Journey to the Center of the Earth

I know I've posted a lot today, but we've had an eventful week. Today we took the kids to see the 3-D movie Journey to the Center of the Earth. It was so fun and the movie was really good.

It was funny to watch the kids with their glasses on and jump and grab at the special effects. Some of them were right in front of your face. Even I jumped back a few times.

We looked like dorks with our Buddy Holly 3-D glasses on, but we had a good time. Plus it was nice and cool in the movie theater. It has been sooooo HOT here. It don't know if it is right or not, but we drove by a marquee that said it was 113! That's crazy hot.

If you can go see this movie. It was a nice family film. Kassi did get scared at one part, but in the safety of Mommy's lap she was fine. Good times!

Bailee's Soccer Camp

Bailee went to her soccer camp this week and had so much fun. She learned a lot and really worked hard. One of her coaches, Coach Roddy, is a soccer star from Italy. He plays here for the Shreveport United.It was in the evenings, but it has been soooo HOT! over 100 degrees every day. But she didn't care and just guzzled her water. I'm afraid I wasn't the best soccer mom because I sat in the car with the A/C. (I was melting) The last day of camp they had a game and Bailee did awesome and scored her team's only two goals! We were very proud of her!

Free MySpace slideshows, photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Billy's New Truck

Well,we finally got tired of Billy's old '90 Chevy K5 Blazer and Billy really wanted a new truck for his birthday. (He's is turning 40 at the end of the month so I guess he deserves one.) So, back and forth between the Dodge and the Nissan dealer that are across the street from eachother (both having 50% off sales) and Nissan finally won his business and gave him what he wanted. He got a pretty sweet ride, a black '08 1/2 Nissan Titan XE 4-door. I think it will look good with his red and black boat. Now, of course the girls don't want to ride with me in the "boring" car. That's okay, Daddy time is good too. In the meantime, we have a Black 1990 Chevy K5 Blazer for sale if anyone is interested!
 
I'm too sexy for my truck.
 
 
 

 
 

Sunken Treasure Boat Sold!

Okay, so back in April Billy found this Crappie boat (I know this is word looks like "crappy" but it's a fish said "craw-pee"-- a Southern thing.) This boat was in the lake by our house sunk with only the motor sticking out at some old guy's dock at his house. Come to find out it had been sunk for about two years! So, Billy (the I can fix that up guy) goes to the house and offers to buy the boat for a few $$$ and gets the boat out of the lake. He brings this yucky, stinky,thing home. Remember it has been underwater for 2 years. It is covered with algea, catfish and crawfish are living in the front end of it in the compartments full of mud. When he brought it home the next day he found a couple catfish and crawfish still in it! I never in a million years thought he could clean it up good enough to sell, but he did. It was amazing! He got that boat looking new. He did a great job and worked very hard on it. That's my man. We put it out for sale on Monday and sold it Saturday. Not too shabby! Way to go honey.

BEFORE
 
 
 
AFTER--Ta-Da!
 

Fashion Show

My friend Cindy called me last week and told me about this Fashion Show that was going on at the BX, (The base's department store.) She was trying to get her daughter to do it and thought she would have some luck if my girls were in it too. Bai and Kassi were sooo excited when I asked them if they wanted to do it. They could not wait. They practiced their cat walk struts all week long after watching the Miss Universe pagent for some pointers. They got to pick any two outfits they wanted. Saturday came, the big day. They could hardly wait to get there and were too excited to wear some mascara. It was fun for me too. Billy was teasing me calling me a "pagent mom", but we all had a good time. The show ended up being a little unorganized and not what I expected, but the girls had so much fun. They didn't notice or care. As you can see they had a blast.

Make an on-line slideshow at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Chuck E. Cheese

 
 
 
 
I woke up this morning and remembered the kids were invited to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese today. I debated going for a minute, but then figured hey, someone else is paying for it so might as well. The girls love going there and I never end up taking them. So we got ready real fast and stopped at Target quickly for a present and off to to Chuck E. Cheese. I brought my camera (because now days I look for things to blog about since I never get around to scrapbooking) and of course my batteries are dead. Bummer! But we did end up with these pictures from the Chuck E. photo drawing booth. Afterwards we hung out at Books-A-Million for a bit looking at all the books and then popped into Old Navy to look around. By this time Kassi seems to think she is going to die of thirst and Bailee is hungry (She must be growing because she is hungry all the time.)and it is almost two, so we grab some McDs on the way home because they really think they need to collect all the Littlest Pet Shop prizes and I'm a pushover. (We have chicken nuggets at home.)Oh, well. It was a fun day with the girls.

Princess Camp

 
 
Kassi went to Princess camp this week. Monday she was Sleeping Beauty, Tuesday she was Tinkerbell, and today she was Snow White. She had so much fun and did really good today on her princess dance. Daddy even came to watch her. She was blowing him kisses and waving at him during her dance. She went with her friend Evan and her friend Maggie was there too. She's our sweet princesss. Bailee is going to soccer camp at the end of the month and is excited about that. Other than that we are just trying to stay cool in the southern heat. I told the kids if they cleaned their rooms really good we would go swimming tomorrow. They did so I need to hold up my end of the bargin. Fun times!