[May 12] A Nutritious Snack From Dad

[May 11] Afternoon at the Zoo

Climbing on a cement hippo equals hours of fun.

[May 5] Morning Play

Let me tell you a little story about this workbench/tool chest. Choobie got this for Christmas last year. It was his BIG present. I found this website that listed all the black friday sales weeks before the day after thanksgiving. I reasearched dozens of stores and found this one at Toys R Us to be the best price. Dan and I went to Toys R Us three days before the sale and planned out the route I would take when me and 5 million other shoppers raced into the store at 6 am that morning.

I arrived to the Toys R Us line at 4am thinking I would be the first in line and would for sure get the tool set. Boy was I wrong. I was like the 150th person in line. Two hours later when they opened up the doors, there were no shopping carts left by the time I got through. I raced through the store like a crazy woman, throwing elbows and plowing people down without stopping to say sorry, grabbed the beast of a tool set and then waited in the checkout line for another 30 minutes to purchase said tool set for a whopping 30 bucks, all the while dreaming of the excitement on my little boys face when he saw the tool set and all it's glory on Christmas morning. Boy the things you'll do when you're living on a tight budget.

It is now seven months after that glorious Christmas morn and he still hasn't touched the dang thing. He prefers to dump all the tools out and sit in THE BASKET I got to hold the tools from the 99cent store! ANYWAY...the moral of the story is this: This year, I am going Christmas shopping at a reasonable hour at the 99cent store.

[July 19] Ralphs Update

Been there 4 weeks, got the news that I am getting promoted to the bakery and will be attending "cashier school" on the side. My plan to own Ralph's is right on schedule. Farewell service deli with all your meat slicing and dish washing and raw chicken skewering and grease trap cleaning. I will not miss you one bit. I will however be putting on a minimum of 20 pounds working in my new field. One frosting flower for you...two frosting flowers for me.

[June 29] Playing Hookey

Eag, Ian and Addi girl came down and we all played hookey from church and went to Sea World. A perfect sabbath day activity right? Choob was excited because dad could go on the rides with him. Here's the boys and Addi on the rocking eel ride. Please look at how cute Addi is in her sunglasses.

We got to meet cookie monster

Now prepare to die from the ultimate cuteness. Addi and Choob do this on their own:

They love each other. I love that they love each other. They were watching Shamu and then all of a sudden they just started chasing each other and screaming and hugging and then doing it all over again. And over again. And again. Eag & I were just sitting on the benches laughing at them and snapping a million photos of our little lovebirds.

Then, completely unprompted they give each other the biggest hugs ever. SO CUTE my heart was exploding!

We went home shortly after the spray area since pretty much everyone was soaked. Great friends, great place, great day!