Just me and my mom . . .

y Mom and I went to see her brother Ronald
in Washington the 13th - 19th of July.
oi vey (?), what a long drive! We stopped in
Idaho and stayed the 1st night with my old
roomie, Peggy, then arrived at uncle Rons
Tues. evening.
While there, we went to see Moms Aunt Sue
and her son Lewie Maudsley.

This lovely 2 hr. drive did me in and by screeching to an abrupt stop, I was able to take a much closer look at the beautiful flora and fauna and even left the critters a surprise! I am now my uncles favorite niece
because I DIDN'T decorate his car.
We had a great visit and I got to see my cousins that I haven't seen since they were probably 10 and 6. The country is absolutely beautiful - if you don't mind being totally lost all the time. Which I was, being directionally dysfunctional, but with the help of hand drawn maps and lots of phone calls ( thank heavens for cell phones) we were able to return home with only a few minor snafus!
When Adam was little, he heard my uncle do his duck talk, so with any luck, the video will work and you will see the 'original' but uncooperative talking duck.
hummm, guess not! maybe tomorrow.

Washington Trip with Mom

hummmm, obviously I don't seem to know how to load these in the order I had intended . . . . so I'll try to identify this scrambled mess.
Grandma Adams ( me mama) and I headed to Washington State to visit her favorite brother. oppps, did I say that? Maybe I meant MY favorite uncle.

This is Ronald and Georgia and 2 of their 4 daughters. Jennifer & hubby Jason, and Carrie with darling baby ( whose name I have completely spaced). Oh yea, and me - just to prove I really was there.

Just In Case You Haven't Heard

lets all laugh at doggie

poor doggie, when AJ isn't home to protect him we make him wear funny things so we can laugh at him. We took West with us when we went swimming at Sand Hollow the other day. My camera doesn't take the best video so you can't tell how hilarious it looked when he tried to walk while wearing a lifejacket. He had to do this wierd side-to-side hop waddle thing.


Then we got him in the water...

Dinner Theatre

This is what happens at dinner when Rob isn't home. (y'all know what happens when he IS home) Halle was thrilling us with her interpretation of choking to death.. where she learned it, I have no idea. And of course, as soon as I turned on the camera she wouldn't do it with out coaching.... so it looks planned but reallly this was taken after she had been doing it non stop for 1o minutes. I try to be firm and tell the kids to stop acting wierd at the table, but really...I cant help but laugh and then my kids dont take me seriously. I cant win.

NOT-SO-MASSIVE HEADWOUND HALLE

So I am not really sure what this says about my rad parenting skills or about Halle.... does this mean that she is just proving to be a 'Schramm' or is it more that I suck and dont pay attention? hmmmm not sure. One thing is for sure: we are the winners for most random/freak reasons to need urgent care and staples in the head. Here are some that I can remember right now... Garrett ran into a doorknob and gashed his head open. Tait tipped backwards on his bigwheel into the grass and hit the only pointy rock for miles around...big hole. Garrett climbing a tree hit his head on what was trying to be a new branch... big hole. Garrett and tait fighting-taits head hit dresser corner. Garrett slipped on a toy and hit his head on the stair railing. I know there are many more because one year ( when tait and garrett were 2 & 3) we visited the ER 15 times! AWESOME! And we have been many times since. I am on DFAS's watch list. So anyway, yesterday halle got into the car and I turned to get bags out of the cart and the next thing I knew she was screaming on the ground next to the grocery cart. *sigh* I think she hit the cart somehow. Heads sure bleed alot. I couldnt really tell how big the cut was because the entire back of her hair was red and gross... notice the dribble down the shirt. So since we were on the way to a dr. appt anyway... we just drove a little faster. After they cleaned her up she only needed one staple, but the hole was pretty deep. I for one am grateful for staples.... less pain than stitches and no need to shave the head around the wound. yeah!

May...the recap.

I am not very good about posting often so I thought I'd give you a quick review of the busy May that we had: Halle learned to make this beautiful new face. She calls it "rude".
Sarah went to her end of year 9th grade "black & white" dance. It was all very official and fancy except for the fact that she and her bff "kennys" (kennedy) ruined the look by wearing converse.

We always love going to the LeBaron's house... who wouldn't? they have a bowling ally in their basement, a full size tennis court, two huge pirate ships in the backyard that you can have water cannon fights on, not to mention the trampoline surrounded by 5 or 6 gym/wrestling mats. The newest attraction is sumo wrestling. It was pretty funny to watch and the boys had a blast... chad hasnt finished the adult suits so it was just the kids... for now. The Buhler's were there too so there was total of 18 kids running around... very loud and crazy.

Tanner graduated from 6th grade. Can you believe he will be going to jr. high? yikes. He wants everyone to know that he still hates girls. so no need to worry there, I guess.

That' about it. Maybe I will post more often.... but probably not.