Little Angry Grug, Big Bad Jimmy, and The Dragon

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On Monday we celebrated Memorial Day. We invited a lot of people over, and had a moderate turn out. The Rogers, Poulsons, and Caitlyn et al showed up as well as the Waters kids. We had a lot of food, talked an played. It was a fun and fairly successful barbecue.

Friday marked the end of school for the year, so the kids are really looking forward to summer. Monday will be the first day of summer schedule, so here's hoping that that goes well. Alison has plans to do an organized simplicity run, and then have the kids visit the pool and park pretty much daily. Most of the kids are doing well in their schooling, so there isn't much summer work they will have to do.

The kids tried to organize a sleepover for Friday night to celebrate the end of school, however, they were disappointed that no-one could come over. They are trying to reschedule it for Monday night, so here's hoping that that goes well.

They really want to try staying up all night long, so here is hoping that they don't wake the adults up.

Saturday we had a game day with Caitlyn and kids. It was fun. We played KingDomino and AstroKnights. The kids played pandemic and videogames.

On Sunday morning we discovered three or more flies in our house, so we had to go on an epic fly hunt. Dad O'neer, Lanceatim, and Elsonne all hunted the flies. We gave them names such as Little Angry Grug, Big Bad Jim, and Angry Madd. Elsonne dealt the first blow by hitting Big Bad Jim in the face with her trusty club Gungnir. The fight was getting pretty intense, and it wasn't certain who was going to win when Dad O'neer smote Angry Madd to the ground with his might, where it was swiftly dispatched with a boot.

A fury of passion Dad O'neer smote Big Bad Jim as he attempted to hide on the dragon minifig. We are not certain whether he lived or died, however we haven't seen him since. We also had to repair the dragon because it detached from its base.

We had second stake conference, and then in the evening we went over to the Brown's house so that Mike could talk with Grandpa Mike and Amy about the flint knapping website he is building. The kids and Alison had smores.


 


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