fishy

I actually caught a fish.....how exciting. :)

Fun in the SUN

When my mom asked what we wanted to do while visiting CA i told her about Collettes great desire to go to the beach again. So,...... Our family just had an awesome 3 day weekend at Fort Bragg.

My mom rented a 3 bed 3 bath cute little house really close to the beach and we all loved it. Collette and Tre had their 3 cousins Ryan Jacob, and baby Sophi to play with and we even had Nala and Kida (dogs) to run around with. Tre loved playing in the sand, finding glass and rocks at glass beach and climbing on the rocks.

Uncle Steven made sure Collettes request to see starfish was fulfilled. She was a mermaid in the sand and pretended she was Nim on her very own island.

I had such a great time just hanging out with the family with no other worries. We some how had the perfect weather, though it caused us to get sun burnt. We just wish Daddy was there too :(

Toliet paper fun

I think this is Tres first time getting hid sneaky hands on an entire roll of toilet paper. He thought it was pretty funny and Collette thought she should join in. Then there is the cat. Collette has been scratched 3 times now. I think most of the time they are provoked.

You can see what I mean with the picture. I didn't realize the she had put the seat down when I took it. She did get in trouble for that. Kids have all kids of weird fun.

corning car show

I think this is Tre's type of city event. They had a burn out contest where people took turns shredding there back tires. Tre got a kick out of it. then they had a cruse down the main street. All of the kids took turns cruising in the MG. Tre got a couple of extra rounds since Collette wasn't all too excited about it. We had a barbecue at the car lot with the whole family. Ryan and Jacob brought their bikes and they took turns riding around or chasing each other. Kind of tiring for the adults I would stay with 5 active kids, but we all had a good time. :)

Looks like we have a new vehicle! How much I don’t want a van I am not willing to pay more for gas and what not for something that is not. So Guess I’m the typical mormon van mom…….all well. It is not as nice as we were thinking we would get but it will be really good to keep the extra we thought we would spend for some savings. It’s a lovely 2000, just under 100,000 miles windstar (ha). But my dad has been checking everything out and if he finds anything we still can take it back. Should fill our needs nicely. And we are excited.

Tre is 2. I don't know if that will stop calling him baby until the new one comes. I don't have pics here from his TX party but he had a yellow car cake and got some great toys from family I"m sure he will be happy to go home too. Plenty of cars and a garage, book, and some clothes. Thanks everyone!

Sat. was Tre's day here in CA. He went to a car show and then got to ride with Papa in his convertible MG to walmart to find a car that doors open. He got a fancy 1965 mustang (Papa was a little bias). we will see how long it last. I don't think it was meant for 2 year olds but he LOOOOOVES it. We had family and friends over for some birthday cupcakes that night. And aunt Megan and uncle Chippy borrowed a kid 4 wheeler for him. A little young to drive it but had just as good of time riding next to big sister.

Happy Birthday TRE

You would think people would slow down

We are in California now. I was driving a Ford Taurus off my parents lot to Chico going 55 or so. I was taking Tre to go watch Chippy’s soft ball game. Suddenly the gas pedal dropped to the floor and off we went. I pushed on the brake as hard as I could but we were still going over 50. I took my feet off the brake a little a few times to see if it was still accelerating. I then started looking for the parking break which I was use to being on my side. And being a little distracted it took my a few moments to realize it was under the steering wheel. I still was going 45 or so mph. I tried calling my dad but was having a hard time getting to his number ( guess I was a little panicked). I wasn’t even thinking to turn the car off. My mom answered finally and told me to shift down. That didn’t do anything so I put it in neutral. I started slowing down and finally turned the car off. Due to the power steering turning off I didn’t pull off the road completely. I knew it was the brakes but I just wanted to jump out of the car with Tre because massive amounts of white smoke was coming off the car.
It was quite the adrenalin rush but I just hate that when I get in a serious situation I am not very good at doing the right smart thing. First off, I don’t go with my natural instinct that something is wrong. I have to question myself and test to prove that something is really happening. Then I can’t think straight to even perform simple but important tasks like calling my dad for putting on the emergency brake. And the simple solution of turning off the car just didn’t go through my head. Now I am glad I didn’t think of that because I would not be thinking about the power steering going out and I was hitting the break hard. Who knows that would have happened. I’m just thankful there were no stops or slow people in front of me.