Happy Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATT!

Matt celebrated his 34th birthday on Tuesday. Dinner at Senor Tequilas was good,as usual, the cake and ice cream was good, the weather was good but all together it was a "different" kind of birthday.

I bought him a plane ticket back in February for his guys weekend retreat. He goes somewhere fun every year with a few of his close friends from high school . We found a great price in February so we decidedto buy the ticket for his birthday. Well, on Tuesday(his birthday) the airline called and said as of June 1st they are discontinuing all flights from Tulsa to Denver and that he would have to file a claim for a refund since his flight is in August. Oh, and the refund could take up to six weeks!

Then on the way to our yummy dinner we ran out of gas! It was SO my fault. I forgot to tell him we needed gas when we got in the car to leave.We were sitting at a stop light and the car started to chug. I knew exactly what was happening! About the time I started say "oh no we are running out of gas", the light turned green. So we both flung open our doors and started pushing. Luckily, we were going down hill. We started slowing down toward the end of the intersection and had to cross two turn lanes and two other lanes of traffic to get over to the gas station at the corner, in 5 o'clock rush hour traffic. It was amazing, like Moses and the Red Sea. Traffic just cleared and parted before our eyes. We got to the gas station driveway that was an incline and about killed ourselves pushing the car up the hill to the pump. The kids were in the car chanting, Go! Go! Go!..Go Daddy! Go Mimi! Go Daddy! Go Mimi!. We made it to the pump and I thought I was going to pass out realizing I really need to start working on some cardio!

But Matt is a good sport and despite the disappointments and struggles of the day he stayed positive and enjoyed his birthday!

Side note: All the kids made Matt birthday cards. Mallory is the only one who still needs me to write stuff in her card. So she asked me to write some things in his card. I always try to write exactly what the kids tell me because it is usually priceless and really funny. Well we all know Mallory's card would take the cake! This is what she had me write. "I hope you have a nice birthday" "Your a silly Daddy, you know" "I love you Daddy" " I hope you get ice cream on your face like when you were a baby" and "If you holler at me I will paint your phone" (???)

Picture This

We send the kids to school all dressed up as their favorite CARTOON character on Monday morning. We are thinking this is great, we pulled it off. We threw a last minute thing together and it turned out "all right".

I pick the kids up from school on Monday and they tell me that it wasn't cartoon character day but HISTORICAL character day. HAHAHAHA. We sent the kids to school in cartoon costumes and they were supposed to be dressed up as some famous historical figure. Their teachers must have been thinking...Hmmm okay?

So they improvised. Avery took off her bow ties on her shoes and said she was Laura Ingalls and Dalton said he was Albert Einstein.

We did have a talk with Dalton about listening better in school to what his teachers say, since he was the one who informed us that they were supposed to go to school as their favorite cartoon character!

Make Momma Proud

The town we live in had it's annual city garage sale. So the girls and I went out around our neighborhood with wagon and bikes in tow on Saturday morning to see what treasures we might find. The very first place we stopped at I found this set of coffee pot, tea kettle and something else. I still have no idea what it's use is? I have been looking for trinket type things to put up above the cupboards in my kitchen and thought these would look great. I was only going to buy one of them but then decided to get all three. It was a bargain, I paid a whopping $6 for all three. When I got them home and started putting them up I noticed something in the bottom of the tea kettle. I pulled it out and it was a price tag form an antique store. It listed the item and Id# then the price. It was $49.50! And that was just for one piece of the set. It makes me wonder what the whole set is worth!!!

Any of you who know my mom, knows that she loves antiques and is an avid antiquer. So not only did I get a cute set of things for my cupboards but I also got a steal of a deal, and it was my first purchase of an antique and I think I did my momma proud.

Spirit Week

This week is spirit week at school for Dalton and Avery. Today was the first day, and they had to go to school dressed up like their favorite cartoon character. Since we remembered the project at 6:30 last night we threw together something before bedtime last night that would make due. Not necessarily their favorite characters but it was what we had available! They are the brother and sister duo of Dexter and Dee-dee from the cartoon Dexter's Labratory.

Dalton is wearing a lab-coat(Matt's huge white shirt) And has on black pants that are also Matt's! They are all safety pinned so they would be short enough and small enough around the waist...lol. He is wearing my "fashion glasses". Avery has ribbons around her legs like Dee-dee wears but Avery's are being held up by band-aids.

Turned out pretty cute for a quick throw together job!

Quote

"Holding a grudge is like drinking poison then watching and waiting for the other person to die"