HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!
This past Saturday our baby girl turned 7-wow 7 already! She wanted to go to the beach for her birthday but with my foot hurting so much I just did not feel I could walk on the sand and carry all the stuff and Scott was acting like he was not going to go with us if we did that. Instead we invited her friend Angela over and we put out the kiddie pool and the slip-n-slide and they had fun with those-it was dreadfully hot and humid.
Bella had slept in which had given me time to run to Walmart to get the rest of her birthday presents; a glitter ball, a craft kit, and a Taylor Swift CD. We had pancakes and sausage and she was thrilled to open her gifts which also included a new backpack and some benderoos.
After playing outside in the water we took Bella and Angela to the movie to see “Ice Age-Dawn of the Dinosaurs. We had popcorn and pop and then grandma and Carl came over in the evening and we had cake and Ice Cream. Donna needed to print something from our computer-her’s was not printing and ours is evidently not printing in black ink but we got it to print in blue. While all that was going on we ordered some Chinese food.
Sunday, Bella’s party was scheduled at Dolphin Swim Club. In the morning Bella and I went to the Dollar store to get a few things and then to Logli for cupcakes. Her party had a slow start with just Bella and Angela but then Jackie and her girls showed up and later (after the swimming) the Anderson’s came by. Bella got some new Barbies and she is thrilled. The girls all got a sand pail/shoven, grass skirt. Lei and flower bra as party favors.
I think she had a great birthday. I will try and load some pictures too.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
VACATION
VACATION
I was on vacation all last week. This vacation in our annual Spink, Specht, Bohnert, Meyer vacation. We went to Adams-Friendship and stayed at a large rental house with an indoor pool. We had stayed at this same “Hillside Hideaway” in 2000, but with a slightly different mix of people. In 2000 both my parents were with us and they have now since both passed away. Scott only came for a few days because he had to work and we were not married yet and so obviously we did not have a child (maybe that is not so obvious in our family). Never the less Bella was not there. The kids (Sarah, Patrick, Mark, Alan and Stephanie were 9 years younger) and I believe Shelly’s husband Paul was there as well.
It was a nice vacation, less of a drive them some of our destinations, but I did not return very relaxed. Spending 24/7 with Scott and Bella is not relaxing! Those two fight like siblings as do Bella and Alan.
We did do some fun things: flea market, fireworks, boat parade, tubing on the Wisconsin River (Bella went in a canoe), the Circus Museum, Rode bikes (not me, I will get to that below), the Lost Canyon Tour, out to lunch at the Moose Jaw (Yum!) Storybook Gardens & Zoo and finished it all off with breakfast at Paul Bunyan’s in the Dells.
I did not bike because on the day we went tubing I jumped out of the back of the school bus that they used to transport us up river and hurt my foot. I was ok tubing but had a really hard time putting any weight on my foot-it hurt like the dickens! On Monday he Scott took me to the Doctor so I could have an Xray. Nothing was broken but now a week and a half latter it still hurts and I am hobbling along on crutches at least part of the time. I toured the circus museum in a “adult Stroller” and both my husband and daughter were less than stellar at getting me around primarily they would park me places and leave me. I also missed the bike tour and ended up driving the lunch down the trail instead. Scott and Bella biked 13 miles.
Unfortunately being with my sister Sonya was stressful for me. She is kind of a hoyty toyty gall and thinks she is superior to me. She does have great kids and she did give birth to them, she has a husband who does everything (maybe I am a little jealous here), she is thinner than I am, but not by as much as she thinks.
There was some talk about mom and dad and the estate. In lots of ways I don’t care. Why should I?
I guess we will do our annual Christmas shopping trip and cookie day, but there really is not place to have the sledding party anymore and I don’t know if I am up to a family vacation again next year. We will see.
Later.
I was on vacation all last week. This vacation in our annual Spink, Specht, Bohnert, Meyer vacation. We went to Adams-Friendship and stayed at a large rental house with an indoor pool. We had stayed at this same “Hillside Hideaway” in 2000, but with a slightly different mix of people. In 2000 both my parents were with us and they have now since both passed away. Scott only came for a few days because he had to work and we were not married yet and so obviously we did not have a child (maybe that is not so obvious in our family). Never the less Bella was not there. The kids (Sarah, Patrick, Mark, Alan and Stephanie were 9 years younger) and I believe Shelly’s husband Paul was there as well.
It was a nice vacation, less of a drive them some of our destinations, but I did not return very relaxed. Spending 24/7 with Scott and Bella is not relaxing! Those two fight like siblings as do Bella and Alan.
We did do some fun things: flea market, fireworks, boat parade, tubing on the Wisconsin River (Bella went in a canoe), the Circus Museum, Rode bikes (not me, I will get to that below), the Lost Canyon Tour, out to lunch at the Moose Jaw (Yum!) Storybook Gardens & Zoo and finished it all off with breakfast at Paul Bunyan’s in the Dells.
I did not bike because on the day we went tubing I jumped out of the back of the school bus that they used to transport us up river and hurt my foot. I was ok tubing but had a really hard time putting any weight on my foot-it hurt like the dickens! On Monday he Scott took me to the Doctor so I could have an Xray. Nothing was broken but now a week and a half latter it still hurts and I am hobbling along on crutches at least part of the time. I toured the circus museum in a “adult Stroller” and both my husband and daughter were less than stellar at getting me around primarily they would park me places and leave me. I also missed the bike tour and ended up driving the lunch down the trail instead. Scott and Bella biked 13 miles.
Unfortunately being with my sister Sonya was stressful for me. She is kind of a hoyty toyty gall and thinks she is superior to me. She does have great kids and she did give birth to them, she has a husband who does everything (maybe I am a little jealous here), she is thinner than I am, but not by as much as she thinks.
There was some talk about mom and dad and the estate. In lots of ways I don’t care. Why should I?
I guess we will do our annual Christmas shopping trip and cookie day, but there really is not place to have the sledding party anymore and I don’t know if I am up to a family vacation again next year. We will see.
Later.
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