There's no place like HOME: 11/1/09

Funny and cute things the kids say ...

Tim had 2 tickets for the Warriors game Friday night. So one boy got to go to the game with him while the other would get to go to Lincoln Lopez's house to play. We let the boys choose. First they both wanted to go to Lincoln's house! Then they decided that Miles would go to the game with Tim and Caden would go to Lincoln's. Caden said the prayer that night. He said "Thank you dad can go to work, thank you that Miles can go to school, and thank you that I can go to Lincoln's house." We were all busting up laughing during the prayer.
-November 15, 2007

Miles was at a high school football game with Tim. One of the players had tattoos on both of his arms. Miles thought that was cool (oh great!) and told Tim that he wanted a tattoo. Tim asked him what kind of tattoo he would want and Miles replied with "SpongeBob."
-November 9, 2007

Miles: "Caden Doll is my arch enemy!"
-October 31, 2007

Tonight for dinner I made turkey broccoli casserole with rice. The boys always say that I make gross dinners, but tonight Miles added that "This dinner is worse than school lunch."
-October 22, 2007

Tim took the boys to another football game friday night. This time it was the Concord Minutemen vs. the Dublin Gaels. So this time, Caden thought the "Minimen" were playing against the "Girls."
-October 19, 2007

Last Friday, Tim took the boys to the high school football game that he was covering for the newspaper. The teams playing were the Northgate Broncos vs. the Concord Minutemen. They got to stand on the sidelines and watch the game. Caden thought it was really cool. The next day I was asking Caden about the game. I asked him if he remembered what teams played. He said, "the Boncos and the Minimen!"
-September 29, 2007

Caden is learning to count. He can count to 29 with a little help (but he somehow manages to skip 16 everytime). He gets to 29 and says twenty-ten, For 30. And does the same for the rest of the numbers.
Thirty-Ten = 40
Fourty-Ten = 50
Fifty-Ten = 60
and so on.
-September 2007

Tim and I went out with some friends on their boats. The boys went to the babysitter's house. After we picked them up we were telling them about how Tim got flipped around on all the different tubes. Miles said "So dad, there was 2 people on the tube ... you and your KIDNEY STONE!!"
-August 11, 2007

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Food, Friends & Fun - across the country

Last week I was able to travel to Oklahoma to hang out with 2 of my best friends. Charlene and Alisa. Alisa grew up in Okie and recently moved back there. Charlene AKA "Chuck" grew up in Utah and recently moved to Nampa, ID. They both had been living in Utah so everytime I was in Utah we got together. We were college roommates and we just "clicked." Since we lived together for a year and a half. We know A LOT about each other, played a lot of pranks and - YES - they were both there when I met Tim and started dating him. Here is a picture of the 3 of us in 1998. (We were a lot skinnier back then!)

Charlene and I flew out to Tulsa, Oklahoma on Wednesday. We stopped at the World's Largest McDonald's and then spent the night at Alisa's home before making our way to Branson, Missouri. Thursday we drove to Branson. We went to the Dixie Stampede show that evening. The food was crazy! We got a biscuit, creamy chicken soup (yummy!), a chicken, a slice of pork, a 1/2 of a potato, corn on the cob, an apple turnover and all the Diet Pepsi I could drink.

Friday we went to the Hollywood Wax Museum. We had TOO MUCH FUN and got some good blackmail pictures (that will NOT be posted.)

We also did a ton of shopping. We went to the Children's Place Outlet, Disney Store Outlet and hit many of the souvenir shops.

We also went to Branson Landing which is a newer area that is alot like the Gateway in Salt Lake City. They have a water show every hour synchronized to music. And they had their Christmas decor out.

We also did a lot of eating. Chuck got a Twinkie dipped in Chocolate! We also ate truffles, fudge, Krispy Kremes and stopped at a Russell Stovers Store on the way home and picked up more Chocolate.

All of our junk food!!

I was tempted to get this LARGE box of chocolates, but just took a picture instead.

We also ate at Fall Creek Restaurant, where they throw you fresh baked rolls across the room.

We drove back to Oklahoma on Saturday. Before we left we had to go see Bubba's Drive Thru in Jay, OK. You literally drive your entire car though the store and tell the worker what you would like and they get it for you. You don't even get out of the car!!

Our trip had to sadly come to an end. We had to get back to our families and husbands who took work off and watch our kids so that we could play. We had so much fun talking and being together. I truly had a blast. I love you ladies!