Whine, Birthday, The Grounds

Whine
So I really want to write the next installment of the trip recap but I'm so ornery right now I just have to complain or something. I feel like rolling around on the floor and crying or screaming at the top of my lungs. But I don't have much of a voice so that probably wouldn't be too satisfying. And we wonder where Ava gets it from?

But our lack of car is making me crazy! We need to get out of the house during the day but obviously we can't. This means that I've done the stuff that needs to be done during the day at 10:00 at night for the past few nights.

Monday night was the 10:30 pm trip to the grocery store.

And yesterday after we'd dropped Luke at the babysitters and stuffed the 3 of us into the truck with no AC and driven part way to the repair shop to pick up the car that was supposedly fixed, Dan got a call on his cell phone from the receptionist saying, "Never mind. You're car still doesn't work".



Turns out that it does work but they actually put in the wrong type of transmission. Now we have a 6 speed Corolla (which is actually good and we didn't have to pay extra), but they don't even make those in America. So all they need now is a new stick reflecting the different shift pattern. Fingers crossed it's done tomorrow.

Then last night I drove 100 miles, while Dan put the kids down, to go test drive some vans, only to realize upon arrival that I didn't have my license with me which then resulted in "test rides" instead of "test drives" which, to say the least, was not what I had in mind.

So, I'm kind of tired.

My kidlets are driving me bonkers and I will probably continue to feel their wrath from our travels for the next few days.

I am having some sort of allergy problems or possibly a cold.

I've had something stuck in my eye for nearly the whole day and it hurts.

Luke is cutting 6 teeth right now.

Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
Deep dark depression, excessive misery.
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me.

(10 points if you know that song)

Birthday

While we were in Utah we had a little dinner and cupcake celebration for Luke's birthday.




He wasn't all that happy about it. It's hard work turning 1.

Just look at him push through the tears and eat his cupcake. What a trooper.


And if anything can make a 1 year old boy feel better, it's a Tonka truck you can ride on!



Thanks, Grandma Linda and Grandpa Don!

The Grounds

The backyard there at Grandma and Grandpa's house is a little paradise. Because it backs up to the golf course it feels so open and the way they've redone it makes me feel like we were in a park.

No humidity, and real grass. I was so anxious for my little ones to touch their bare toesies on the grass. Look at this velvety green goodness! We miss that in Texas with the crunchy crab grass and fire ants.

And the playground set-up is awesome.


It's a perfect place to hunt for snail shells (Just don't eat the snail poison and give your mom a heart attack, Sweet Lucy!)


Also a perfect place for brothers to throw around the old pigskin. Or the Nerf.



Next up: The Lake and Fireworks