Happy Birthday Chad

So I have been such a slacker with posting lately. Chad's 33rd birthday was on the 12th. I think he had fun. I had the evening planned for a while and made it a surprise for him. He had a few enrollments that day but I had asked him before hand where he was going to be. I do this a lot so it was not so suspicicous. Anyway, I had some friends of ours meet me at the airport so they could drive the van home, and I rented him a fun car for the day. (the one he got was silver)

So I sent him a text message saying I was outside and needed to give him something for his birthday and it would only take a second. He went and looked outside looking for the van. The receptionist was like 'Who are you looking for?' He told her he was looking for his wife in a black van. She said, 'Is that her in the convertable Solstice?' Yup that was me. He came out and I gave him the keys. It was a kind of a girly car (but they were out of vettes and I couldn't afford the Lotus), but it sure had a lot of get up and go. When he went back inside the receptionist thought that I bought him the car. If you know Chad of course he let her believe that for a little while.

When he got home, we went to dinner at Johnny Rockets with Todd and Anna, and Justin and Preeti. We had a good time. We then went to a place to go big band swing dancing. From what I found online it was this 'hoppin' place and really pretty big. I think they did that so that they can get more blood there. It was a very small dance studio. We did a bit of dancing more like country swing than big band, got the wierd looks from the locals because we weren't 'doing it right'. Then headed off to Cheesecake factory for some birthday cheesecake. I think he had a lot of fun. He got to drive the car to his flag football game the next morning, so he fit in a little more with the crowd in Scottsdale that he plays with.

So Happy Birthday Honey!! Sorry it was so late posting about your fun day. And I am a loser and had my camera with us the entire night, but never took any pictures.

Labor Day Weekend

Well we had a bit of excitment last weekend. We have been having some great storms come through at night and really cool it down. Which we LOVE! But last Friday night I think the storm was right over our house. When we went to bed it seemed like we had a huge fan club outside flashing pictures with how much lighting we had. It was right on top of each other. We had 75mph winds (or at least that is what the weather guy said). I think I may believe him because the wind was blowing so hard it physically shook my house. We were laying in bed and our bed would start to shake. It was a little unnerving. But it seemed to calm down around 4 am or so. Apparently Savannah sleeps like a log because it didn't wake her up at all, but Charlotte on the other hand was up every hour and a half. So needless to say Chad and I definately wanted to sleep in. 7:00 am rolls around and someone is repetatively ringing our doorbell. For those that 'really' know us, I am not a morning person. My awful ways have rubbed off on my husband over the years as well. If I owned a shotgun, I think I would have answered the door with it in hand. I was a very onery bear. Well it is our next door neighbor who honestly gives me the hibbidy gibbidties. He wanted to let us know that his tree got blown over in the storm into our driveway. He didn't want us to not see it and try to run over it with our van.

yes I know you are all jealous of my neighbors 'beautiful' car and wish you too could have a boat like that parked next door to your house all the time. It does move though. Once a week to go to Wally World.

Um.... Hello, I think we would have seen it. It is kind of hard to miss. I can just see it now, Chad backing out of the driveway and saying, "I don't remember a tree being there. Oh well I think I can back over it." So we spent most of the day cutting it up and hauling it away. Then the dump closed and we still had 2 loads to bring. So we got ready to go to the DiamondBacks game to watch them get spanked by the Dodgers, since one of Chads nice clients gave us free tickets. Yes it was sad, but I so love that field!! I love that I am not melting when I watch a baseball game. There was one lady who jumped onto left field and tried to run across the field. She was immediately tackled by 3 guys hard. It was pretty funny. But honestly was it worth it. It is a $1000 fine, plus you get arrested?





Last week I also had an old friend come over for a play date. My good friend from Jr High Amanda Mason (North)! She moved down in June?? I believe and we got together to catch up and let the kids play. Her older two were in school so she just brought Hunter. It was good to see a familiar face and catch up on our families and friends. It is fun how we can still catch up even though it has been many, many years since we have seen or talked to each other. It is sad that we get going in life and loose those contacts and connections. I am glad that we were able to get together and hopefully we can get together more often.

Savannah took this picture. She did a pretty good job!

Warning Nudity!!!





Yes, but just a little Charlotte baby bum. If you can even call it one. She has no junk in her trunk that is for sure. Our little carpet crawler loves to be naked. The second you take her diaper off she wiggles away. Daddy is not too good at keeping her down to strap another one on her as quickly as Mom and she has such cute cheekies!!





And a few pics of Charlotte and Big Sis Savannah. She found the little car and was desperately trying to get on. When I put her on it she was so excited, and kicking her feet. Had to take a picture of the big grin. One of these days I need to get a good shot of her fangs. Yes, you heard me right my daughter has fangs. She has her two bottom teeth, and two on the top but they are not her two front teeth. She has the two teeth next to her two front teeth broke through. She has had them for about a month so I was thinking the two front ones would brake through but no sign of them. We think she should be a vampire for Halloween if they haven't broke through yet.