candy station

We pulled in to get gas and Connor said "Are we going to the candy station?"

Funny Story

I was just talking to a friend from work and this story made me laugh, so I thought I'd pass it on. Here at the Spanish Fork movie theatre they have free summer movies. These free movies are packed! Of course, we are in Utah Valley, so packed free anything comes as no surprise. Well, my friend got to the theatre 30 minutes early so her and her three sons could get seats all together. Half an hour into the movie, her little boy had to use the bathroom, so she took him to the bathroom and her other 2 sons watched the movie. When she came back there was a lady sitting in her seat. She had to squish her way through the aisle to her seat, just to find it taken. She told the lady that that was her seat and she just took her son to the bathroom. The lady said "You gotta freakin' be kiddin me" My friend said, "No. I'm not kidding you, mam. My son had to pee." The lady said "I have freakin' 8 kids, there's no way I'm moving." Now I think this is awesome--my friend, instead of trying to find a different seat or go home, which is what I would have done, I'm sure, says "You will get out of my seat or I will sit on your lap." Awesome! This lady came in and moved my friends kids down, who were telling her that their mom and brother were sitting there, then put at least 2 kids in each seat and one on her lap. Now, I feel for the lady, but what a rude person! I need to take a lesson from my friend on how to stick up for myself......

I'll spank you

Josh asked me how many minutes until I would come and play with him downstairs. I told him I didn't know and he said "You tell me, or I will spank you." That made me laugh. I have never spanked or threatened to spank Josh. Hmmm. Wonder where he got this from?

Somebody is giving me $75,000! Yippee!

Greetings My Friend,
I am Kluka Darlene A. I have been waiting for you since to contact me for
your Confirmable Bank Draft of $78,000 but I did not hear from you since that time.
Then I deposited the Draft with TNT Delivery, West Africa, I travelled out of the country
for a 3 Months Course and I will not be back till end of September.What you
have to do is to contact the TNT Delivery West Africa as soon as possible to know
the delivery of your package to you because of the expiring date. For your
information, I have paid for the delivery charges, Insurance premium and
Clearance Certificate Fee of the Check showing that it is not a drug money.

The only money you will send to the TNT Delivery to deliver your Draft direct to your
postal Address is ($215 USD) only being Security Keeping Fee of the
Delivery Company .

Contact Person: Mr.David Mark
Email :tntafrica.dispatchunit@live.com
Tel :+234-702-9066-207
Finally,you are expected to pay only $215.00 USD and make sure that you re-confirm your
Postal address and Direct telephone number to them again to avoid any mistake on the
Delivery and know when it will get to your address.
Yours Faithfully,
Kluka Darlene A.


I found this very funny. Whoever wrote this must have had $ signs in their eyes and been thinking how clever they were. Poor thing doesn't know how bad their English is. Auhhhh, so sad.

Connor quote

Connor: "The big giraffe just pooed a baby and it was a boy." He seriously loves Animal Planet!

They found us

The ants have found us. Now we have to move.

Whew!

So I think the pregnancy scare is over. Reading up on stuff, there is a 1% chance of getting pregnant post-vasectomy. 1 in 100. hmm. It inspires me to go double up on the BC. A 1 in 100 chance is pretty good, but being that 1 would be so, so bad. Now I've just got to figure out why I've been feeling so crappy.

Connor and T-ball

I asked the boys who was going to T-ball today and Josh volunteered Connor as Connor raised his hand. So I took him to T-ball. He couldn't stop hopping again. He just kept happily hopping as the coaches would instruct them what to do, while he was waiting in line, while running to get the ball--everything. He is the teeniest kid there. You couldn't tell he was wearing shorts because the smallest T-shirt available drowns him. So Connor is not so naturally talented as Josh when it comes to T-ball. Josh could really throw that ball far and Connor really can't. Josh hits the ball hard, and Connor barely hits it. Josh is a faster runner and understood directions a little better. We always thought Connor would be bigger than Josh by now and a natural at sports. He's not. He is really good at gymnastics, though. (Which he went to on Wednesday.) He told me when we got in the car "I had so much fun!" I'm sure he will be better with practice. And don't tell anyone, but it's a 4 and 5 year old class, and Connor is 3. He's not supposed to be there. He also has mostly 5 year olds in his gymnastics class. So he's doing good!

Newest Addition

We got a new addition in the backyard. A 14 foot trampoline with safety net. I was just bumming around on ksl and craigslist last night and the kids have been asking for a trampoline. Connor doesn't like to leave the neighbors house because of their trampoline. I found one without the metal springs (they are the fabric kind) and with a safety net for $140. Looking up trampolines, the cheapest one like that was around $500. So we took the long trip out to Tooele to pick it up. It took us 4 hours to get there and back--that included a trip to the gas station and McDonald's. Hopefully it was worth it! We will see tomorrow. I'm excited for the kids. And Connor can practice his gymnastics stuff on it. He is already a dynamite jumper on the ground--I think he'll be really good at doing jumps on his snowboard and wakeboard and all that when the time comes. There will be a little less room in the yard for playing soccer, but I guess we can cope with that. I'll have to be careful, since I have taken to peeing a little every time I'm bounced high on the trampoline. Now our backyard will look like all the other backyards in Utah....playset, trampoline, playhouse, motorized kid cars. Yikes! I always found it funny flying over California there were pools in tons of the backyards. Then you fly over Utah and there are a ton of trampolines.

T-ball

Today was Josh's first day of T-ball. He played last year and loved it almost as much as I loved taking him and playing with him. Today he would not get out of the car. Brad took him and Josh was crying and saying he just wanted to go home. So Brad brought him back and I had a go. Josh does this at everything we go to. Cries and whines and says he wants to go home. Then we get him in and involved and he loves it and doesn't want to go home at the end. Well, I tried everything. I tried asking, begging, bribing, reasoning, using reverse psychology, and anything else I could think of. Nothing worked. He said he just wanted to stay in the car and go home. I told him I was going to go have fun. I went and got his shirt and hat and came back to see if he'd changed his mind. Nope. Still buckled into his car seat sulking. I went back out and watched the kids play. Went back to the car and he still wanted to go home. I told him that if he didn't play he wouldn't get a snow cone on the way home (a tradition from last year.) That didn't phase him. I told him he could go home after and play the computer and that didn't work. I begged him to play because I wanted to play and couldn't without him. Nope. I unbuckled his car seat and unlocked the doors and went and sat on the grass, thinking that I would hear the car door anytime and see him getting out. Nope. 15 minutes later he was still sitting in his car seat. So finally, I thought 'We're not wasting our money and time on this. Connor would absolutely love this more than he has loved anything, ever. Even monster trucks and licking dirt.' So I took Josh home and got Connor. Connor is less than a month away from his 4th birthday anyway. He got to play for only 10 minutes, but that kid was so excited! He was hopping, hopping, hopping. He could not keep still. If he wasn't running bases, he was hopping. He is going to have a blast. Good thing we've got a back-up player.:) Josh is so stubborn, I can't believe it. I cannot see Connor ever doing anything like that. Kaytlynn, on the other hand....she takes after Josh. Oh, well. It will be more fun with Connor anyway. *Sigh*

Blah!

I have not been feeling well for about 2 weeks now. The best way to describe my symptoms is pregnant. I feel like I am pregnant. Headache, nautious, a little dizzy, heartburn, emotional (I keep crying for no reason), and a few other not-so-nice things that pregnant people get. Now, I am hoping and praying that this is not the case. I have not been drop-dead tired like I was with the other kids, so that gives me hope. Brad had a vasectomy a little over 2 years ago, so that also gives me hope. What does not give me hope is the 5 different stories I have heard of failed vasectomies lately. We planned to have only 2 kids, and as you all know we have 3. It took a lot of talking and begging and time for Brad to consent to having the v-word. And our third child, and a scare of having a 4th.
There are so many good people out there who would take the news graciously, saying that their surprise is a gift and all that, but I am not going to lie to you, I would be devastated. We'd love the kid and everything, but, yeah. Kaytlynn was a devastation. Of course I absolutely love that naughty, fiesty little girl and I'd never want her to not be a part of our family now. So if it is true, we will take it as it comes. And if I have a terminal disease that makes me feel pregnant, well, we will also take that as it comes :) Hopefully I've just been working too much.

Knocked out

So our poor little Kaytlynn knocked her tooth out yesterday. Actually, the floor knocked it out. This is a tooth that we just spent I don't know how much money on capping last month. Probably close to a thousand dollars. She had an accident with the recliner and ended up face down on the floor with no tooth. The dentist said that we should probably just leave it, because 90% of the time they die anyway and it is likely to cause an infection if we try to put it back in and it's a baby tooth. Luckily it's not a middle front tooth, but it's a tooth next to the middle. I always think these little kids with missing teeth look like little trailer park white trash kids. Isn't that horrible? Not to be mean or anything, because I lived in a trailer park when I was Kaytlynns age. So she will be missing a tooth for about 5 years until her adult tooth grows in. Tonight the tooth fairy came and left 2 little "pwetty dwesses" under her pillow, since she's not old enough to enjoy money yet. Poor girl. So when you see her with a missing tooth, that is what happened! Will post a picture when I get one.