Mom update

My Mom had her third chemo treatment today. Each one seems to be getting a little worse. The Doctor told her this would most likely happen as the poisons build up in her body. I haven't talked to her today, but I have had her in my thoughts. She is amazing, she is still continuing to work, even though she is feeling even more sick. I know that working is helpful because it helps to take her mind off of it, but I hate that she is working so hard when she really doesn't feel up to it! She is not supposed to lose her hair with this kind of treatment, but she says that everyday she sees more of it on her bathroom floor. She can even find a positive thing for this. She says it will just give her an opportunity to check out new hairstyles with cute wigs! (always the happy go lucky!) The good news is with each treatment she has, the closer she is to being done! Only nine more to go. I think she should have a party with each treatment. In two weeks she can have a number eight party, and then keep counting down until zero! We love you Mom, and you are always in our thought and prayers.

Barn Owls

I think we have a Major flock of these things in our yard! We have always had a few owls here. I can remember when Bennett was little, and we watched the secret of NIMH, (a movie about smart rats that I loved when I was a kid) he was really scared of owls after that. Well we had an owl that lived in the tree right outside his window, and it would hoot all night long. Which would scare the poor kid half to death, and he would come down stairs crying almost every night. After a while he got use to them, and now the kids think they are great. I have always liked them because they keep the field mice population under control. (we live in the country and have lots of mice in the yard and the fields around our house) Last year we had a pack meeting here at our house. (we do a couple times a year, it is the perfect place for a bon fire, and roasting hot dogs and marshmallows) We were having an arrow of light ceremony and right in the middle of it an owl flies over our heads and lands in a tree right next to the kids who were getting their arrow of light. It was so cool, and perfect for the ceremony. But lately however, it seems as if we have hundreds of owls living in our trees, and they don't shut up! All night long I here "WHO WHO WHO" over and over and it really seems to be getting louder. I toss and turn most nights because of the stinking things, and tonight is no exception! I can't see them, but I know they are there, dozens of little peeping Toms, trying to get a look! (I'm joking! I'm not really that self involved!) What to do! I should stop complaining and get up earlier in the morning, then I will be so tired at night, I won't hear a thing! Anything that eats mice is a friend of mine!

time alone with my thoughts

Jason is in Utah, for what else, a roping. I really miss him terribly when he is gone, but it does give me time to catch up on my chick flicks. After I got the kids in bed, I settled down with a box of candy and the movie, P.S. I love you. Oh man, what a great show. I really wasn't expecting much, the previews weren't all that appealing to me, but I saw it and thought, why not. Now I am really missing Jason, and wishing he was here and I could feel his arms around me. I was reading my sister in law's blog earlier, and she was saying how you never know what the future holds. One minute you are here and the next, well possibly, you're not. The truth is you should never waist a moment that could be spend with the people you love, and you should never waist the opportunity to tell them just how much you love them. (you see what a chick flick does to me!) So, here goes, Jason, I love you, probably more than you'll ever know. You came into my life (nearly twelve years ago) and swept me off of my feet, and I have yet to set my feet on the ground. We don't always see eye to eye, but I think that is one of the many things that makes us great. Our differences and the way we come together, make us so much stronger. You are an amazing husband, father, friend, lover, coach, athlete, son, teacher, and the best man I know. I know that I am really embarrassing you right now (another thing I love about you, your modesty) But that's what you get for leaving me alone with all my thoughts! So honey, come home safely, I'll see you soon.

What a crazy day!

I had the craziest, super busy day today! I started out trying to get awards for my cub scouts, what a joke! I use to be able to just go to the scout office and pick up any awards that I needed, but now you have to go online and fill in all these forms and it is a big frickin mess. Most of the time the scout office computer is down and then it takes hours to do one simple award. Well today I had eleven awards to get, all going to different boys so I was on the computer forever!! I'm not kidding it took me over three hours to fill out these stupid forms, that should have only taken me five minutes, but their computer wasn't working! Pack meeting is tomorrow, so I had to get it done today. After I finally got the computer things figured out, I headed to Idaho Falls to pick up the awards. Well it turns out their computers were really screwed up today and they hadn't received my forms!! So I had to do it all over again at the scout office. An hour and a half later I left with the awards I needed, needless to say I was a bit frustrated! I had a lot of other things to do for pack meeting, which took up the better part of my day. I finally get home and have to rush to get the kids ready for baseball. That's right I said "the kids," Evan and Isabel have started baseball now. Evan had practice at 5:30 to 6:30, then Isabel had practice from 7:00 to 8:00 and then Bennett had a game at 6:30. I was so bent out of shape from the whole cub scout mess, and in a rush to get the kids where they needed to be, throwing them in the car while they are all screaming at each other, the next thing I know, I hear this big crunch! As I was pulling out of the garage, I failed to notice that Jason had parked his pick up behind me and slammed into it! Now on my defense, he never parks there. We have this huge yard and driveway and he picks right behind me to park. I am saying all this to point the finger at someone other than me, but the truth is it was all my fault! All I had to do was look in my rear view mirror and I would have seen this giant truck behind me. UGGGG! What a day I am having! So after having a few words with Jason, and shedding more then a few tears, I finally got Evan to his baseball practice. Oh, but that's not all, while Evan was practicing I let Isabel and Will play on the play ground next to the field. After practice I'm grabbing them all, and rushing to get them in the car to get to Isabel's practice, and I notice Isabel's pants are wet. She has had a potty accident because she couldn't find a bathroom! So we have to hurry and drive home so she can change and get to practice on time. I drop her off at practice and rush to Bennett's game. While I was watching him play, I notice Will has wet pants. Yes, that's right, another potty accident! So after only getting to watch about 15 minutes of Bennett's game, I have to take Will home to change. By the time we got home and I got Will changed, it was time to pick up Isabel. Bennett's game ends at eight, so we just headed home yet again. On the way home, out of the corner of my eye, I see what I think at first is a huge horse. I slow down and get a better look, no not a horse, but a moose, out in our neighbor's field! I was pretty excited about this, because it is not to often that we see a moose around here. So I grabbed my camera and got out of the car. I was trying to get as close as possible to get a good picture and got as close as I could, while feeling safe. I was looking through my camera, trying to get it to focus on the moose. When I finally got it to focus, the moose was gone. I looked up from my camera, to see where it had gone, and found it charging at me! I took off running as fast as I could back to the car and just about had an accident in my pants! The moose stopped and snorted only about 15 yards away from me! Oh that was a little to close for me, but I was able to get a few good shots on my camera from inside the car! After finally getting home and the kids to bed, whew, I'm so tired! What a crazy day. I hope tomorrow goes a little better.

Here is my poor van, I guess it could have been worse, but still. I want to cry (again) just looking at it! Jason's pick up is fine, not even a scratch.

This is the female moose that almost killed me. (o.k., so maybe it wasn't quite that dramatic, but still really scary!)

To sleepover or not to sleepover?

Tonight Bennett went to spend the night at someones (I wont name names) house, and I didn't even know about it! I sent him with his Grandpa and some cousins to a roping that Jason was in for the evening, but had expected him to come home. Around eleven o'clock I was getting a little worried when I got a phone call from Jason saying he was going to spend the night. I was so mad!! I have a rule about sleepovers, which is no sleepovers! To many bad things happen to kids at sleepovers and I want to protect my kids. The thing is you can't trust anyone when it comes to this issue. (child abuse) If people who hurt kids went around with it tattooed on their forehead it would be a different story, but the sad thing is, it is usually the one person you would never think would do it, who hurts your child. I hate having to be this way, and sometimes feel like my kids are missing out on a childhood right of passage, but how else do you protect them from those sick individuals who hurt kids! Jason thinks I am way to over protective, and we don't see eye to eye on this issue at all. I have seen first hand what abuse can do to a child and I don't want my kids to have to go through that kind of pain. Am I wrong about this? Should I let them have sleepovers? I would love some advice on this subject, please! I made Jason go pick Bennett up tonight, even though it was almost midnight before he got there. He was so mad at me for this. The thing is, I have made myself perfectly clear on this issue and the fact that I wasn't even consulted about it makes me irate! I think we are going to have to agree to disagree on this. I don't think I will be changing my mind any time soon.

Thank you Mrs. Hansen

I was just reading my last post and I realized that I hadn't said anything about Bennett's teacher. All I said was how Bennett was happy to be out of school and raved about Isabel's teacher, making it seem as if Bennett didn't have a wonderful teacher, which is so not the case. Bennett's teacher was so great, she spent so much extra time and energy with him. Bennett doesn't thrive on school like Isabel. He has had a rough couple of years with school, and things don't come easy for him. He works and works at his school work and it just doesn't sink in. His teacher, Mrs. Hansen, worked hand in hand with Jason and I to keep Bennett caught up and on task. (which is not an easy thing.) We really appreciate everything she did for Bennett, because he had a great teacher, he had a great year. He brought his report card home today (Que the dramatic music, duh da da) it was awesome! All A's and B's! We are so happy and proud of all his hard work. You rock Bennett, Great work! (thanks Mrs. Hansen)

Last day of school

Today was the last day of school for Bennett and Isabel. Bennett was thrilled to be done, but Isabel on the other hand was not happy at all. She loves school and learning new things, but even more she loves her teacher, Mrs. Johnson. She is moving to California this summer and Isabel is so sad that she wont get to see her next year. She was a great teacher, always doing the funnest things to get the kids involved and enjoying school. She gave all of the kids a disc today, that had pictures of the class over the past year. How cool is that!? Isabel has had so much fun looking at these pictures and remembering all of the fun days in first grade. We hope she has a second grade teacher as wonderful as Mrs. Johnson.

Isabel brought home her report card yesterday. When I opened it I was so excited, she had a perfect report card! In first grade they don't give regular grades, A's and B's, that sort of thing. They give numbers and E's for excellent. The highest number is a 4 which means above grade level. Isabel had all E's and 4's. Isabel took one look at her report card and started crying. She said "I thought I did good this year" I was surprised by this and told her she did great. Isabel then replied, "I got all E's, the worst is an F". I tried really hard not to laugh at this, and explained that the E was the best she could get.

a conversation with the toilet

Earlier tonight, I walked into my bedroom and I heard the funniest conversation coming from my bathroom. It went something like this:

Toilet (AKA Will, in a deep kind of scary voice): Hey what are you doing to me?
Will: Don't worry toilet, I'm just going potty.
Toilet: I don't want you to make me messy!
Will: I promise, I will only pee in your water, and I wont poop on you this time.
Toilet: O.k. you can go
after a minute.......
Will: Thanks toilet, I'm all done.
Toilet: Don't forget to flush, and make sure you wipe off those drippys.
Will: O.k. but don't tell Mom I made drippys on you.
Toilet: Don't forget to wash your hands and I wont tell.
Will: Thanks toilet, you're a good friend. See you next time.
Toilet: Bye, bye Will.

I'm not kidding, this is a true story!! Kids have the best imaginations!

Liberty got his bear!

My oldest brother, Liberty, is in Canada right now on a bear hunt. He was so excited to go and had hoped that he would get his bear. Today I got an email from him letting us know he had in fact gotten his bear. Congrats Lib! He got this bear on the second day there, with his bow. I wonder what he will do with the rest of his time in Canada.

I've been tagged

Tag I'm it:
What was I doing ten years ago?
I was moving into our first house and loving being a first time Mom. Bennett was just a few months old, and I had just decided that I would not be going back to work, and would instead work even harder as a full time Mom.

Five snacks I enjoy:
-I can't get enough of homemade salsa and chips
-fudge bars
-kettle chips (preferably salt and vinegar)
-mini Charleston chews
-cheesecake (I don't know if this counts as a snack, since one slice has more calories than a normal daily intake, especially since I could easily eat the whole thing!)

Five things on my to do list today:
-clean bathrooms (everyday)
-clean kitchen (everyday)
-check on my brothers house (he is in Canada on a bear hunt)
-make a few baby slings
-soccer coach meeting

Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
-I would pay off my mortgage and every other debt, and my families.
-I would set up college and mission funds for each of my kids
-my sister in law is in Africa right now teaching in an orphanage, and has told me about all that needs to be done there, so I would set up programs to help build roads and schools and hospitals in Africa.
-I would help with the clean up in New Orleans from the Katrina disaster
-I would travel the world with my husband and kids

Five (4) jobs I have had:
-Baskin Robbins (my first job other then babysitting. I think I gained ten pounds that summer)
-waitress (many different restaurants at different times in my life)
-dental assistant
-Mom (my favorite of all my jobs)

Five of my bad habits:
-Eat way to much junk
-spend to much money
-crack my knuckles
-hooked on soap operas (days of our lives, pathetic I know)
-I don't like to use sun screen

Five places I have lived:
-Utah
-Nevada
-Seattle
-Montana
-Idaho

Five people I want to get to know better: (a nice way of saying,"tag your it")
-Emily
-Megan
-Yumi
-Rachel
-Brittany

Six random things:
-I'm a bit of a goof ball
-I love music. It doesn't matter what kind it is, I love everything from classical to rock, country to rap and everything in between.
-I try to stay away from reading, because once I start, I can't put down the book until I'm finished, and everything else suffers for it.
-My favorite cereal is lucky charms. Always has been.
-I can't stand people who drive under the speed limit.
-I hate mushrooms

Game 4, 5 and 6

So I haven't updated on the Dodgers lately. I felt like every post was another update, but I guess that's what happens when you have two games a week. The Dodgers record so far is: 2 wins 3 losses and 1 tie. (how do you tie in baseball you might ask, well you are not aloud to start a new inning after 8:00 in this league, so if it is tied, it stays tied.) The last couple of games have been really hard on the Dodgers, but Bennett is playing so much better!! I didn't go to the game on Thursday, Lillia wasn't feeling well, so I stayed home with her. Jason came home just raving about how great Bennett played and that it was his best game yet! I can't believe I missed that! He got a couple kids out on second base, caught a pop fly, and scored. (maybe I should stay home more often!) Each week he gets better and better, the sad thing is, once the kids really start to get the game, and are playing their best, the season is over. Oh well, I'm just glad he is having fun.

Let them eat cake

Happy Birthday Little Lillia
Tonight we had Lillia's birthday party. It is so funny to throw a party for someone who has no idea that anything special is going on! She just kept staring at me like, yeah, so what. Oh well, I had fun. Jake and Megan and Mom, Dad and Micheal came (thanks you guys for coming) we ate a lot of good food and opened Lillia's presents for her and we sang, and Will blew out her candle. It was a nice night. McKenna (Jake and Megan's little girl) is getting so big, and she is so smart. She is only 16 months, and is doing the funniest things. After Lillia had eaten her cake, I was cleaning her up, McKenna came over and started handing me wipes, I finished cleaning her face and hands and set her down next to Mckenna. McKenna then got out another wipe and started to clean Lillia's face. It was really the sweetest thing. What I couldn't believe was that Lillia just stood there and let her. Those two are going to have so much fun together as they get a little older. Megan I think we are in for some trouble!! Here are some fun pictures and videos of the night.

Will loved all of Lillia's new toys. Actually all the kids did. What is it about baby toys that make even older kids want to play with them? Here is Will showing Lillia how to use her new phone. She keeps on putting it up to her ear and talking, they learn so young. The cute chair she is sitting in is from Mckenna. She picked it out herself, Thanks Mac! (that is McKenna's nick name, not you (brother) Mac.)

This is Grandpa Erickson, playing Nacho Libre. He was so funny, he had no idea who Nacho Libre was. I think it's time they have a movie night! Take a look out the window, we actually had a nice day!! Oh Yeah!!

Sorry about the filming, Bennett was working the camera!

Evan graduates

Tonight was Evan's pre-school graduation. What a big kid he is. He will be moving on to kindergarten next year. My kiddo's are all growing up to fast!! He loved his pre-school and all his teachers, and will miss them so much, but he is so excited to move on. After his graduation, he kept asking me if he got to go to kindergarten tomorrow. What a cutie!! They sang songs, talked about their favorite things they learned, told shapes and time, and then they all received their diploma's. Evan gets so nervous and shy when he is in front of people, so he wasn't as lively as he normally is, but he still did a good job. Next, kindergarten adventures.....

This is one of Evan's favorite songs, he sings it almost everyday. Sorry about how shaky it is at first, I was trying to get a little closer.

My Baby is One!!

Yesterday was Lillia's first birthday!! My baby is now one year old! In a way I'm a little sad. She has grown so fast and the past year has just flown by, but at the same time this next year will be so much fun. She will soon be walking and talking and her personality will really start shinning through. I thought I'd share some photos of her first few days with us (I saw this on my friend, Yumi's blog and thought it was so cute) Enjoy.

Her birthday party will be on Friday, so more to come....

Father/Son Campout

I realized last night that I haven't posted about the father/son camp out that my boys went to over the weekend. It is actually a funny story. It was just an over night camp out, and thank goodness it was. I don't think that Jason could have handled it for much longer. The boy's were so excited to go, and headed out Friday, and when they got there it had started snowing. My little boys all found their friends and took off playing, and Jason set up and was helping the other Dad's with dinner. After about an hour the little boys were freezing and wet from the now three inches of snow on the ground! Jason doesn't think that when you are camping you need to pack extra clothes, so they had nothing to change into. I really thought he had learned his lesson two years ago at the father/son camp out, when Evan fell into the river up to his neck, luckily I had packed a clean set of clothes for them that year and Evan was able to get changed. When he got home he was very happy that I had packed them those clothes, even though he gave me such a hard time for packing them in the first place. But unfortunately, Jason hadn't learned from that experience and the boys were now freezing cold and miserable. Jason took them into the camper and got them all warm and snug in their beds and were asleep by seven thirty! About halfway through the night, Jason woke up to a loud thud, Will had fell out of the bed and now wanted to sleep with his Daddy, so Jason got him all snug in his bed and they both got back to sleep. Well that turned out to be a bad idea, Jason woke up later because he was now sleeping in a puddle of wet, that's right, Will peed the bed! Of course since Jason doesn't think he needs extra clothes for camping, neither one of them had anything to change into, and no clean bedding either. The next morning they quickly packed up and happily came home for some badly need rest! I think he will pack a little better next year!

Idaho History

Bennett and I worked all night on his Idaho history project. Thank goodness it is now done!! I wanted to do something easier, but Bennett was quick to remind me that, "it's MY project Mom, not yours!" So we made a mountain, and a train, and a forest, all to symbolize the timber industry in the early Idaho days. He learned how workers would cut down whole forests and then move to the next without even thinking about what they were doing, and pretty soon Idaho was running out of trees, and many of the smaller timber companies had to call it quits. They finally realized they had to plant new trees when they would cut others down. It was about this time that President Roosevelt established national forests, to protect our forest land. I bet you didn't know all that, I didn't. Bennett thought it was funny that he knew more about Idaho history then me, I had to keep reminding him that I grew up in Seattle not Rigby!! He is very proud of his project and I am very glad it is done. Hopefully it makes it to school in one piece!

Happy Birthday JJ

My good friend JJ had a birthday today, so I thought I'd make her a cake. I love to work with fondant, and I wanted to practice for Lillia's birthday tomorrow. I had so much fun making this cake. I think Lillia's cake will look a lot like this one. We will not be having the official birthday party for Lillia until Friday because we have such a busy week ahead, but considering she is turning one, I don't think she'll mind!

JJ has been an amazing friend to me over the last five, six years. I really don't know what I'd do without her. We live out on the ward boundaries, and for a long time we were the only families out here, so we learned to take care of and lean on one another. Now that the area has grown and is continuing to grow, we have more people to look out for, but we still lean on each other. When I think of a true friend, I think of JJ. Happy Birthday.

Happy Mother's Day/Happy Birthday

I Just want to first of all say, Happy Mother's day to every Mother reading this!! Being a Mom is I think, one of the most challenging jobs out there. So here's to you Mom's, YOU ROCK!! I also want to tell the two Mom's in my life how much I love them and how much I appreciate everything they do for me and my family. Mom, you have made me the woman I am today, and I am truly thankful for your wonderful example. You have been the most amazing Mother and Grandmother. We are extremely lucky to have you in our lives. Coleen, You raised a wonderful Son, I know that he is who he is because of you (and his four other Mom's, his older sisters! Although they may have spoiled him a little, but that is a completely different post!) You are a loving a attentive grandma, and my kids look up to you and we all know that we can count on you for anything. I have such awesome examples in my life of what a mother should be, so thank you, both of my Mom's.
Mother's day was such a nice day. I was able to go to church with my parents and after enjoy a nice meal made by my little brothers, Mac and Charlie. I thought I needed to take a picture of this to prove to any non-believers that my brothers really did cook! And yes, they really are this cheesy all the time!
The beautiful Mom's (we missed you Robyn!)
We also celebrated Mac, Pip and Lillia's birthday's Mac and Pip are my little brother's, and their b-day was on Thursday. Yes, they are twins, and I know, they look nothing a like! Lillia's b-day is on Tuesday, so we thought we'd go a head and celebrate with my family today. She is pretty out of it, because I had to wake her up so she could be part of the birthday cake and song. Lillia was born on Mother's day last year, so it was only fitting that we sang to her today!

It's hard to say which family sings happy birthday worse, the Brown's or the Erickson's!!

This is all five of my brothers, (listed from youngest to oldest, left to right) Charlie, Pip, Mac, Zac, and Liberty. I love my bro's and I was so excited to get to see all of them. What a good looking group!

After parting with the Brown's, My girls and I headed home. I have made that drive to many times to count over the past twelve years, but today I saw something I have never seen before, a grizzly bear!! It was so cool, right before the Idaho border, a grizzly was just hanging out in an open field. I tried to get a picture, but I didn't get to my camera quick enough. So sad, sorry. I got home and was so happy to see all my boy's!! It was strange being with out them all weekend. They were so cute when I got home, running up, giving me hugs and telling me "happy Mother's day!" I had the best day, I hope that all of you Mom's had a great day as well.

Mother's Day Weekend

Friday Isabel, Lillia and I headed up to my parent's home in Bozeman to spend Mothers day with my Mom. The boys had a father/son camp out on Friday night, so we decided it would be easier to split up for the weekend and we could celebrate Mothers day for me another time. I had no idea what I was getting myself into with this drive. I thought it would be a nice easy drive (I mean really, it is May!!) but this is what I ran into. I couldn't believe how much it snowed. It even got a lot worse before it got better. I was really excited when I nearly ran into a herd of bison on the road. (I really mean it when I say "nearly ran into", they were right in the middle of the road!!) Isabel was so excited to see the little baby bison. We also saw them on the way home. I guess they hang out there, just past West Yellowstone. It was a fun treat to see them.

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Saturday was night and day difference from Friday. We had really nice weather and took advantage of it! My parents live on a golf course, which is really nice, they have a huge back yard it's only the sixth green! So Grandpa loved this opportunity to teach his Grand kids (I say grand kids, because my little brother Charlie, and his wife Candi, and their two little boy's were also there.) how to golf. Isabel took to it really fast, (like she does with every other sport) and had a great time. All us girls, (My Mom, Candi, Isabel and I) decided to spend the day shopping and hanging out. It was so much fun. I don't get a lot of opportunities to do this, so I had a great time.

That was a little later in the day, just some cute pictures of Lillia, downing a banana. She loves to eat!

Even Lillia was enjoying the nice weather we were having, now if it would only stay!

Game three

The Dodgers had their first lose last night. It was a hard close battle, we came back to tie it up and then in the last inning, they scored one run and won it. Bennett played awesome though, I was so proud of him. He was playing second base for most of the game and made a few spectacular plays to get the kid out. So although they lost, I was beaming. Isn't that funny how something so simple can make you so proud! The team was pretty bummed after the game, but over all, they played great and they still have a lot of games to go. The next game is on Thursday.

Mom update

My beautiful Mom had her first chemo treatment this week. She had her surgery in February, and was going to start chemo a few weeks later. When she went in to have her first treatment, they told her she was anemic and jaundice, so they wouldn't be able to start her on the chemotherapy treatments until that was taken care of. I think the hardest part was not knowing why she was anemic or jaundice, and just having to wait until she was better. The good news is, she is doing much better now and so far the chemo hasn't been that bad. She is dealing with a little nausea and she has a hard time eating or drinking anything to hot or cold, but overall she is doing really well. Hopefully the next six months will fly by and that will be the end to this cancer nightmare!

American Idol

Last night on American Idol, my favorite performer, well one of my favorites, was voted off. Brooke White, I was so sad. She really didn't perform that well on Tuesday, but I thought she did better then Syesha Mercado and Jason Castro! I even called to vote last night, over and over, but I kept getting a busy signal. I tried for two hours and not once got through! So I thought that she would be safe, seeing as she was getting a lot of votes. I'm starting to think the whole thing is rigged! Now I'm rooting for David Cook. I really like him. As for David Archuleta, I'm not really a fan. He does have a great voice, I'll give him that, But I would never buy one of his Cd's. He seems really old fashioned, and as Simon would say, not "relevant" to today's music. I am really surprised that he has made it this far. So, I just want to say to Brooke, you rock, I will be buying your new album that was re released today, songs from the attic, available on brookewhite.com

Game two

This morning we woke up to a couple inches of snow! That's right I said SNOW. The first day of May, and we have snow. I was not very happy about this at all, but the good news is by noon, it was all gone. Still cold, but the snow was melted, and the game was able to go on. Tonight the Dodgers played the White Socks. Bennett had a better game tonight, at least he wasn't hit by the ball. Both times up to bat he got walked, and then rounded the bases, and stole home. He really likes to steel home. His second time he almost got out, but luckily the other kid dropped the ball. The Dodgers won, 16-6. We're on a winning streak, go Dodgers!

Lillia was cold and getting really restless, so I let her play with the camera. She took this picture of herself. I thought it was pretty cute. Their next game is on Tuesday, more updates to come.