is what we are on. the only things left in the house are electronics and trash-besides ourselves, oh yeah and the washer and dryer which we will load tomorrow once all the laundry is done-so everything is on the floor. it is very echoy now.
We spent today at the youth ranch (GGYR) and the kids had a ball riding. It has been a long time since {l} and {r} have ridden and today was {j}'s first time...he basically refused to get off. Maybe if I run out of ideas sometime I will share some riding pics but today, against my better judgement, I will share a family picture—yes, it includes me.
Turns out the weather decided to cooperate and camping night went off without a hitch. We had those smores I previously mentioned then headed to the tent for story time.
Last year when we rolled into Albuquerque for a visit, Michelle had all sorts of 'nights' lined up for us. There was birthday night where we sang to everyone since we hadn't seen them in a year, there was Christmas, Valentine's, and I think maybe Cinco de Mayo—or it might have actually been Cinco de Mayo, I can't recall. Anyhow, this year she has (thankfully) not relived the tradition—it was a lot of fun but way too much work on her part. However, we are having a camping night, or at least we are going to try. The tent is set up but a storm seems to be making its way to us...we did, however, get smores in!
And here is a picture just to prove these two turd buckets can indeed get along.
Last night while playing Euchre Tug said "I think Settlers was more fun."
We have arrived...actually we arrived yesterday. Once we got to Las Vegas Tug decided we should try and push on to Flagstaff, AZ-afterall, they have a Cracker Barrell. This added about 5 hours to the 12.5 hour day. As we got closer Tug said "What if we try to continue on to Albuquerque?" We decided to give it a go and see how far we could get, figuring we could always pull over somewhere and take catnaps if needed. Tug drove the first 17 hours and I drove the remaining 5 and we made it all the way in one trip. The kids did awesome (thank goodness for DVD players) and we were actually making it in 5 hour stretches between potty/food/gas breaks...we only stopped 3 times in the whole 22 hours, I don't think the kids even noticed that we never had lunch. Thank goodness too that his mom is an insomniac since we rolled into town at 3:30AM. We all promptly went to sleep then woke up at 8 to go hang with the cousins. We used to spend the 4th with the Wades so it was nice to relive the tradition, complete with illegal, huge fireworks :)
Well Weight on Wednesday has somehow turned into Wait on Weightloss. It seems everyone has either quit, was out of town, moving, or pregnant. Everyone, that is, but myself and Laura and I felt like a jackass writing her 700 lb weightloss and my 700 lb weight gain—so I just stopped. But I do plan to start again, just not yet. We leave tomorrow for our grand vacation then we get back just in time to move SO WoW will kick back into gear in August. I am going to do it a little differently this time (thanks Jessica for the suggestion) and instead of you having to wait for me to update I will use Mr. Linky and you just sign in with the + or - and you also have the option to link back to your blog if you are doing personal posts. So, for those wanting to participate, check back in on August 6th...now I am off to:
Shout out to my peeps...I have a favor to ask.
