SATURDAY - JULY 28, 2012
Such a great day today! Got to have fun 'catching up' with Abo and Nana at my niece Chloe's birthday at Chuck E Cheese!
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| Abo with the birthday girl Chloe! |
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| Bobby getting a hand from his Nana |
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| Our future paleontologist |
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| Ashley trying to facetime with Rob, Vicki and Justin |
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| Vona wasn't too excited about being at Chuck E Cheese she slept most of the party! |
Swimming video just for Pops!
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| Alex's potty buddy Elmo |
One of my favorite parts of the evening: he pretended to be Calliou and pretended that I was Calliou's mommy. He had 'mommy' make him some eggs, just like on the show! lol That kid is the biggest character and has a great imagination!! As it got later I kept asking him if he was ready for me to put his diaper on (in preparation for bed). Each time he told me he didn't want his diaper on (surprise-lol!). So another favorite part of the evening, when he finally crawled up next to me on the couch and fell asleep in my arms naked butt and all! LOVE MY GRANDBABIES!!
FRIDAY - JULY 27, 2012
Briana, Ivan and the boys picked me up to head to Erin's for a combined birthday party for Briana and Caleb.
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| The birthday 'kids'! |
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| Some of our 'future missionaries'! |
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| Bethany, Jarom and Caleb |
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| Let me down Daddy! |
It was another super fun family evening. Margaret's youngest kids (Zipporah, Eden and Caleb) were so great with the younger kids, they played with and entertained all the babies.
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| Prepping the cakes |
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| Getting ready to blow out their candles |
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| Uncle Darvin is this what your band looks like? |
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| Aunt Margaret texting away! |
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| Hey, Ivan's eyes are open...what's up with that?! |
Briana indicated that she really enjoyed her birthday. Both Erin and I gave her some props for her photography business and it was just a really fun, relaxing family night.
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| More baby photo props, Thanks Erin!! |
I remember hearing Ivan ask Briana if they should get a car wash (you can pay at the pump) and then Emmett started fussing again. As I looked over to try to comfort him (I was sitting in the back seat between the boys in their car seats) I saw liquid spewing out all over the car. My first feeling was a sort of surreal thought that we were getting a car wash and then the realization hit that we were still at the gas pump and it wasn't water spraying all over the car it was gasoline! I hollered to Briana that there was gas spewing all over the place. She jumped out of the car from her seat on the front passenger side and was frantically looking for the emergency shut off valve by the pump. Not seeing one she slammed the nozzle into the off position at the pump. Ivan had been trying to return a redbox movie outside the convenience store when he noticed the commotion and rushed back over. What a scary situation. I told Briana that it was so fortunate that we had the windows rolled up. We'd rolled them down at Sonic, otherwise that fuel would have spewed all over Emmett. There was probably a good 3-5 gallons of gas that was all over the place before all was said and done. Apparently the emergency shutoff is right at the entrance to the convenience store. Note to self, make sure you look around and find emergency shutoff before filling a gas tank!
We were probably there a good hour to hour and a half before all was said and done. Between assessing the incident, discussing it with the employee on staff, getting phone numbers and the name of the manager, etc. Turns out that particular pump had just been 'fixed' the day before. And the employee was trying to peg the whole incident on Ivan, telling him he was negligent because he walked away from the pump while fueling and he also suggested that it happened because Ivan didn't put the nozzle far enough into the gas tank.
Anyway after we'd been their for a while and Ivan determined that none of the gas had spewed onto the engine he had Briana pull the car forward so he could get some pictures of the gas spill. She did and left the car on so we could get some air conditioning, but the car died. She kept trying to start it and it kept dying! So the whole way home the car kept 'gulping'. I suggested that it could be a vapor lock and it turned out that's what it was. Fortunately, I was right and it resolved on its own! Never a dull moment!!!
WEDNESDAY - JULY 25, 2012
Look who's one month old today!!
Feeling tired today. Rental drama: I have tenants in one house (the little house) that are always tattling about the neighbors next door (in the big house). The little house is always worrying about the dog(s) at the big house. There's only supposed to be one dog, and this is the 2nd time that they've had a 2nd dog. The neighbors in the small house think that the dogs in the big house will get out and attack their cats. Little house also said that the neighbors had moved someone in with them. It turns out that it's the tenant's 19 year old niece who's babysitting nights for the tenants....Sometimes I get tired of being a landlady! I tried to encourage both parties today to start talking to each other to work out their differences. I hope they do!
I decided to call again on the car rental claim. Apparently the claims adjuster with PurCo has been leaving me messages on my home phone. I left a message for Debbie to call my cell phone tomorrow. I hope they'll adjust the claim down. American Express has paid about $126 for the actual replacement of the side view mirror, but they want me to pay a $50 administrative fee plus $79.99 for loss of use. I hope to be able to negotiate down to $65 but I doubt they'll go for it. At the worst I'm hoping for $100. It'll be nice just to get this out of the way.
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| See the cracked section on the bottom of the mirror? Does this look like $256 worth of damages to you? |
I also woke up with a headache again. I can't wait until I can go to the chiropractor when I get back. I slept in later than I expected. So I wasn't able to go for my 2 mile run this morning. I'm going to do my Biggest Loser dvd and then hopefully will run tonight when it cools of a little.
TUESDAY - JULY 24, 2012
I didn't end up doing the Biggest Loser Workout last night, I felt too tired, so read my scriptures instead and went to bed. I got up this morning around 7 a.m. and did my 3.5 mile run. Actually went about 4.5 miles give or take. I've been doing a run/walk since I've been in Texas. Just don't seem to have enough energy to run the whole thing. Hopefully I'll get back on track when I get home. I am putting in at least the number of miles on the training schedule, just not running the whole thing.
I'm feeling much better this morning. I went back to sleeping on one pillow as I hadn't felt like my ear crystals were displaced since that one day. My neck feels much better this morning and I felt much more rested. Ashley's got an appointment today for a haircut and eyebrow waxing and then she suggested I go over to Briana's to visit this afternoon. Briana suggested that we take the boys to the library which sounds like a fine idea!
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| Alex's favorite toy at the library - foam blocks! |
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| Emmett loves the library! |
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| Alex the train engineer |
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| Emmett hunting down Alex to see what he's up to |
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| Emmett getting in on the train fun |
I need to go birthday shopping for Briana too. Erin's hosting a party to celebrate Briana and Caleb's birthdays on Friday. Darvin was in charge of Lindsey's birthday present. Hopefully he's gotten it and sent it to her.
Here's to a better day than yesterday!!
MONDAY - JULY 23, 2012
Today Ashley and I took Vona to the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. Dr. Lee clipped her frenulum under her tongue. The frenulum is a band of tissue which attaches the bottom of the tongue to the floor of the mouth. Vona's was attached too close to the tip of her tongue. When this happens they say you're 'tongue tied'.
I got the replacement Garmin USB ANT stick today. It was super quick shipping. Unfortunately the darn thing doesn't work.
Just having a terrible, horrible very bad day all the way around! I guess I'll get off my pitty party and start my Biggest Loser workout DVD to see if I can sweat out my stress and anxiety!
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