Yankee

Ooohh..........I forgot. Ethan is playing little league!! Now if there is any sport on in our house it's baseball, and if it's any team it's the Yankees. So imagine Jared's excitement when the coach called two weeks ago and introduced himself as the coach for the Yankees. Ethan was pretty excited too since the only players he knows by name are Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez. So now he's officially a Yankee.
So far he enjoys the practice he just has a lot to learn as far as what to do when it's not your turn. Sitting down and playing in the dirt is not acceptable when you have balls coming from every direction. Luckily we have had no injuries but we've only had 3 practices so there is plenty of time. So far our biggest obstacle was the cup. Jared was on his way home from school so I got the pleasure of explaining what it's for and why we (boys) wear it. Any talk about private parts is pretty funny and embarrassing, especially when your not of the same sex. He got a pretty big kick out of it though. Now he just runs funny!!!

Post-it's

I thought this would be a great idea. Giving our "outer" family an "inner" scoop on us. But the key really is to keep up with it. I have to really think about doing anything or as anyone who knows me I forget. If I don't have a post-it note on my forehead I'll forget it. I am notorious on making a shopping list, and then forgetting it at home or work. Or even better than that, I'll be on my way home and know I need to stop somewhere and since it's not on my usual way home I'll forget and have to make a second trip to complete the task. If you don't believe me, I did it on Friday and made Jared go with me at 7:00 at night to make the much needed CVS trip.
You should see my desk at work, on any given day I have at least 5. And the ones that are there for more than a day or so turn into furniture; so there again my problem, I forget to look at them. So a promise to myself is to mentally POST-IT.................. I will update this more often. There you have it!!!

I stand corrected...

Ok so I assumed that my grandparents had a pop out trailer and that made me jealous enough, but now I find out that it is a 30' travel trailer with all of the amenities of a new home. Holy Cow!!! All I have to say is "I want one!!"
I'm making a list of all of the things I'm going to tell myself in 30 that Jared and I are going to do. First the kids are out of the house by 18 or in college and then we are going to retire. Second we are going to travel the country and see and do whatever we darn well please. Third; we have to see a Yankee game, that's top priority in our house. Then when we have that done and out of the way we are going to travel the world. Then after striving to live up to all of this we will be broke and living with our kids and maybe just maybe they will be kind enough to let us hook up our travel trailer to their house. But you never know after kicking them out to live the lavish life of world travelers they might just see that as selfish and make us go park it at a campground!!
Ah, the dreams............ If you don't have them then you have nothing but reality, and that can really suck. You have to mix it up every once in a while!!!

Retirement

I know that we have A LOT of years before that day ever comes, but I seriously want to follow in my Grandparents footsteps. This is one thing I really admire about my Mom's parents. They live on their farm that they have be on since before I was born; and plant what they want when the season is right. My Grandma redecorates and builds onto their home in her spare time. They pack up and go to the lake for 6-8 weeks at a time and fish or watch the trees blow in the wind. When they need to go home to take care of business they go home. They recently bought a travel pop up trailer with a monster Dodge truck to pull it with. Now they can go anywhere anytime. After my Grandpa's cancer procedures they are planing a trip to "where ever the road takes them". That's the retirement I want!!!

Snow

Holy Crap....So far there has been a reported 9' of snow in Oswego County NY. That was about 50 miles northwest of where we were, not far in BFE. They got the "lake effect" snow from Lake Ontario. Everyday they report more. Jared gets bummed out that he's not there for it but I tell him that he would be the one on the roof shoveling, scooping, kicking the snow off so it doesn't cave in on our heads at night. So am I glad to be back in Las Vegas..........um yeah, I think so. And my darling husband will learn to agree with me since he's never lived in it or had to do anything in it. Maybe one day we'll go visit the snow to get his fix, fixed.

Unfortunate News

This past week we found out that there is almost 100% chance that my Grandpa Kennedy has colon cancer. The last update I heard was that he had all of the diagnostic testing done and it all pointed to cancer. Now they are just waiting for the final testing to finish up and then they can plan surgery to try and remove it. He has been through so much in the past few years that this is a real blow to the heart. He was hit by a train a few years ago and survived with little permanent damage. Then this past year he had, I believe had a cyst that was cancerous on his hand. In January he got the final word back that they had removed all of the cancer from his hand. Wham!!!! Now you have colon cancer.............what a shame. He is a survivor and a pile of strength. And he has a wonderful support system. I know that he will be OK and maybe in the next few years we can all plan some sort of vacation and visit them or they can visit us.

Halloween

We got creative this past year and decided that the cartoon characters had had their day. When he was a baby we made him a skunk and a turtle. Then when he was about 3 I got really ambitious and made him a Yankee player (Daddy was proud). Then we did super heros because all boys love anyone super!! This year we create Frankenstein. Next year he wants to be Freddy Kruger. I hope he changes his mind about 5 or 6 times or at least until he forgets about it.

Snow in Vegas

It doesn't happen very often but when it does it's a huge deal and of course no one can drive worth a crap in the rain and let alone in the snow. On the far south side of town we got a whopping 4"!!! People made snowmen.......but at about 9 - 10 am they melted. It was short lived but snow none the less.

Rainbow's in Vegas

This one I actually got pictures of, there were two. One on top of the other.

Colorado has the most beautiful scenery

The Aspen and Pine Trees.















The aspens in summer.
















The Rocky Mountains.


































The Colorado River.