Happy Birthday

Today is 7-eleven, which is also Lucy's birthday. So we started off the day with a free slurpee over at 7-eleven. Then it was off to the Discovery garden down at Thanksgiving Point. That was very disappointing because nothing was open and there were ravenous mosquitoes sucking us dry as we walked the paths. After that we stopped off at the local Red Cross to top off and went to lunch at the local Carl's Jr. It was Lucy's choice so we thought it would be nice since the one we went to had a play area. OH MAN was that a mistake. Our kids got stuck in the play area and were screaming for us to help them. It was SOOOOOOO upsetting. I had to try and crawl up the dang slide to drag Lucy out kicking and screaming. Then Dexter decided to take the cue from her and pitch his own fit. The place he was was too small for Rainbow or I to squeeze into so he just sat there and screamed. ARRRGH! Never again will I let them go into a place that I cannot go.

So that was enough "fun" for us that day. Any more and I would have had to give them the "slap of love". These are trying times folks. So we came home and worked on the cake while the kids napped. Then they got up and it was dinner and cake followed by their new favorite thing... High School Musical 3. The wife got Lucy a Wildcat cheer leading outfit for her birthday so when we put the movie on and she put on the outfit she started yelling "What team!"... (Wildcats we'd answer) just like they do in the movie. She is so darn cute when she isn't throwing a fit. If she would just realize that if she stopped all that screaming she would be able to ask us for the world and we would give it willingly. As it was we almost took all of her presents back today. Yeesh! Anyway happy birthday little Lucy... you make our lives interesting.

The Weekend

I spent this weekend reading. It all started when I rented the City of Ember and was totally left wanting answers and details that were seriously lacking in the movie. So I went down to the library and picked up the book. I started it last week and finished it up Friday, Saturday I wen to the library again and found out that there are currently 4 books for the series. So Saturday I read The People of Sparks and today I started The Prophet of Yonwood.

It is amazing what you can do when you cut out TV time...

Anyway, my wife just found out that she passed her test in school and I am very proud of her. She is awesome and a good guesser apparently. ;) Sorry honey I couldn't resist. The fireworks display this year was bigger and better than last year. I doubled the amount of moola I planned to spend on them, but the highlight was this firework that shot an army man with a parachute into the air and then it's parachute opens and it floats back down. I think I liked it more than Dexter did, but we both took off running after it. That was awesome. I had those little army guys with parachutes when I was a kid and I always wanted to get them high enough to let them have some hang time. The best I got was the top of the stairs, which almost wasn't worth it. This one satisfied that desire in me all over again. In fact, when they put the fireworks on sale this year I plan to go an buy as many as I can to do it all over again.

New Tradition

Tonight we made frozen bananas for a 4th of July treat. I love frozen bananas, but rarely ever make them or have them so this was real fun for me. It was so fun in fact I think we are going to have to make it a new 4th of July tradition. My wife waned coconut on 'em, but I think coconut is nasty so we made some others with almonds and the kids pitched in with the Jimmies. After dinner they were frozen and the kids got to dig in. It was sooo funny watching them eat those things. Hazel looked like she had a beard or at least a real bad 5:00 shadow made out of chocolate. They were smiling ear to ear and their little white teeth stuck out against the dark chocolate circles around their mouths. We have some pictures of the fun so hang in there and I'll get to them sometime soon.