Bears Room Buddies

This past Sunday we went to a birthday party at Red Robin and Gracie ran into one of her daycare buddies (Hallie). The girls spend a lot of time together in the "Bears Room" (their assigned class). This will be their last year together since both girls start kindergarten next year. Wahooo....no more daycare payments!

Early Mornings

I have been getting up at 5:15 a.m. these days to get some training in for the 3-Day Breast Cancer Walk. I go over to the local park (Adams Ricci) and I am normally there when it is still dark, but I get to watch the sun rise and what a beautiful view it is. I really enjoy having that time to myself and it's a wonderful way to start of the day.

Wii Wee

I finally decided to go and purchase a Wii this weekend for Jacob. With an accumulation of his birthday money and money from mommy and daddy - Jacob now has his own brand new Wii. What a nightmare that purchase has turned out to be! Jacob and Grace don't get along as it is - can you even imagine the two of them playing with the Wii together? All I hear from my bedroom is yelling, screaming, crying etc. Even when Jacob is playing by himself he is crying and screaming because apparently the "game system" is cheating??? Huh? I finally had to tell my husband to shut the Wii down last night because it was just out of control in the house. I know it upset my husband because he is just as hooked to that game system as the kids are. Hmm...not sure if this was such a smart purchase afterall.

Live, Collective Soul, Blue's Travelers Concert

Well I went to the Live, Collective Soul and Blue's Travlers concert on Friday (August 1) night. My friend (Amy) and I first went to dinner at Applebees, which was horrible, and we headed to the Giant Center around 6:00 p.m. The concert started at 6:30 p.m. with the Blue's Travelers opening the concert. Well, I only knew two of their songs, each song they did play was an average of 15 minutes long (just shoot me, ok). Next was Collective Soul - wait wait....and yes, that's what we did was wait about an hour for the band to make their grand appearance. Apparently they had a tire blow out on their way to the Giant Center. Unfortunately, they did not do a sounds check because although the songs were good songs they sounded all muffled and distored. Now for the grand finale - I own about ONE Live CD so I know like a whole FOUR songs that the band sings with my favorite being "Lightening Crashes". Well Live played an ungodly amout of songs - at least 10 to 12 and then they said goodnight and left the stage. Dahh...I knew they were coming back out - they still did not play their all time number one hit "Lightening Crashes". Well....they come out and played on and on and on again - I was fuming!!! So I finally lost my patience (around 11:00 p.m.) and told Amy we were out of there. So...no, I did not even hear the one song I was dying to hear. Needlesstosay, I was at the Giant Center 5 hours for a concert that was all but sad and the attendance was just pitiful. Hey, the tickets were free - thank GOD. If Amy and I did not have to get up at 5:30 and walk 14 miles I might have stuck it out until the bitter end. Fortunately we had good company and we got to spend some time with some friends/co-workers (Lori, Doug, Deb and Don).