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Summer is winding down and our last bunch of little ones have headed home! It's always sad to see them leave---so much energy leaves this house when there are no little ones running around! This house----has been full of energy since 1980! Kids, dogs, friends and family and been concentrated here for the last 5 weeks and hopefully the walls have just soaked it all in so we will get a slow "ooze" out til they're ALL back together again-- maybe at Thanksgiving---hopefully at Christmas! Derek just needs to be here as well----we ALWAYS miss him! In the meantime, we'll have to settle for occasional weekend visits and even tho I want ALL of them---I'll settle for whoever we can get! ha! Hopefully Rick will separate from the Air Force next spring and they'll find a job in Tulsa or OKC/Norman area! ( I think I'll start setting up interviews for him in those areas! ha!) Maybe if we had just had a 6th child---that child would have been the one to stay in B'Ville--- have a bunch of kids and live close by so it wouldn't always have to be all or nothing. Maybe we should have been like the Duggars and just kept having kids til the baby factory shut down! Naw-----I would have liked to have had ONE more-----not 14 more!! I'm sentimental ---I'm not CRAZY!!! For now I'll just look forward to dinner out and a movie with my main squeeze Dave! I'm pretty sure he's still around-----I haven't seen much of him for --oh--like the last 4 or 5 weeks----I do recall a lot of noise at about 5:10 everyday complete with loud laughter, chasing, a lot of floor wrestling and kids squealing-----that HAD to be him!!
Last weekend all the Kriwiel women came to B'Ville for our annual "weekend" together! It is just so much fun!! Ed Kriwiel was Dave's high school football coach. He was one of the most wonderful men to ever walk the earth as far as we're concerned. He and his wife Mary had 9 kids, 5 of whom were in our wedding--- 7 girls and 2 boys! Mary is sort of like a best friend/mother/sister/role model for me. I love her to pieces! The kids I used to babysit are now my friends and we have such a blast together! Our kids now know all of them and our grandkids, know their grandkids so when we get together----the laughter begins! This year, Mary and the 7 girls came as well as Mike's wife Diane and we all went to see Wicked. We talk,eat, laugh, talk, eat, laugh, talk-----well, you get the picture. I was so happy that Kylee was here to be part of the Kriwiel weekend this year! She loved getting to know everyone better! We sort of copied Oprah's "Favorite Things List" and did a Favorite Things gift bag for everyone. Hope they like all the things as much as we do! Already looking forward to next year!
Since all the little cousins 
were going to be in B'Ville at the same time this summer we decided to hav
e "Cousin Camp". It was a 3 day camp-- a really HOT--like triple digit HOT 3 day camp, complete with t-shirts, a flag to raise on the big flag pole, games, crafts, swimming, adventures, field trips, fun food, and a lot of laughter, all ending with an awards ceremony complete with ribbons and fireworks. We were suppose to spend the last night sleeping in the big tent but a nasty thunderstorm kept everyone in the house. Maybe next year! The kids made treasure boxes that held all the other craft project "treasures" they made during camp and the food and snacks were all a little bit special too! It was just so much fun and I could NOT have done it without the help of Kylee, Michelle and Monica even tho Monica had to work for Dave most of the week. They were AWESOME!! The kids are still talking about it so I know we made a memory and that's all I wanted----a sweet memory of going to "camp" with each other!
