Fish Tanks

For Mother's Day and my birthday my wonderful kids and husband helped me get the fish set up I have always wanted. On the way home we must of stopped in every fish store we could. It was probably close to a dozen stores. I am specifically looking for starlight bristlenose plecos. I cannot find any of them anywhere around here. We did find some wonderful Cichlids for the tanks. The varieties include: Bumble Bees, Red Zebras. Black Flank, Calico Convict, Giraffe Haps, Blue Kenyi, and Yellow Labs. I love the way this tank is turning out! If any of you know where I can find the plecos I want let me know we will plan a special visit ;).

I had to move the fish that were in the big tank into a smaller set up. So here is my only angel I have left, the common pleco, zebra danios, Bolivian Ram, Rasaboras, and Julii cory cats.

Here is the bottom tank. It is filled with, Sword tails, Platties of all ages and sizes, and a few albino cory cats.

I did not get a good picture of Kaleb's tank. The reflection was horrible. He has a huge, mean, blue Kenyi and an African Catfish. I will post pics here when I get some good ones.

Swimming

The kids had a great time swimming with their friends at the motel after the trips were through. All of us who stayed over on Saturday night even went out to dinner afterwards together. 29 of us in one restaurant. Of course the football had to come along. I think the football goes with us no matter where we are....

Milton House

Our next stop was the Milton house museum. This was a very interesting trip. It was an underground railroad house to help the slaves get to freedom. One of the rules was we were not allowed to touch anything unless it was handed to us. The guides wore gloves to protect the antiques. Do you know how fun it was when Seth loves to touch everything?!?! It was very educational and something I hope the kids will remember the rest of their lives.

Park

After we left the roundhouse we all made a hit for Subway. What do you think of a group of 50 going out for subs? What a good business day they had! We then headed for the park to sit and eat and let the kids play. They park was right across from the next planned event. I got a few snaps of Seth & Shelby. The older boys were playing football and I did not venture over that way. Seth was obsessed with picking every dandelion in the park. I had to clear his pockets of the sticks he tried to stow-away.

Roundhouse

Saturday, May 10th we took a weekend field trip to Janesville WI with our Home Educators group. The first place we went to was called the Round house. It was a great tour of a train repair. The kids had a great time. The men seemed to learn a lot as they asked a lot of questions.

May 8th game

Levi finally got to play goalie. He keeps asking to play goalie but his coach want shim on the field. This time he said he could start the game as goalie. His team members have not all been making it to the games so they have lost the last two. Just by one point but it is tough. It works a lot better when they can all make it and play together. You learn to rely on someone in practice and they do not show up for the game.....

Insurance Day

Well, today was the day we tested out our new insurance. This morning Garrett got up and put my glasses on, as he usually does. Whenever we were at a wrestling match and he was sitting with me on the bleachers he always grabbed my glasses because he said he could not see the mats. We knew we were changing insurance the beginning of April so I told him to wait. Steven took the day off because the kids all had a dental cleaning in LaCrosse today and he wanted to go with, plus Levi had a soccer game right afterwards. So I asked Steven to call and see if they had any openings to get Garrett's eye's examined. Well, the picture tells the outcome. We now have 4-4 eyes in the house with Shelby falling close behind. I am so glad we now have optical insurance. He loves his new glasses (after trying on every pair in Eyemart Express) and the fact that he can now see.

So off to the dentist we went right after his glasses where finished. I am glad to announce we are cavity free!! We got out of there at 3:30 with Levi's game scheduled at 5:00 and an hour and a half drive ahead of us. Shortly after we got out of town the coaches wife called (Thank you Julie) and told us they canceled the game. It had rained hard all day and the field was already soaking wet on Tuesday. So we hit the eye doctor for glasses for one and the dentist for cleaning on all five and only had to spent $40, not bad!