Hell hath frozen over

Last night while playing Euchre Tug said "I think Settlers was more fun."

crazymansayswhat?? A game, any game, is more fun than Euchre?! Coming from Tug's mouth???? Seriously folks, it's gettin' mighty cold!

I did not mean to hesitate
To tell you 'bout a boy who's great;
Tis my nephew and though I'm late,
Today's his day for turning eight.

Eight, eight, eight, eight, eight,
ain't that so
Great, great, great, great, great!!

Happy birthday G-dub...we are so glad we get to spend the day it with you!!

Safe and Sound

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 :)

On the road again

Watch out Wades

HerE We coMe

and no, this isn't a scheduled post. I really am awake at 3:20!

Mission Accomplished

Well, almost. On the agenda for today was

*take trash to dump Done 

*take donations to the Salvation Army  Almost. I went but they weren't accepting donations...said they were full so I just took this stuff to the dump too. Bummer because there were some good things in there.

*take the girls to swim lessons Went and boy will we miss their instructor! She is awesome!!

*get an oil change Not done. I guess we will do it in Albuquerque

*wash the car Not done. I wanted to get the outside washed which I didn't do BUT the inside did get vacuumed and seats rearranged

*get the house cleaned and ready to show while we are gone D to the O to the N to the E

*pack for the trip All done except for last bits like toilet bag that I will use in the morning. Van is packed too

*pack at least one box for the move Successful...I did only one box but one box was the goal

*take Tug's car to Jessica's so they can take it to the airport for us later Accomplished

*continue my weight gain by drinking lots more Dr Pepper Continually done

*lose my mind I think I lost that long ago...

I had hoped to be in bed by 9 because we are planning on waking up at 3AM to start our journey at 4AM. I am now 40 minutes behind—not too shabby.

On this first leg of the trip we are hoping to get to Las Vegas, NV (there is also a Las Vegas, NM so that is why I am clarifying) which is 12.5 hours and we lose an hour since they are Mtn time so if we leave at 4AM we will get there (including potty and food breaks) around 7PM. The next day will be about 10.5 hrs of driving (including stops) to get to Albuquerque.

Lord help us!

WoW

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:

*take trash to the dump

*take donations to the Salvation Army 

*take the girls to swim lessons

*get an oil change

*wash the car

*get the house cleaned and ready to show while we are gone

*pack for the trip

*pack at least one box for the move

*take Tug's car to Jessica's so they can take it to the airport for us later

*continue my weight gain by drinking lots more Dr Pepper

*lose my mind

Watch out Wades

HeRE WE coMe...

Give me all your money

Shout out to my peeps...I have a favor to ask. 

If you need anything from Amazon.com FIRST come to my site then click thru any Amazon links you see to get to Amazon.com.  There will be a constant one on my sidebar and maybe the occasional one thrown in on the blog like here

Why should you do this? Because you like me, you really like me. Oh and because I get credit for each purchase you make when you first go through a link on here...you can buy whatever you want (you don't have to buy things that I link to).

Thanks in advance—while all proceeds can be used at my sole discretion I promise to (on occasion) use them for responsible things like school books. It is your civic duty to help with that since I pay for your kids' books (if they are in public school).