Ordinario (extra?)

I am starting out by including here (and I hope they don't mind) some beautiful pics of Matias, Shawnie and Angelica's boy. They all live in Oregon and we miss them terribly. For us it was just another ordinary, fast moving weekend. Cavindoor has once again written the kids a letter requesting that they go on a mission. This is a character that Alfie came up with about a year ago and he and I just revived him by sending Mason, Aman, Isaiahand Anika another letter from Cavindoor. Their first mission to complete as the "Green Brigade" involves protecting queen Terrabee by finding a green pinecone and putting it on the largest grate they could find on the campus of the university. During our search for a green pine cone we found the doors open at one of the large gymnasiums on campus and snuck in... the kids were fascinated. So many bleachers to climb and places to hide. But that led us to finding the real treasure find of the day. Huge mats used for breaking the fall of pole vaulters. They are like huge matresses but 3.5 feet thick and huge!!! We stacked a bunch up and climbed and jumped and played for about 3 hours! It was fantabulous. In the excitement I forgot to take pics... but you can imagine what sort of happiness would be instilled in 3 (or maybe 4 with me) boys with access to 8 extremely oversized matresses in the middle of large gymn... Sunday involved completing first mission (depositing the pinecone with their initials in the appropriate spot), play dates for the kids and a trip to see The Sneeches and Stone Soup put on by the Baha'i children's theatre. I stayed home and tried to organize our files... what a mess! I also had a chance to do some recording. Modern technology is so wonderful. I sent a copy of the song called Never for David to peruse in CR and he immediately plugged it in to his system and put a nice bass line to the whole thing. Follow the link to listen to the results of the jam session across 4500 miles. I also include two images of artwork from the walls of Anna's room in Summerville. Well, the week has started and ... man that weekend was short!!!