Time Flies (especially when you are sitting on your butt watching 24)

I know I know. It has been far too long. I wake up thinking I will have all this time to update the old blog and before I know it I am wondering where the day went and praying that my kids will pass out from exhaustion soon. I have begun to type several times but, where much is given, much is required and I want to make sure that the 4 people who actually read this blog will not feel like the 10 minutes they wasted on me were not the biggest wasted 10 minutes they spent all day. You know what I mean?

The problem is that I blinked and all the sudden it is June. The good thing about that is that I managed to tivo the entire 7th season of the action paced, tension riddle, must see event of the fall television season , 24 (I LOVE THIS SHOW). The down side is that I have spent the last 2 and a half days watching 26 solid hours of television (I included the 2 hour movie event: 24 Redemption and I include the time I had to pause the show so I could yell at the kiddos to quiet down and leave me alone. I so need to cancel cable. It might make me a better mother.) and we are now smack dab in the middle of summer vacation.

So much has happened and I can barely remember the details of any of it. This year has passed in a blur so far and I only have about 2500 pictures to remind me of my life for the past 3 or 4 months. It is nice to know that I was actually there for the time but now I have to scrapbook those pictures (and there goes another big chunk of my life).

The sad thing is that not much really has happened to me personally but, with so many people around me, a ton has happened. So I am going to throw in an update: Karen Roberts style.

Temple Trip – Oklahoma City





Visit the Chairs – Oklahoma National Memorial



Bug Had a Birthday – The Big 08

We Had a Nephew

We Had a Baptism

Family Visit – We had family in town for the baptism and Easter



Hole in the Wall – Ahhh, family harmony.


Tubbs Had a Birthday – The Big 01

Magoo Had a Birthday – The Big 04

We Went for a Jog – The Hawker Beech Craft Health and Wellness Fair

We Won a Cruise – Alaska Here We Come

Dan Kept His Job – There have been layoffs 3 times in the 7 months Danny worked here.
Danny made it through the “Final” layoff for the next year and a half.

We made an offer on a house

Another Layoff Announced

We pulled an Offer on a House

The Outdoor Pools opened – This is OUR YMCA



We Had a Nephew

We Had A Niece

I know that for all intents and purposes this is not the most interesting blog ever written but I at least feel like I have done what I can to keep you posted on my “real life.” I have also been toying with the idea to do something fun for myself (although if you ask my husband he would tell you that almost everything I do is super fun and for myself but what does he know? He is always at work talking to grown ups and all involved in trying to keep his job and stuff.)

Maybe when I get another moment (in a month or 2) I will unveil my ideas for how to mix things up in my life. Right now I have a giant to do list that I have to get to if I ever want to be able to relax and enjoy my summer.

1. Watch my kiddos mess up the house while yelling idol threats and then tell my husband I was so busy all day.
2. Visit Texas (I will be there the 10th through the 19th. I am going to see Wicked!!!!)
3. Cause contention within my family (I have already done what I can for the month within my own family so this month I will be concentrating on my husbands family).
4. Applying Sunscreen.
5. Complaining that I am so white and overweight (but doing as little as
possible to remedy either of those conditions)
6. Applying more sunscreen.
7. Chilling with my kiddos at the pool (did you see our totally awesome YMCA
pools?).
8. Blogging about how I didn’t do anything all summer and where the time went
while being overly excited that my kids are back in school while my husband
is hopefully still employed and looking into making another offer on a new
house.

Big Plans. Big Plans.
Happy Summer Everyone (and by everyone, I mean the 3 to 5 people that actually read my blog).