First Day Back To School

Yesterday was the first day back to school. I think they were excited and sad. Excited to see their friends, but sad that summer has ended. Of course they both bring home all these papers that the parents have to sign and laugh and say Mom you have home work! I think to they are a little excited because they get to wear their new clothes and shoes and they both had their hair colored black! My son has one of his friends in one class and another in another class so he was glad about that. Both of them are in choir this year which I was surprise my son did hand bells last year. At least they gave us a list of dates they they will be performing so that I can check ahead of time and make sure I have those nights off. For some reason they are always on a Tuesday night and although I don't work every Tuesday it seems that the dates fall on the Tuesday I do work. The first one is October 27th and yes it is a Tuesday so I check and what do you know it is a Tuesday I am off! Haven't been through all the papers yet and haven't sign any but probably will be busy on my days off signing all the papers and putting all the supply list for the classes together that is another thing when you get all these list and every class you have to have this and that! I remember when I was in school and the school supplied most of the stuff, boy how time has changed, but yet stayed the same. Well hopefully this will be a better year!!

Last Day Of Vacation

This is my last day of freedom! So sad but true I have to go back to work tomorrow. I mean I really could get use to this not having to go to work thing with no problem, except for the fact my bills wouldn't get paid, so it is back to the grinding stone tomorrow. Not sure what we are going to do today as my kids are getting their hair colored black. Yes I finally gave in. So here is what we did this week:

On Sunday we went into Reno. We went to the Summit mall and of course had to go to Hot Topic. It's a pretty cool store with unusual fashion, but they always have band T-Shirts and my son wanted to get Marylin Manson shirt. We had to stop at star bucks and they had an art show going on so we checked that out. We ended up leaving there to go to another mall. We went to Legends which is a new mall and the biggest reason for going over there was they have the Scheels store. If you don't know what that is it is the biggest sports store ever. They have everything for what ever sports you are into! Now I am not a sports fan by no means, but it is so much more. They have this huge ferris wheel in the middle of the store! They have this mountain with every animal on it. From Quail to Mountain lion! They have statues of some of the Presidents and a couple of them move as well as talk! Than they have simulated race cars that you can get into and race and of course my kids wanted to do that because that cost ten bucks each! The ferris wheel was only a buck! They don't like heights. They had fun and that is what counts! When walking outside to the other shops they have art work and fountains. The one fountain kids where playing in to cool off! They have plaques telling of different people of Nevada history or places. They have a bath and body works that of course I had to go into! A Vans store that my son had to go into! We left there and went to The Olive Garden for dinner!

Monday we went to Virginia City! We love to go there because it is a living ghost town! We love all the shops. We stopped at the Fourth Ward School which we never have been in believe it or not! It was pretty cool! We have gone to a few museums this summer! It is neat to see all the stuff from history past. We like going to the leather shop because nothing is over 20 bucks! We got our daughter a really nice back pack, maybe it will last the whole school year!!

Tuesday we went into Genoa the oldest town in Nevada. We were going to go the the Mormon Station but it was closed. It is State run and because of the budget cuts they are closed for three days which was to bad because my kids haven't been in that museum. The court house museum was open though so we went into that one. We went to the gift shop they have there as well. I love Quail I think they are so cute so my husband bought me a figurine with mom, dad, and babies!

Wednesday was kind of a kick back day, but we did go and do some school shopping. My son hates to try things on, but I always make him anyway. He had like three pairs of pants and when he tried them on only one pair fit! I told him That is why I make you try them on!! We got a few school supplies not to much because the kids always get list from school of all the stuff they want them to have!

Thursday we went up to the Lake! It is one of our favorite places to go in the summer! Our oldest son went with us so it was even better having the whole family together! The Lake is unusually warm and unusually low! They have this pole way out there for the boats as a warning not to go past and unusually it is to deep so I don't ever go out that far, but I could actually walk out to it, in fact so could my youngest son! We had a great time as always. I just love Tahoe in the summer time!

Yesterday we didn't do much of anything either, but that is okay by me sometimes just hanging out at home is okay too! I will try to think of something to do today since it is the last day before I go back to work and it starts all over with not having time with the family!

Vacationing

I officially started my vacation on Wednesday my husband had to work until Friday. We aren't going any where just doing stuff around here.... so my husband wanted to start it on Friday. How about we go out to dinner and than go bowling? Well I am game so I ask the kids and they are too, Wonderful our vacation starts now!

After dinner we go over to the bowling alley, we get our shoes and go to the lane which two other people are next to us. Now I have to teach my son bowling etiquette. I explain the whole thing about having two people on both sides and that if they are getting ready to bowl you have to wait. I thought he understood. The problem with my son is he gets his ball and doesn't stop to think he just bowls. I always stand there for a time and look at the pins and than I go for it, not him! He does bowl really smooth and has a nice curve if only he knew how to use it! We all did really lousy, but we had fun as a family and that' s what it is all about.

Day two: Saturday we had already planned on going river rafting so my husband wanted to know what time. Shot for leaving the house at ten. Now I don't commit to anything because I don't get up earily. I think we left about 10:30 so that wasn't to bad. I should tell you we go river rafting every year because my sister in law owns the business. She had called and said that this would be the last weekend because the water is just to low to go for any longer. So we get there and it is really busy, but she said the next raft to come in would be ours. Our name is called and we go to the raft and of course the guy has to tells all about the river and what to expect blah blah blah! We get on our way and it is good. Okay there is another thing I have to tell you I do not help paddle the boat and the reason for that is my husband is always getting mad at me that I am not paddling on the right side or paddling the wrong way. So today he says I need a little help here. So he tells our daughter if we are going to the left paddle on the right if we are going to the right paddle on the left if we need to slow down paddle backward. It is so confusing. So he always makes it stressful. I told him next year he can go by himself and he won't have to worry if anyone is paddling right or not! It turned out to be okay after all I did help paddle we did get stuck on some rocks and some parts we had to walk the boat or rock the boat, but it was all good.

Next we went to anothe free concert. This was the sounds of santana! They we pretty good. The guy playing the guitar did really close to Carlos Santana. A lot of people got up and danced a lot of drunk people made fool's of themselves, but it was nice to be out together as a family!

Tomorrow we are off to Reno! I will let you know how that goes!!

Concert

In the city of Sparks they opened up a new mall and are celerbrating. The mall is called legends and it is by the Sparks Marina. In all the hoopla they were promoting a free concert. The band that was to play is "Smash Mouth". I really like this band a lot. My kids ask if we could go. I said well I am schedule to work, but I requested to be called off if I am than we can go. I was called off and my kids were all excited, so we can go to the concert? I said yeah if your dad wants to go because I hate driving somewhere where I don't know exactly where I am going. At first he didn't want to go, but when I said well I really don't know how to get there and I kind of get paranoid, so he said okay I will go!! We get there and there was a lot of people there and we had a hard time finding a parking place, but low and behold a car was pulling out and than another car was coming in the opposite dicrection and I knew she was going to try and take the same spot so I honk the horn and told her don't you even think about it, there also was a guy who saw what was happening so he was waving us on as my husband was backing in so we thought that was really nice and thank him!

We go to where the concert was going to be and we were like there about two hours before the band was going to start and we see people with there beach chairs. My husband said I didn't think about bring chairs and I like wise didn't think about it either. He said I don't think I can stand for that long. I told him to go over to Target and see if he could buy chairs there. Him and our son walked over there and he was gone a while. My daughter than tells me oh there they are and they are carrying "pink" chairs! I look and sure enough here is my husband and son both carrying two pink chairs each! I ask, " is that the only color they had left"? Yeah they had to go in back to see if they even had anymore and brought out two boxes and both boxes only had the pink! Now, my husband is a biker want to be so you can just imagine this biker like dude carrying these pink chairs! It was pretty funny, but hey we got to sit before the concert started so it was all good!

Of course though when the concert started I was not sitting down! It was awesome we all enjoyed it and they had fireworks after so that was pretty cool! We had a hard time getting out of there afterwards, but it was worth it!

Lies And Honesty

This is really about two different stories and yes the lies I did take from another persons post, but when I read that post it reminded me of something so here goes. This was a few years ago before my oldest son moved out on his own. We had his best friend living with us for about six months and my son had just got his drivers license. My kids know how I feel about lies being that I talked to them about when they were lying until I was blue in the face and lectured them on how God doesn't like it when we lie, that being said they know it is better to tell the truth no matter how bad they think the situation may be. Lord knows they have been in trouble enough for lying I think it has finally settled in! I went to use my car on this particular day and my son's friend went with me. I get into my car and I could tell right away that it had been used. So I asked my son's friend did you guys use the car? He said No. I went about my business of where ever it was I was going came back home and ask him again, did you use my car? Again he said no. I go into the house and ask my son, So did you use the car today, which my son laughs and said Yes. So I lectured his friend on how I don't tolerate lies and that I even gave him two changes to tell me the truth. After the lecture and trying to get through to him that it is better to tell the truth than to lie about something, they ask how did you know we used the car. We put everything back the way it was. I told them that they didn't have the mirrors the way I had them or the seat and most of all the steering wheel was all wrong and the fact that I am MOM and know all!! They just laughed and everything was good after that. It wasn't so much that they used the car it is the fact I didn't have my son on the insurance yet and if anything would have happened we would have been in big trouble. The thing is my kids know not to lie but I don't think my son's friends gets it because I caught him in a few lies after that. Hopefully he will learn it isn't a good thing to lie and lying doesn't get you any where and it will catch up to you.


Honesty:

We were at wal-mart the other day picking up a few things and as we were going down this one lane and my son and I saw money on the floor at the same time. He picked it up and it was a 20 dollar bill. He was like oh yeah I found 20 bucks. I am like no we found it and we need to do the honest thing and turn it in. He was like finders keepers. I said No I have taught you better than that. He gave me the money and I turned it in. When I came back my husband ask if they asked me for my name and phone number. I said no why. Because if no one claims it within 30 days it should be yours. I never thought about giving them my name and phone number and they never ask. He said where he works that is what they do. Now I have found money out on the street and keep it, but I didn't feel right about being in a store and finding money and not turning it in. It is like someone left money in those self checkouts before and I turned the money in. My husband found 40 bucks in a bush before. How far do you go to be honest when finding money? I felt I did the right thing and yet my husband ask if I would have known I lost it there. Well I think if all depends on if that was the only place I had gone that day I suppose. No matter what I feel I did the right thing!