Showing posts with label Weekend Recap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weekend Recap. Show all posts

Monday, April 3, 2017

What We Did... volunteering is hard.

Our weekend started out with a rare occurrence... no alarm clock. This is such a blessing. We awoke to the sun and Peyton stirring in her room.  It, for us, was a pretty laid back weekend.  It's nice to stop and breathe for a day or two.
I started planning my garden for the season.  I will share more on that at another time. I'm kind of a dud when it comes to planting. It's all about knowing my limitations.

Before
After
These photos were taken by his leader.
I didn't have my camera on me. 
Saturday we attended a service project for Funston's Cub Scout Troop. They volunteered to tear out all of the over grown mess in the "butterfly garden". It required three chainsaws. Funston busted butt. The little guy really has a giving heart. It doesn't hurt that he can make anything into a game, either.

Try either of these cookie recipes. We have given them both a thumbs up! I have two MUST DOS when making chocolate chip cookies. These are two alterations I do to any and all of my chocolate chip cookie recipes. You end up with the perfect chewy cookie.

1. Use 1/2 butter and 1/2 butter flavored Crisco.
2. Double the vanilla.

Obviously, I also substituted Reese's Pieces for chocolate chips. They turned out pretty good.


Ghirardelli Chocolate Chip Cookies
5 Ingredient Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies



We saw Boss Baby. You can wait until Redbox, 



















Justin started Funston out on our smaller four wheeler. He did really well. Justin thinks he is ready to take it out next time we go. I don't know if this momma is ready. It is pretty nerve wracking. I got over it with Briana, and I am sure it will be the same with Little Man. It is hard to see them get so big. 
Until the next time I catch you up on what we did... 

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Summer and Mini Vacations...

What a busy summer. There doesn't seem to be enough time to fit everything in! Our kids are doing tball/softball, we have church activities, and of course the normal work and house stuff.

Just a run down of the last month...

Father's Day was great! We had a nice weekend, but very busy. Tball and Softball take a lot of our time on the weekends, but the kids love it. Speaking of lots of time... this weekend we have games at the same time, but in cities that are about an hour away from each other. That means each of us will miss one of the kiddo's game. Sad. On the plus, we will only be in the heat for one game. Silver linings.
Bubba and Daddy

Stinky and our niece.
We recently went to Branson. The kids had the best time. Hubs realized he was running a fever as soon as we got there. It stuck around until yesterday. He was diagnosed with an ear infection, but I think maybe the doctor was a small bit crazy. He had EVERY symptom Bubba had a couple weeks ago. Which turned out to be an upper respiratory infection. But what are you going to do... They still gave him meds. Back to Branson... We did so much stuff. We crammed as many activities as we could into 1 full day and 2 partial days: 2 shows (at our hotel, nothing spectacular, but the kids loved them), three museum/attractions, duck boats and the water park at the hotel. Which by water park, I mean kind of big and dark jungle gym inside a building full of water. No Hurricane Harbor or anything like that. But I stress, the kids had a blast. I have realized the older I get the less impressed I am with things as a child I would have been all googly eyed about. You lose the rose colored glasses, and that is sad. Here is an overload of pictures for your viewing pleasure...


This pretty much sums up how he felt the whole time, but he missed nothing. He is an amazing dad.


Stinky loves archery. She was pumped to see this at Bass Pro Shop.





Bubba's "chubby" face. Silly guy.

These posted all out of order, but you can figure it out. I don't have the patience to reorganize them.. 

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Weekend Recap~ A little late- busy week

Holy smokes! What a weekend.

Let's start from the beginning- when all the action happened... WARNING- a little graphic (bloody mess graphic)

Friday, we decide to go to the car show that happens the first Friday of every summer month at the local mega church. We get there, and no car show. Church event. So we decide to drive across the new Fenton Bridge to look at all the flood water. We pull up to a stop light, and a kid flies across the intersection on a crotch rocket. He is going incredibly fast. He loses control, hits a curb and flips. No joke. RIGHT in front of us, and our now completely terrified children. Us and one other vehicle see this happen. I hang up on my sister in law (we were making plans to get the kids together since the car show was cancelled) and call 9-1-1. We pull up on the bike fully expecting a dead kid. Only, no kid, at all. Hubs looks up a side street, and there he is running. My guy follows him, quickly, the kid stops as his injuries are catching up to him. He is bleeding, a steady flow running from his wrist. He looks unsteady. Hubs gets out to see if he is okay, and tells him to wrap his arm (He swears he saw bone chips and "meat" hanging out... EW!!). Meanwhile... 9-1-1 has now transferred me, TWICE!! If he had been in worse shape, yikes. I am not doing first aid on this kid, I would puke. It was gross. I jumped in the driver seat and drove the kiddos further up the road, put on Despicable Me, and stood in front of the window they could see the guy through. I was the gore body guard. A cop shows up right away. Apparently, she had flashed her lights at him, and he had taken off on her. The moron was running from the cops. Going over 50 miles per hour (in a 30)! His bike flew head over tail about 100 feet before it landed. She gave her a little reaming, another cop called him something I won't repeat. They were mad. Come to find out before the cops arrived Hubs had lectured him as well. Ambulance showed up, Hubs made a statement and we went home.

In comparison, while the rest of the weekend was incredibly busy, it was much more tame. Our kiddos play t-ball/softball for the local Y. They each had their first practices at the same place 4 hours apart. We went to Six Flags. Passed out. That was Saturday. Sunday was church and not much but catching up on some laundry. Which was nice.

This week, I have been working hard. My boss is on vacation, and I am trying to man the ship, so to speak.

OH and here is a little nugget of gold. Hubs was listening to the radio while washing my vehicle, and heard a song he has heard, we all have heard, a majillion times on the radio, "You're so Vain". He comes in, and swears he heard Mick Jagger singing back ground vocals. Pretty distinctive voice. Got out good ol' Google, and sure enough, he did. Crazy. Here it for yourself. If this is some common knowledge thing, we will feel like goons, but we have decided to play "Where's Mick" while listening to the radio. He may have been hiding in every song for all we know.

Judge Joe Brown

Justin hates what I named this dish, but I couldn't help myself.  Briana and I took a vote and two against one, Judge Joe Brown won. It...