Independence Day 2014

Another year of matching shirts! Ryan won't get hand me downs this year!!! Poor guy has been geting 4th of July hand me downs his whole entire life!!! We went out for ice cream today. Cold Stone, YUM!!!! I've already gotten rid of the grill, so no grilling yummy foods this 4th! It's also just not as fun without The Dude In Cammies....

Fishy faces from Vicki!

The boys got their favorite milkshakes and were VERY anti camera here!

My ice cream was just a little too big! Had to take it home and put in freezer. Will be snacking on this for a few days!!!

Does Vicki Have A Secret Life?

Today was the day Vicki did her fingerprints at the Recruiting Office. They kept teasing her asking if she had a secret life, etc. She kept giggling and saying no. The report came back and she has no secret life. I really wasn't surprised!

Aqua Bootcamp

Vicki and I went to a new class today. It was from 8:30-10:00 am at the New River gym. It was a great class. Vicki and I were the only girls. The mermaids, me and Vicki, totally dominated the deep water part of the work out. Vicki dominated the whole class, the little show off. Just kidding. She did totally awesome! I was dying with the land part! The sit ups, squats, and push ups were kicking my booty! And planking alternating with push ups, TOTALLY not my thing! But it was a great class and definitely want to keep doing this class!!!

Hurricane Drink

I stopped at Sonic and got my favorite drink to ride out the hurricane with. Cherry Chocolate coke will be my buddy while I watch TV tonight.

Dogs Bracing For First Hurricane

The rain stopped suddenly around 8 so I had the dogs go outside while it was nice out. I went outside with them so they would stay outside longer, we had fun playing soccer and taking pictures. I didn't notice any of them going potty though!!! Hopefully they did while I wasn't looking! 

When Arthur made land fall Jasper and Bella wanted to cuddle up with me. So we watched TV to ignore all the noise going on outside.

Patriotic Toes

Mine and Vicki's toes were in desperate need of a pedicure. We decided to go today before Hurricane Arthur hit. I managed to survive. My feet are super ticklish so it is kinda torturous for me but my feet needed this done big time! I managed not to kick the guy and now I have cute toes! Vicki and I left with nautical patriotic toes! While we were getting out toes done our area went into a State of Emergency, things were shutting down and so Vicki's recruiter came into the nail salon to get the rest of the signatuures he needed from me. The paperwork The Dude in Cammies had sent from Wyoming with his signiture for Vix to go into the Army underage had come in and so the Recruiter wanted to get all the paperwork in before the 4th of July long weekend holiday and before they closed down the recruiting office since they were closing early to get everyone home to have time to secure their homes before Arthur hit later tonight. Now that was one LONG sentance!!! So, paperwork got submitted and our toes turned out pretty darn cute!!!

Hurricane Dinner

Vicki and I decided on Japanese food for our Hurricane Dinner. We went to a place I've never been before. We picked a variety of yummy foods and they even had cucumber rolls!!! Now it feels like a typhoon kinda night! The food was delicious!!!!

All Girls Walking

All the girls went for a walk this morning together. I took Jasper after. Bella did her normal 2 poops and of course Leah NEVER poops in public! She will stop mid poop if she sees you looking at her in the backyard, so when she is pooping we avoid looking at her! Bella is a pooper! I had seen her poop in the back yard before we left and than she gave me 2 piles to pick up on our 30 minute walk. Silly girl! She has gained 4 pounds since she had her "no babies with Jasper" surgery so she is getting daily walks to keep the lil piggie from getting any fatter!!!

Summer Shots!

July 2 Today is Shot Day! The boys each need one shot. The third shot in a series. Than they are free until they turn 16! Neither of them wanted to go but I told them we could go to Panda Express after for lunch. Shots didn't sound quite so bad after that incentive! Those boys LOVE orange chicken!!!!

They were looking for places to hide....

Ty went first and was like 'whatever'

Notice Ty sportin' his Sponge Bob sticker? Yep, he's still cool like that!

Ryan was the complete opposite!!! Yep, I still have to hold Ryan's hand as well as hold him down for shots! He is terrified of sharp needles! I asked him if he would rather have dull needles and he said YES!!!! Needless to say, we stuck with the sharp needle....I tried to get him to keep his eyes closed....he was a stubborn fighter but the shot got done with only a couple tears escaping!

Lucky for them they had their electronics to entertain themselves with while we waited for their shot books to get entered into the computer system!

 

Hurricane Warning

It is that time of year....Looks like Arthur wants to form and come for a visit! Hopefully just not during our 4th of July holiday!!!

Football Camp

Ty has started conditioning for football season. Football Camp was first on the agenda. He was able to work with players from ECU fine tuning the basics and learning some new things. He totally loved it! He LOVES football!!!

Not Batman, SUPERMAN!

I took Ty cleat shopping today. I pointed out the Batman cleats and he said, "No Mom! SUPERMAN!!!" I guess I know where he stands on the whole Batman Superman debate.

Aqua Spin With Friends

Aqua Spin was extra fun today with my work friends! It was a little LHS get together! These classes are during the day and so those of us, like my friends pictured here, who work in the schools don't get to go to these classes until school breaks! Bummer there are no evening or weekend aquaspin classes!

Peach Sweet Tea Yogurt

Tried another one of those new yogurts. Yep, it was good! Quite peachy and sooo yummy!!!

USA Loses AND Advances!!!

USA ranked what, um 13? played Germany ranked I think #2 today. I took Ryan out for Panda Express to make up for forgetting to bring him home a Sonic burger last night. We watched the last part of the game. USA played really well but still lost, but not as bad of a loss as i thought it was going to be....but amazingly they get to advance!!! Looks like there will be another game! Wow! Go USA!!!

#onenationoneteam

It's A Hypothesis....

Ryan and i went out for a frozen yogurt. While he was eating i noticed the shirt he was wearing was getting small on him. It is one of his favorite shirts and i remembered when it was actually too big on him! Now i could see the bones of his shoulders at the seams, the seams that no longer were lower than his shoulders!!
I said, "Ryan you have been growing! That shirt is getting too small on you. What have you been doing to grow?!!!
Ryan continued shoveling in his frozen yogurt and just kind of looked over at me. In between bites he nonchalantly said this...."If you scream at grass it will grow. Vicki is always yelling at me, so I'm growing.....(long pause) It's a hypothesis Mom. And he just continued eating his frozen yogurt while i almost choked on mine cracking up! He is sooo funny! I love these times just chit chatting with him.  

Stinky Shoe Love

I'm guessing he is either reminiscing in the smells I brought back from our walk this morning, or he wants me to take him for another cardio, or he just likes the smell of my stinky feet!!! 

Hot Day Cool Night Treat

Ryan was my buddy all afternoon today. On our way home tonight we stopped at Peach Tree and got ourselves some yummy frozen yogurt. It was a hot day today!

My yummy creation!

He's such a cute kid!!! Just love him! He always has the funniest things to say! Ryan has this crazy mind that just takes things in and than sends them back out in just the funniest of ways.

Shot In The Hip

My right hip has been hurting for like atleast 2 years, I think it has actually been hurting the whole 5 years we have lived here but the pain has gotten worse. My doctor, who is awesome, thought it was Bursitis. She has given me shots before and a topical cream. It helped a little but since it has been hurting under her watch for about 6 months she decided to refer me to Ortho and verify it is Bursitis and if so than they would be able to give me a steroid shot right into my hip and if not than see if it is arthritis or what and treat whatever it is so I can get to walking with less pain. Had ex rays and it is Bursitis.  Soooo, the doctor gave me the steroid shot. OUCH!!! He laughed when i said ouch and told me he had to bring out the big guns for this kind of shot! he wasn't joking!!!  That totally hurt but I am looking forward to this pain to be going away!!! Sooo, I got to tease The Dude In Cammies and send him a truly naked picture of me from the waist down! Here is the edited picture of my hips!!!

Out Of Strawberries....

I discovered I was out of strawberries and couldn't make my normal afternoon salad! Sooo, I decided to improvise with some other berries that I DID have!!! It was pretty good! I prefer strawberries, but this was good too! Than I had a piece of pumpkin pie to balance it all out!