Best Costume Ever

There just are no words....

{pretty, happy, funny, real}

{pretty}

Stuart: our Eastern Black Swallowtail

Also Stuart
We had a second Eastern Black that hatched,
but he flew away too fast to take pictures.
Also, we had three other caterpillars that didn't make it.  

Edith Schaeffer says in her book, "Hidden Art of Homemaking", that if you only have enough money to buy two loaves of bread, you should buy one loaf of bread, and some flowers.  I balked at that idea at first.  Now I highly recommend it.  Real beauty is underrated in our society, while plasticized beauty is all people seem to care about.  Next time you go to HEB, or Kroger, or Fiesta Mart, or Piggly Wiggly, or Costco, or Tom Thumb, or wherever you buy your groceries, grab a bundle of beauty.  

{happy}

James lost his third tooth.

San Antonio now has a Lego Store!  We went to the Grand Opening twice, and helped build an 8 ft. R2D2.  And also saw characters from the movies.  It was very fun.

First Visit:  About 2 hours into it

Second visit: everyone was working like mad

They couldn't wait for this.  They kept hearing him
"talk" while we were building.

{funny}

So we took the kids back to the mall a third time to see the completed R2D2.  When we couldn't find him, we asked someone at the Lego store where he was.  We were informed that after the giant R2D2 had been completed for about 2 and a half hours, they had to begin taking him down.  And he was gone.  End of Story.  I think it was a good lesson to the boys about how things have to be taken apart sometimes.  

That is not the funny part.  

As we were walking out of the mall, Jason had Josie on one of his shoulders, and went to move her.  She got scared and tried to grab his eyeball.  I'm getting to the funny part, I promise.  As Jason is in great deal of pain, and Josie is scared, and the rest of us are gawking at each other a bit, a man walks by and says, "my favorite bumper sticker still is, 'Kids... You Just Can't Beat 'Em'".  

{real}

This is life right now.  Life at the office.  

Because starting your own business is hard work.