Our First REAL Vacation

Day 1- Drive to Missouri
Day 2- Actually pay for a show that belongs in a high school talent show
Day 3- Watch Mormon Branson Performing Families attend church together
Day 4- See my sister Lindsey blow chunks before 10:00
Day 5- Have a cute Ukranian rub oil over our bodies
Day 6- See a seashell like temple
Day 7- Have our first date alone since Xander was born
Day 8- Turn painfully red in a matter of hours
Day 9- Pay $50 to be taken 15 feet into a cave

But, we did have a lot of fun. Thanks mom and dad.

I Hate When...

- People dress their animals in humans clothing.
- Oprah talks.
- I get stuck on hold with ATT
- When producers make the best food every and then discontinue the items, leaving us the consumers with a void in our diets, with nothing similar enough to fill it. Let me give you two examples:

1. Alpha Bits- You might be saying, "Zach, they still make Alpha Bits," to which I would respond, "NO, They Don't." They make nasty cardboard like substitutes. Imagine my disappointment when I see the Alpha Bits box after years of missing them, making myself a somewhat large bowl of cereal, taking my born again virgin Alpha Bits mouth and what in the world, they took all the sugar out and replaced the yummy Alpha Bits with cardboard. I am not happy General Mills, not happy at all.
2. Dunkeroos- Is it sad that I sometimes dream about food and end up eating that certain food for breakfast. I think this is a sign of obesity, but I am OK with that. I think obesity will look good on me. Well one night I had a dream about a kangaroo jumping into icing. I woke up the next morning looking forward to grocery shopping that day and had planned on buying half a bakers dozen boxes of the lovable Dunkeroos. For those of you who do not know what Dunkeroos are they are these cinnamon graham crackers that you dip in this delicious sprinkled icing. And you know what, they stopped making them in the US. I was beyond disappointed and could not find anything to fill that void. Teddy Grahams in icing were not the same, and believe me I tried it. I got on line to find out that they still make them in Canada, so I ordered a box on Amazon, thinking I would get two or three boxes, and this is what happened, Christmas in July for both Xander and I. We may or may not have eaten two boxes the first night. Like I said, I think obesity will fit me well...

The Most Traumatic Day of Xander's Life

We had just gotten back from a long drive from Dallas for Isabel's blessing and decided that Xander's blanket needed to be washed. We grabbed the blanket, thought we were being very sneaky about it, and put it in the washing machine. The sound that erupted after the washing machine started should have made the neighbors call the police. He had the tantrum of his life. We tried to explain that we were just cleaning it, that it was taking a bath, but it took him a while to calm down. He eventually grabbed his stool and sat and watched his blanket for most of the wash. Every time he saw his blanket emerge from the ball of clothes he yelled, "blanket" Very traumatic....