Fire Station Tour

A couple weeks ago I planned a playdate for our play group to go on a fire station tour in Vista. I have been trying since like December to get a tour set up in Oceanside, but stupid city of Oceanside would never call me back! So...last month I decided to try Vista and whatd'ya know? They first, answered my call, and second...called me back the same day. Transferred the call to the local fire house and then we set the date the next day! Good ole' Vista.

So Kasen had been looking forward to it for a few weeks. I kept bribing/threatening him with it and telling him if he wasn't a good boy we wouldn't go. Probably not the right approach, but for the most part, it worked!

Anyhoo...here are some pictures.

These were the two main guys who talked to us and showed us stuff. They were very informative (in little kid words) and answered all the questions we had for them. Super nice.

This is a picture of their boots and suit. They leave their boots inside their suit so they can step in, and pull up the suit in seconds. I had never seen that before. I thought it was really cool. Those fire fighters are so smart!

This is a picture of Brielle, Kasen and Derek (kid from playgroup) listening intently when they taught the kids about STOP DROP and ROLL.

One of the guys suited all up and showed the kids what he would look like if he came into our house in a fire searching for us. They wanted the kids to know, so they wouldn't be afraid in case of a fire and try and run from them.

And of course, my cute boy in the fire truck!


At the end of the day, I'm not sure how much my chatty Kasen learned, but he totally had fun!

MIA

Sorry I have been MIA for SO long. I guess I have just been really busy and not making this a priority. THEN I realized that some people rely on this blog to find out how our family is doing, so to those who look to see what's going on....IM SORRY! I will try and be better at updating. I have a few blog to tide you over for now.

Crying

Thanks Melanie for the story....This is a direct COPY right off my friend Melanies blog....she is the one who wrote this, but I cried laughing, so I HAD to post it!!

"Okay, so this story is not mine. I heard it on the radio the other day but laughed for hours over it (actually I am still laughing a little inside when I think about it......okay, even a lot sometimes.).

So........this man on a local "talk radio" show called in the other day to relate this story about his sister (now mind you, this is my version of the story......nothing is to be passed off as a quote unless it is in "quotation" marks, okay?).She was in Vegas playing the slots and doing really well, you know, cleaning up the place.

She had a HUGE bucket of quarters and decided to call it a night (early morning would be my guess....but anyway)She was feeling very nervous carrying around this large sum of money (how much money can you have in a bucket really....okay, I will stop making wise cracks, the story is funny enough without them) and made her way quickly to the elevators that would take her up to her room.

When the elevator doors opened she was even more frightened because standing against the back wall were "two big black guys" and here she was, all by herself with all this loot (side note from the caller, "Now my sister is not racist. In fact, she is as far from being racist as anyone could be. She was highly suspicious of everyone, and the fact that they were pretty big guys scared her to death). So here she is shaking in her underpants and one of the men says, "Hit the floor."

She didn't even hesitate. She dropped to the floor in a panic, quarters go flying everywhere, and the two man start laughing hysterically. She, feeling quite foolish, as she is now lying on the floor of an elevator, stands up slowly and stares straight ahead at the doors until it reaches her floor. The two men help her pick up her money and even INSIST on walking her to her room to make sure that both she and her quarters get there safely.

The next morning she comes out of her room to find a dozen roses, each with $100 bill wrapped around the stem and a note that says, "Thanks for the best laugh we have had in years."
Love, Micheal Jordan and Eddie Murphy"


OMG! How Hilarious is that? I cracked up reading it to myself quietly and laughed even more making myself cry once I read it to Jeremy. He started laughing hysterically as well. Hope it gave you a good laugh too!!

We knew this was coming...

We always wondered what would happen when our 1993 Nissan Altima died. Well on Monday, we found out.....

It's been giving us some trouble for a few months now (sinc Christmas) and we decided to run it to the ground.

It's been stalling when we were driving it. Anytime we hit the brakes, stopped or just slowed down. We took it in a couple times and the shop couldn't figure out what was wrong with it, so we decided that monday was the day to get a new car! Jeremy tried to leave for work in the black car on monday and got no more than 1 mile from the house and was starting the car everytime he had to stop it. Imagine that in traffic!!! So he turned around and came home and called in sick.

We were off on our search. I am SO in love with our new car. A 2005 Honda Pilot. I miss it during the day when Jeremy has it. I want to make excuses to drive it places, just so I can be in it. How lame am I? lol...I LOVE IT! Kasen LOVES it. Jeremy LOVES it. We made the right choice for our family. YAAY!!

(shadows from the palm trees in the front yard, sorry...)

Something GOOD FINALLY!

Breaking Dawn Party

I am so excited about this book. I have been looking forward to it ever since I read the first 3 in the series at Christmas time in WA. I fell in love with the books and the characters. I decided about a week and a half before Breaking Dawn was to come out that I wanted to re-read the series so that all my memories would be fresh in my mind and so would all the characters. Glad I did that. Kasen and Jeremy weren't so happy. I think I neglected my family just a tad while trying to read 3- 600 page books in a week in a half! My poor mom took over a few times when Kasen needed things, but I don't think she minded all too much. Thanks to Jeremy and my mom and Kasen for bearing with me while my head was stuck in some very addicting books.

I got the idea from the lady who does my hair. I wasn't planning on going. I didn't think I was that big of a nerd. I was encouraged by her. Then I was willingly talked into it. I came home and talked to my mom about it, and she was all for it. We were going to the Breaking Dawn Party at Barnes and Noble at 10pm on Friday August 1st. The book would be released at midnight.

My mom brought her friend Patty and I brought my friend Michelle. We all got there at 10pm and then headed off to vote for our favorite art, who we liked better: Edward or Jacob. I voted for both, and took some pictures. We hung out and played around for a couple hours til they started announcing our numbers on our wristbands to get in line. (I had to go earlier that morning at 1030 and my number was 75. I saw wristbands that went up to 650!!! Glad I got there when I did.)

These are some of the pictures I took when people started lining up to get their books. This was only 1 aisle of the HUGE bookstore filled with people. It was crazy. But SO FUN!

There were lots of people with TEAM EDWARD or TEAM JACOB shirts on. I would never make myself choose at this point. I love them both. This is a guy in my parents ward and his son. Conflicting teams.

This is my hair lady (her husband and son are above) Laura, she was so happy she got her books! She cracks me up. She was number 20! Boo!

This is us afterwards with our books! WOO HOO!

When we picked up our wristbands in the morning they had buttons that said "I LOVE Edward" well I wasn't going to settle with that. I took one of my scrapbooking pens and wrote AND Jacob at the bottom of the button. I wore it ALL day long.

This video I took was of the giddy teenage girls counting down from 60 seconds and cheering when they got to midnight when they could get their books. I was cracking up.

Kasen and Bailey

Kasen is as good as a 3 year old is to a dog. Maybe just a tad bit better. Bailey? She is better than any dog I know with a kid. He pulls her tail, grabs her ears, tries to sit on her, attacks her, tickles ( scratches) her, but most of all....LOVES to play with her. They play fetch and just run around and chase each other. It's really cute. He gets laughing so hard sometimes that he starts coughing. Bailey starts panting, and yet they still play.

They love each other a lot. Although I think Bailey gets rather annoyed by him quite often. He misses her when we are gone, she runs to him and licks him when we get home. They really do love each other. This is a video I took of them this past week in my parents room playing with her toys.

Holy Drama!

TRAILER FOR SEASON 4

I feel like I am 12 right now because I am seriously so excited for "The Hills" to start in LESS THAN A MONTH! Check out the trailer! So much drama! I know that a lot of this is acting, but we all still watch it anyways don't we? I knew Stephanie was trouble! She is Spencers sister. Of course.

Anyone else excited?