I WIN...kind of

the battle is over...the war is won! Since I'm the one typing this blog you may be able to deduce that I am the victor of the Christmas tree battle. After I spend a solid week sitting for hours changing hundreds and hundreds of light bulbs (we are talking removing the glass bulb and re threading it into the old green sockets for the tree...uber time consuming), the tree has been lit and decorated...and now two strands of lights are out....but I don't care I can't put anything else into that tree and retain my sanity, so I guess we'll call it a draw! I did appreciate David's dance off comments regarding the tree...I think I was more amazed at how many "dance terms" he knew! There are so many thing to do this season and I hope I don't put everything off till the last minute. There are cookies, and pretzels to make, Christmas letters to write, gifts to make, presents to wrap, lights to hang, Christmas parties to plan and to attend... there are kids to watch every possible Christmas movie with..see we are so busy. So I'd like to contribute something worthwhile this beautiful season...something uplifting...gifts that I feel I have been blessed with over the past 31yrs. My kids...My wonderful children (David included). I don't think David and I had any clue what we were getting ourselves into, I guess we assumed that we would have kids and that we would grow as a family as simple as 1-2-3. Instead we were sent two huge personalities, and trials, good times, bad times, laughter and tears....I couldn't fathom how empty our life would be with out our boys. Our Quinten who is so impossibly 9, ...and our OCD 3yr old. they are my greatest joy....from reading books to them, to being annoyed that I'm the only one who can wipe Walkers rear...taking naps with the boys, or tickling them till they cry...life is good. I'm so blessed that our Father in Heaven choose me to take care of these AMAZING children...what a wonderful plan he has for us to be with and stay with our families for eternity.

I haven't been on here in a while and I'm dropping a quick note to let you know it may be awhile. You see I'm engaged in an Epic Battle right now...just me and our Christmas tree...like nature intended. Right now the tree is winning, but the tide may turn my friends. I will post more later...if I live!

Halloween

I should blog about Halloween and such but I'm just to busy ...or lazy, either one

Dr. Teeth

First I'd like to state that I'm posting because I find it somewhat disturbing to log onto my blog and the first thing I'm assaulted with is MY FACE! Trust me I see it enough every day. Second...Dr. Teeth is one of the cooler Muppets, and yes I love the Muppets! Okay, so I"m gonna blog about my son Quinten whom I adore...but that child can drive up a wall so fast and is, Walker can drive David up a wall just as quickly...So as long as we are balanced I guess we are okay! Anyway, Quinten is in the Third grade and has only lost 5 teeth..and each tooth that has come out has been a Broadway production. I think that I pulled the first one and it was like 2-3 hours to get him to let me touch it...it was a dangler and it was time to come out...but he just couldn't let us touch it. We are talking screaming... and crying...and at this point that was us just trying to touch it...by the time I got to wiggle it he, and I'm NOT kidding, spidermaned up the corner of the shower in an attempt to get away. It was unreal....! After a while i think I threatened his life, or the life of a toy and he let me put my two fingers in his mouth, and before he could jerk away I popped it out. He instantly froze and was like "That's it ...that didn't hurt!" Then he was so proud that he went to check it out in the mirror, and when he saw the blood he went straight back to flip-out town. Which leads us into tooth #2, he was so over the top and adamant that we not touch it that he ended up accidentally swallowing it. Tooth #3 was just as wiggly but Quinten had a firm policy....Mom and Dad ="NO TOUCHY!" So what happened, it got kicked out at Karate. (mom was VERY happy about this, because it was his other front tooth...first front tooth was swallowed...and it had become this hideous snaggle tooth right in the middle of his mouth) At this point Quinten decided to rethink his no touch policy, and let me pull tooth #4...but I had to spend an hour talking him into it and talking him down from hysterics.... It just drives me crazy, with his teeth it gets to a point where he can't even eat because the tooth is so loose and he doesn't want to swallow it but he doesn't want it pulled, EVEN thought every time after it's pulled he is like instantly okay and like phew glad that's done. Anyway tooth #5 Drama... I had told Quinten a week ago that his top side tooth was wiggly and he would most likely loose it in about 2-3 weeks (trying to give him some time to mentally get ready for it). Well 2 days later he bit an apple and it just gave way, but Q didn't tell me this so I checked his teeth a day or two later and imagine my surprise when his tooth almost came out. I said "Quinten that tooth is ready " and Quinten's reply "You said 2 weeks mom, not before two weeks!" I said, "Um that was before you bit the apple, and I don't remember signing a contract with you about it NOT coming out before the two weeks." So wanting to avoid any meltdowns, I let it go for two more days, and in those two days he kept biting things that would make to more loose. So Friday morning after Quinten declared that he couldn't eat breakfast because of his tooth, I called him back to the bathroom and looked him in the eye and said, "That tooth is coming out!" he immediately lost all bone structure and went limp, he began to flail around, and cry...(Reader please keep in mind that I HAD NOT touched the tooth)...after about 5 min he stood back up and after 2 tries (he kept jerking) we had it out and he got his shoes and socks on and skipped off to school. Then to add insult to injury the Tooth Fairy didn't show up for two days. I told Quinten that the Tooth Fairy is a jerk...of maybe she forgot...or maybe shes on vacation... WE decided that it must be Vacation because she was back and gave him some moo-la last night. WHEW!!!! Now I view Quintens mouth with a bit of horror...on one hand I see all the rest of his baby teeth as future meltdowns and I see the havoc that his adult teeth are wreaking and I can see braces and huge dental bills....Did I mention how much I love Quinten! If this is how it's gonna go down I'm just take walker in and have them remove all of his teeth in one swoop, then let him just "gum" everything until the adult teeth are in! 'Till next time intrepid reader....

This one's for Kristi!

okay this is for kristi...this is what my hair cut looks like....for those of you wondering why these are here, I promised my sister that I would post pictures of my hair cut and when I say "my" haircut I mean that I cut it myself. and I posted it here because, honestly, there are fewer people who read this, and if it's a bad hair cut fewer people will know it was me who did it....but if I can do and it looks okay then thats about $30 that I saved!!!....Do you like my bug eyed poses...I'm tres vouge!

these are pictures from about August of '08 to about mid Sept of '08...then I "misplaced" my camera for a bit...but this was Quinten coming home from the first day of school...man did Walks miss him!!!!

Walks and I built a fort...I felt it high time that I teach him this skill...and he was rather impressed with my for about 4 minutes...the neat thing is that we grabbed the closest blanket we could find and it happened to be a beautifully colored quilt that David's VERY talented mother did BY HAND!!! Anyway when I got under it with all the sunlight in the room it made this very nice, almost stained-glass fort roof. I had to take, honestly, like 15-20 pictures before I got the right lighting so that I could show other how cool it was...(picture below...see how cool it was)

This, like the picture below, make me laugh. Not only are is it cute to see my boys "chillin'" on the couch...but i love the ears on Walks...when I pulled out the cat ears for Halloween Walks got SO flippin' excited that they were tigger ears...so he would wear them so he and tigger could match...that's how devoted he is to "tiggs"

Walker...didn't get what he wanted......

Okay this is what Quinten wanted for his (9th) Birthday cake....It's one of the Fett's, Jango or Boba?

This is a rare sight...it happened after a long day of .... something very tiring. The great part was Walker thought it was SO funny that Q fell asleep like that, so he got tigger to "pretend" to sleep and by the time I got the camera to get a picture he was out too....

cleaning pretty much stinks

There is a saying that goes something like this " God is in the details"....but I would like to tell you that after Friday I believe that "satan is in the details". Please let me explain, so Friday I thought ohhh we have someone coming over this evening so I'd better tidy up the kitchen and the living room. So i walk into the kitchen and because my kitchen is like a hallway with appliances. If you eat a bowl of cereal the kitchen looks trashed...well I walk in and I say hmmm my kitchen is cluttered...I'll load the dishwasher, after this was done I began to clear off the counters and realized the fridge was dirty so I cleaned the fridge and I noticed the outside was dirty and the magnets were disorganized...after that was done I noticed that the dishwasher had finished so as I was putting the utensils away I thought this needs to be cleaned up...which led to the cabinets, and then to the wall where I keep my post-it notes full of random numbers, which led to back to the bedroom, which led to the bathroom, which led to the....realization that althought this was great cleaning I now had an hour to shower and STILL clean the living room. I got so wrapped up in the little thing I failed to get to the big things...curse you O.C.D. tendencies! Now I wanted to post this on my facebook page but I ran out of room, seriously facebook sent a message saying " Seriously Caryn quit typing" can you believe it? So leave it to me to spend hours in my house on the "details" and forget the big picture...which of course was to clean just enough of my house to make it look like it was all clean! For my next feat I will attempt to publish a few picture....please DO NOT hold your breath!

Scary tales....just in time for Halloween

apparently I only post on Wednesday's...but I broken my only writing once a month streak!!! DO you ever have days that you would love to launch certain people from a catapult....come on raise you hands....you know you do. If I'm one of those people that you would like to launch well good luck because I know better that to get close to a catapult now! well today was one of those days, and I know that in a few days the feeling will be gone but for now the image is enough to sustain me. On to bigger and better things I have the story of the century....It will be enough to drive people from EVER visiting our house again....and on a side( note walker just walked in with a laundry basket over his head ...the same laundry basket that we just full of clean clothes from the dryer...where are they now?) Back to story: So for those of you who know we live 1 house away from a LARGE field...and living so close to nature brings....unexpected friends like field mice. When we moved into our house about 4 1/2 years ago we had a mouse problem, they got into our pantry, and were eating our food and it was maddening we killed like 3 mice the last one being a tragic and gut wrenching experience that will stay with me for the rest of my life...but that is a different story for a different time. Anyway we did this huge cleaning job and put every thing in plastic containers and haven't seen our mice buddies since then (about 3 yrs). SO imagine our surprise on Monday when we heard a noise by the dishwasher....so we pulled the 4 drawers we have that are vertical and there chilling in the corner is a little tiny mouse...David reaction was of"look how little and cute it is"... my reaction is "oh look and at all the possible diseases it could carry"... seriously it was just sitting there...I'm not kidding. David and I sat and talked about how to best get rid of it for like 10 min and the mouse just sat there....(if I were a mouse, and I had just been discovered, I would have gotten out of there so fast it would have left that fake cartoon smoke) So David and I decided to try to hit it and he grabbed the broom and the mouse took off (maybe he has a 10 min delay)...so we decided to clean thatarea up, because it never made it into our first mouse clean up...when suddenly David says "oh my gosh that is disgusting" so of course I have to come running to see it... and down on the floor are some old glue traps, they were before we moved in because the ones i bought were different, anyway stuck on one of the glue traps was a mouse skeleton....yes a mouse skeleton!!!!! it had to have been there for quite a few years before we moved in because it was TOTALLY decayed, the hair and skin and everything was gone...it was one of those GROSS, but let me look at it closer things...David was a saint and "took care" of it. Then we stuffed steel wool into any holes, and put new glue traps everywhere, and redid all the old mouse favorites...it was just what we wanted to do on a Monday night. I'm sure we violated some fire codes by pulling the oven out in front of the fridge and still cooking a pizza in it as we moved it and cleaned...but hey we have a gross/cool story right. Quinten was kind enough to inform the Missionaries that we have rats and dead rats in our house....we then had to explain that there is a world of difference between rats and field mice...funny but the missionaries didn't eat as much as normal...hmmmmm why?
next story...
I'm a big advocate of "not all education can come from school"... there are some things that our children have to learn by being around peers and being in social setting...you know good old social skills. I love my son Quinten but he's stepping into the awkward years and I'm trying to rid him of some habit that in the future, if not curbed, could annoy the crap out of people....with that in mind we went to my mom's last night to watch Indiana Jones 4 and Quinten hit on one of the most annoying social skills you can have....talking during a movie!!!!!! Not only that, he's never seen it, and he was being SO annoying ... for instance in the beginning they pull Indiana and his friend from the trunk of a car and Quinten says "isn't that illegal"....then he points out something else and is like "that's not very safe"...but I reached my limit when Indiana and Mutt are on his motorbike, trying to get away and quinten is like I thought it was illegal to ride a motorcycle with out a helmet" AGGGGHHHH It was like the incredible movie hulk burst forth and I told him to watch the movie and enjoy it instead of being on safety patrol....I give you my word that I will do my utmost to eradicate this behavior from my child and teach him the joy of watching a movie silently with others...I will succeed...I must! One last blurb and I swear i will release you....walker fell asleep in the middle of the hallway with the laundry basket half on him...it looks like it might have been and epic battle and it just might have worn him out...but who won?

Blerg

I did it again I let like an entire month go by and didn't blog.... and if you are wondering about the blerg title just watch "30 rock". Well to be honest I have no clue where to start....I'm going to skip over my life and what has been happing with me because frankly there isn't enough space in "cyber space" for me to type about it. Okay I just spent an hour typing/ranting and when I got done and read it it didn't make any sense no no one wants to read about the whiny parts of you life. I'll try again. Quinten is now a high brown belt in Karate, is doing well at school and his mom is FORCING him to continue piano lessons...I am that mean. Walker is starting to talk like a three year old, and say inappropriate things as a three yr old. About a month ago Kristi was babysitting for us and I guess a "little person" came to the door selling this at&t thing and as he left walker said out loud to kristi. "he's just a little kid"....the door hadn't even shut...ahhh I am SO thankful that I wasn't there to deal with it...because the "mommy code" would have demanded that i do the right thing and teach him, but my "natural man" would have laughed.

David and I are enjoying being dirt poor...actually I think Dirt is just saying they are poor to make us feel better. we are okay but we have a loan that is KILLING us, we can wait and try to slowly pay it off, or I can work my toosh off (which wouldn't be bad either) and we can do it sooner, then we would be fine and could actually start saving money....either way money sucks! and the whole money issue puts a damper on the whole having another kid....alberston kids are very expensive. I always imagined us as having a brood ... how many constitutes a brood...I know it's more that 2. sorry my train was traveling toward "woe, is me town" and that is a place you don't want to go my friend! okay two more things before piano....1. we miss kristi who is in San Fransisco working for 6 months doing a wildlife bird study....she was our #1 hang out friend. 2. I miss serving in Young Women....I loved everyone of them so very much and I miss them with all my heart... I miss being a part of there lives and seeing them 2x's or more a week....I miss serving with the women in the presidency...it was wonderful all of it.

okay off to piano

I'm a dork

I'd post pictures but I forgot how....I'm that sad! But David loves me!

I have no title for this blog entry

So it has been a long time since I have blogged, and I hopped on to throw some of the random stuff in my head out to the masses. I sat at the computer ignoring the kids for like 10 min unable to name my entry. I mean that is the tag line...it catches the reader and draws them in to read all the info you put there...who knew that it was so much freaking stress. First for those of you who don't know I got released as the 1st counselor in the Young Women's presidency...I was in for over 2 years and loved EVERYTHING about the program....I loved the president I served with she is an amazing women that I SO look up to...and I became super attached to those girls and all that was going on in their lives...they are so fun, wonderful, sweet, loving, funny, they actually liked me back... I will always have a special place in my heart for them....but Young Women need to learn and grow from different people and it was time for them to move on. I was bounced right over to 2nd counselor in the Primary Presidency....and I'm terrified, mostly because it is new, and I am new, and have no clue what I'm doing...I'm also overseeing the scouting program (just keeping an eye on it) and I am so excited about that because I have been dying to learn about it so i can help quinn, so I'm really excited to tackle something new especially something I'm nervous about. I know that this will be an awesome experience if I tackle this with the spirit....! In other news on Sunday Quinten turns 9....AAAHAHHHHHHHAAAAAHHHHHHHHH...he just keeps getting older!!!! Anyone, how do you stop that? Is there a cure? 3 yrs to the priesthood ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Do all parents freak out this much.....what happens when he hit double digits?????? i could freak out about this for days, but I choose to be proud of the 9yr old he is and am grateful that I could be Quinten's mom...he's a pretty amazing kid. Well school has started and I think Quinten is happy that it started, he got the teacher he wanted for third grade so he's been having a lot of fun. I babysit the neighbor kid in the mornings and put him on the bus in the afternoon for kindergarten....I have VERY long mornings! Once he's on the bus it's just me and walks and we do stuff together...like shop and every time we go he's like "are we shopping for donuts...the white ones"...life is simpler at 3. okay i hope to blog on Q's b-day...what I really hope is that I don't wait another month to post...........................................................................

It's our Anniversary

Yes I know that it has been awhile and in all honesty I did try to post about our vacation adventures but after like two days of typing my hands fell off and it was a rough recovery...but I can't let this moment pass. 10 years ago I went to the bountiful Temple to get married I was so nervous and scared because I didn't think that david knew what he was getting himself into...we were hand in hand in the sealing room as my grandpa Lemmon asked a series of question...I of course was terrified that if I answered wrong I was going to get the boot and not be allowed to get married...and they were even easy questions. and then in an instant it was over and we were sealed...I felt inward glee that I had David now for good there was no way out...that night we talked about how in love we were with each other and that life was going to be amazing and fun because it would be together.. and we couldn't imagine how we could contain so much love or how it could grow anymore...and I knew then that eternity didn't seem long enough....and now ten years it still seems in my greed I want more time with David....I marvel that in the past ten years we have chosen many paths and walked many roads, some very hard other easy, but we have always walked that road hand in hand and usually laughing. I love my David very much and I know that i got SOOOO lucky and snagged him before anyone else did....I'm so proud of the fact that after 10yrs people still tell us to get a room. I'm so excited to see where the next ten years take us...new kids?.....new adventures?....teenagers :(?, new ways to gross out our peers and Family with kissing!!!!! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY DAVID, I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!

Update

okay so it has been a few day so let me bring you up to speed real fast...because I'm supposed to be doing other things. We have been keeping busy quinten has had day camp... and I have been, well lazy, seriously do you have any idea how much energy it take to do nothing?? No i've done Dr.'s appointments, and got a new drivers license...which of course I look terrible in because it is ...well me. I always think I'm gonna look so different in my pictures and I never do...oh well. I've got youth conference that i"m getting ready for and devotionals to plan, you know the amazing kind where everyone is edified and uplifted...sorry dreaming out loud again...I'll do my best. So i'll be gone for a few days so don't get too stressed out my 3 friends who read this...I'll be back.

July 5th

We took the boys to the park for a picnic today, we wanted a nice KFC picnic like dinner. Then boys wanted McD's because the Happy meal toy was Transformers Animated.....SO WE GAVE IN!!!!!! Man we are pathetic. Anyway after "dinner" we played on the playground for a while and the took a stroll around the little pond...it was all very picturesque....so we took a picture. This time we were very adamant about JUST smiling for the camera. and we got one! Anyway I've spent way to long with the pictures and such now I need to spend some time with David...yeah for me :)!!!!!!

MMMMM our yummy meal!!! Walker actually looked at the camera....hurry take a picture (note: he is still trying to pose)
Quinten taking a breather
Walker doing....his thing....what ever that may be
WE DID IT A ALMOST NORMAL FAMILY PICTURE...we'll have to photoshop me in later!!!!!

Papa watching the "Rocket Can" ascend into orbit...the little white dots are the water shooting up after launch
Albertson Family picture-Take 1 (see story below) Albertson Family picture - Take 2.....and we'll quit for the day
Nana, Mom, and under the blanket enjoying the fireworks, Walker!

So I had to create a new post to finishing addint the 4th of july picture and now they are out of order

Happy 4th

Quinten throwing snap pops
Walker snapping his pops
Walker unable to pop them moves to stepping on them for the desired pop!
Quinten and his glasses-Mom's trying to not notice how grown up he looks
Our boys....unable to take serious pictures


We had such a great Holiday. We hope that everyone else did too...well I really only know of like 2 people who read this so we hope you guys had a great Holiday! We had a big breakfast and got some things done and then headed over to Nana & Papa's the "Holiday party spot". We kidnapped Papa and took him "fireworks" shopping it was great to go shopping with 4 boys...Walker, Quinten, David & and Papa....It went something like this...Papa and Q with a bucket talking about how big of a bang the firework would make, walker with a bucket picking up and putting everything in his bucket that Papa and Q had just touched, and David and I following behind Walker taking out all the fireworks he had just put in the bucket. We came home and worked on the tree house that Papa is trying to build for his grandkids...but quinten kinda didn't want to work on it wanted to do fireworks....so Papa took the boys out to set off fire works. I went to sit our side to watch and out walks Quinten with a grape that Papa has given him permission to blow up....can we sense the trouble we are in. Quinten of course was in heaven and as soon as the grape was rent asunder he turned and asked "What else can we blow up?"....Papa being the great Papa that he went in and found an Apple.....let's do some math Apple+m-150 firecracker=applesauce. Luckily for the produce in the house Papa brought out how do do the homemade rocket with cans water and other stuff....and then you set the Black cat and the can goes flying straight up in the air....well like 3hrs later they ran out of Blackcats...so the can got a break. At this point we stopped and had steak where Walker put on his own display be throwing a MASSIVE fit....all he wanted to do was eat corn...we didn't let him....he wasn't going to bend....neither were David and i ....it was a small stand-off....with no clear winner, we opted for a nap. Now that we had some time to rest we went outside for the show, about 3 firecrackers later, after hiding behind Papa, walker decided that he was scared ( he's a pro at the snap pops )...so I ran inside to grab him a blanket to wrap around himself for extra security...walker's idea of security was to hid underneath the blanket....yep beautiful fireworks going on around us and walker spent basically the whole night under a blanket. For Reals it really was a great Holiday, and I love the 4th and all of it unique history and I loved watch my dad play with the boys and be a kid again himself....we had lots of laughs and a really good pie and isn't that what holidays are about!!!!! And one last rant/rave ...I had us dress all in blue shirts (geeky I know ) because I wanted 4th of July picture....just one...a nice one...of the family. What I got was two children who spent every waking minute in front of the camera posing. so when it came time to take our family picture the were wired and in the first I was trying to get Walker to calm down and just look at the camera and in the second I was trying to get him to not cry and I thought it turned out pretty decent until I noticed that quinten had stuck and green firecracker shell on his face just in time for the shot....I'm sure someday I'll look back and laugh and be grateful that they were weirdo's...but today is not that day my friend.

Also like 2 days ago Quinten got glasses if some of you were wondering why he had them on!

Life is one big Roller Coaster

well I think that the title sums it all up....I was on such an amazing high yesterday with the successful birth of my blog...and in mere moments it all came crashing down to the floor, with me calling David in a fit of tears. What happened Caryn, you ask. Well after spending some "alone" time in the restroom with my trusty DS i set it on the counter and decided that it was time to get some work done! So I put my hairdryer away and that started a chain reaction that resulted in my DS falling....No jumping of the counter and doing a double flip into a jack-knife landing with no splash the toilet (okay that was a bit over the top)....And I know what you are thinking, but I had flushed earlier and it was clear, clean water....Not that my DS cared about that as it sunk to the bottom while absorbing as much water as possible. But my wonderful and calm husband did some research and found that DS toilet duckings happen quite frequently....so now we are waiting to it to dry out... it works, but one of the screens is still water logged. Oh the Drama!! But honestly besides that it was great day... i got dressed yesterday and decided on a whim that I would wear my cute little sun dress...so i put it on and came skipping out to the kitchen where Quinten said to me
"what's the matter mom, did you run out of clean pants?"
and I realized, as the air deflated out of my balloon of perkiness, that I've never in the last 10years have worn a dress just cause....I've always worn them for church but that is it...it was sad and funny at the same time.
and to end and round off my day we stayed up and played the Christensens in Mario Kart....I'd love to brag about the way I threw banana peels at David or shot Jamie with a red shell but I pretty much came in last in every game....except for Rainbow road because david was to busy eating Ice Cream....I came in 3rd instead of 4th....so there Jamie I blogged about it...ha ha I shall see you again my Nemesis on the track!!!!!!

okay david was showing me how to post a picture and this was the one that was choosen....if you are lucky I may choose to tell you about it....but it will have to be later we have a mario kart date

Wait I actually have a valid post

i just remembered that this is my blog so I can talk about me!!!! Okay so for those of you who don't know I'm the 1st Counselor in the Young Women's presidency and that means that occasionally I get to go and do some cool activities with our really fun Youth. Well this last Sat. we went shooting...with real shotguns not BB guns, or air rifles, or Nerf guns. We drove down to Harrisonville at a silly hour in the morning (like 8am, which strikes me as unsafe because who wants to give a groggy person a gun?!?) and we got all ready and stuck in the odd earplugs which drowned out the world so you were left alone with you thoughts (I'm still trying to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing). I of course HAD to try it so I stepped up and got the massive gun ready and they had me shoot a milk carton to make sure my aim was...well good. I of course nailed the stationary milk jug (I'm sure the milk jug wishes I had missed), now came the real test i got the gun reloaded and got ready...screamed pull (because we all had earplugs in we had to scream so others could hear us). and with unsurpassed grace I blew that clay disc out of the sky....yes folks my first time shooting skeet I hit it...did I mention it was my first time. I of course over reacted and maybe I did I small victory dance...I can't recall...once that moment of glory was up I stepped up to my second try. ...."PULL!!!!" and HOLY COW I blew that second disc into oblivion....and I may have turned around and rubbed it in a few faces....who knows I was on a shooters high (is there such a thing). by my third try as I pulled the gun up I noticed it shaking and realized that I had jelly arms...yes I am that pathetically weak that after hold the gun up three times my little bird arms were shot (no pun intended)... so I naturally missed the next few, but my second time around I hit 2 more for a grand total of 4 hits out of ten shots.... It was very cool to go shooting, and actually hit something....and a big thanks to the youth for letting me shoot. Okay so that was my story I was pretty proud and i feel I'm allowed to post stuff like this.

My first Blog entry

WOW- well apparently it's about time that I jump on and join the blogging world. I'd like to first give a shout out to Heidi Simpson for inspiring me to do this...( she has the funniest blog I have EVER read). I have found that this is a wonderful way to read up on your friends with out actually having to make contact with them...a very handy tool...you know when you want to see how so and so is doing but you don't want to put tedious hours into re-kindling a friendship, or hear hour after hour about Jr's latest Dr. visit ....with blogging you can pop on, read up, and get off . The other reason for blogging--I can type about the world the way I see it...It's like a huge commentary. I should warn you that when I type i tend to use the (....) way too much....oh well!
so welcome to my crazy blog. I hope that you enjoy it.....