Well that's not great!

Now let me just say that I in no way consider myself a sports person. I don't understand most sports. I can't tell you why there is a field goal in both football and basketball. But I can tell you that in my opinion not all is right with the world tonight. Here's why. The Miami Heat just won the NBA finals. That in and of itself is a great travesty in my mind. On the other hand, they are far better than the Lakers in terms of arrogant players. But here's what really rubbed me wrong. As the Oklahoma players were leaving the court with heads hanging low the announcers were talking about the star player on the Heat. That would be Labron James. The announcer was talking about how much Labron deserves this. He has put in so much work...blah blah blah blah blah. Then, here's the kicker. He said,"He is the most unselfish player in the league..." If I had had something in my mouth I for sure would have choked. He is so far from unselfish that it is indeed almost sickening. When one makes as much money as he does and still complains about not making enough I want to throw up. And another thing, playing basketball for a job is not work! Therefore he didn't work hard for anything. He throws a ball into a net and gets paid thousands of dollars.. That is not work, that is annoying!  All I have to say is there is no mending this sad world when someone like Labron James is given the title of unselfish.

Shall we go to the theater?

 I finally bit the bullet and ventured to the movies with just the kiddos. The movie theater in the summer plays children's movies for a dollar a piece. So we went to see Yogi Bear. I didn't tell them where we were going. I just told them to go get in the car because we were going to do something fun. The entire drive they were trying to guess where we were going. As we pulled up next to the theater K said,"I really want to go to the theater, can we go there someday?"(make sure you say the a in theater. That's how he says it every time and I totally love it!) I didn't answer, I just pulled into the parking lot. He got really excited and even more loud than he usually is. Yes in a clown car such as the one we drive that makes it really loud, but who needs 100% hearing?! He said, rather yelled, "Are we going to the theater right now!?" When I told him yes he screamed. I think M was excited too. K was just so loud I didn't hear her response.

 We got a little bit bored while we waited for the movie to start. We were just watching what was on the screen, but then they started showing some really odd things that made me think,"self, your kids shouldn't be watching that because you can't even explain what it is or what they are talking about." So we pulled out the camera and made faces at it instead.

Today was such a smashing success that we might even do it again! Although we don't really like our kids to see movies we haven't seen. It's too risky that something will get slipped in there that we don't want them to hear or see. Anyway, if another movie is playing that would be my kind of kid friendly, I think I might venture out again!

Everything's bigger in Texas?

 I think not! Look how big this grasshopper is! During the summer these "little" guys are everywhere! They eat entire plants almost in one sitting. Clearly they have no fear of people. I got real close to it to take it's picture and all it did was lift one little leg. K kept asking what it was going to do to us as he backed away slowly from it. It is almost as long as half a dollar! When I look at this thing I think, this is what John the baptist must have eaten. I mean the other ones are so much smaller. He would have had to eat an entire swarm of them. These ones have so much more sustenance to them. He would only have to eat two or three of these to get his fill. When I see it half a mile down the road whilst I'm running I get a little grossed out just because they are so big. But I also think they're pretty cool.

A little Monkey business

The other month I saw a little boy scale this pole. I tried it and failed like I have never failed before. I couldn't even get my feet off the ground. We decided that we needed to practice. I am happy to say, that times have changed and being able to climb a pole is a hobby both M and I can boast of!

 I know that is looks like she's licking the pole, but she's not. When something is really hard, she has to put her tongue out to help her accomplish her goal. Not sure how the tongue helps, but it does!

 I love this picture! I think it looks so awesome that she can hold herself out like that.

 I try not to boast of my own strength because I know that I am weak. But I think this picture is totally awesome! Every time I see it I feel like clicking my heels together!

It may look as if I'm holding on for dear life. That's because I am! It was so hot and I was so sweaty that I was starting to slip. Thankfully M got the picture before I slid all the way down. My long term goal is to be able to climb all the way to the top of the pole. I was almost there! Maybe I can save that goal for one of my new year resolutions for next year! That would be a good one! Not to hard and not to disappointing if I don't reach it. Yes! That's what I'll do! For now I'll just bask in the joy I feel that I got this far up!

Utah or bust!

My cute little sister got married and so the offspring and I were able to go to Utah!

 This picture was taken on the plane before we left. I couldn't be in the picture because B wasn't able to come with us. I knew I was needy when it came to him, I didn't realize just how needy I was. I cried and cried when we said goodbye. I actually started crying the night before we left and didn't stop until well into the flight. They were happy to be on the plane and didn't mind that it was six o'clock in the morning.

 What's a trip to Utah without a visit to the local Chuck E. Cheese? I honestly didn't think that there was one close to our house. I found out right before we left that there is in fact one in the next city over. But if our children find out, then there would be one less fun thing to do in Utah. So, I'll keep the knowledge of one around on the D.L

 K loves to do skeeball. I love that they don't really care how many tokens they have. The reason they love to go to Chuck E. Cheese is to get enough tootsie sucker with the tickets they get. Simple things make all of us really happy!

 We went to visit my favorite Aunt. She took a particular liking to me and my three surrounding sisters when I was a wee lass. We would go to her house for sleepovers and to just hang out. Her children are awesome too! But truly, when we went to her house to sleepover, we went to see her, not her kids. My Uncle is pretty awesome too! Anyway we went to visit her while we were there. She's as awesome as I remember her being. My sister, E taught M how to play spider on the swing. M and I had a lot of fun playing that while we were there.

 B was able to come for one of the weekends that we were there. He truly makes everything better. He came for his brother's baby blessing. Wouldn't it have been so awesome if I had gotten a picture of them together? Oh well, at least we got a family picture when we went and did Payson Grotto. I love that little family! The hike was fun. It's so beautiful!

 Here we are at my sister's wedding. This is my parents with their children. I had three brothers that weren't there. One lives in the Czech Republic. (I can't imagine why he didn't come! :)) Another one lives in Virgina. He couldn't make it to the wedding. My other brother passed away 17 years ago. So he was probably there, he just didn't show up in the picture! I totally loves this picture! Isn't my family so awesome!

 I had to get a picture with her and the kiddos. She is their favorite Aunt and we were so excited for her!

 I had to put this picture on. We are known as the four girls. S is the first of the four. She was 15 months  old when E was born. E was 15 months old when T was born and T was 15 months old when I was born. I love these ladies so so much! Saying goodbye to them is never easy.

 The only thing that would have made this picture better would be to have B in it too. We loved being at the wedding, but we missed him a whole lot!

 The day after the wedding, we went swimming. K has no fear of water. He is learning to swim and when he saw M jump off the diving board, he had to do it too! He jumped over and over. He loved it and I loved watching him do it!

 Yes he's really sleeping. He fell off the couch almost every night. He would fall off and then in a very sleepy voice he would look at me and say,"I don't like when I fall off the couch." I think it makes for a pretty awesome picture!

We ended the trip by seeing our bests'! We love this family so so much! R and I are able to talk about anything. She totally gets me even when I don't make any sense. She probably is sitting there thinking,"What in the world are you talking about?" But she will listen and will nod when appropriate. We miss this little family so much!


Our trip was fun, but it was too long. If B had been able to come it would have been perfect! It went off without a hitch. Well, almost. Picture this, the Atlanta, Georgia airport. Me with my two little kids trying to make our connection to make it home with only 57 minutes to get from plane A to plane B. As we landed in Atlanta K was freaking out telling me that he needed to go potty and couldn't hold it. We made it off the plane and found a bathroom. We got done and found out where we needed to go to make our connection. That airport is big enough that there is a train to get to the different terminals. We got to the train and waited the three minutes for the next train to come. It got there and on we went. We waited and waited for it to go. M was getting nervous that we were going to miss our next flight. She told me we should get off and walk. I told her I didn't know the way. Another lady was getting off too. She had told me enough about herself that I knew that she's a member of our same church and that she was going to the same state we were. I thought that if we stayed close to her then maybe we would find where we needed to be.
I tried to clear the way for us to get off the train by going first. Once I was off I turned to help the kids get off. I turned in time to see the doors starting to close. K was half way on and half way off. I grabbed him off so he didn't get smashed. The doors shut and M was still on the train. She started crying, screaming and jumping up and down. I started pounding on the door of the train yelling her name and asking how I open it. I tried to pull the doors open. I was a total mess! I was freaking out! The nice lady that I had met on the train tried to hold on to M and yelled that she would watch her and make sure that she got off the next stop. An airport worker pulled me away from the doors and told me to go to the next stop. In my frantic state I told, probably screamed at her I didn't know where the next stop was. She took all my stuff and told me that she would walk with me. As we walked away K started crying because he didn't want to leave M on the train.
We hadn't made it very far when we heard yelling behind us. I turned around and another airport worker was running towards me with M! She was yelling that the doors had opened again and she was able to get M off the train. When M was next to me and I was holding on to her again I cried even harder. I was so relieved that she was with me and K again that I couldn't help but cry. The nice airport lady kept asking,"Ma'am, are you ok?" I wanted to look at her and ask,"you don't have any children do you?" But I was crying too hard. Yes I was ok and I was so so thankful for all the nice people that where there to help me in my frantic state. I am so thankful that she was safe and that we weren't apart for that long. Truly it was probably only about five minutes from start to finish, but it felt like time had slowed down and almost stopped. We made it to the next flight and the whole way home I wanted to be touching both of them. To say that was an awful experience would be an understatement. Anyway, enough about that. The trip as a whole was a smashing success. I didn't realize that until we were home with B and looked back on it. I am glad that we went. I still think that it was way too long to be away from B, but it was fun to see family!