OH, Happy Day!!!

The kids have been saving their allowance to buy Webkinz.

After weeks & weeks and a generous donation from Grandma Connie they finally had enough.

So after sitting through a boring doctor's appointment, we went to the Hallmark store.

They scored, Webkinz were on sale, buy 2 get one free.

Samantha with her porcupine Priccers.

Patrick with his Border Collie Missy.

He said he needed a girl so she could marry his Timber Wolf Frisky Fluffy.

The couple is very happy.

Colin with his Rottweiler Bruno.

With their Webkinz savings, they were each able to buy a hermit crab from the pet store.

Here's our awesome "crabitat".

Patrick's hermit crab has the fanciest shell & is the most active so far.

Colin's First Missing Tooth

Colin is so excited to finally loose his first tooth!

Patrick lost his second tooth today also.

Good Old Fashion Red-Neck Fun

This weekend we headed to the race track to watch th mud bogs & the Monster trucks.

Dale drove my Dad's truck in the mud bog & took 2nd place out of 13.

(Each truck got 2 runs. The video of Dale's 2nd run is at the end of the post.)

I didn't get any good pictures of the monster trucks.

There were 4. At first they just drove around & did donuts.

Colin was disgusted they weren't driving over any cars.

They saved that for after the intermission.

I told Dale that I'm going to gain about 50 lbs,

get me some tight jeans & a scanky tank top, & hang out at the race track!

I want a sign that says, "Honey, just because they make it in your size

doesn't mean you should wear it!"

The kids favorite part was the finale.

You just can't beat an old fire truck with a jet engine

burning up an old Winnebago!

Oh Yeah!!

Patrick's Tooth

Patrick lost his 1st tooth yesterday.

He's so excited to be a big boy!

This morning Colin was digging under Patrick's pillow

trying to see what the Tooth Fairy brought.

He kept saying, "Patrick, wake up the Tooth Fairy came!"

Poor Patrick just wanted to sleep and when he did get up

his tooth holder & his money were moved.

At least Colin was able to tell him where they were.

Lake Powell

This is what the kids did almost the whole time. They couldn't get enough of the water or the sand!

Patrick where's your life vest?!

Colin's silly grin.

Wendy wasn't too sure if she liked the water. She did have a ton of fun playing with the other dogs.

Samantha liked hanging out with Maddy.

The trip wouldn't be complete without some cool rock pictures.

Samantha got out of the cool water & rolled in the warm sand.

Colin's sand pile.

Patrick's sand pile.

An awesome rainbow.

Colin looks happy to be heading home.

Patrick sat like this for a long time, we were finally able to talk him into laying down. He fell asleep about 5 minutes from the marina.

Smile Samantha.