This Week

We are getting ready for Daytona this week! We've got our camping gear ready to go, all I have left to do is buy the food! Caleb is so excited! Every day we check the calendar to see how many more days till RACE DAY! Zachary acts like he could care less, but he is excited that he gets to miss a day and a half of school.

Christina won't be going with us. She was supposed to fly to Phoenix, but decided that she'd rather stay here with her friends, (and boyfriend) and not miss school.

Mike and I went to the book store a few nights ago to get him a book. He loves true stories about people having life changing adventures. 15 minutes later he found me with my arms FULL of books and games, and his were empty!

(My dream job is to work in a bookstore. I'd never make any money tho. It'll all go to the inventory I would be collecting!) He finally found a book, and we were out of there for $68.

Among one of the items we bought, was this Shrek Scrabble Game. Zachary loves Shrek, and he needs to work on his reading and spelling. Its learning disguised!! YES!!

He loved it! This is now our new family game.

The boys like to hang out in Zachary's bed and watch cartoons. Christina is in the process of redoing her rooms style. We sold her bunk bed and got her a futon sofa bed. She picked it out. She also repainted her Chest that I had painted years ago white with butterflies. She did a great job! Gramma--this is the dark green chest that came from you and Grampa. Is it from World War II? Caleb has discovered the computer. This is one of the reasons I haven't been on in awhile.

Every time I sit in the den to get on, he runs over, jumps up and says, "Lets play c'puter mommy!" How can I resist? He has been asking me for the past 10 minutes if its his turn yet. I woke up at 6:30 Sunday morning, and came into the den to this:

Caleb on the computer and Zachary playing playstation.

Zachary said they had been up for awhile. At least they were quiet!

Zachary had his first sleep over on Friday night! His best friend Avery, who lives just down the street, came over to stay. It was his first sleep over as well.

They wanted us to tell them stories. So we gathered them around and told them a 'Scary' one. They were intensly listening when Mike scared them. It was hilarious!

Our plans for the rest of February after the race, have changed a little bit.

My Mother In Law was admitted to the hospital for testing due to some pain she was having in her stomach. She has Diverticulosis. She is doing ok now.

***Mom2, you are in all our thoughts and prayers.***

However that means she needs to have it taken care of soon so she wont have to worry about having the pain again. Unfortunately that time is over the time they were due to come out and now they have to postpone it for a few months.

(They are pretty anxious to get out of WA because its in the low 40's and rainy. BRRRR!)

This of course also means that they cant watch the kids while Mike and I go on the cruise.

That we all ready paid in full for. aaahh!

So I asked, ok, begged and pleaded my Sister In Law Michelle, who lives in San Jose CA,

that she could have an all expenses paid trip for her and my niece Elektra to Florida if she'd babysit for us.

She said YES!! Yeah!!! Michelle!! I SOOO owe you big time!! Thank YOU!!!!!

Well there is supposed to be a big storm tonight with the chance of tornados.

Its all over the news, and warnings running across the bottom of the all the channels.

I think we will be sleeping in the laundry room. It is the safest room in the house. I hope.

They recently put in a tornado siren at Zachary's school.

I am glad we live in a brick house. That helps. I hope.

hmmm, maybe I shouldn't of put that. Michelle might cancel her ticket here.