Oh no!

I haven't blogged in 10+ days! (Sorry Mom & Bon-Mom)

Honestly the reason I haven't blogged is because we've been kind of quiet. We got home from MO and began to chill. K has been to Six Flags, B went to College Station for a week to spend time with a friend, Z&A have been to the dentist, swimming and making up for all of our missing TV time.

This week K will go to Six Flags (again!) and then on Thursday K and I will be taking a mini vacation to San Diego with my friend, Joy. We've been looking forward to this for months and when asked what we are going to do we all giggle and say NOTHING! I can't wait to lay by a pool or at the beach and read a book (not worrying about the little people near by). Our plans are very simple - the zoo, the beach, the pool and a Padre's baseball game. Fun weekend!

Then... Uncle Scotty Watty is coming to town! Woo hoo! We can't wait to see him (and his lovely girlfriend) ... he's told us that he wants to come to town to take us for some summer fun in the sun at Schlitterbahn (yes that is right another trip to our FAV). I took that as he was wanting some exercise - carrying three tubes around (his, Z&A's) will give him all the exercise he needs. ba ha ha!

School starts soon and I am looking forward to all the new kids that we will meet and learn with, but let me say it now so you all can remind me later in the year, teaching is the best job - I love my summers off with BKZA!

Here's a couple of pictures of Z&A at the dentist - A's first time with the "blue" smile. Looks like Z should lose some teeth soon and from what I could see on his x-rays his smile is going to change a lot in the near future. It also looks like we will not escape braces with these two - those little mouths are little and the baby teeth are crowded, imagine when those BIG teeth try to move in - woo hoo!

Mexican Villa, Dancing & Putt-Putt

Um yum Mexican Villa!!! Z loves the white cheese - said he was going to marry it!

We went to Branson Landing and found out that the light posts were a huge amount of entertainment - musical light posts!

Putt-Putt - we didn't let A take score or she would have come in WAY under par! HA!

My kids ROCK!

We have been in Springfield, MO visiting with my mom and my friends. I have determined in a very scientific way that my children are water bugs and respond favorably to any type of water. Summer fun in a pool is not a new thing to me, my father while I was growing up always insisted that our hotels have pools - I now understand why! Nothing works as well at tuckering out the wee little people (and quite frankly the adults) as much as a large body of water. Since we have been in MO we have swam at the hotel, my friend Rae Ann's twice and today we went to Republic and swam a their over-sized local cement pond. Fun has been had by all and did I mention that Z&A are sound asleep?
Here's our pictures!!!




Okay folks now today it got a little scary! We went to the pool in Republic and suddenly the sky began to darken and I frantically tried to recall what that could mean (please folks don't forget that I now live in the barren dry land known as Texas)... I had vague rememberizations of these things called thunder storms but of course those don't happen anymore so surely the god, Zeus was just playing with his lightening bolts. We were booted from the pool and made to wait and wonder about this unusual phenomenon. K entertained Z&A making herself into a human jungle gym and B (as you can see) contemplated the sky with a curious eye. Finally Zeus put away his lightening bolts and we were allowed to re-enter the pool. Here's the cool thing - we were among the few idiots that stuck around so we had a nice time in a BIG pool almost by ourselves.

The little guy in the white shirt on the yellow & blue "lily pads" is our Z.
So brave. K close by to assist if needed.

Swimming with big sister.

Patiently waiting for mommy to finish taking pictures of the big kids.
See - I told you these kids rock!

That's B diving into the pool!