Only my husband

Yesterday I went shopping and finally picked up a PedEgg--you know, that foot peeler thing to make your feet nice and smooth, cheaper than a pedicure, shaped like an egg? So I take it upstairs and leave it on the desk and go about my day. Later I hop in the tub to get myself nice and soft, go out to water the flowers and veggies real quick and come back in to see my PedEgg being used on TERRY'S FEET! Ewwww! Just kidding....I gave him hell though, for using it before my feet had a chance at it. Tonite, we Nair him. He's turing more into a woman everyday! (And don't dare tell him I told you about the Nair....with us going on vacation this weekend, we'll undoubtedly be at the pool and beach, and he's a gorilla under his shirt and doesn't want to scare the other tourists. Just another wonderful duty of being Terry's wife! LOL!)

Excitement is building.....

Vacation will be here in 4 days and I'm so excited! I've got the kids enrolled in VBS this week, which gives me every morning to myself to get things together for our trip! Today's agenda was.....drum roll......travel size items! Fun, eh? I know you're jealous....all those little travel sized goodies to choose from. They also must fit in a certain sized clear baggie in order to travel on board with me....all these rules are making me nervous, but Terry and I are not ruler breakers, so we should be ok. I also found it was REALLY hard to find a nude shade of lipstick that isn't shimmery like a teenagers face. I think I finally found one, but the jury's still out on it.

Terry is driving me bonkers with which fishing adventure he should go on. Just choose one...they are all fishing the OCEAN! Haha....I told him while he's off fishing with Zac, Lillie and I will tool around LA, maybe Hollywood, and just do some sight seeing. It's one of the only days we will not be in or around Disney, so we must make the most of it.

As far as VBS goes, it's all about serving others this year. And what do my kids do in the car on the way home? Fight about who won what prizes today. That's the spirit kids....keep up the good work....grrrr!

Zoo day!

Baby Gorilla




Cool butterfly



Cute giraffe




Kids finding out their wingspan



Lillie in the Merry Go Round

And that was our day in a nutshell!

Real men of genius.....

Today we salute you
Mr. Hawaiian beer shirt wearer,
you crack us up everytime you wear this,
as you try to drink more bottles than you have on your shirt.
Is that a Bud Light in your hand, oh, and a Corona in the other?
You multi-tasker you!
With enough beers in you,
you shield your bald, burnt head with your shades,
as if that really works.
At least the style works for you honey....
And for being the awesome husband and Dad you are,
we salute you and give to you many flavors of beer in the fridge,
and our thanks as that shirt gets stuffed way in the back of the closet until next year.

And on a funnier note....

Tonite at dinner, Lillie informed us that Zac thinks Lydia is "hot." Did you follow that? Terry and I looked at each other and grinned, and then Terry asked him what "hot" means. The more he asked, the more red Zac's face got. And then he was totally mad at Lillie for blurting out his secret information that he had shared with her earlier. To get the heat off him, I asked Lillie if she thought anyone was cute, and of course, she said Dakota. Like any Dad who's daughter has a crush, Terry started putting down Dakota immediately, saying he has a watermelon head. That a way Terry, put down a 4 year old. Our dinners can be so entertaining at times!

I really need a lesson in listening

This afternoon I was cleaning up our room and talking to a coworker on the phone when Lillie came in and asked if she could go swim, but I didn't hear that, I thought she said Trin. Back up a bit, she had been playing with an older girl, Emily, from the next street, who is very polite and extremely good with Lillie and all the little ones of the neighborhood, so I thought maybe Emily had had to go in and Lillie was looking for someone else to play with. I thought she was asking if she could go to Trin's, which is Trinity, the little 5 year old across the street. I said sure, as she goes over there a lot and I went about my cleaning and talking. After a little while I called over there to check on her and they didn't answer their phone, so I went over and knocked on the door, no answer. Came home, called again, as both their cars were in the driveway and still no answer. So I went for a short walk up to the next street, which is Lillie's limit of where she's allowed to go, no Lillie. Terry came home just then and Zac blurts out that I lost Lillie. So he goes out, checks at some friend's houses, another Dad gets in his truck with his daughter to start looking, Terry's in his truck driving around and I'm walking up and down the street asking everyone I see. After trying 3 times at Emily's house her Mom answered the door and when I asked her if she had seen Lillie she got defensive, saying no she hadn't seen her, no Emily wasn't home, but she knew where HER daughter was. HELLO! Lillie is 5! If you know my daughter could be with your daughter, tell me where the hell they are! So she tells me and finally, I found Lillie. Our neighborhood backs up to another one, and Lillie was in a backyard pool with Emily and some other girls in that next neighborhood. I was never so happy to see her in all my life! I was also mad that I didn't know where she was. Terry was seconds away from calling the police....and I honestly don't know how he kept his cool with me, since I was the one that let her go. I explained to him what I thought she had said, and with her speech problems, he understood how it happened, but he even said afterward that if he had been the one in my position, I would have been totally angry at him, and I think I probably would have been. UGH, I'm just so relieved that she's home. And safe. I'm mad that I didn't take the time to understand what my own daughter was asking. She was surprised when I came over to that pool to get her...but she could sense how upset we were, so she hugged and hugged on me. Sweet girl.

It's never too late

It's never too late (or early!) to teach your children the danger of rivers, especially after a storm. This week, my Dad's uncle fell into the Little Miami while trying to trim some trees that had fallen after a horrible storm, and was just found yesterday. He was 87.
http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=720929c3-3deb-4d43-85dc-48192e26af97

He had lived near that river for many, many years and had to have known how unsafe it was at the time. The currents don't seem bad, the speed doesn't seem fast, but it is and it could get a grasp on you in a second and within minutes you will be dead. At the same time my great uncle fell into the water, across the river a teenager jumped in, ON PURPOSE, to swim. He thought it would be fun. He eventually made it to shore and is just fine, but what a stupid stunt to pull, especially when another man drowned near that same spot at that same time. Even at 15 that kid should have known better. I'm all for swimming and water safety, but it doesn't end where chlorinated pools do....there's even more to learn about rivers.