Scary Neighbors

We live in a what is trying to be ritzy neighborhood. It is a mix of very big fancy houses and then a few smaller less ostentatious homes. We live in one of the smallest in the neighborhood and basically keep to ourselves. There are, however, some people who take advantage of their positions and such and feel obligated to push others around. Case in point. Last night we were running late to get Boo to her soccer game. There were some last minute changes and we had fallen behind. As we were leaving and trying to get to the soccer field two of the neighborhood ladies had decided to talk in the middle of the road. One was in a big SUV and the other was standing outside the suv and they were talking. In the middle of the road. We pulled up behind and they continued to talk. We sat there, without really enought room to go around and they continued to talk neither one making any notion of moving out from the middle of the road. We sat some more being very frustrated they continued to talk. Finally we tried to go around and we may have gone around a bit quick but that was due to the frustration of waiting for these two women to move out from the middle of the road. We got to the game a little late watched Boo kick but and win and headed home forgetting the incident.
We had no sooner pulled into the driveway when this womans husband pulled into my driveway (very quickly i might add) and began to yell at me for driving fast around his wife. I tried to tell him that they needed to not be talking in the middle road. He was very rude and mean and of course D is standing there like a lump letting this man yell at me. D to his defense did not know what happened but he could have said something - oh well
The rude very mean man finally drove off and said something to the effect of I will get you if you do that ever again. I did not sleep at all for being one scared of this man beating me up and then pissed for the fact that they can stand in the middle of the freakin road and talk and not let anyone pass who needs to go somewhere. Today I am just mad for making me feel like I cannot even use that entrance in or out of my neighborhood for fear of this man coming over and yelling at me again or worse. In talking to my daughters I find out that his older daughters are as rude as he is and act like they own the world and have been very pushy and rude to my girls. This guy also parks tons of cars on the street and considers the grassy area next to his house as his private property despite the fact that it is part of the whole neighborhood and we all pay a maintenance fee to take care of it but if someone else wants to use the area he kicks them out and if anyone else parks on the street he has their cars towed. I guess I should not let this bother me but it does. Oh and he can write people up for not having their yards in yet and he doesn't have his in either.

What a jerk

The Rites of Summer

There are always those things that you do every summer without fail. We go to the zoo go swimming at the surf and swim eat dinner at the fair and go to Lagoon. Because it has gotten to be so expensive we only go to Lagoon once a year when Coca Cola has their company Lagoon day. The company pays and the employees get in at a very reduced price and they provide lunch for the families. The kids look forward to this every year and lucky for us this year we convinced my sis and her family to come with us. It made for a fun day of riding rides and spending some quality time together.

We were very lucky this year the weather, which has been so hot, was actually really nice. Lagoon was way crowded which made riding some of the cool rides hard but I think we all had fun. Meemer and her family are always fun to do things with and it gave Ty someone to ride on the rides with. Bee loves to hang out with her cousins and with Fussy along it is nice to have lots of hands to help out.

It was really funny to see Meemer, Big D, Chilly, Harry and Ty racing to get back on the tidal wave ride after ride, it was late enough that the crowds were gone and they basically would ride the ride, get off and then race around to get back on before the next ride started. I rode twice in a row and got sick, after five in a row they all looked a little green.

Thanks sis for coming and lets make a date to go again next year.

zoom zoom zoom

I thought I would introduce our small blogging world to the newest member of our crazy Family.





This is Roxey Zoom Zoom (yes, we name our cars) which we purchased a mere 2 weeks ago. She is a 2008 Mazda 6 and both D and I are very excited about her. We have been car shopping since January when we knew that we needed a car with much better gas mileage than the Durrango. We have looked at Honda's, Nissan's, Toyota's and Hyndai's but we seemed to gravitate toward Mazda's. D and Ty share our old 2000 Mazda 626 and Roxy makes the fourth Mazda we have owned. We were going to buy a Mazda 3 in copper red mica but the dealership was able to give us a better deal on this one since the new 2009 mazda 6's are all redesigned and very pretty. My only request was that it look sporty and have a spoiler (shallow, I know).









Boo says she is not really sporty and D kept saying at the dealership that she wasn't sporty and why didn't I tell him I wanted a 6 instead of a 3 (that was the all important question of money and the budget. I did not think we could find a new 6 in the price range I was given)





Anyway she has lots of cool features and is very fun to drive and has that lovely new car smell.


Downside is that we have a car payment again. We haven't had a car payment for awhile so that is a pain but it is nice to have something with less than 100,000 miles on it and a warranty.






The pictures are hard to see but the car is a silver gold color with black interior. The color changes depending on the light and what is around. It does have a spoiler (yeah) and in my humble opinion fits the sporty just fine.

Hamster Heaven

Boo has a hamster named something weird in japanese. If you did not know it my girls are all Japan crazy and love all things Japanese. Their main goal in life is to save enough money to go to Japan.
Boo has this cute little teddy bear hamster named hakarao or something to that nature and today while out school shopping she found another one. Of course she begged and pleaded to please let her buy this new little cute black hamster, she had two cages and could take care of two as well as one so we said okay.

I now have two little rats running around the house. She is thinking of naming the new little hamster Kuma which we think means little bear in japanese (rather appropriate considering it is a teddy bear hamster)

D thinks the critters will soon take over the house.
They did have a cool cat at the petco that I tried to talk him into but he said no.

Just a zoo at the crazy house.

Join the text generation

I did it
I caught up with the technology of the day and got a cell phone.
I have resisted up til now but it was really hard to keep track of kids and husband and work without one. I do not know how our parents did it all of those years without cell phones. Mom and Dad I envy the simpler life when we were kids. How you did it without being able to call someone I do not know

I got this new nifty little toy and the day I got it I went to the store to pick up a few things. I was walking around the local wally mart and as I would round corners I would hear music. I could not for the life of me figure out what it was. Well it was the kids calling me on the phone to let me know that my sis needed me to watch fussy while she did school stuff with Harry and Chilly.

I hope to get more used to having it. I keep leaving it places because I am not used to carrying it around.

Sorry Mom

We went up to the parents house this evening to drop off a couple of things that we had borrowed as kids are known to do and show them our new member of the family and one of the first things that was said was why we haven't updated the blog in a while. So here you go Mom-

The last couple of weeks have been very busy at home, work and school so I apologize for not updating as regular as I should.

Anyway her is a quick update of the crazy family-

Boo has had a soccer tournement this week so she has had three games in the last three days. The team one the first game and then lost the last two. Boo got a ball in the nose and smacked her elbow hard and is feeling the three games worth of impacts. She did good, played hard and I hope had fun. Someday I will learn to take pictures and be able to post more on the blog. Boo also got her first cello last weekend. We had promised her when school got out that we would find her a cello and we finally succeeded so we hope to hear great things from her.

D has been busy at work. His new position requires him to be at work a lot more and we have not seen a lot of him this summer. There have been stretches when he has worked fourteen days straight. It makes it hard to spend time as a family but we do try to squish in some stuff. He is a great soccer dad and has not missed any of Boo's games so far.

I have been crazy. This statistics class wrapped up last night. It has been a long six weeks with lots of homework and hours spent trying to figure out formulas. It is a tough way to learn stats and I do not reccommend it. To compress five months worth of learning into six weeks with no face to face interaction makes it especially challenging. I did very well in the class and I am very glad to see it done. Next class is accounting and finance and that is almost as hard so we will keep our fingers crossed for the next six weeks to go smoothly.

Here is Izzy in our destroyed back yard. We finally got our air conditioning fixed (yeah) it has been a long couple of weeks in our too hot house. The new cement looks great and we are enjoying the additional parking. Of course our backyard now looks like they are testing missles in it as it is all tore up and full of big piles of dirt. The neighbors overwater their lawns so much that my backyard is a swamp and we will not be able to do anything until they quit watering for the year. Oh well at least we can sit on our new patio and look at the piles of dirt and dream of grass.

At my work they do employee appreciation days and have some activities for the employees and their families. They rent out the local surf and swim and let the employees and their families have a swim night. They have a golf tournement for those who golf and they have a bbq dinner at the fair. We always have fun at these activities and the kids look forward to the swimming and the fair every year. It has made for a busy week. Tomorrow we have Coke Lagoon day so the kids are very excited to spend the day riding rides and getting sick.

I am so bad at pictures and I should be better at taking fun shots of the kids. I do have a few from our recent trip to Idaho falls -

Here is our tiny hotel room -

here is the kids at the falls-

I would show you more but I can not get the pictures to flip the right way -

I will update more later hopefully with some better pictures.

Back to work

Ever take a week off of work
It is fun while you are gone
but then you get back to a burried desk
lots of questions
things to catch up on

Makes you want to take another vacation

Hi from the land of Idaho

We just got back from a little mini-vacation to Idaho Falls and Rexburg. The reason behind the trip was that D's brother Richard was blessing their new little bundle of joy. We decided to make a trip out of it and stay for four days. We packed up the old durrango (to the hilt i might add) and off we went.
We spent thursday night getting aclimated to our tiny hotel room (six people one bathroom, with two teenage girls not the best idea) and the kids went swimming.
Friday we spent in Rexburg where the little bro lives and went bowling with his family and then the adults went out to dinner and to see the new mummy movie (it was okay, not as good as the first one. I hated the new Evie)
Saturday was fun. We spent the day at Rerie lake waterskiing, tubing and having fun in the sun as all of our sunburns can tell you. Boo decided to try waterskiing and actually got up on the skiis after much determination. She only lasted about a minute but she did get up. Way to go. We also watched Keri's dad waterskii. The man is awesome. He at 60+ years put to shame all of the kids out on that lake. This is a guy that refuses to get old. Keri is pretty good too and Richard is good at wakeboarding which is what Boo wants to try next. The day was hot and fun and tiring. The kids then came back to hotel and went swimming.

Sunday was the baby blessing playing with lots of cousins and then the long trip home.

it was fun but I think we need to start getting two hotel rooms, too many kids squished into one. We also did not get to see some cool stuff in Idaho falls that we would have liked but it was very nice to spend a couple of days with family that we don't see very often.

Sorry kids that this is the extent of our summer vacations this year. Too many needs at the old homestead, too many car repairs. Next year we will have to go on a big trip.

Thanks sis for watching the dog and hamster

Nothing much more exciting than that in our boring old lives.