Anne's Journal

Matt and Sam came to town for Sam's work. They were having some conference. Yesterday they found out it would be virtual. Sam spent the day in Stockton's room on her laptop in meetings. Matt has been teaching English to kids in China all night long. He stays up all night and has little cat naps between classes. Yesterday they got back so late from Lagoon. He slept for just a bit and was up by 2:00 am to teach classes. I was up at 6:45 am and he was still teaching. I don't know how he does it.

Matt and Sam went to a movie once Sam finished work. My dad had given them a movie gift card and told them he would babysit five years ago. Today they cashed it in. My dad came up here to watch the kids. Don't worry, I helped him. Stockton has been spending many hours writing his plates. Anne asked him what he was doing. He told her he was writing his journal and she wanted to write one too. She found a pen from Great Wolf Lodge that has a diamond looking thing on it and went to work. This was the result.

Anne's Journal Princess Lily

Once upon a time there was a little princess girl named lily and she had been tired of being treated like a princess. She hated the whispering as she passed, the gown she had to wear, the high shoes she had to wear, and the rules she had to follow. but one day there was something even worse, a ball had been decreed anouncing the marige of there dauter (that was lily). to a son of a kid of a very differerent kingdom. everyone had idias of a wedding gown exept a young ladie named maddie. she knew the troubles she was haveing. the ladie had a simple dress that lily loved. when the ball finally arived the king had a gown the looked even more uncomforitable. She wished she could have maddie's dress, and at that there was maddies dress right there on her bodie. "What!" the king roared at the sight of her. "the prince is going to hate you" she ached with hopefullness at the thout and said "hopefully." and befor she knew it everything was gone."

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Hahaha isn't that great? Kids are the best. I read it and thought that the reason everything was gone was because the prince didn't want to marry her anymore because he didn't like her dress. I asked Anne if that was the reason. She looked at me confused and said, "No, didn't you read? Everything is gone because of the knife." Then she acted out violent stabbing motions. I was stunned and said what? She said, "The king!" and did the stabbing motions again. Hahahaha I guess I should have paid more attention to the last page. Anne has always liked stories with villains. Man, it cracked me up. Can you believe how great of a writer she is? I liked "She ached with hopefulness at the thought." Not many seven year olds write like that. Okay, now that the story is over, here are some pictures of ducks.

Amy, Anne and ducks

Greg, Anne, Bear, ducks

Amy, Anne, ducks, Greg, Bear

Greg & Amy watching Anne chase the ducks

Anne with the ducks in a row ~ Angel, Peach, Daisy, Dodgers

Rachel slept here tonight. She didn't get in until super late because they had another long day at Lagoon. Rachel had bought season passes when she found out Brett was going to be deployed to Qatar. A few months later they un-deployed him. Woohoo! Except Rachel now had five season passes to Lagoon and she lives in Ohio. Haha. She is trying to get use out of them this week. Anyway, we had Jorja's room set up for Rachel. Maysen, Stockton and Preston all slept out in the motorhome. Jorja slept on the couch because she had to be at work at 6:30 in the morning and wanted to already be in the house when she woke up. It's been a crazy few days, but it sure has been fun!