A Few Odds and Ends Before We Go......

Dear Mister,
How do you lose 10 pounds that fast? Really?!!?!?! HOW? That is not only not fair and wrong but completely not nice!
BTW, I am madly in love with you!

Dear Alarm Clock,
I will always hate you! No matter what time you need to wake me up! Thank you for doing your job but that is just the way it is!

Dear Washington,
Why do you have to be so far away? I miss the monkey and his parents. Could you move mountains closer?

Dear California,
Please be nice to us! We would love sun kisses but hopefully more of the tan kind than the berry red kind!

Dear Moomba and Supra,
Someday dear friends...someday! Promise! You, us, lake....fun times!!!

Dear Judoka coming to the tournament,
Take it easy, will ya? You are good, but so is the little man! Watch out! Sometimes it is the nice, small kids that can be the hardest! Plus my friends, he has worked extremely hard and deserves just one good throw/ippon...or maybe two, three......

Dear Family,
We will miss you! Thanks for taking care of our four legged friends! We love you and they love you for it! We have talked about behaving.....

Dear Mickey, Shamu and Friends,
Alas, you will get to meet my loves! Can you wait? I know we can't.

Awww, a sweet picture to leave you with! These two are the best! They have Mister and my heart! Couldn't be happier with our little crazy busy life! Next time I write.....California baby!!!

If you can't beat "um", join them...............

.....or maybe you would prefer...when in Rome, do as the Romain's do?!?!?! However you would like to word it, our Lil' Ms has joined Judo. I know, I know, I know. I know, exactly what you are thinking and to be honest, I have NO IDEA how it all came to be or how it started or even at this point why but she did and she seems to like it.
(One has to ask if I can spend in anymore time in an old Dojo?!?!?That is my single, most irritating question. Why must a dojo be in an old, broken, down, no heat or air conditioned building? Really!?!?! How is it possible that these people find these buildings and call them a dojo with pride? When I win the lottery, I am building the first known in our area dojo with real restrooms, state of the art training apparatuses, a place for the spectators to work out and/or sit and just enjoy learning, and here will be the best part......HEAT and AIR CONDITIONING!!! Those Sensei's won't know what to do! It will be crazy!!! It will be my fame to claim to the Judo community! Awww, I get smiles just to think of it!!)

Mister is beaming from ear to ear and all three of them throw out Japanese/Judo vocabulary at the dinner table like everyone should know what it means.

All in all, I am delighted if she is happy and secretly (Shhhh!) I am enjoying the sport. We have gone to several new dojo's this summer (Getting the Little Man ready for Junior Nationals...oh, you might not know! More about that later!!!) and I do kindof like it! I would deny it if you asked me or talked about it, but it truly isn't so bad. (I am a little hurt though that not one of my kids wants to try swimming. Sniff, sniff! Now that is what I like to think of as a sport!)

She has no desire to compete, not a problem! I hate that part! ( But we all know she will do whatever is the opposite that her mother wants so I will inform you of dates for tournaments! ) She just wants to get involved in something and recognizes the need for exercise. I do believe that it allows her to spend time with her Daddy and brother but any mother would be silly not to appreciate that for the perfect reason. So, maybe the best title should be, "You go get um Tiger!" or "The world is at your fingertips Little Lady!"

Mr. Greyson Comes to Visit!!!

well......and Bob and Stacy too! We love all three, really, but Greyson I believe takes the winning prize!

It was a special treat to get to have the Westfall clan come and spend Memorial Day with us! We spent every minute we could with them and wished we could have spent even more. Drat that need for sleep!!! That is all I am going to say about that!!
We always have a good time when they are here and we so look forward to them coming. More than they probably even know!

It is so hard to not have them close where we can see them, share things with them, do activities with them and even watch Greyson grow. (We get to see through Skype and pictures but it isn't the same! We need him here!!) He is truly a miracle baby with obviously a HUGE purpose we know that it our privilege and gift that we are able to be a part of his life. He is an adorable little guy and is soo good! (I think he takes after his Aunt Debbie in that area a little, don't you?!?!)The weekend went by way too fast! However, it was perfect.....
well, perfect until we had to say......

Goodbye!

We love you Bob, Stacy and Greyson!

We hope that all goes well and you can hurry back!