Lobster Crabs and Toons

Well my family is all on vacations. With out me.....

But that is OK!

I sacrificed my airline ticket so that my brother could come visit for 10 days starting the 25!

Some things are just worth it!!

The night before the boys left for WA, we decided to celebrate Father's Day. So I told Mikey he should pick whatever he wanted at the grocery store and I would fix it.

He came home with a LIVE lobster, pound of shrimp, and scallops.

Yummy!

But what about this LIVE lobster??!!

Our poor lobster.

We called it Larry. (from Spongebob of course)

First we tortured him and the cats with it by making it chase them around the house.

Then we put it on the floor and took turns posing with it for pictures.

Then we showed him to Speedy.

Then we put him in the sink with water while I cleared out a space in the freezer.

Then he drowned.

HUH?? I had no idea that putting a LOBSTER in WATER would drown it.

oh DUH, its FRESH water not SALT water.

So we had no problem putting it very boiling water after that!

It was only after we tortured it, drowned it, cooked it, that we realized we had also been insulting it the whole time.

Larry was really LAURA. Oops.

As you all know, I eat every kind of sushi, but I just couldn't get myself to eat the caviar from Laura. It was black and gooey. So we rinsed it off and enjoyed the rest.

Even the boys had a few bites of Laura. But mostly they ate the mac and cheese.

Saturday morning (at 4am) I got my hubby and boys off to WA.

Daddy bought them new Jets. Caleb LOVES his jet planes, but Zachary looks like he is having fun too.

Here there are in WA on a Ferry out to Longbranch. Thats where Gramma and Grumpa live. But Grumpa doesn't seem grumpy in this picture.

Note to Dad2: Have fun with my boys!!! And put Mike to some good hard work.

Here are my 3 boys with Makayla on Gramma and Grumpas beach.

They went crabbing and had a wonderful dinner!

Here they are with Alaina and Uncle Kevin on the boat to get the crabs. They are all having a wonderful time.

Wish I was with them.

Christina is in AZ with her dad, and my family.

She had a fun flight home. First she stopped off in Tennessee, then flew to Phoenix where she got off the plane and spent 2 hours having breakfast with my mom and brother Frank. Then she boarded a flight to El Paso Texas. Her dad picked her up and drove her to where his parents live in New Mexico. So in the span of 12 hours Christina was in 5 different states! WOW!

Everybody returns home the 24th. My brother comes the 25th.

It will go from quiet here to very busy, very quickly!

So, you may ask, what am I doing?

CLEANING. Yep. Mike and I got sick after our camping trip. We were literally out of commission for almost 2 weeks. So nothing NOTHING got done around here. I am spending my first few days cleaning the house from top to bottom. Inside and out!

I also got some John Grisham books from the library. I'm on a Grisham kick right now.

Then there is always Toon Town. It is online interactive Disney game. Zachary and I both have accounts. In the evenings, he is allowed to get on and play a little bit with me. I love it because it is totally CLEAN and SAFE. Noone can chat with you except to say what is in the Speedchat boxes. All Disney and happy related. Like "you rock" "lets play again" "I need to do a Toon Task" "ToonTastic!!" etc. Zachary and I can chat and say other things only because we have a True Friend code. Its a code that you can only verbally give someone you know to type in. It is alot of fun. We go around Toon Town and throw pies and water squirts at the Cogs. (bad guys)

I imagine it will be the longest 10 days of my life, but will also go by so quickly when I look back on it.