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Weekend Adventures while the kids are gone

We've been working hard but also trying to fit in a little bit of play time while the kids are still gone. On Friday we decided to charter a plane and head to the mountains. It was amazing!!

Here's some shots from the plane. Sorry for the blurriness, it must have been the turbulence.

I think they sense our presence and are getting restless.

This one is making a get-away.

OMG!! Do you see that bear?! That little fox may be history. It's time to head home. I don't want to see the bloody outcome.

OR



Maybe we just went to Cabella's after going to the gun range.


On Saturday we went to Fredericksburg to their Trade Days for a little shopping and then had lunch.

For Father's Day I let Dax decide what he wanted to do so we headed to Austin to a gun show and then had lunch at The Hula Hut. They specialize in what I've decided to call Mexiwaiian food. It's Mexican food with a Hawaiian flare. Who would have guessed?

Anyway, we sat out on the patio over the water. The food was good and we had fun. He's starting to look a little relaxed.

Talked to the kids last night and they're having a great time.

While the kids are gone....

We've been having a wild time while the kids are gone. Theatre, concerts, dinners out. We'll have to slow down soon or we won't survive. Whoooo!!



Note to reader: Theatre really means that we went to the movies to see The Hangover. It was funny, FUNNY, FUN.NY. (We really liked it.)

Oh, and concerts really means that we went to the free summer concert in the park last night. It was an Irish band playing that one of our clients is a member of. (Well, actually my dentist is one of the band members and my belly dancing teacher is one.) But, hey, that counts right?

The band (The O'Malarky's):




Dax jamming during the concert:





But we really have gone out to eat a few times. It's been nice. And the kids are having a great time too. Win, win!


And here in a little bit we're heading to the gun range to practice. I'm taking my concealed carry class in a couple of weeks and I feel like I need to shoot a little before I actually go do that. And I don't think that I ever posted that when Dax went to take his he scored


(that's for you Mom & Dad)


which is a perfect score. Now I have to do very well to even be able to stand to listen to him. Ugh! Wish me luck!!

Class reunion

Saturday night was my 25 year year high school class reunion. There weren't enough people that responded for us to do the whole formal thing so we just had a mixer in a pub. There was a pretty big crowd that showed up...much to the disgust of the younger crowd that usually hangs out there. lol


Oh, and look, when Dax took this picture he caught somebody's hand actually pointing me out.


There was a band that started about 9:30 and man were they loud!! Dax says that they got louder as the night went on because they got worse. lol My throat was sore on Sunday because of having to yell to hear each other.


I emailed some friends of Dax's and they came out so he didn't even have to be sitting by himself while I was being a 'social butterfly.' Anyway, we really had a lot of fun.


The kids are at Grandma's and Bushia's for the next two weeks. What will we possibly do with ourselves? mmmmmwwwwwaaaahhhhaaahhhhhaaaaa!!!

A peaceful protest

The kids are going to spend two weeks with their grandparents. We were supposed to leave this afternoon and they had all of there stuff ready and by the front door.


However, Dax decided that he wanted to watch game 7 of the Stanley Cup.


The kids decided that they were definitely not moving everything back to their rooms. They set up their stuff in protest and settled in for the night (at about 5:00 pm.)

Kirsten & Addison set up camp in the kitchen.



Wyatt set up camp in the area by the front door. He's having a calzone for dinner and if you look closely, he's got snacks in that black bag.



And Abigail is almost right in front of the front door (it's the white door that you can just see the bottom of.)

They've got everything they need to make it through the long night....food, drinks, games, bedding. I think they would start a campfire and s'mores if they thought for a minute I'd let them. Oh, and they've all gotten dressed in the clothes they want to wear tomorrow so that all they have to do in the morning is wake up and get in the car (but to be perfectly honest, some of them might just be telling me that they changed but are really wearing the same clothes they've had on all day today. I just don't know.) Anyway, I figure they're either practicing to camp out for the coolest, must-have concert tickets, or they're preparing to live in a tent city. Frankly, I'm really not sure I'm comfortable with either one.

Are you kidding me?

Last night it was getting close to bedtime and I noticed something different about Addison. She has been trying to let her bangs grow out and has been wearing her hair pulled back. There was a little wisp of hair hanging down and it wasn't hanging all down in her face. Now how could that be? Her bangs have gotten quite long.

Me: Addison, did you cut your hair?

Addison: No. (said with a you're-so-dumb-attitude)

Me: Come here and let me look at your hair.

She comes into the bedroom. I look at her hair and all of her bangs are short.

Me: Did you cut your hair?

Addison: No.

Me: Are you sure? Your bangs are much shorter than they used to be.

Addison: Noooo. (all indignent like) I didn't cut it.

Me: Well, it used to be this long (pulling a piece out that she missed) and now it's only this long.

Addison: I diiiidn't cut it! (moving on to whiny)

Dax: Did Morgan cut it while you were at her house today?

Addison: I don't think so.

(hmmm.)

Me: Did she cut it while you were in the swimming pool or maybe after you got out?

Addison: Not that I remember.

(Yeah, I know.)

Me: Did you somehow lose consciousness in the pool and while you were out Morgan might have cut your hair?

(yes, I'm that kind of parent)

Addison: I don't think so.

So I'm thinking here that she can't possibly believe that she's going to get away with not knowing how all the hair across the front of her very own head got cut short. I mean, I know I overlook a lot of the little lies that they tell so that they won't spend time perfecting their technique and I might have a slight advantage through the teen years, but I really can't let this one go.

Me: You know, it's obvious that you have cut your hair. You should know by now that if you keep up with the lies you're going to get into a lot of trouble. I'm not necessarily mad at you for cutting your hair but you should have told me that you wanted it cut. Now, did you cut your hair?

Addison: (stage direction: Don't answer yet. Wait until you can work up some tears first. Should be much more effective. Then very softly say) Yes.




On the bright side, she actually did a pretty good job. They're pretty straight and not too short. I just have to do a little touching up. Really, not bad for a 10 year old. I'm thinking she shouldn't try it again. You know, end on a high note and all.




You can see the piece she missed hanging in front of her eye.

And, she even told me this evening that she was looking at it and that she thinks she did a good job (if she does say so herself.)

Daddy's Little Helpers

Dax has been spending his evenings cutting the grass {It should be noted that by 'grass' I mean the native grasses. And of course, by 'native grasses' I mean all the weeds that grow in what should be our yard. But we live on well water and I don't want to use it watering real grass so we just have our 'grass'.} He's also been cleaning up the trees which is no small feat. The last couple of years have been really dry and there's much to be trimmed out of the trees.


Anyway, this weekend I was able to snap some pictures of the kids out there helping him.







Doesn't the flurry of their activity just make you dizzy? With this kind of help I'm thinking he should be done in no time. This is a lot like they help me clean the house, too.

Graduation weekend

Last weekend my neice graduated from high school. I don't even know how that's possible!! She was just a baby last week...where does the time go?


We drove to Houston on Friday after the kids got out of school (it was their last day and they got out early - very early). We decided to take the dog with us on this trip. She traveled like a champ, but who wouldn't with her plush accomodations?





I thought I was going to have to make Wyatt sit in the floor. I wasn't sure there was room for both of them in that seat and Daisy was being awfully good.


The graduation was on Saturday. I would show pictures but they're on my other camera (the one I got for Mother's Day. The one I'm not allowed to use.) Maybe I can get Dax to download them for me. :0)

Then Katie had her party on Sunday. Now that she's older I decided that she was ready to have a family heirloom passed on to her. Doesn't she look so happy and touched to receive it?





It's a candle, and that lovely candle has been a prized posession for many different people in our family through the years. It's truly cherished.

Okay, maybe heirloom is too strong a word. As are prized posession, and cherished. It's really an old Christmas candle that melted in the attic and now has a funky new shape. We really have passed it around for at least the last 15 years and the one with posession usually can't wait to get rid of it.

Memorial Weekend

We had a nice Memorial Weekend. I hope everyone else did too.

The 4-H club here in town sponsors a rodeo every year on Memorial Weekend and we've gone the last two years. It's really a lot of fun to go and participate in the local activities (we just don't do it often.)

When we told the kids we were going Kirsten was beside herself because she didn't have any rodeo clothes to wear--a scary vision of what's coming. After much searching she came up with what she perceives to be the right thing for a rodeo:



I guess she's at least wearing denim and boots. God she loves those boots!!

Here's Addison's rodeo duds:



That skirt is so long I don't know how she managed to even get up into the bleachers. lol

By the jackets on the two you would think we lived someplace where it's cold. I mean, it was all the way down in the 80's but do you really think they need the jackets?

The rodeo was a lot of fun but we couldn't get the kids to participate in any of it. Last year they at least tried the calf scramble. At one part the clown was digging for treasure in the arena and found a bag full of gum and candy and this mob of kids runs out to steal it from him. So he keeps looking to find more treasure. He finds another bag and as he's opening it the kids all run out again. Only this time he drops a skunk out of it!! You should have seen those kids trying to stop and turn around. It was great.

We spent the rest of the weekend mostly being lazy. The kids had to go to school on Monday and the day was beyond beautiful so Dax & I took The Mistress out for a drive and had lunch and he even let me do a little shopping (without complaining even.) It was delightful.

The dumbest tattling ever!

We went into town earlier today. The kids had money and it was burning holes in their pockets. One of our MANY stops was at the pet store where they each bought things for their pets. (duh) Then we made the rest of our stops and headed home.

On the way home they started talking about the different treats they had bought for the pets. Addison was talking about how good the berry yogurt drops for the hamster smelled. Then the next thing I know Abigail is yelling at me 'He won't let me taste it but he licked it!! That's not FAIR!' Any guesses what she was talking about?


Wyatt had bough beef basted pigs ears for the dog. Abigail was all mad because he wouldn't let her taste the pigs ear!! Are you kidding me? They truly have lost their little minds....there's just no other explanation.