Saturday: Got up EARLY to catch the bus for the auditions in Jackson. One of my girls was sick so I only had 4. They did a pretty good job on auditions I think. But none of them did as well as they were doing the whole week before! I was home by noon thank goodness. I did some fast cleaning before Danny and Marilyn got to town. Saturday night we all went to eat at El Sombrero's and once again I left my camera home on Mariachi band night so I missed some good pictures. The rest of Saturday night we spent visiting and catching up with Danny and Marilyn - it was so great to see them!
Sunday: Took Tyler to church then returned to my cookie experiment from the weekend before. I've been trying to make boiled cookies and they totally FLOP. So it became a mission of mine to figure out what was wrong. I made 2 batches on Sunday and finally the 2nd batch of that day was right. I had to adjust the amounts of cocoa and oats and various other ingredients. Anyway. I then met up with Marilyn to go shopping for shoes and make up. I needed shoes for the wedding that afternoon. We had a great time just doing the girl shopping thing, I don't do that too often. Usually I have 2 boys with me. Who hate clothes. That afternoon was Jon's wedding. (Jon is the drummer in the band that Rusty used to be in.) It was a really nice wedding, and really impressive that Jonny did a lot of the planning and preparation for it. They were married in his backyard. We saw several people we haven't seen in awhile as well. Here are pics of the wedding party, us and Danny and Marilyn. Also I finally got a picture of Steve T. and his new wife. I got a picture of Keith and Angela as well - poor Angela had had surgery less than a week before the wedding but she still looked great. Tanner WANTED to wear his suit and tie for the occasion but it does not fit anymore. I didn't want to spend a lot of money on one just for one wedding, so I just bought him a new shirt and he was happy. Tyler did not want to go to the wedding and he whined enough to get his way.
Also, a very unfortunate thing occured on Sunday afternoon. My beloved attic fan broke. I think the belt broke, we don't know for sure yet. Danny and Marilyn stayed and visited for awhile Sunday evening before they had to drive back to Orlando on Monday morning. We are planning to go visit them next summer.
MONDAY: Back to work with no rest and no work done at home lol. It rained 5 inches on MOnday so we cancelled band practice that night so we didn't have to take equipment out in the mess. We laid around and watched movies til midnight. Watched "Frailty" - it was good.
TUESDAY: Football game. Kids played good as always but lost by 2 points. Tyler had numerous tackles. And they finally took him off of offense for REAL this time so he didn't get so worn out by the end of the game. He liked that, I didn't. Dale went to the game with us as well. Got to see my brother also for about 2 minutes, and enjoyed visiting with mom during the game. We stayed up late AGAIN watching movies.
WEDNESDAY: Bought Tyler and Tanner each a robe because Tyler keeps getting in trouble for using Rusty's and not putting it back.
THURSDAY: The busy weekend and lack of sleep through the week caught up with me and I got sick and went home early from work and, oddly enough, baked a turkey. Got a short nap and by evening felt a good bit better. Also rained again the entire day.
Report Card update: From what I hear, my 2 nephews did very well on their report cards - A's and B's with a C or two each. One of Tyler's D's got changed to a C. The teacher was absent the day report cards were printed and she said she was going back to give them the drop grade she promised them. So now his 74/D in biology is a 75/C. I told him I wanted to see it on paper, so he got her to write me a note that said his actual grade for biology was a 75/C lol.
I've become popular with my oldest son in the last week or so. First, I made some changes on the cell phone plan that bumped him up from 200 text messages/month to 3000/text messages a month. He sent me a text message telling me I'm the greatest mom on earth lol. Then he wanted to order a book from amazon. It was the first of trilogy. You could save money if you just ordered the whole trilogy at once, so I got him all 3 books and he was ecstatic. And for some reason I have taken to catering to him after football games. He has picked up on it and takes advantage of it, which is fine by me I guess. It seems like I remember my mom catering to my brother after football games and stuff so maybe that's why I do it. I remember I thought it was so silly, like, Mom make him fix his own plate, geez! But Tyler is so darn tired after the games and I just feel so sorry for him. I fix his food, drink, bring it to him, find him some clothes to change into, just whatever lol. Dale pointed it out this week, that I was catering to him. Tyler said "yes she is and I like it too!" I told Dale it's because he plays so hard in the games, and Dale says it probably has a lot to do with whether or not he's winning or losing the games too lol. BUt I think I'd probably do it even if they win. Just feels like I'm 'sposed to. But anyway, I think I'm ranking pretty high in the Mom approval polls this week. Guess I'll enjoy it while it lasts lol.
Tanner has always loved to tell jokes but he's always been TERRIBLE at them. He's starting to say some funny ones every now and then though. And getting a lot of witty one-liners in lately too. He's been pleased that people are starting to find him funny more often. Rusty fixed up a kid sized guitar for him this week and has started to show him some things on it. I'm hoping he will be our little musician kid.
Well I guess that's it in a nutshell. Coming up this weekend - Tyler has "Barbarian Weekend" at the church, he will be gone til late Saturday night. We have band practice Saturday. And next week I begin rehearsal with 6th grade for their play.
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