Science Project / Grandmas / Scout Hike

So this week was way too busy with Junior trying to get a science project finished. It was assigned sometime in December I think, but way back in December, January 30th seemed to be so far away... The 8th graders could team up with another student and Tyler H. and Jr decided to work together this year, last year. They met a bunch of times to make stuff for their project, but most of the time I think they ended up thinking they still had PLENTY of time to finish it. So here we were the last week, dropping chutes at the school on Wed and getting all the final data and research typed up on Thursday. It really wouldn't have been that bad if only Jr was working on it alone. Now Emily knows that we wait till the last minute on projects and that for sure I am not supermom. I forgot to take any pictures of the final display of their project, but here are some pics of Jr and Ty at the school...Jr and Ty getting ready to test their parachutes

Jr dropping a chute at SRMS

Can you see the one Tyler dropped?

FRI

We were able to go to my mom's house on Friday night so that Jr could play with his cousins who were getting tended while my sis and her husband went to a viewing. It was fun for Jr to play with them and for me to spend more time with them also. They are so cute and are growing up so fast. My nephew Ben was wanting some cereal for a late night snack. As I was pouring him a bowl, it was funny because the "free toy inside" was this little race car that you could stick stickers on. The cereal was at least half gone, but the car was still inside the box. That would never happen at my house, even with only one kid. First bowl, find that free toy! I suppose that is the fun of eating cereal at Grandma's; you have a pretty good chance of getting whatever the toy is inside... He took putting those stickers on that car pretty seriously and wanted me to take his picture with the car later that night. He looked at the first one I took, and then said, "I really want it to look like the car is racing toward you in the picture..." He seemed so sure of what he wanted, so I just had to try again, and this is what he ended up liking...

Go speedracer GO~!

My sisters oldest daughter is growing up so fast.... What a sweetie~!

My two yr old niece snapped this pic of me and my mom...

See my mom there on the right?

SAT

Saturday Jr was tired from staying up and watching a movie with his Uncle Jared (wait, actually he fell asleep during the video, but hey...) so he had been trying to decide if he was going to go to the scout activity which was a winter hike. I had gotten a lunch packed and his backpack with his ski pants/gloves/hat/extra socks/all that stuff kids need the night before, but I wasn't going to make him go. I've "strongly encouraged" him in the past to go to things that he really wasn't 100% on, and you don't want to know how that has backfired on me. It seems like on those occasions, there was always some unforseeable problem that he would not of had to deal with if I hadn't "made him go". I woke him up and he decided that even though not every single one of his little posse of friends were going, since he knew for sure that Ty and Brit were going, he would go too. I was hoping that this would turn out to be fun, since when I went over to the church to drop him off, it was already freakin FREEZING, or maybe that was just me but I couldn't imagine going hiking around in the snow for hours... (So glad right now that the guys do Scouting and the most pressing thing the women hafta worry about is the Pinewood Derby in Cub Scouting.) When he got home, this was our conversation....

M: how was it?

Jr: IT WAS GREAT!!

M: it was? oh i mean, of course it was! so you are glad that you went?

Jr: Yup!! Mom, it was scary though, there was like these cliffs, with a canyon and it was icy and muddy and slippery and if you would have slipped off of the trail, you just would have DIED instantly!

M: um, maybe you shouldn't be telling me this part...

Jr: Well, I kept one hand on the side of the mountain at all time... I'm telling you mom, that mountain was my best friend walking up the trail!!

Then he told me all about the piles of snow they slid down, and how much fun (again) they all had, and I was glad again that they had good leaders that watched out for them today. (Of course he did not bother to put on his ski pants to play in the snow, so he came home soaking wet, but at least he was happy, so how was I going to be mad?) Fun way for him to spend 1/2 a Saturday~!

Scouts and leaders on the mountain

If you look in the center of the pic, then a little to the right, you can see Jr keeping one hand on the mtn on the way up (look at the mtns in the far back; pretty peeking up over the inversion we have out here...)

Scouts again (crossing a bridge it looks like)

Jr is at the top of the hill and this is the snow they were sliding down

P.S. thanks for the scout hike pics that were taken by jared price sent to me from cindy whitehead =)

Read my post first for pics to make sense...

Jr's birthday

Kevin Sr and Kevin Jr, couple hrs old

Chubby baby~!

So when we were at my mom's house for New Years Eve, we were playing this cool card game called "Pounce". My dad was keeping score and was asking everyone their team names... My little brother (who was married in Feb 08 and is expecting his first baby in Apr 09) looks over at his teammate, his wife, and says: "the BABYMAKERS~!" His wife busts up laughing and my dad says, "Hey now, who is the one here who has made seven babies? That's who should be the Babymakers..." My brother says they are just getting started and may have even more than seven so nah nah nah boo boo etc etc ... It was pretty funny at the time and it just made me remember how that first year of marriage was and also how when you are pregnant it seems like everything you do and say revolves around that subject (as well it should). They are just so cute together and don't seem to hardly be able to be more than an arms length away from each other. If I ever did get married again, I really would want to be with someone that I felt like that about with. I think I had something like that with Kevin, and now after 10 years of it being just me and Junior, I just wouldn't want to ever just settle with someone that I didn't feel that strongly about again. (Ok now, seriously, I DO need my space and I don't like to feel smothered or checked up on since I'm pretty independent, but the point is, if I WAS with someone 24/7, I'd hafta want to be with them; even when I wasn't.) So being excited for my little brother having his first baby has just had me thinking about the days when Jr was born and so little. Dang, don't our kids grow up so fast~!?! When he was little, he used to want to look at his baby book and photos all the time, but apparently, when they are almost 14 years, that is not really something that they find on the same level as playing Halo online with their friends... Maybe if there were younger kids in the house, then I could be going "OH hey, look how much fun your little sister/brother and I are having doing this thing that you used to find SOOOO fascinating to do with me!", but then he'd prolly just be thinking, "Whew, now I don't hafta do that anymore"... GRRR -- I swear I'm not that overprotective (at least not super-overprotective) mom, and I swear I won't follow my son on his mission to BFE, or to college, but I can't promise since he is my only child that I won't move to at least 30... err... 20 miles from wherever he eventually settles down and starts raising my grandkids and I DO promise that I won't make him go on a reality show called "Mama's Boys" and make him let me choose his girlfriend/wife for him. For now, I will just be grateful that I have this great kid named after the only person I liked enough to marry and will share a couple pics from his baby book with YOU~! =)

p.s. if anyone knows how to put pics at the end of a post (or in the middle) instead of at the beginning, call me... I tried searching the help stuff, but couldn't find the answer...

Why I am still Awake...

So I am hoping that 145 in the morning is not going to be my new blog time... It seems like everyone else somehow manages to blog at normal times. Am I a bad mom if I did not make my son go to scouts? Wednesday night was the season premire of "Lost" and well, at least I went to YW... Someone had to stay home and watch to be able to give me the update. If you are not a Lost fan, then please don't lecture me on how it is only a tv show, honest, I am aware of this... I swear that I won't let him miss every week... Today I had to get Junior a key made for the house since tomorrow I am going to the dentist and of course since I have such crazy, nonlogical(?)anxiety about this, I am getting sedated. My mom is kindly driving me and bringing me home after, but I'm doubting that I would be awake enough to unlock the door for Jr after school. I know that at least my sister is wondering why I don't have another copy of the key to my front door already, and oh yes, there has been more than one made in the past 7 years, trust me... Someday in Jrs room, or in the laundry room, or in one of Jr's old jackets or in a box of his toys, I will find like 5 house keys I am sure. Does everyone else change their locks if they lose a key? Oh, something fun I did do today was watch my friend I have had for the last 29 years play on Wheel of Fortune for teachers week. He made it to the final round, but then didn't get the phrase "true value" which was completely lame. The phrase, I mean, not that he didn't get it. He at least won 13000$ and a cruise which was very cool. He is a bishop in Hawaii now and is still a great friend to me. Is it weird that I am still friends with boys that I completely made out with? =) I remember that like at least a couple of my old boyfriends came to my wedding and my husband was complely fine with that. I don't know why my thoughts are so random right now... I think I am just completely stressed about tomorrow and I am thirsty and I can't eat/drink for 12 hours before and my appt is at 1030 so I'm going to be soooo dehydrated because people that know me know that I am the water bottle queen... grrr... I am going to go pretend that this is a normal, one subject post like everyone else's blogs for now~! Bye~!

p.s. I think Jr used a house key for a fishing lure in that pic...

dont be too hard on me, this is only a test

Hmmmm... what cool, great thing do people write about for their first blog entry? i think it should be nothing really but rambling type to test the layout of the new and poor blogger who really should not be awake at 4 am anyway and keeps on hearing strange sounds coming from the backyard and is now wondering what the temp is outside and if what i am hearing is actually the fog / haze / pollution slowly turing to ice... Oh, pfft.... that strange sound is NOT coming from outside...it is my virus scan starting at the 4 am start time that i set long ago when i thought that really what would the chances be that i would be awake err on my computer doing anything that a virus scan wouldnt slow me down... i am wondering if a start to blog for real if i will have to actually start to punctuate and capitalize my writing... ugh... im so lazy... ok nuff rambling on, where is that publish post button~? wait i shall add a pic for no other reason but to see if i can =)