All About Me!

So I have this application on my iGoogle homepage. It is called Random Facts about Kendra. Everyday there is a new generic fact that they just enter my name into. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes weird, sometime they are even dirty ;) So here is today's random fact about me:


Fact:
Not everyone that Kendra is mad at gets killed. Some get away. They are called astronauts.

I like this one!

The Bees (Okay really Wasps)

The bees (wasps) are dead but Abigail will still not go outside. She is scared to death! I tried showing her the bees were dead and we threw out the dead hive and she seemed to be better, but then she ran back inside and refuses to leave the house. Anything that can fly is her mortal enemy. She says she doesn't need to go outside anymore. I NEED her to go outside and play. I NEED her to run off the energy and jump on the trampoline. I NEED it quiet for 30 seconds in a row. What do I do? Force her? She is literally scared silly that she will be stung again. I NEED help!!

A Little Beehind

I am a little (8 days) beehind on blogging. I have been working like crazy since we got back from our trip and then the kids want to go and do things after I am done at work. They feel the end of the summer crashing down on them. I hope to get onto the computer tonight and catch up on Abigail's birthday, and the last week or so of activities. I said HOPE it will bee tonight. We will have to see beecause...

Abigail has been stung 3 times now in less then 24 hours or so by bees. (Get all of the bee's now?) She is scared to death to bee outside and will not play. I don't get it either. All of the other kids have been outside too and none of them have been stung yet. She doesn't provoke the bees, she is just the one that they get. The scary thing is Jason and Lewis are both allergic to bee stings and so I am very worried about the other kids too.

So Lewis is out with the kids getting bee killing supplies, and I was outside looking for the hives to kill. I found at least one good sized one and a few tiny ones.

Wish me luck with the bee killings. I don't want to bee killed too!

{I wrote this yesterday but blogger was not working so I posted it today instead...}

Trampoline Fun

The Drive Home

We drove strait home from Washington DC. 31 hours of kids, car food, and not sleeping. First look at this awesome storm that we drove through.

Everyone stayed mostly happy the whole ride.

Hey Sharon, and Katie look where we stopped for gas.

Finally when we were in Wyoming we stopped at this pull off on the side of the road. I used to stop here when I was little and we were driving across the country. It is the tree that is growing out of a rock. It has been there as long as anyone knows. Since they put in the first railroad. It is pretty cool to have a picture of my kids doing and looking at the same things that I did and saw when I was their ages.

Retirement

On Friday the 18Th we went to Marty's retirement. The whole reason for our wonderful trip. It was a beautiful, patriotic, eye watering ceremony. At the end of the ceremony they played the song, "I'm Proud to be an American" and Jason sat up tall and proud and sang every word while looking at me and giving me a thumbs up. I was at a loss for words. I was so proud, and happy that even he could understand the significance of the day.

The kids at the Navy Memorial

The cute 3 year olds!

After the Retirement we went back to their house and took a bunch of pictures. The kids got one with grandpa and they even got him to participate in out tradition. One nice picture:

And one crazy one:

We Love You Grandpa Marty!

Vacation Part 4

Thursday Night

So Thursday night it is decided that we need to go and toilet paper one of Allison's friend's houses. Lewis, Katie, Heidi, Allison and I all get into the 4 Runner and head to the store. Lewis and I run in and get like 50 rolls of toilet paper. We go strait to her house and start with the back yard. We used all of the rolls. Lewis has a great arm so we even got the tops of the trees. It was so muggy that we were soaking wet by the time we were done.

When we were about done Katie notices her necklace is falling off and the stone on it has fallen to the ground. It is pitch black and we can't see anything. So the daughter of the household we are destroying drives up! She happens to have a flashlight in the back of her car and with the help of the light I find the diamond almost immediately.

Your welcome, by the way. So while she was there laughing at our antics she took a few pictures of our little group.

So as we are driving away someone decides that it would be fun to buy plastic wrap and wrap Allison's sister's car. So we run to the gas station (the only thing open after midnight. Yeah, strange I know. I can go to all of our grocery and Walmart stores 24 hours) and get their stock of plastic wrap. We wrap the car and then head inside to use the potty in Paige's hotel room. So here we are banging on the door that we think is theirs, after midnight. We are laughing at the noises coming from the other hotel rooms and having a great time. Long story short we all get in the room and they have been totally asleep for a while!

Don't worry! I will not put the one on where you can see your faces!

Done.

4 Hours

4 hours here...
2 hours on the east coast...

Dinner at Chili's: $20.00
Book: $22.99
2 Dr. Peppers and a bag of chips: $3.99
Lewis taking the girls to basketball tomorrow morning so I can read my book all night: Priceless

I'm with the vampires of course!