I picked up Andrew from Randi's house on Friday and his forehead was bleeding. Right in between his eyes. I was informed that he was standing on a plastic toy in the toy room and the toy slipped out from under him and he landed forehead-first on a wooden train table. This was at 11:00 am. I picked him up at 5:15 pm so I was a little concerned that it was seemingly still bleeding. Randi said the cut stopped bleeding pretty quickly after the incident, but started bleeding again after his nap. Maybe it was rubbed or something? It's a thick cut, but it doesn't appear to be too deep. I'm a little bummed that he will be scarred there forever, but I am praying that it will be a really light scar. I'm praying he won't scar as badly as I do. I guess he's a boy and stuff like that happens, huh?! I'm surprised it's taken 4 1/2 years for him to do something that will result in a scar! It's a really hard place for a band-aid, too, so I've had a hard time keeping Neosporin on it. The band-aid just gets soggy and comes off.
Anyway, the weekend seemed to fly by, but yesterday afternoon was NICE!
We had a hectic Sunday morning. I had to wake up a lot earlier than I normally do as I have volunteered to help Amy teach the preschool kids at the school we are renting out. Jeremy decided to join me at the school so he didn't have to drive his work truck separately to meet me at the later service.
After we helped out at the school we headed over to the new church for service. It was a little warm in there, but the message was good.
After all that excitement and all the newness of everything wore off, we realized how tired we were. We headed home for lunch and were amazed that we had no other places to be on our Sunday afternoon! We really took advantage of it, too! We had a nice lunch, I cleaned up the kitchen a little bit, Jeremy, Andrew and I laid down on my bed and watched Aladdin (Jeremy and I dosed off for a little bit during the movie), I started and finished all of our laundry, Jeremy fixed our tree that was falling over, we went on a ride in the fields by our house in Jeremy's work's Ranger, we had a nice dinner, and we were in bed before 10 pm (Andrew was in bed before 9 pm).
We felt our prayers of having more family time (just the 3 of us) were really answered this past week! It was nice!
This week will be another story. We have a D-backs game tonight (which we got free tickets for), we have a D-backs game on Friday (which we got free tickets for) and we have a concert (MercyMe) on Sunday evening. 3 of our normal nights at home will be spent far from home this week. That's a bummer (especially with gas prices how they are), but who can turn down 2 free D-backs games? Maybe I'll remember to take my camera to document these fun events. I'm really bad at that and I love reading other blogs where there is always pictures posted to go along with the writing! (Sorry beloved readers. I'll get better at my picture taking).
Oh, and Jade fixed my computer so I will post scrapbooking pictures and pictures of our blinds. Kind of old news, but pictures just the same!
On another note - ask Jeremy how much I enjoy him asking me if people can come over at the last minute. He will tell you that I can come up with 5 excuses off the top of my head at any given time why no one is allowed at our house without me being prepared. The reasons are usually one of two things: the downstairs hasn't been dusted, mopped, vacuumed, and the bathroom hasn't been cleaned in too long, or we don't have a very good selection of a meal for dinner and we don't have money to run out to the store and get a nice meal for company. I really enjoy having people over, but it stresses me out if I feel the house is a disaster. However, Amy told me of a website that should help with the house portion of my anxiety (and a little of my meal preparedness, too, actually). It's call Flylady. Check it out - I can tell it is going to save my sanity! Periodically I will do an update as to how I am doing following program.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Lazy Dayz - well sort of
Yesterday was great! I didn't get out of bed until 8:30! I took my sweet time getting ready for Andrew's last day of swim lessons. Somehow I was able to make it to the YMCA 45 minutes early and had a chance to work out before taking Andrew to his swim lessons. While he was in swim lessons, I ran on the treadmill. Fun stuff (that's the not so lazy part of my day).
Then I had a nice lunch at Kayla's. I had great timing, too. Lunch was just coming out of the oven and the kids were just about to be laying down for a nap. I've been trying to get Andrew off of his nap schedule so I expected to be bugged by him while Kayla and I tried to talk, but he ended up falling asleep on the couch! Wow!
I had to leave to be at the dentist by 3:00 for a couple sealants. I didn't know it would only take 5 minutes to seal two teeth! Even better! So, we were in and out of there in a jiffy.
Then we headed to Fry's for some items for a salad I am making for a Diaper Party on Saturday. We were home before 4:00. I sat down and watched Dances with Wolves which turned out to be a sad movie. It was nice until he goes back for his journal. His horse and poor Two Socks and poor Indians. Ah! I determined I didn't want to see that movie ever again.
Then I made some Ramen noodles for dinner since it was just Andrew and I. We ate, I cleaned up, and made most of my salad for Saturday, and had Andrew in the shower before 7:30. He was in bed by 8:00 and I was in bed by 9:00! I must sound shocked, but this NEVER happens when I try for it. It must've been my lack of computer... Hee hee.
I enjoyed yesterday very much! I have a few things on the to-do list this weekend, so it may not be so restful as yesterday was. I've determined that to have a restful day, it must be on a weekday. The weekends are entirely too busy as of late.
Things I am looking forward to this weekend:
*Battlefield of the Mind study group tonight at Barro's Pizza
*Diaper Shower on Saturday (looking forward to the food anyway. I'll explain more later)
*Birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza on Saturday
*Church Service in the new building on Sunday
Then I had a nice lunch at Kayla's. I had great timing, too. Lunch was just coming out of the oven and the kids were just about to be laying down for a nap. I've been trying to get Andrew off of his nap schedule so I expected to be bugged by him while Kayla and I tried to talk, but he ended up falling asleep on the couch! Wow!
I had to leave to be at the dentist by 3:00 for a couple sealants. I didn't know it would only take 5 minutes to seal two teeth! Even better! So, we were in and out of there in a jiffy.
Then we headed to Fry's for some items for a salad I am making for a Diaper Party on Saturday. We were home before 4:00. I sat down and watched Dances with Wolves which turned out to be a sad movie. It was nice until he goes back for his journal. His horse and poor Two Socks and poor Indians. Ah! I determined I didn't want to see that movie ever again.
Then I made some Ramen noodles for dinner since it was just Andrew and I. We ate, I cleaned up, and made most of my salad for Saturday, and had Andrew in the shower before 7:30. He was in bed by 8:00 and I was in bed by 9:00! I must sound shocked, but this NEVER happens when I try for it. It must've been my lack of computer... Hee hee.
I enjoyed yesterday very much! I have a few things on the to-do list this weekend, so it may not be so restful as yesterday was. I've determined that to have a restful day, it must be on a weekday. The weekends are entirely too busy as of late.
Things I am looking forward to this weekend:
*Battlefield of the Mind study group tonight at Barro's Pizza
*Diaper Shower on Saturday (looking forward to the food anyway. I'll explain more later)
*Birthday party at Peter Piper Pizza on Saturday
*Church Service in the new building on Sunday
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Broken Computer
My home computer took a dump =( I was trying to post a blog yesterday and it froze up and won't work now. I've tried to restart it many times. It stops at the black screen with the white Doss looking writing. Jeremy forgot to take it to the computer guy in Coolidge and he is going out of town tomorrow-Saturday. So, hopefully he will remember to take it on Monday and it won't be anything too expensive or time consuming to fix.
I will have to do my blogging from work. And, unfortunately, my pictures I was going to post are on my home computer. I know you are so disappointed - I'm sorry!
Jeremy has completed the blind installation and I am so thankful we finally have blinds! We went with the 2 1/2 inch faux wood in an embossed Antique White so it looks like it is painted real wood. We've always matched our blinds to our furniture in our previous homes, but this time I wanted to match the blinds to the house (the doors and trims of the house anyway). I think it looks really nice and I have pictures that I will post once my home computer is up and running.
Jeremy's brother gave us some of those mushroom looking ceiling lights that come installed in some homes so Jeremy found time to install those in the guest bedroom and the office. It's amazing to be able to go into those rooms at night and be able to see stuff! Thanks Josh!
It seems after 10 months of living in this home, it's finally starting to come together. There is much more business to be taken care of, but it feels good to have a little progress here and there.
Other items on our wish list for our home:
*Ceiling fans (at least in our room, Andrew's room, and the TV room)
*Landscaping in the backyard
*Pool
*Entertainment center for the TV room (something big to take up that huge wall)
*Decorations for the walls and fake/real plants and trees
I know the pool will be a long time down the road, but I hope the rest is doable within the next year.
Yesterday, I had a great time with Amy and Melissa scrapbooking (again, I have pictures that I will upload soon). Andrew enjoyed playing with the kids and I was able to complete Andrew's second album (ages 2 and 3). Now, I need to start an album for him for ages 4 and 5. I need to get crackin' to try and catch up before the holidays get here! I am at January 2008 for our Family album, and want to catch that up before the holidays, as well. So, all my scrappin' buddies, be expecting emails from me to get together to scrap!
I will have to do my blogging from work. And, unfortunately, my pictures I was going to post are on my home computer. I know you are so disappointed - I'm sorry!
Jeremy has completed the blind installation and I am so thankful we finally have blinds! We went with the 2 1/2 inch faux wood in an embossed Antique White so it looks like it is painted real wood. We've always matched our blinds to our furniture in our previous homes, but this time I wanted to match the blinds to the house (the doors and trims of the house anyway). I think it looks really nice and I have pictures that I will post once my home computer is up and running.
Jeremy's brother gave us some of those mushroom looking ceiling lights that come installed in some homes so Jeremy found time to install those in the guest bedroom and the office. It's amazing to be able to go into those rooms at night and be able to see stuff! Thanks Josh!
It seems after 10 months of living in this home, it's finally starting to come together. There is much more business to be taken care of, but it feels good to have a little progress here and there.
Other items on our wish list for our home:
*Ceiling fans (at least in our room, Andrew's room, and the TV room)
*Landscaping in the backyard
*Pool
*Entertainment center for the TV room (something big to take up that huge wall)
*Decorations for the walls and fake/real plants and trees
I know the pool will be a long time down the road, but I hope the rest is doable within the next year.
Yesterday, I had a great time with Amy and Melissa scrapbooking (again, I have pictures that I will upload soon). Andrew enjoyed playing with the kids and I was able to complete Andrew's second album (ages 2 and 3). Now, I need to start an album for him for ages 4 and 5. I need to get crackin' to try and catch up before the holidays get here! I am at January 2008 for our Family album, and want to catch that up before the holidays, as well. So, all my scrappin' buddies, be expecting emails from me to get together to scrap!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Chocolate Fountain and Swimming
Ah, weekend memories!
It is Monday morning which means time for reminiscing about the events of my weekend.
Friday night was FUN! Kim, Amy, Melissa, Kayla, and I enjoyed a few hours of girl-time with each other. Kim provided some great food which included a chocolate fountain! Yum! We watched Hairspray, which was OK. It was cute, but I'm glad I never bought the movie as I don't feel like I will want to watch it again. Interesting that John Travolta played Mrs. Turnblad. Disturbing a little, too. Could've ditched the movie for more girl-talk though!
Andrew hung out at Amy's house with her husband and sons. He had a BLAST! They made chocolate chip cookies, a foam Pirate craft which included a hat, sword and eye patch, played the Wii, and watched Transformers. Talk about a guy's night of fun! And, just as I suspected, Andrew didn't want to leave.
Andrew and I headed to the YMCA Saturday morning and I got my workout on in the Step N Tone class.
Then, we spent the afternoon at Nicki's community pool for Christopher's 7th birthday party. We were in the pool from 12:30-6:30 with a half hour break for food and another half hour break for cake and presents. It was fun to swim with Andrew and his newly mastered swim techniques!
When we left at 6:30, it took Andrew approximately 2.3 minutes to fall asleep in the car and he stayed asleep until 7:30 the following morning! Geesh!
We made it to church in the nick of time for the picture. We took a group picture since it was our last service in the old building. Thankfully, the picture didn't require entirely too much time in the heat, although I did get a little sweaty which never thrills me. Oh well, it's not often the church moves locations, huh?!
On my schedule this week:
It is Monday morning which means time for reminiscing about the events of my weekend.
Friday night was FUN! Kim, Amy, Melissa, Kayla, and I enjoyed a few hours of girl-time with each other. Kim provided some great food which included a chocolate fountain! Yum! We watched Hairspray, which was OK. It was cute, but I'm glad I never bought the movie as I don't feel like I will want to watch it again. Interesting that John Travolta played Mrs. Turnblad. Disturbing a little, too. Could've ditched the movie for more girl-talk though!
Andrew hung out at Amy's house with her husband and sons. He had a BLAST! They made chocolate chip cookies, a foam Pirate craft which included a hat, sword and eye patch, played the Wii, and watched Transformers. Talk about a guy's night of fun! And, just as I suspected, Andrew didn't want to leave.
Andrew and I headed to the YMCA Saturday morning and I got my workout on in the Step N Tone class.
Then, we spent the afternoon at Nicki's community pool for Christopher's 7th birthday party. We were in the pool from 12:30-6:30 with a half hour break for food and another half hour break for cake and presents. It was fun to swim with Andrew and his newly mastered swim techniques!
When we left at 6:30, it took Andrew approximately 2.3 minutes to fall asleep in the car and he stayed asleep until 7:30 the following morning! Geesh!
We made it to church in the nick of time for the picture. We took a group picture since it was our last service in the old building. Thankfully, the picture didn't require entirely too much time in the heat, although I did get a little sweaty which never thrills me. Oh well, it's not often the church moves locations, huh?!
On my schedule this week:
- Helping Jeremy hang blinds tonight (since we didn't get to it yesterday)
- Andrew's final 2 swim lessons in his Pike class on Tuesday and Thursday
- Working out during Andrew's final 2 swim lessons on Tuesday and Thursday
- Scrapbooking on Tuesday afternoon
- Battlefield of the Mind study with Kayla, Kim, Cherish, Jill, and Mary on Friday evening
Normally I attend a Home Group on Tuesday nights and I teach kids at the church on Wednesday nights, but both of those events are on break this week. My goal: dinner at home 4 nights this week (instead of just Thursday night). I'll let you know how that goes.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Calendar Girl
Items on my calendar this weekend (including tonight):
- Drop off Andrew at Amy's house and head over to Kim's for Girl's Night!
- Step N Tone class at the YMCA tomorrow at 9:00 am.
- Christopher's birthday party at noon.
- Church picture at 10:30 am on Sunday. Followed by church service at 11:00 am (the last one in this building).
- Install blinds Sunday afternoon (please pray that this gets done).
Not bad, not bad at all! I am, however, ditching out on a Pampered Chef party and an Uppercase Living party which would only result in me spending money I do not have. Jeremy is not sad that I have chosen to bail on these parties.
Question 1: Is it just me or is there a million and a half birthdays in June?! We have had one birthday and/or party each weekend in June so far, I have 3 next weekend, and 1 the following weekend. It's about as bad as December (minus Christmas).
Question 2: What are you guys doing this weekend?
Monday, June 16, 2008
Weekend o' Fun
Again, I shall blog of my busy life.
It was an eventful weekend which is something I am beginning to despise. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy all the activities we've done in the last 3 days, but I am just tired! I dream of a night at home, on the couch, with a dinner I or Jeremy made, and a movie. Is that such a weird dream? I have friends that do that on a nightly basis. I'm jealous!
Friday night I met with my friends Cherish and Jill at Barro's Pizza and we caught up on our goings on. We were suppose to be talking about the book we are reading, Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer, but some of our group was missing and we just got to chit-catting in general. However, we did discuss a lot to do with some battles in our mind's that God is working on, so Joyce would've been proud!
I didn't get home until around 11:00 pm and I caught up with Jeremy about our day since I hadn't seen him since Thursday night, therefore, we didn't get to sleep until after midnight, I think.
I woke up early to head over to the YMCA for a Step 'N Tone class. That was a great workout and my calves and shoulders are STILL feeling it 3 days later! Jeremy and Andrew swam while I took the class.
Andrew started swim lessons this month and he showed Jeremy and I that he is able to swim about 5-6 feet on his own! We were very proud of him! He has only taken 4 classes and he has 4 left. I'm excited to see how well he gets by the end of the month. I will sign him up for another session in July in hopes of him being "floaty-free" when we visit the Lake this year.
After my YMCA class and watching Andrew swim for a bit, we headed home to get ready and take Andrew to Jeremy's mom's house in Apache Junction.
Gail had Diamondback tickets and was taking Andrew with her. Jeremy and I went and saw Indiana Jones which was a pretty good movie. I don't recall if I've seen an entire Indiana Jones movie previously, but I didn't really need a background prior to watching this one. I am looking forward to watching the first 3, though.
After the movie, Jeremy and I ventured to Target for Father's Day gifts for his dad and mine. With our mission accomplished, we headed down to south Chandler for game 1 of Jeremy's church league softball tournament at 7pm. It was HOT, but it was worth the win that the men were able to pull off. Yay! Next game was scheduled for the next day (Sunday) at 5:00 pm.
The D-backs didn't do so well, they lost to the Royals 3-12. Bummer. Andrew said he was saying, "go D-backs, go D-backs" (like Jeremy told him to), but, "it didn't work." And in the usual grandma fashion, my son was fed entirely too much junk food and had a stomach ache. But, probably due to the sugar-high, he still had a GREAT time!
After Jeremy's softball game, we headed over to Native New Yorker with our gift card and half the softball team. I enjoy eating out much more when we don't have to pay for it! The food tastes MUCH better, in my opinion. We enjoyed us some hot wings and good conversation with our friends.
By the time we picked up Andrew and got home, it was past midnight. Jeremy informed me we had to leave a half hour earlier than normal for church so he could run into Walmart to purchase 3 khaki shirts for his Royal Rangers to have by Friday's Jamboree camp-out. I am never too happy to discover I have to wake up even earlier than I'm dreading, especially when it is on last minute notice.
So, I dutifully woke up early yesterday morning to get ready for church and write in all the Father's Day cards and wrap his and my dad's gifts. We leave with only 10 minutes extra time for Jeremy to run into Walmart.
He doesn't find the shirts he needs and also realized he left all the badges at home that were needed to be sewed on to the shirts. Waste.
After church we headed back to Walmart to make sure they didn't have the shirts Jeremy needed and to get my cousin a birthday card. We were on our way to his birthday party next. We got distracted in Walmart and ended up being 30 minutes late to the birthday party, but were still the first to arrive.
We flipped back and forth between golf and the D-backs losing to KC again for 2 1/2 hours while awaiting the rest of the family to show up until 4:00 pm when it was time to head over to game 2 of Jeremy's softball tournament. We were hungry by this time, but we had dinner plans at 7:00 pm with Jeremy's dad so we figured we can tough it our for 3 more hours. Poor Andrew - please don't call CPS. He had some chips at my cousin's party and some yogurt raisins I bought at Walmart. Plus, he was smart enough to wake up and fix himself a bowl of cereal before church. Jeremy and I have yet to think that much ahead on a Sunday morning. We always starve through Church service on empty stomachs until we are released and able to head somewhere for food. Bad habits!
Oops, side tracked. Jeremy's softball game was even HOTTER than the night before as it was 5:00 pm and the sun was still beating down! We were in the shade, which helped, I'm sure, but I was still a sweaty beast and I hate being a sweaty beast. Especially when we have somewhere to be afterwards.
They won the game, which was fantabulous! Jeremy had a super cool slide into 2nd and I told him I was very impressed and he should stop complaining about his bleeding leg and ankle because he looked really hot when he slid. He looked at me like I was crazy. I guess it's a girl thing to not care about pain if you look cool (or cute) doing something.
Our church was due to play again at 7:00 pm and they went ahead and just won the championship. It was a double elimination tournament and they never lost one game. That's how awesome they are and I only say this because I know that's what they are thinking! Hee hee. I do think they are awesome, though.
We missed that championship game because we went to eat with Jeremy's family at Joe's Crab Shack in Tempe. It was so worth missing the game to get out of the heat and the dirt and to get some food finally! We had a good time eating and hanging out, as usual, except, my son took a bite out of his cousin, Dustin, while awaiting his food. I couldn't figure out why he would bite since he hasn't bitten anyone since I bit him back when he was about 1 years old. Later I thought, maybe the kid was just super hungry. Another problem was we got home super late again, which was our fault, since we stopped at Cold Stone for some ice cream on the way home. I was very grumpy since I was tired and thinking about how I had to get up early today for work.
I feel Jeremy needs a re-do for Father's Day. We rushed and rushed from place to place the second we woke up and I didn't even get him a gift yet. Don't judge; I was planning to go Saturday before Andrew went to the D-backs game, but Jeremy asked Gail to take Andrew earlier so we could go to a movie. He was with me the whole day and I didn't have a couple hours to spare as I had originally planned. I'm getting him a gift today people - I just don't know what. :-/
So, the moral of the story is we got to bed at 11:30 last night and I had to wake up at 4:45 am and I am grumpy again (or still, I should say).
Oh, and Jeremy has another tournament tonight for his Monday night softball league. It starts at 7:00 so who knows how late we'll get home again. It's better, though, since I am off tomorrow and I will feed my kid before the game this time.
How did everyone elses Father's Days go? I hope some dad or dads out there, along with their families, had a nice relaxing day.
What did you all do this weekend? Anything exciting that I can add to my upcoming weekend so I can complain about it next Monday?
It was an eventful weekend which is something I am beginning to despise. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy all the activities we've done in the last 3 days, but I am just tired! I dream of a night at home, on the couch, with a dinner I or Jeremy made, and a movie. Is that such a weird dream? I have friends that do that on a nightly basis. I'm jealous!
Friday night I met with my friends Cherish and Jill at Barro's Pizza and we caught up on our goings on. We were suppose to be talking about the book we are reading, Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer, but some of our group was missing and we just got to chit-catting in general. However, we did discuss a lot to do with some battles in our mind's that God is working on, so Joyce would've been proud!
I didn't get home until around 11:00 pm and I caught up with Jeremy about our day since I hadn't seen him since Thursday night, therefore, we didn't get to sleep until after midnight, I think.
I woke up early to head over to the YMCA for a Step 'N Tone class. That was a great workout and my calves and shoulders are STILL feeling it 3 days later! Jeremy and Andrew swam while I took the class.
Andrew started swim lessons this month and he showed Jeremy and I that he is able to swim about 5-6 feet on his own! We were very proud of him! He has only taken 4 classes and he has 4 left. I'm excited to see how well he gets by the end of the month. I will sign him up for another session in July in hopes of him being "floaty-free" when we visit the Lake this year.
After my YMCA class and watching Andrew swim for a bit, we headed home to get ready and take Andrew to Jeremy's mom's house in Apache Junction.
Gail had Diamondback tickets and was taking Andrew with her. Jeremy and I went and saw Indiana Jones which was a pretty good movie. I don't recall if I've seen an entire Indiana Jones movie previously, but I didn't really need a background prior to watching this one. I am looking forward to watching the first 3, though.
After the movie, Jeremy and I ventured to Target for Father's Day gifts for his dad and mine. With our mission accomplished, we headed down to south Chandler for game 1 of Jeremy's church league softball tournament at 7pm. It was HOT, but it was worth the win that the men were able to pull off. Yay! Next game was scheduled for the next day (Sunday) at 5:00 pm.
The D-backs didn't do so well, they lost to the Royals 3-12. Bummer. Andrew said he was saying, "go D-backs, go D-backs" (like Jeremy told him to), but, "it didn't work." And in the usual grandma fashion, my son was fed entirely too much junk food and had a stomach ache. But, probably due to the sugar-high, he still had a GREAT time!
After Jeremy's softball game, we headed over to Native New Yorker with our gift card and half the softball team. I enjoy eating out much more when we don't have to pay for it! The food tastes MUCH better, in my opinion. We enjoyed us some hot wings and good conversation with our friends.
By the time we picked up Andrew and got home, it was past midnight. Jeremy informed me we had to leave a half hour earlier than normal for church so he could run into Walmart to purchase 3 khaki shirts for his Royal Rangers to have by Friday's Jamboree camp-out. I am never too happy to discover I have to wake up even earlier than I'm dreading, especially when it is on last minute notice.
So, I dutifully woke up early yesterday morning to get ready for church and write in all the Father's Day cards and wrap his and my dad's gifts. We leave with only 10 minutes extra time for Jeremy to run into Walmart.
He doesn't find the shirts he needs and also realized he left all the badges at home that were needed to be sewed on to the shirts. Waste.
After church we headed back to Walmart to make sure they didn't have the shirts Jeremy needed and to get my cousin a birthday card. We were on our way to his birthday party next. We got distracted in Walmart and ended up being 30 minutes late to the birthday party, but were still the first to arrive.
We flipped back and forth between golf and the D-backs losing to KC again for 2 1/2 hours while awaiting the rest of the family to show up until 4:00 pm when it was time to head over to game 2 of Jeremy's softball tournament. We were hungry by this time, but we had dinner plans at 7:00 pm with Jeremy's dad so we figured we can tough it our for 3 more hours. Poor Andrew - please don't call CPS. He had some chips at my cousin's party and some yogurt raisins I bought at Walmart. Plus, he was smart enough to wake up and fix himself a bowl of cereal before church. Jeremy and I have yet to think that much ahead on a Sunday morning. We always starve through Church service on empty stomachs until we are released and able to head somewhere for food. Bad habits!
Oops, side tracked. Jeremy's softball game was even HOTTER than the night before as it was 5:00 pm and the sun was still beating down! We were in the shade, which helped, I'm sure, but I was still a sweaty beast and I hate being a sweaty beast. Especially when we have somewhere to be afterwards.
They won the game, which was fantabulous! Jeremy had a super cool slide into 2nd and I told him I was very impressed and he should stop complaining about his bleeding leg and ankle because he looked really hot when he slid. He looked at me like I was crazy. I guess it's a girl thing to not care about pain if you look cool (or cute) doing something.
Our church was due to play again at 7:00 pm and they went ahead and just won the championship. It was a double elimination tournament and they never lost one game. That's how awesome they are and I only say this because I know that's what they are thinking! Hee hee. I do think they are awesome, though.
We missed that championship game because we went to eat with Jeremy's family at Joe's Crab Shack in Tempe. It was so worth missing the game to get out of the heat and the dirt and to get some food finally! We had a good time eating and hanging out, as usual, except, my son took a bite out of his cousin, Dustin, while awaiting his food. I couldn't figure out why he would bite since he hasn't bitten anyone since I bit him back when he was about 1 years old. Later I thought, maybe the kid was just super hungry. Another problem was we got home super late again, which was our fault, since we stopped at Cold Stone for some ice cream on the way home. I was very grumpy since I was tired and thinking about how I had to get up early today for work.
I feel Jeremy needs a re-do for Father's Day. We rushed and rushed from place to place the second we woke up and I didn't even get him a gift yet. Don't judge; I was planning to go Saturday before Andrew went to the D-backs game, but Jeremy asked Gail to take Andrew earlier so we could go to a movie. He was with me the whole day and I didn't have a couple hours to spare as I had originally planned. I'm getting him a gift today people - I just don't know what. :-/
So, the moral of the story is we got to bed at 11:30 last night and I had to wake up at 4:45 am and I am grumpy again (or still, I should say).
Oh, and Jeremy has another tournament tonight for his Monday night softball league. It starts at 7:00 so who knows how late we'll get home again. It's better, though, since I am off tomorrow and I will feed my kid before the game this time.
How did everyone elses Father's Days go? I hope some dad or dads out there, along with their families, had a nice relaxing day.
What did you all do this weekend? Anything exciting that I can add to my upcoming weekend so I can complain about it next Monday?
Monday, June 09, 2008
Casting Crowns
Jeremy and I were blessed this weekend to get away from the Valley heat and head up to beautiful Flagstaff, AZ. We had tickets to see the Christian band Casting Crowns perform at the Pine Mountain Amphitheater, a small outdoor venue in the middle of the woods.
Jeremy, me, my co-worker Christina, her husband Adam, and my friend Cherish left the Valley at 8:30 am on Saturday and we got up to Flagstaff by 11:30 am. The weather was quite a bit cooler which was a nice change.
We decided to camp as it cost just $5 per couple and it was on site, meaning we could walk to the concert. This saved us about $90 per couple for a hotel room and driving to the concert where we would've had to deal with parking, as well.
We got up there early enough to set up our camp and do a little walking around. The campsite was in walking distance to the Amphitheater, as well as the Fairgrounds which was hosting a Dog Show. We wandered around the Dog Show for a bit and laughed at the fluffy poodles and long haired Yorkies.
We were joined by 2 couples from our church, Jade and Amy, and Dave and Kim around 3:00 pm. We began cooking up our dinner of hamburgers, hot dogs, and brats then headed over to the venue to get a good spot in line since we had General Admission Lawn Seats.
Our plan succeeded as we ended up in the "front row" of the lawn. The only problem was we had a spot light in our way, but it was still a decent spot.
We enjoyed each others company and Kettle Corn while we awaited the performers to take the stage. We didn't have to wait long before Justin Unger came on, followed by the Daniel Doss Band. Everyone was really impressed by the Daniel Doss Band.
Finally, Casting Crowns took the stage. They performed many of their hits and some new or unpopular songs which were all great.
Funny comment by Mark Hall, lead singer and Youth Pastor in his testimony: "I struggled with, number 1, Dyslexia, number 2, A.D.D., and number 3, ...who needs a number 3?!" Side note, he shared that testimony when we saw them in Dallas, TX, and he added that he is easily distracted onstage; if he sees "something shiny in the audience" he can forget the words to the songs... that he wrote! In Dallas, he must've seen something shiny as he did forget some words, but in Flagstaff he did just fine!
We enjoyed a great concert and a great time hanging out at the campsite. We also enjoyed teasing Jade about his iPhone and all it's fabulous abilities! (We were all just jealous that we don't have an iPhone).
We had a good breakfast at The Place in Flagstaff. I believe God was really blessing us, as the waitress kept bringing us 2 of every drink we ordered and even some food that didn't belong to us. But, as the Lord giveth, He also taketh away, and the food that was not ours was swooped off to another table. The food that we did get, that we ordered, was very delicious!
Christina ordered a cheddar cheese omelet and was presented with a chicken omelet... She was not too pleased with that, but we were able to get that problem remedied fairly quickly. The waitress explained that she couldn't hear very well so she decided it was surely a chicken omelet that Christina ordered.
Another funny story is we discovered that people find that Jeremy looks similar to Will Smith and Jeremy says he gets it all the time. What do you think?
Well, it was a great time and I wish I could think of the other funny events that went on. If anyone that went is reading this, please feel free to comment other funny happenings of the weekend.
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