So much fun on a beautiful night

Troy and Annie have been on spring break for the last two weeks. Unfortunately, we have spent the last two weeks sick. Everyone has now had this bug except me and I'm hoping to keep it that way. Needless to say, we didn't get to do any of the fun things we normally do.

Anyway, Friday night, Troy was out camping with the scouts and so the rest of the fam decided that we were going to have a hot dog roast. We started a fire in the fire pit and roasted our hot dogs and then we made s'mores. YUM!!! We had a lot of fun just sitting around the fire and talking and eating.

As it got dark we laid out on the trampoline and looked at the stars. It was fun showing the kids Orion and the dippers. I wish I knew where more constellations were so that I could show them those as well. I love living out here where we can do things like this. In the city we never could see the stars that well. It's so beautiful at night.

Well anyway, as we were playing around on the trampoline I started showing the kids some sparks caused by the static electricity. I would roll around and then rub the area I had just been and we'd watch the sparks (and our hair) fly. They thought that was so much fun. Then I rubbed the trampoline and started to reach for the area I had rubbed and the sparks jumped...making it appear that I had "lightning" coming from my fingers like the emporer in Star Wars. They were quite impressed.

When I mentioned how cool it was to have a Jedi for a mom Taylor politely informed me that only the Sith have the ability to do the finger/lightning thing and so there was no way I could be a Jedi. So now I'm known as Darth Mommy. Now if I could only figure out a way to use the dark side of the force to get my children to clean their rooms and do the rest of their chores without complaint I will have succeeded in becoming the true emporer! :)