Baby Girl's trip to Boston

Just a few pictures of Boo. She left on Sunday for her trip to Boston, she didn't want me taking her picture and holding mom's hand in the airport well she's just too old to be doing..... I think she's beautiful, she was excited to be going, I was and am a nervous wreck because she's not in my custody.... Here she is with her unaccompanied minor ID tag.
Here's her plane heading for the runway. I wave but don't think she sees us.
Chase had to have a plane just like the one sissy was on. (he had one from last year, but he took it to school and some kid stole it, but what can you do) So anyway he was excited and gave her a hug and told her that he loved her. (he never does that)
Monday they visited Plymouth plantation, Plymouth Rock was under renovation. Tuesday they studied the witch trials at Salem, she said the witch museum was creepy cool. Today she'll be going to Hard Rock Cafe among other places, will visit several historical places. Thursday she'll be having a sleepover aboard the USS Massachusetts in the Boston Harbor. I'm so proud of her. She's getting to do things I never dreamed of at her age.

Too Much Sun

Last weekend, we had a T-ball tournament, three games played. That's roughly 5 hours in full sun. Absolutely NO shade and guess what retard forgot sunblock....YUP me. So Chase was fine, just a little browner on the face and neck (he at least got to spend time in the dugout). Bethany and I weren't so lucky. I swear I couldn't wear a decent shirt for a week, poor Boo wore her swimsuit top for bout 3 days. Now I'm peeling, which is really not a pretty sight. I hate going out in public, I hear people behind me making comments. Thank Goodness its the older people going OOh that poor girl blistered, better get some lotion. So if nothing else I have reminded people to pick up a bottle of sunblock....

Lake

I just realized that in all of my blogging I've never really mentioned my husband. Well the long and short version is we've been married for an eternity (almost 18 yrs). He is employed as a State Trooper. About a month ago he transferred to the Lake Patrol division, after 25 years why not. He's been coming home everyday he works talking about how tired he is. Well Sunday we made a trip to the Tahlequah Wal-Mart (ours is small and sucks, but that's another blog). Bethany is going to Boston in a couple weeks and she needed some clothes to take with her. So anyways on the way back we called Gordon to let him know where we were headed. Chase saw the lake and kept saying I see the Lake Patrol, so Gordon said to come by and let Chase see the boat. So we did and even went for a little ride. Chase loved it. He said it was AWESOME, and that the boat was like on the Power Rangers SPD.
But as you can tell, he had fun. He told Gordon that tomorrow he wanted to take his lifejacket and go for another ride. He didn't understand that Daddy is actually "working". I have decided that Gordon has entered into semi-retirement. Man riding around on a boat all day looking at bikinis, that just sucks I bet.

My Baby Girl

My baby girl is not really a baby anymore, she's 13 going on about 17. She's not usually the boy crazy type unless you start talking about her favorite male character in the book Twilight. Then she gets this look her eyes. This guy is fiction so...(Thank God)
She's pretty level headed most of the time, not into the usual early teen drama.
She left for church camp on Monday, got back yesterday and she was just talking nonstop after dinner til the time I was getting ready for work. Mostly what I heard was centered around a boy. I'm thankful that he doesn't live around here.
She did have some drama with a girl calling her Tulsa (look at backwards), boyfriend stealer etc... Bethany is just friends with everyone boys to her are easier to be friends with because theres less drama. She hates drama (she gets that from me). This is at church camp for petesake. She finally looked at this girl and tells her to shut up that she doesn't really care what she thinks about her. (AWESOME, in my opinion) One of the older teens that was helping out told Bethany that she needed to apologize to this girl for what she said. Bethany just politely told her no and that she didn't care what they said. AMEN to you baby girl. I have always raised her and told her not to take crap from anyone, and she listened. So kudos to baby girl.

Being careful of Boredom

I was pretty bored, on MySpace theres a link that will show some blogs. I won't even dignify or give credit by listing the name of the blog. But everything was so negative about Christianity, saying that the Bible was just a book and not even a good one. That Christians have no proof that God exists. I just started to cry at how many people posted on it in agreement and sickens me that there are so many. I don't know those people, but I would still hate to see them in Hell just because they have been misguided.
I know God exists, if you look you can see him every day. In the smile and wonder of a baby, the million questions of a child, the love between two people. I can't see the wind, I can see the results of it in the moving of the leaves and I can feel it on my skin. I know that God exists and for him to love me enough to send his son to die on the cross for me. I don't deserve that. I can't say I would send my only son to save mankind. I know that the only thing I can do is to pray that those people find their way.
So I will no longer click on some of those links out of boredom, I can't cloud my heart with doubt. I just pray that people looking for answers will not click on those sights, but look toward the heavens and see a local pastor.

Bethany

Bethany left yesterday for church camp. Gordon had to work, which is mostly daytime. My usual sleeping time. So needless to say, Bethany usually keeps an eye on Chase while I sleep. So yesterday Chase woke me around 1030, I stayed awake what seemed like forever, I laid back down around 2 and Chase let me sleep til almost 5. I don't want to take my baby girl for granted. She has been a HUGE help to me. Always there to watch Chase, I know he gets on her nerves (that's what little brothers do). She's a beautiful girl both inside and out. I love and thank God for giving her to me. I'm so undeserving. I know she knows I love her. But she's growing so fast and becoming a young lady. She's so beautiful, I wish she could look through my eyes and see herself the way that I see her.

I love you Bethany.

Things I'm too old for.

I'm not as young as I used to be or in shape, but I know there are things that I just shouldn't do at my age. Such as pigtails, pink hair, frilly dresses (not that I was ever really into that) which brings me to the next thing that I'm just too old for. You have to see my son to know that the kid can talk me into almost anything. When you hear "aw come on mom its not that scary" or better yet, "is your butt to wide to fit thru". Ok well we went for a walk around the track at school. Took Chase over to the playground, they have what I call the firemen's pole. I tried to talk him into sliding down, I managed to help him on it and Gordon helped him to "slide" down. Chase decided that I needed to try. So I couldn't not do it after convincing him that he would have fun. So I did, made a straight drop to the bottom and fell on my "wide" butt, was funny, hurt my heals a bit. But I made it. He wanted to go again, so again I climb up to help. He made it down a little more by himself this time. He then told me that I needed to go again. Can I tell him no, when I'm always telling him to pick himself up and try again.... Ok well I climb on, decide to hold on a little firmer on the way down, I should've probably gripped more with my legs.... but no I tried to hold on with my hands. Not the smartest thing to do, so needless to say I "burned" my fingertips on the third and fourth fingers. For future reference, I will admit to Chase that YES my butt is too "wide" and I'm just too old for some things.