To The Grouchy Old Fart behind me....

Normally when I go to the store I'm all business, get in and get out. Today however I was a bit more congenial. Maybe it was all the cool, fresh air I got blasted with from driving my Hubs Suzuki Samurai. Anyway I found all my items for the most part and was pretty pumped about all the killer deals I got. Like any thrifty shopper would, I asked for my rain checks on the three items they didn't have so I could be on my way. However some "Grouchy Old Fart" came up right behind the cashier on her motorized wheel chair and began clearing her throat and coughing, really raising a commotion. When no one paid her any attention she said, "What on earth is the problem?" Now, it couldn't have taken more than 1 1/2 minutes for the nice cashier to write the rain checks out but this old terd became very irate. I very politely, looked at her and said, "I'm getting my rain checks:o)." She then began to rant and rave about how she always chooses the slowest lane, blah, blah, blah.....When I was done rather than say something mean, I just said,"Now it's your turn:o)."

3 All detergent, 2 peanut butters, 1 oatmeal, 8 boxes cereal, 4 progresso soup, 12 canned veg, 6 mashed potato pouches, 3 green giant steamers, 8 power bars, 3 pkgs. gogurt, 10lbs boneless skinless chicken breast, 3pkg. hefty plastic cups, 3 boxes toaster pastry, 1 box oven bags, 2 boxes aluminum foil.

I just wish she would have been waiting in line behind me long enough to see my sweet savings. she got there after my receipt printed. I'll post my deal here just in case the Mean Old Bitty is ever out blog surfing. I spent $74.35 and saved $124.05. Bet her deal wasn't even close to mine. Grouchy or Bag!!

It's going to space....and back!

So no matter how hard I try, I can't quite get my sweet mom to grasp the concept of Voice Mail. Like many Americans I have surrendered my phone to Cellular technology. Gone are the days of coming home to hear the last words of a message being left on my digital answering machine. My mother just hasn't gotten to that point yet. For example just today I got a message saying,"Koe, Koelyn? Sarah Palin is on Oprah. That's channel 3. Turn it there now and record it ok. Just thought you would like to know that. I sure hope you can hear me. Ok love ya. Bye-bye."
God love her, she is a sweet lady, but I'm afraid she's the only delusional woman I have room in my life for. So unless mom suddenly says, "Koe, I'm Dunzo with you!" I'm afraid I will not ever be watching any of Sarah Palin's TV appearances.

Hi i'm koe and my blogg is very boring so my sister has to make a post to make fun of me
haha

Swimming....

Oliver's kindergarten teacher Merrilee teaches swim lessons with her DIL Jodee during the Summer. Oliver's a pretty good swimmer, but he still wanted to have lessons with her. So I signed him and Simon up. It was so fun. Everyday had a theme. Here's a couple I actually remembered to take pictures for.

Crazy Swimsuit Day!

Oliver turned his and Simon's suits inside out . Simon got red, blue and green dots in his hair...

...while Oliver got a more subtle pony tail mo-hawk.

On Duck day, I couldn't get a picture of Simon with a duck because I was in the pool with him for the first week. So this is his picture after.

Here's Oliver with the duck though. There were 3 ducklings swimming around the pool with the kids. They absolutely loved it. Not sure how the ducks felt.
Some of the other favorite days were: Turtle visit (actual Turtle swimming in the pool), penny dive, and game day. It was so much fun I'll be signing them up next Summer too. Thanks Merrilee and Jodee for a great start to the Summer!

Birthday and Temple visit...

May 15th Oliver's 6th Birthday!

I decided the day before Oliver's birthday to actually plan something. So I called two of his classmates mothers and then two neighbor boys to see if they could come over after school.

I had them bring swim suits and towels and them we did Slip-n-slide and swimming for the next two hours. After that I had them come in so we could make basketball jerseys. I just got a pack of wife beaters and fabric markers so they could draw on their own. It was hilarious because the numbers they put on them were," 300, 1007, 100,000, and 24." I loved it.

The boys loved it too because they all put them on immediately and wore them for the rest of the party.

After that, they each made their own pizzas. I just got the grands buttermilk biscuits, had them each pat one down and put tomato sauce and toppings on it. Yummy!

Oliver told me after they all went home around 7:30 that it was his best birthday EVER! Nice, because it was also the cheapest. We did BounceU last year for his fifth and that was way expensive. Plus he doesn't even remember it. This one he still talks about.

We ended the day with a trip to Cold Stone Creamery

The next morning he had a temple trip with the primary kids. Oliver loves to go to the temple and learn ab0ut Jesus. He always asks if we can go there so he can see the Christus.

He wanted me to take a picture of him there too.

Here's all the kids that came in front of the Christus. Oliver's on the left. Love that kid!

I tried to get a nice picture of the temple with just Oliver, but I was in a hurry and didn't get it centered and then other people walked into it. Still not too bad considering I took this with my camera phone.

You can never be too SAFE!

Life suit...CHECK!


Goggles, tube and floaties....CHECK, CHECK, CHECK!


Hope you all have a SAFE Memorial Day!!

I'm here...

I've been such a slacker lately it's awful. It's not that I didn't have anything to blog about, I just didn't have the time. Before I knew it there was WAAY to much to blog about and then I got discouraged. So I'm gonna try and blog them, not all of them right now but in the near future.
I'll start with:
May 6th Voices Award Ceremony

Oliver's class of 26 students wrote a book titled "If My Dad Was President" and entered it in a writing contest. Out of the 800 school that participated, Oliver's class got 1st place for their grade! It was the cutest book.

His class got to go to an awards ceremony along with all the other winners. Only one person got to go up and accept the award for their class thought and it was MY Oliver.

What a cutie! He was so excited to do it he got ready a whole hour before we were supposed to leave. Love that kid!

Here's his amazing teacher that came up with the book Idea. I just love her and all the fun things Oliver got to do this year because he was in her class.

Oliver loves her too!