A night out!

So I'm going to back track a bit here before I start to post all about our Christmas and New Year....and of course Scott's birthday. I forgot my camera cable back in AZ, so don't have my pics yet (thank goodness for that 1G memory chip I got before Ohio last year!) Anyways, I have been wanting to post about this, but just didn't have the pics to do it.
Several weeks ago, in fact about a week before Thanksgiving, I got a call one Saturday afternoon, asking what I was up to that night. Well since Tim lives in CO not much! It was a friend of his from when he worked here in AZ. He had tickets to go and see Deana Carter who was opening for Mark Wills. Well I jumped on the chance to go, as I do really like Mark Wills music, and he happens to be a friend of our friend, Tom (the one who called). So out to the casino's we went. It worked out well, because Tom was nice enough to be willing to give one of the extra tickets to Scott, but since Scott isn't a huge fan of music (one of the many points that I ponder) he made arrangements to go over a friends house for the night. I rode out with Tom and Evagiline, not knowing the show was going to be outside. Lucky it is AZ, and while the nights do get chilly, this one wasn't too bad, espically once the music got going. After the concert was over the reservation had a huge firework show, and when I say huge I do mean HUGE. This show had to of lasted for about 30-45 minutes at least! When we finally got into the tent that Mark was in, it almost reminded me of being out on the granade range in Basic, either that or a live fire range, on rapid. It really was amazing! I almost didn't want to go into the tent. However I did get the chance to meet with Mark Wills. This guy has a great sence of humor! He is of average height, but as soon as he saw me, he squated down for the pictures. I was so embarrassed about it! I kept trying to get him to stand up, but he refused. Attached are a few of the pics that someone in our group took and sent over (I didn't take my camera...duh). The one pic is of his guitar. It is in DCU print and covered in different unit patches that he has played for in Iraq. Here I have to take a moment to talk about country music. Don't get me wrong, because I love all kinds of music, some you would expect, some you wouldn't, but above all I love country music artist. They support our troops like no one else out there. They write and sing songs about war and love of country, they put themselves at risk to go over to Iraq and play for our troops. I just got an email from a friend of mine in Iraq a few weeks ago, who got to see Carrie Underwood in concert at the gym by the field hospital that he works in. He described her presents there as pure magic, as it took his mind off the horrors that he has been dealing with there for the several hours that she was on stage, and then after preforming for several hours, stayed in the gym to sign an autograph, and pose for pics with every single one of the soldiers that were there! So while it might not be your music of choice, please make sure to give them their props, as they love this country and are not ashamed to show it!

And so this is Christmas

Here I sit on Christmas Eve. Scott is tucked in bed with visions of sugar plums dancing in his head. Lincoln is at my feet, and if I were to take a guess, Teddy is up on our bed sleeping away. Tim on the other hand is finishing up those last minute things that parents need to do to get the house ready for Chistmas. Before getting too carried away with the festivities I wanted to take a moment to reflect. First this is an awsome Christmas this year. Not only do we have a white Christmas, but there is about 3 feet of snow on the ground right now. To top that off, it started to snow again today. How pretty is snow on Christmas Eve or Day? There truly is nothing at all like that (so Rod, as nice as the 70's might be, I would never trade a white Christmas for it!). As the year draws to a close I know that I have a lot to be thankfull for. First I am thankfull that even though I am seperated by more then 800 miles from my husband, I am able to talk to him every day on the phone, and I am able to hop in my car to drive and see him for the holidays. I know that not everyone can do that right now, so as tough as it is, I am lucky. As I drove to church tonight (in the snow) I was thankfull that I have that freedom to pick the one I want to go to. Also that I have a car that can get me there and back safe. I am thankfull that even though I am half a country away from my parents, family and friends we are able to stay in touch. In todays world I am able to make a local call, even from CO or AZ to OH. I am able to email and post blogs to keep them all up to date. I am blessed to have 4 healthy kids in my life. We may not always see eye to eye on things, but what parent does with a teenager? I am also lucky that someone took a chance with me and gave me a job. They were severly short staffed, and trusted me enough to give me the chance. I am thankfull for my husband. You are such a wonder in my life. I truly count the days till this nightmear is over. My friends. For all the years and miles that are between us, you are always there for me. Leeann I wouldn't say how many years it has now been, but LYLAS always. My family, I may not always show it (espically with my "baby" sisters) but I do love you all!
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!


PS...stay tuned for pics of snow, and Christmas morning, and Scotts birthday...that's right 9 this year!

A posting from Tim

Today I got this email from Tim asking me to post it to the blog. I think he ment for me to translate the story, but he wrote it so well that I have just copied it right from my email...so here you go!

Well here are the pictures from Breckenridge. Some notes to help you post. It may have POSSIBLY made it up to 20 degrees. It is right close to 10K feet at the top and the winds were a howlin’. It was nice actually skiing behind the girls while they were on their snowboards. They are actually pretty good at the whole thing. I’ll have to try a snowboard sometime just to help the guys there with smoothing everything a bit. Because all the time that I will end up on my butt or back that is what I’ll be doing, smoothing the slopes. And now the importance of all my layers today. Let’s see…Two pair of socks, long johns, black IPFU pants and a pair of ski pants on the bottom. On the top a t-shirt, long sleeve shirt, sweat shirt, the new black Army jacket for wearing with the ACU and also a ski jacket. Of coarse gloves, scarf and cap are very important. (Note to self…get a thicker hat next time.) The cold air cut right through it. Also my face is a bit sensitive from mostly the cold but I’m sure a bit from the sun and that altitude.

All in all Breckenridge is a very nice place to ski. Everything from beginner slopes up to slopes I certainly didn’t see today. The views were AWESOME. From door step to parking lot is 120 miles and the traffic out of there on a Sunday afternoon is TERRIBLE. About 2 hours to get there and 3 hours to get back.

Montezuma's revenge

So we had a 3 day weekend from school and I wanted something a little different to do that would get us out of the house, and be able to take Teddy with us (he dosen't like being left alone). I asked around and a good friend told me about Montezuma's Well. I looked into it and found out that there was also a castle right next to it (well a few miles down the road). So Saturday we packed a picnic lunch and loaded the dog in the car and set out for the great unknown. We got up to the castle and luck was shining down on us, because with my military ID card we were able to get in for free. Montezuma's castle is about 800 years old, and is the old cave dwellings. What is funny though is that it has nothing to do with Montezuma. The ruins were discovered about 125 years ago and were mistakenly identified as Aztec, so it was given this name. Well the Aztecs had nothing to do with it at all, yet the name stuck...probably to draw in visitors. Would would want to go and see the Sinagua Castle? Everyone has heard of Montezuma, little could tell you about the Sinagua. These cliff dwellings are simply amazing to see. Not only for the age of them, but for the life style that went along with them. They sit hundreds of feet off the ground, and up until the 1950's they let visitors climb old wooden ladders to take a peek inside of them. However they soon discovered that letting all those people up in there, that the dwellings were quickly falling apart and put a stop to the up close tours. Now you can just walk around and look. They also have a cut away modle built at the end of the walk way to see what it might have been like at that time. It was about a 2 and a half hour drive up to go and see them, and the day was just beautiful for it. After walking around the castle site for a bit we drove down the road to check out the well. This is a thousand year old water site that runs more then a million gallons of water by it a day, and no one has ever been able to figure out where the water souce is coming from. Scientist have been able to determin that it was formed by a collasped limestone cavern, and that the area has really high carbon concentraions making it great for plant life to grow. In fact this area is home to some plants and animals not seen anywhere else in the world. The Sinagua Indians took advantage of this water source and built amazing irrigation ditches from it out to their farm lands. There were all kinds of trails to take here and old stair cases leading to the well and irrigation ditches. Walking around the area I almost felt like I was back in Ohio walking around the Girl Scout camp that we would take the kids to. We waited to have our picnic here at the well, and I'm so glad that we did. We found this really wonderfull spot to lay our blanket out, surrounded by a bed of leaves everywhere we looked. After this trip, I'm looking forward to figuring out our next adventure spot to see!

A down scaled Halloween

Usually Halloween at the Sizemore house is a pretty big deal. We deck the house up with black lights and webbing. We have all kinds of decorations for inside and outside the house. I also do up a big "creepy" dinner before the kids head out. Well this year, all the Halloween stuff was up in Colorado, and all we had here was Scott's trick o' treating bag and a few chem lights. I also picked up a black table cloth with owl eyes on it for our picnic "kitchen" table. This year Scott wanted to be Superman for Halloween. For the first time in his entire life, I broke down and bought him a costume. I've always made them before, but this year it just seemed more practical to buy it. I have to say that as I stood in that check out line that I honestly felt like a bad mommy for doing that to him. Scott loved his outfit though and it worked out just fine, but he did look really strange with black hair! Before Halloween we went to the "fall fest" (because heaven forbid if they call it Halloween...you might offend one or two people, leaving the hundreds of us that love Halloween to suffer a name change...kind of like saying Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas, but that's a different topic). Anyways we went looking for something to fill the time, and that it did, and that was about it. The next day we did a pumpkin carve. I think that the reason we continue this tradition is so that the adults get to keep doing the fun kid stuff. Same with Easter Eggs. Anyways, for Halloween this year I kept our dinner kind of simple. We had Mummy Dogs (a favorite here) on a bed of mold, and monster mouths to go along with it. We went Trick o' Treating with some friends of ours here, Mike and Tammie and thier son Michael. It was really fun going around the neighborhood with them. Just let the boys run and have fun while we walked the streets!

The new Joe Cool

Scott took this picture of Teddy chilling out. Was too cute not to add a posting for it!!!

Unspeakable crime

Several months back Tim found a bag of stuffed animals in one of the offices and brought it home. For the most part it was filled with carnival type toys, but there was also 3 different Tellatubbies in it, 2 of which talked. Well as we were going through the bag setting them aside, Teddy started coming up and stealing them one by one taking them to his "pits of despair" under our bed. We thought this was pretty funny so we let him keep them. Well the Tellatubbies made their way back out into the living room and turned into his favorite/most hatted toy. It would drive him crazy when he played with it and they started talking. Anyways one day a few weeks ago I went downstairs and this was the scean that I saw. A murdered Tellitubbie on the floor, with fluff all around. I started laughing and went to take a picture of the murder scean. As I did, Teddy came up to it as if to claim that he did it and he was proud of it too!

An update on my insane life!

It has been so long since I updated here that people have probably forgotten all about this. Then Rod went and put me to shame. I was feeling alittle ok about being behind, because every time that I looked at Rod's site it hadn't been updated either. Then I went there today and had to catch up on about 10 new posting...here my computer just wasn't showing the updates he had been doing to it. Ok so now I feel like a heel and need to update everyone.

First as most of you didn't know...the house didn't sell, so I am still here. Stuck in hell for another year. I know that the housing market took a crash, this this one out here nose dived right into an empty pool. Tim left over Labor Day weekend. I hadn't been home from Texas even a year yet when he had to take off. In fact we figured out that in the 6 years that we have been together as a couple, we have spent 3 of it apart. Let me tell you that saying good bye so many times over the years does not get easier the more you do it. So Tim is setteled into a new house there, and is about a block and a half away from the girls. It is nice for him as he gets to see the girls almost every day.

Scott and I headed up that way over our fall break for 2 weeks. Picture this....me, Scott, 2 dogs gatted into the back of my VUE, and a cat locked in a carrier. Not to mention luggage, and boxes on top of all that. What a fun 15 hour drive that was! It was perfect weather (back to Rod...you have to bring your family and camera up to visit...there are some really spectacular sites to see). When we got up there we stayed in the hotel down the street for a few days until we went to sign for the house on that Monday. Once again imagine...2 dogs and a cat in the hotel with the 3 of us there as well! We had a chance to go down to this bar that has a Browns Backers group that takes over the huge screen TV every week for the game. What a lot of fun watching the game with a huge crowd. That and Colorado has a no smoking law in place so I was actually able to enjoy the game with no breathing issues and not stink after wards! For the most part though we spent our time there getting the house all taken care off. The one tourist type thing that we did do was to go and tour the Coors factory. Pretty neat little town. They have it set that after you tour they encourage you to leave your cars in their parking lot and just walk around the town which is only 2 blocks away, and has a very old fashion feel to it. We walked around a bit and enjoyed lunch at an out door cafe/bar.

Once back in AZ it was time to get readjusted to having the house empty. Back to school, back to work and so each day goes. Scott got his report card while we were gone to CO, and for skipping a grade this year, he still managed to get straight A's with little struggle. I have to say that I am one proud Mommy when it comes to that kid!!!!

Time warp

Things have been so crazy around here for the last month. Let me see if I can back track. Michaela flew out here at the begining of August to spend her break with us. By then Tim was winding down on his work, so was able to spend time here at home with her. I started the school year teaching 6th grade for a teacher that was out injured. A few weeks into that one of our other teachers left to head back East. The job was offered to me as long as I committed to the entire school year. Tim and I talked it over for a bit, and realized that it was probably the best way to go. Our house is still sitting here on this stale market, with no bites at all. And since I need to be working full time in order for Tim to be able to survive up there on his own, I am now teaching Kindergarten! A bit of a strech from the high schools I am trained to teach, but fun non the less.
The movers were here a few weeks ago and stripped down the house, leaving only a few things behind for Scott and I. Right after that Tim took off for Colorado with Michaela. He got up there Labor Day and has been house hunting since then. He thinks he found a nice one, just waiting on the bid process. Never in my life did I think I would own a home, let alone be in a spot where I had to have 2 of them! So Scott and I sit here waiting for the house to sell, but knowing that when it does we'll be moving into an apartment, or something of the sort.
It's been a week now since Tim left and things are setteling into a new rutine, but lonley and quiet with out him here.

From Bobcat to Wolf

Scott has been eagerly waiting for me to post his scouting information here. Right before we left for Ohio we went to his pack night where he walked away with so many different awards that he couldn't carry them all! He was awarded his Wolf Badge which means that soon he can start working towards his Bear. He also earned beltloops and pins in 6 different sports and acidemic areas. To earn a beltloop the Scout needs to compleate 3 activities that have to do with that topic. For example for his astronomy one he had to draw a picture of the solar system along with two others. To earn the pin Scouts need to compleate an additional 5-7 items in that section. So for the astronomy one he learned about some different constilations, astronauts, and we even watched a show on the Challanger disaster. Scott earned beltloops and pins in: astronomy, baseball, swimming, collecting, soccer, and biking. He also earned this night his gold arrow award (for doing 10 extra activities in the book) and 3 silver arrows (one for every 10 after that gold). He has still been doing meetings, but at home we have taken a small break, but will pick back up with it soon.
Scott also reciently compeated in the Pine Wood Derby with Scouting. This is where the boys are given a block of wood, a few nails and 4 wheels and then told to have fun with it. The idea is to be creative and come up with the fastest car possiable. This years creation soon became lovingly known as the Cheese Mobile. Scott did up a yellow block of wood that him and Tim drilled holes into. Then when all was done we used some wall mount clay and fixed 2 Lego men into it, and had a small little mouse sticking his nose out of one of the holes. While his wasn't the fastest one there...it did make it through several races before being eliminated. Later he won for most original.

Last day....Chicken Run

Our last night in Ohio we always go to our favorite bar and have family and friends come up to meet us there. The have some of the best chicken wing and frys you could imagine! We usually draw a good sized crowd of love there. Pool is played, we get our fill of wings and drink too much beer (is that possiable?) As fun as this night always is...it is also bitter sweet because I know that when my friends have to say good night, that I wouldn't get to see them again for awhile. Maybe it would be different if we had a set travel time there, but we just never know when the next time will be.
One of the best thing that happened this night by far though was that 2 of my best friends were able to patch over a long standing gap that had been between them. Girls you don't know how happy I was to see you two talking to each other! It has made it so difficult to plan things in Ohio. I can't wait till the next time I head out that way and all the things we can do now!!!! Thank you....it was the best gift I could have ever gotten!

Day 5...Time with friends

After a few days of go, go, go I was looking forward to a small amount of relaxing. So I got up early that morning, got Scott ready for his big day with grandpa, and went out to visit my grandma. My grandma is the best grandma in the entire world. I remember when I was little being at her house every weekend doing things. In fact that is where I would watch all my "cool" shows. The Hulk, Wonder Woman, League of Justice...those types. I used to always joke with her when she told me that she was old and say "grandma...until your 100 your not old". Of course in the same breath I would ask her what it was like riding dinosaurs to school and if she lived next door to Jesus. Well many years have gone by since I asked her those questions, and now she is getting close to 100, so I guess you could say she is "almost" old! I look forward to the day that I can have her face posted with Willard Scott on the Smuckers birthdays!. Anyway I spent a little time visiting her and my uncle who lives with her to help take care of grandma. Was funny to see Scott next to him. I remember having to stand on a chair for many years to give him a hug (he is about my height), and there Scott stood giving him a good run for his money. I just have to face it...unless something drastic happens, Scott is going to tower over us all.
After spending time at grandma's house I dropped Scott off with his grandpa (my dad) and headed back for home. There we made plans to meet up with my dad at the Captians game (a minor league team to the Cleveland Indians that were established after we left Ohio). The older kids didn't really want to go to the game with us, so we dropped them off at the movie theater and Tim, Michaela, and I all went to the game. I love going to the minor league games. The are so much more interactive and so much less expensive. In fact while we were there we won free ice cream, Arby's fries, and White Castle burgers. (Mom...I'll have to mail you the rest of our coupons...as we can't use them here). Anyways our team won like 6-1 or something like that. I do remember that 3 home runs were hit, which always make for a fun game. After the game was over we said our good-byes to Scott again and headed over to Jerry and Celeste's house. I really enjoy going to their place. They have 3 boys and are such "normal" people. Celeste is also a great host. She put together a great dinner for us in such short time (she had just gotten back from camping a few hours before we showed up). We sat around with them and Leeann out on the porch just enjoying time...and being creeped out by the half naked neighbor that kept walking around his yard. See in Ohio you don't have 8 foot privacy fences in any yards,there might be a chain link one for pets, but that's usually it. Before dinner Jerry took a few moments to show off some of the armor that he has created. They are big into the mid-evil time period and do a big re-enactment every year. So he showed some of his stuff off to the kids (including Tim). They even dressed Eryk (Leighanna's boyfriend) up in a "Knight and Shinning Armor" outfit to pose for some pics. After dinner we were finally able to hurd the kids (Scott had rejoined us by that time) all down to the basement to watch a movie so that we could sit out back and just talk the night away. Leeann's hubby Tom showed up around 10:30 from work, and the gang was complete! Before I knew it, it was almost midnight. I knew that some of the group had to get up for work in the morning, and that some had to deal with kids, so we sadly said our good nights, and good byes. Celeste, thank you so much for a wonderfull night. I wish we could have more of them like we used to always do! Maybe one night we will be able to have our Italian Gangster dinner party again! By the way this photo in the upper left is for you (I'll never forget that moment!!!)!!!!

Flash Back to day 1

In my sleep induced delirum I forgot about one of the most important things to happen to me on the first day in Ohio. My little sister stopped by the house for me to see my new neices, Erica and Abby. They are identical twin girls that are about 6 months old now. They are SO CUTE!! I also had a chance to see my other neice Leah who is almost 5 and getting ready to start kindergarten this year, and my nephew Cory who will be 8 next month and going into 3rd grade. It was so nice of her to drive out of her way to get out to Madison to see me with all the kids! So Sara...Thank you sooooo much for that!

Day 4...The Big Bamboosal!

So the day had finally arrived. The day of the "Surprise" picnic for the In-Laws. Tension was running high with so much stuff to do before our deadline of 1330 hours. I had a cake to finish, and still needed to get to the store. When packing for the trip, the only thing that I couldn't find were my cake pillars. No big deal right? WalMart has a craft center with a wedding section to it, and a cake section to it...it would have to be in there right? WRONG! They don't carry them. I even went over to the bakery department to see if I could buy a set from them. Sure...if I was willing to buy the entire kit, that included the bases for 3 cakes, funny tier things, and 2 sets of pillars. Insert loud groan here. So now not only am I stressing that I'm not going to have enough time to finish the cake, but now I have no way to hold it up! After taking a deep breath and looking around I settled on 4 glass pilliar like containers and filled them with clear and blue glass beads. I had no idea if this would work or not, but I had to come up with something...I was desparate at this point.
Tim then went ahead and dropped me off at the American Legion where we were having the party. These guys there were just the greatest! They let me into their kitchen to work, no questions asked, and then kept checking on my progress every so often. I think they thought I was just going to be doing a basic cake, but as it kept progressing they got more and more interested. I probably spent the next 2 or 3 hours in there getting this all put together. By the time that I was done, Tim had led the kids in re-decorating the picnic area out back. They did a great job putting little touches to the area to make it special. People were already starting to mill around, including my In-Laws. When I talked to Tim's sister Sherry, she said that it was pulled off great! Bill and Dot had NO IDEA at all what we were up to! I went and said hello to people and ran home to change, as I was covered in frosting.
The day was even more perfect then the day before! We had done up these little hand held battery powered fans with the thought that it's Ohio in June which means warm and slightly humid. Not on this day though. The sky was a perfect blue with little white puffy clouds hanging around. A slight breeze to make the weather just perfect. We couldn't have planned it any better (unlike the Wally World trip)! Lots of family was there from all around the state. Tim and I had came in from AZ with all the kids just for this, Tim's sister and her family had come in from GA, so really we had come from all over to be there. Kids were all around playing with their cousins that they hadn't seen in many years.
Finally it was time for the cake. I was pretty nervous that my idea wasn't going to work, so we set it up on site instead of in the kitchen for a grand entrance. I put it all together, and not to my surprise it barley held! I was a nervous wreck as little kids kept trying to climb on the picnic table that it was sitting on. We had Bill and Dot come over qickly to see it and then dismantled it to avoid any possiable disasters! I was suprised because before I knew it the entire thing was gone! Not long after presents were opened. They really got alot of neat things from people.
It was so nice just sitting around with all the family from both sides enjoying the day. A little later in the evening some of our friends dropped by to say hello also.

As things were winding down we made plans to go bowling with Tim's friend Steve and his girlfriend Sam. We left Scott and Michaela at the house as we knew that they would soon be asleep from all the activity of the day. Then Leighanna and Eryk stayed at Steves house to watch a few kids there. Once there we met up with my youngest sister Emily, and her best friend Lindsay. I love hanging out with those two, as they are as crazy as I am...if not more so. Emily and I were joking around about my Bachlorettes party that we did at the bowling alley and how we discovered that a highlighter glows under black light. That night they had me covered in all kinds of designs. As we talked about this, Lindsay digs in her purse and out she pulls a highlighter. Now I don't know how or why we had one before I got married, but I now have to wonder...who carries a highlighter around with them? Before the first game was over we were covered in different markings all that glew an eerie yellow under the light. We were having fun bowling during a "Cosmic" bowl. We had just started our 3rd game when all of a sudden the power was killed to our lane. When we asked about it they said that you get to bowl as many games as you can in 2 hours. Heck if we had known that when we got there we wouldn't have had 5 people to each lane! We would have spread out and taken up half the alley!

Day 3...Friday night BBQ

So to keep my In-Laws off the scent of the party we were planning (see day 4 when posted), we had a cook out for them on Friday night. But before I get ahead of myself let me back track to that morning. As my gift to the best in-laws a gal could ask for I volenteered to make their cake. So the big problem was where to make it. While hanging out at Wally World (Geauga Lake...think to the very first Vacation movie) I asked my sister Sara if I could use her kitchen while she was at work. Details were worked out for a key exchange and everything was set. Well I got to her house with Scott early in the morning and started to set everything out, while I waited for the oven to pre-heat. Scott jumped into the shower (since there were 12 people staying w/mom and dad w/their 1 bathroom house I figured I'd take a bit of the strain off the shower and use Sara's). All of a sudden I started to notice this fowl chemical smell. I opened the oven thinking that there might be pans or something left in there, but nothing. I ended up having to open the windows and re-adjust the fan to get the smell out of the house. Thank goodness my mom lives right next door, so moved all my supplies over to her place to do the baking. This ended up being a few hour project as I only had one of each of the pan sizes I needed and had to do up 2 of each of them. When I talked to Sara later about why I didn't use her place she infomed me that she had never turned the oven on before in the time that they had lived there! My dad was home that morning, so he kidnapped Scott and they went on a search for Wacky Package cards. After all the cakes were cooled and frosting made, I wrapped them all up and headed back to the in-laws house to hide them in the garage fridge.
Tim then took the kids down to "Our Lake" to play for a bit while I just vegged w/Sherry's husband William, watching the 100 best toys ever on VH1. The hula hoop took the number slot in case your wondering. Not long after Tim got back with the kids people started showing up for the BBQ. Tim had made up shirts for his parents in the Disney font saying Sizemore's est 1956. The weather really was perfect for this evening. Sunny, breeze and warm, but not hot. You know those perfect days to just sit around with family or friends and do a lot of nothing! We (as in Tim and I) also had to get a DQ cake to seal the deal. For those that don't know, we don't have a DQ near us, and none of the ones around here sell the cakes, so now everytime we head back home that is one of the first things on our list to do. Get DQ icecream and order a cake for any reason that we can. This just so happened to be a perfect reason to! The kids seemed to have a great time playing as well. It was funny to watch them grab all the toddlers toys and just go to town with them! Funny because a lot of them had been theirs at that age, but hardly got used...now that they are too big for them, they had a blast using them! The only think that would have make this BBQ any better would have been a camp fire to sit around, and maybe a bug zapper!
Stayed tuned for our Suprise party, time with friends, and our Chicken Run!