Viva San Antonio

It's finally over! The last 10 days have been Fiesta here in San Antonio. Basically a huge city-wide party, complete with a day off of school for a parade. When we first moved here, it was the strangest thing for me to comprehend...an entire day off of school for a parade? Seriously?! Now, it's just how it is. My mom is still in denial of the fact that "it is what it is". There have been projects after projects for the boys. Such as, but not limited to, making a Fiesta King crown, decorating a shoebox for a float parade in school, decorating a bicycle for a bike parade and decorating a white hat with the most colors possible. I'm OVER it! I know it's been going on since the Civil War times, but could we possibly cut back to a weekend? I feel like our home will be TP'd tonight just because I typed that! It is what it is....bottom line, it's fun! Next up, Teacher Appreciation WEEK! Ah, presents per day for all 5 teachers in our lives. I personally like the idea and the fact that they give us a list of topics per day. This should be a breeze compared to last week!

25 years and I'm Still scared

I was watching the Today show this morning and they had a 25th anniversary to the Thriller dance on there. I was so frightened of that song much less the video when I was 10 years old. I would see on MTV, back when they would show videos, and I would close my eyes and plug my ears and find my way to the TV to change the channel. (back before there were remotes) The dancers still kinda freaked me out today. I know I will have a dream about it tonight. Shoot! And I was sitting right by the remote too. Should have changed the channel. I know somethings never change and I still tried to be a big girl and watch.

I'll have to wash it out with The Office and Grey's tonight!!.....Thriller who?! Michael Jackson didn't know thriller until the writer's strike and all new episodes of Grey's Anatomy!!! (clap, clap, clap)

Backyardigans

This weekend, we re-mulched our flowerbeds with pecan mulch. Mostly because I like the rich color that it has and it keeps those pesky stay cats from strutting their stuff in our yard. I'm not a kitty cat fan. I grew up in Kingwood, aka "The Livable Forest", so squirrels are nothing new to me, but I realized that the boys were in awe of the squirrel. Now that we have 2 truck loads of pecan mulch in our yard, squirrels have become a regular critter in the yard. I just went out to the back to water and there were 5 squirrels and about 10 white-wing doves getting their nut on. We have a backyard wildlife rescue going on it appears. Since the squirrels have become a regular site, I can not get that song out of my head..."I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut so move your butt on the dance floor." Who sang that, MC Hammer? I think it was something MDM and I would sing in our dorm room. I guess it's catching on around here because when I came in from watering, I found Ty singing "I'm just a squirrel" and dancing.

On a not-so-critter note, I was the photographer for our church's Mom/Daughter Tea. It was adorable!!! Some of the ladies of the church loaned out their china, which scared me to death, but it was beautiful! One of my favorites:
We have so many talented people in our church and we just happened to have a lady who is an expert at having tea parties. Who knew?! She and 2 of her friends did all the catering. Just look at some of this spread! Yummy!!!

I always volunteer to be involved in froufrou stuff! I love it and can't very well do it for any of my boys' birthday parties. That would be awkward, as Tanner would say.

The Bike Ride

Let me first start off with a picture of what we gave my mom for Christmas.
She always says "Don't get me anything. I don't need a thing! Save your money." blah, blah, blah....so when she tells me things like that, I just get random on her. We bought her this sweet ride, along with a silver helmet. Today was just beautiful outside, so we decided to take the bike on her maiden voyage. Notice she didn't wear her helmet! She looked around and said "No one else is wearing theirs. I WILL NOT be the only doofus wearing their helmet." She's crazy! The boys were wearing their helmets, she just didn't want to. It was like having 4 kids! She took off and went a little squirrely, which scared me to death. I asked her when the last time she rode a bike was and she said, "Oh about 30, 40 years. No big deal." And away she went. That was the most nerve-wracking bike ride ever. She did good though. We live on too many hills, so it didn't last too long for the first time out. While we were riding, Tanner said, "I lost my tooth!" Sure enough, he did loose his first tooth! Blood all in his mouth and a big grin saying, "It didn't hurt!" Then Mason is gagging because it was gross watching him talk with a mouth of blood. Ah, life with boys... when we got home, I said "smile" for a picture and this is what he came up with. Let's try it again. He's a big kid now~

Dallas Supercross

We went to the Supercross this weekend in Dallas. The boys LOVED it! Here are some pictures to explain why. We got to take pictures and autographs with Davi Millsaps! He's a celebrity to us. We were in dirtbike heaven. Then, we got to Ivan Tedesco....the picture says it all. Could I have a bigger smile?! YUMMY!!!! Billy knows of my love of Ivan and has approved of this photo to be framed and in our bathroom. Here is Ty and Chad Reed's bike, #22 and then a picture of Chad by his RV. He was a little too busy to sign any more autographs. He's a hot shot. He won, of course.

While in Dallas, we were in a restaurant before the races. I was in the bathroom and while washing my hands, another lady who was washing her hands stopped and said to me, "I usually don't dress like this." which completely took me off guard so I said, "Oh, OK. I think you look great!" Just a bit awkward. Then she proceeded to tell me she just got through with a 20 mile bike ride. Can you tell I'm still a little taken aback from this encounter? I didn't know what to say or why....still don't! The only down side of this entire weekend was the drive on 1-35 when my car's transmission went out! We were only in Hillsboro (still a 4 hour drive from our home) and drove the car at 40 miles an hour (that's all it would go) to Waco and left the Suburban at the airport there so we could rent a car. They only had compact cars!! So all 5 of us and some of our luggage got into the tiny-weeny Kia and drove the rest of the 3 hours. Thanks to Allen Samuels in Waco, the Suburban has a new transmission and she is on her way back home to us. Ah, such an adventure!

My Prayerful 11 year old

Tonight, Ty begged to say the prayer before dinner. I always LOVE when the boys say their prayers. So honest. I always tell the boys to talk to God like they would talk to their best friend, because He is and He wants them to talk to Him that way.

So Ty says, "Hey God. Thank you so much for money to buy this house, this meal and everything we have. Please be with me to do good in school because I sorta don't like it, sorry! (he did a cute little face while having his eyes closed. I peeked!) Please be with Dad so he won't be so tired and do good at work. Hang on, "Mom? Are you OK?" I said, "yeah, I'm good thanks." He begins again, "OK, sorry God...Mom says she good so be with my bros and in Jesus' name, Amen."

I have to think God got a kick out of that. As the mom of this child He's loaning me, I surely did.