Catch Up (This could take awhile!)

My computer has been AWOL for almost a week now. It has been sad and I have gone through withdrawls. I feel a little silly for loving my computer so much. But one gets used to Google and having answers to all of their questions right at their fingertips! Robert is my enabler. He has been kind enough to bring his laptop home in the evenings so I can get my "fix" each night. Anyway, here is what you have been missing:

1) The Father/Son/Uncles Road Trip

Here is the father and the son.

Here are the uncles + Jason Moyer, a really good friend who let everyone crash at his house!

And here are the highlights.....they ate at Dick's noon,

and night!

Baseball was definately involved.

(no explaination necessary)

Robert contemplating the beauty of the "game within the game".

Ahhh, the field!

Of course they couldn't come all this way and NOT root against BYU!! So they went to the Husky game too.

While they were gone, they kept in close contact via cell phone. I got to hear the elation in Gehrig's voice after the Mariner's beat the Yankee's! It was awesome to know that he was experiencing one of Robert's biggest passions growing up. In all, the trip was a great success! I am glad they were able to do that together. Now Robert has two other kids waiting in line for a road trip with dad!

2) Gehrig's Science Fair Project

It was about consumer testing. He compared kitchen garbage bags to see which one could hold the most weight before breaking. The winner was Glad Force-Flex bags. Just in case you want to know.

3) Me setting the perfect example of how NOT to celebrate your husband's 36th birthday.

I don't have any pictures of my total lameness, but let me elaborate. First, I wanted to have a picture taken of all the kids and frame it so he could put it on his desk at school, but I did not get my act together in time, so we made a "coupon/IOU" instead. Then, I remembered his birthday was coming and thought about it all week, but somehow managed to forget about it until 9pm Saturday night (his birthday was on Sunday). So I had to run to Target to get something for the kids to wrap and ingredients for his favorite cake before it closed at 10pm. At this point I may have still been able to pull off a fairly decent birthday celebration had I not baked the cake Sunday morning and then set it, in my Pampered Chef stoneware, on top of a burner on our flat top stove that was still on low. All of a sudden, as we were eating our oatmeal, we heard a loud pop and looked to find my stone had cracked and the cake had burned! Needless, to say, we called the birthday celebrating off for the day and made it up to him on Monday with dinner at Outback, presents and a second, much more appetizing birthday cake!

4) Me becoming disgruntled and threatening to leave my post as a mother.

Another moment that was thankfully not photographed! Let's just say, at the end of the day, there were lots of people that had to say "I'm sorry", myself included.

5) 80's Hair Night

Emma and I were messing around with the curling iron trying to decide how to do her hair for school pictures. I started telling her about how I used to do my hair back in the day and then all of a sudden words were just not good enough, I felt I had to show her.

As I was ratting and spraying away, curling under and creating wings, she kept asking, "Mom did you really do that? Didn't people laugh at you? Did everyone do their hair like that?" In between breaths of doubled over laughter of course, and I answered back, "Yes I did, and no they didn't laugh, I was pretty cute back then!" In between breaths of doubled over laughter of my own. Good times I tell ya!

I have to say, I am not as good at it now as I was back then! I am going to keep practicing. Halloween is coming you know!