.

That's him on  Byron's lap.

Trust me, it's a bit scary the first time- stepping off at the top

but once you go, you want to go again and again.