Take Me Out to the Bees Game

My friend Katie called me yesterday and said they had discount tickets to the Bees game at Harmon's and she wanted to know if we wanted to go too.  So we all went to the Bees game.  It started to rain, but we stayed and had a great time. 

The token picture of me and Katie...there's a funny story behind this one, we seriously took like 10 pictures of ourselves but none of them turned out because we were laughing so hard making fun of ourselves. We had the kids taking a picture of us and we were pretty sure that everyone around us thought we were idiots because we kept making the kids re-take the picture.  Ahh what the heck...I'll share.

Yep, obviously vain...and we think we are funnier than we really are.  But hey it kept us entertained.

Guess Who's A 3rd Grader?

I can't believe I have a daughter in 3rd grade.  It sounds so weird to even say it.  She is growing up too fast.

Giving the "peace" sign...she's been way into that:)

This is the first year we haven't had a bus.  I'm sad but Alyssa was excited to ride her bike.  I decided she probably won't have cute hair until bike season is over...oh well we tried.

Fake Glasses

Alyssa bought some fake glasses at Claire's a while ago and Boston has been wearing them a little bit.  One day he asked Alyssa if he could wear her glasses to Costco.  So as we are walking in he kept saying "Mom, everyone keeps looking at me."  I said I know they probably like your glasses.  When in reality they are probably wondering why his twin brother decided to wear a sweatshirt in 90 Degree weather.

This is a horrible picture of Brock, it looks like he is sick...he's not, just blinking:)

So I had to take the boys in to get their eyes checked for kindergarten and Boston kept saying he couldn't see the letters.  Finally at about the top row he read them back.  The nurse assistant had to walk him back down the chart "tricking" him in to reading the smaller letters.  I swear I'm still not sure if he can see or if he just wants glasses...

Last Weeks Round-up

I have posted a couple of events from last week and I thought I better finish them up so I have them in my book.

Adrienne came up to visit and we never have a dull moment to say the least. 

I've always wondered how or why people would dress up like a cow just to score some free food at Chick-fil-a....well when we got back from jogging we thought it would be a good idea, no one would see us so early in the morning right??...WRONG.

 But we all enjoyed some yummy breakfast.  I'd say it was worth the embarrassment.

We took the kids to Jumpin' Jacks.

While we sat and visited.

And we can't forget...the kids swam everyday.

This picture was first thing in the morning.  

Well even if the cops were called for a so called "home invasion".  We still managed to have a great time.  Can't wait for the next visit.

Demolition Derby

We took the kids to the demolition derby last night.  We'd never been before and we heard that it was really fun. It was sold out almost an hour early.  So I had some high expectations.

Here is my observation...
-Most people were missing at least one tooth.  (And I'm not talking baby teeth.)
-They thought tossing a beach ball in the stands during breaks was the best thing ever.  (My kids loved it too, I think I was the only one annoyed by the beach ball almost hitting my head every 5 seconds.)
-Everyone was laughing and cheering at the cars hitting each other. (I however was worried about the drivers getting a concussion, and I couldn't believe no one else seemed worried.)

While everyone was watching the chaos, I sat there wondering how the lady behind me was eating the kettle corn.  She literally had no teeth.  She also had nails that were super long and I was worried about the bacteria growing under them.  But hey, she was nice and offered to share with my kids.

FINAL REVIEW
Gentry loved it, my kids were just happy to get out and go somewhere different...and I (if I'm being honest) think I will have to pass if someone asks me to go again.

Home Invasion....

So if I could start today over, I would have done things a little differently.  But I cant.  So now that it's almost over I just wish I would have thought to take a picture for this post.

I had a coupon to Sally's that was going to expire so I wanted to use it.  I have a Sally's less than a mile from my house.  So instead of hauling all of my kids with me, I decided to leave them home in the care of my daughter Alyssa.  (Now before you call DCFS on me, my sister in law Michele was 5 houses away working in her yard.)

So I went to Sally's with Adrienne (who also wanted to take advantage of the coupon...I mean really who can pass up an extra 20% off.)  We left our kids to finish coloring get well pictures for the neighbor next door, and also the pictures for their old preschool teacher.  They went across the street to deliver them while we were gone.

When the kids got back from delivering the pictures they noticed the front door was open.  Immediately Alyssa and her friend Lexi got nervous.  Well Brock decided to chime in that he saw a man in his room.  (Now keep in mind he saw the man through the window of the second story.)  So the kids go running to Michele's house in tears that someone is in our house.  Alyssa calls me while she's at Michele's house and tells me Michele is on the phone with 911.  I panic and ask "WHO'S HURT!!!"  and she said nobody, but there is a man in our house.  So I start panicking and I am literally within feet of our street but I have to wait at a stoplight that is NEVER TURNING GREEN.  I pass my house and see my kids, every neighbor kid, and Michele at the corner.  So I drive up to see what is really going on.

Meanwhile literally 12 cop cars (my two neighbors counted and told me) start arriving one after another.  I swear they just kept coming.  We weren't supposed to go near the house until they had gone through it.  So we stayed by the corner.  Now at the same time the million cops are arriving so are ALL of my neighbors...they happen to drive up to me with their windows down wanting to know what is going on.  I want to slit my wrists and climb in a hole because I am mortified at what is going on.

The head police officer starts asking me questions while he's writing everything on the little note pad.  (I feel like a criminal, or just a really crappy parent.)  So they checked out the house and everything was fine.

I went in to make sure everything looked normal...and it did (I should have lied now that I think of it....uhh officer, there was 2 loads of laundry just dumped on my floor...I swear the kids beds were made when I left and the dishes were done...this is just weird.)  But no I claimed everything was normal.  Why didn't I lie when my house looked like a bomb went off?  I swear it's never this messy, but my friend was in town and we were too busy chatting...and saving 20% to clean up the mess.

Anyway the officer starts asking Brock what the "MAN" looked like.  Well Brock goes in to full detail stating that the "MAN" was wearing a black shirt with like, gray sleeves, and then he was wearing blue jeans....hmmm the funny part about this, is there is NO POSSIBLE way he could have seen the man's pants.  So I roll my eyes at the 8 officers who have now gathered around me...I can't believe this is really happening....oh wait yes I can.  So the officers all told me it is better to be safe than sorry and if I need anything to go ahead and call.  (This whole process is over an hour long by the way, so my few paragraphs don't do it justice.)  Meanwhile every TOM DICK AND HARRY is calling my cell phone to find out what is going on.

So after everyone is gone, I am talking to my kids and Brock says "Mom, it maybe could have been my imagination."  WHAT THE CRAP!!!!!  He waits until I've been humiliated by the neighborhood, every cop within a 20 mile radius has made their way to my house and then he breaks the news?  Seriously????   

How was your day???  Do I win parent of the year?

Happy 4th of July

I love the 4th of July...probably because it's in the summer and there's always food involved.

We went to Riverton's parade.  Some call it "watching traffic" because there aren't many floats.  I have to agree a little bit, but my kids scored a ton of candy and I even caught a new shirt.
We got there an hour early and this is the kids anxiously waiting.

Before 30 minutes of waiting had gone by they were tired of waiting and this is what they looked like....

Capri Sun's and Otter Pops can only do so much.  They wanted the parade to start.

I saw a friend waiting and we joked about the fact that we were getting mad at our kids telling them that we brought them here to have fun....which they did have fun...eventually.

Now, on to Saturday where we always head to Riverton Pool for 

Diving for Dollars.

Boston and Cooper

Brock already has his goggles on and he's ready to go.

Both of my boys dared to go off the HIGH DIVE this year.

Both of us got our 4th of July Leis on...that's what they're called right?

I'm actually really surprised how much money my kids got from this!

And can you guess who was one of the Tanning Contest winners?!?

Then it was off to my house for more swimming and a little lunch.

Then we took the kids to Riverton Park for the Haystack Game.

They throw a bunch of toys, money and candy in a bunch of hay and have the kids sift through it.  This was our first year going and the kids loved it.

Max, Brock, Bridger, Boston, Porter, Alyssa, Jordyn, Halle and Marin

This is Alyssa headed in for the Haystack Madness!

Then we headed to my Mom's house for dinner....good times!

HAPPY 4th OF JULY EVERYONE!