Dont Laugh!!

He was just pretending to scream but I love this picture and I think it sums up the whole night!! LOL!!





Last week, a friend of mine sent me an email, very last minute, to ask if we wanted to join her at a monster truck show the next night. Marsh and I talked about it and decided it would be tons of fun for the boys (and Joce-that good sport of a girl) and we needed to try to get there. Long story short, we did have a great time minus the "jet-engine" cars that were there. Any of you ever experienced these cars before?? Really, really loud! (That is an understatement.) The funniest part was that we were encouraged to sit "near the building because that is where the monster trucks do their stunts". Unfortunately, it is also where the Jet engine cars explode off the line! Holy cow loud! My boys were almost to the freaking out point, but we got them through and were able to stick around for the monster truck part. Nate's favorite was Gravedigger and Zach's favorite was Monster Mutt. I really wish you could here Zach say "Monster Mutt" cause it is way cuter than me typing it!! All that to say, that it will probably be several years before we take on an experience like that again, but we did have a great time together! (one last thing....did I mention that it was 96 degrees at 700pm when we got there??!!)

The "boys" checkin' out the insides!
Little did we know that this fire truck had TWO jet engines that we would "experience" later!!!


My guys in/on Terrordactyl's tire.

Joce's war wound

Man, I never thought my girls would get so roughed up playing softball. Here are just a few shots of Joce's shiner from a practice last week. Thankfully, she was wearing her glasses and the ball deflected downward from her eye. Had she not been wearing them, I think she would have had some serious orbit damage. She is feeling a little scared catching the ball since then, but hopefully she will work her way back. The funniest part (or not so funny, i guess) was that when it happened, I stayed away and let Marsh handle it, but when she wasn't calming down, I walked over. It really didn't look that bad to start with so I cleaned her up and sent her back our on the field. "Don't worry Joce. You will be fine. Really, there is no way that you will get hit again tonite. Nobody gets hit twice in one night!" Bam!!! Direct shot to the top of her ear. Bummer. I didn't get any pictures of that, but it was nice and bruised for a few days as well. I will keep my big mouth shut next time about double injuries!! LOL!!

My post for Sam!

Do you have one of those friends that goes waaayyyy back? I do and I got to spend some time with her on Sunday afternoon. She is getting ready to have Baby #1 and she looks AMAZING!! Talk about glowing.....she is all over it!! I have never seen her so happy and no one deserves it more.
I have so many memories of Sam and me together. The bus ride to Memorial. Seriously, inseparable through middle school and most of high school. After school, when our homework was done, one of us would call the other and say "meet cha half way?" We would run out the doors of our houses and head toward the middle.(This was in the old days, before it was unsafe to let your kid run down the street alone). We lived "eleven houses, 2 streets a church and a graveyard" away from each other. Many nights, my mom had to call me home because we had played pictionary way too long! We used to sit in my '87 Honda til the last minute before homeroom to listen to our horoscopes before we made the mad dash. We saw boyfriends come and go and had many, many good laughs with each other. I was actually at Sam's house the night that Marsh came to ask me out on our second date. I ran all the way home in my socks after my mom called and said that he had just stopped at the house!
Now, Sam is about to have a child of her own and I just cant wait to see her in that role and meet this new little blessing! Congrats to Sam and Aaron! You will be wonderful parents. Sam, thanks for being a true friend and I am so glad that our friendship has stood the test of time, distance and age!! Love ya!!

Vacation Pictures!!

I have to say that I chose the song for my dad......ignore the line where they say...."this is the worst trip I've ever been on"...... It was a great time!!

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