Hammer Fist

Hammer Fist. That is the name of our bowling team. Why you ask? Hammer: because everyone on our team has a Hammer bowling ball. Fist: because when you get a spare or strike you make a fist and pound it with the other person. If you're cool enough you can explode it when you pound. Last night I put up some big numbers. I bowled a 247 my first practice game, 179 my first real game, 228 my second game, and 189 my last game. I'm thinking about growing a mullet and trying out for the PBA.

Today, it seemed like I was running around everywhere. Broken Arrow to Jenks, Jenks to Tulsa, Tulsa to Owasso. I probably put 300 miles on my truck today. It's been a good truck. I've got 226,500 miles on it and it still runs great and the heat and A/C both work, bonus!

My Birthday

Saturday was my birthday. My 30th birthday! Crazy. I don't really feel any older but have felt 30 for six months or so now. Steven turned 30 in October and I always think of us as the same age. I guess Saturday was just the actual truth to the big 3-0. This picture was taken at Mom and Dad's on Thursday when we had our family birthday dinner. I think Will looks like Steven, but I also do see me, so I guess he is a good combo. I wonder what or who Owen will look like???

Steven was in charge of my surprise party on Saturday. I really didn't have ANY idea he was doing something. It all went off without a hitch except for him realizing at the LAST second that he forgot to invite some of our friends. Oops. I hope they don't get their feelings hurt if they know who they are. Hey, he can't do everything without a little "wife supervision" (which of course he didn't have!). I have great friends and family who showed up and helped him plan a lot of the get together. I am truly blessed even though I am officially three decades old!

Funny Boy

Will loves being silly. He does it all the time but I rarely can catch a picture of it. All day today he was pretending his shirt was his hat. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff. This is just one of the times that I was able to catch him in the action. He really is a clown:)

Chick-Fil-A Madness

So my little 2 1/2 year old LOVES him some Chick-Fil-A. I have to say that it is really good food, although I do believe it to be a tad overpriced. Anyway...so we are at CFA the other day and Will is eating so well (that is a major accomplishment for him, let me tell you). He is so excited (note the picture) and is thrilled with his kids meal fun toy. Needless to say, it did not last long. About five minutes or so after this picture was taken the horrible CFA cow came waltzing by the window and into the restaurant. For all you parents out there that have children that literally flip a lid when they see adults dressed in funky costumes, you can understand me here! Let's just say that if I didn't get him calmed down in a matter of seconds all of that wonderfully expensive lunch was about to come up:) Thankfully the cow must have sensed my hesitation for him to come any nearer because he turned around and left. Thanks in part to Will's Nini who jumped right up and told the cow to leave because her grandson was about to go into an all out fit. He was DONE eating at this point and just wanted to sit in someone's lap to be comforted. Oh, my sweet boy. When will he grow up and realize how funny this story will be one day?

Springtime Tulips!

You gotta love spring time! I know that I do. It is my favorite season. Last night we went to dinner and these tulips were in the front walkway area. I thought they were too pretty to resist and so I had to have Will pose with them. He doesn't usually smile for the camera, as you can clearly see, but he REALLY is a happy boy! He loves to smirk for the camera. Oh well, I guess I will look back on it one day and miss these times! Tonight is Daddy's softball games but they are much too late for a 6 month pregnant woman with a 2 year old. 8 and 10pm. Why do they do that? Tomorrow is off to Norman to see our niece and Will's cousin, Lola, get dedicated at church. Busy weekend! Talk to everyone soon, Jackie

I think when you have a boy child they are just prone to getting bruises, cuts, scrapes, etc... Will always seems to have one or all of the above. It's probably from all the wrestling him and I do. Will got this toy from a b-day party and it had a sucker on one end. Well, I opened it up and gave it to him and told him not to tell mommy. Well, that's the first thing he wanted to do so as soon as we opened it he had to run show Jackie. Oh well!

With my job I get to meet all kinds of random people. Yesterday I met a guy, very nice, but he told me that as soon as he got the retaining wall built I was quoting for him he was going to move to the country and start building underground shelters??? He said the rapture was going to happen soon and wanted his brother who was not a Christian to have somewhere to go. And then the appointment right after that the lady asked me if we could shave concrete. Sometimes it's kind of hard not to laugh.

We just got back from our ski trip. Here is a picture I took from the top of the mountain. We went to Wolf Creek in Colorado. It was a very exciting trip. On the way up we were trying to beat the blizzard that was coming in. Well we didn't. We had just got into Colorado and Jackie was driving. The road was very slick and our SUV slid off the road and we started going sideways up an embankment. We all thought we were going to flip but by the grace of God we didn't. We ended up on the service road about 15' up from the main interstate below. What's funny is that we had just prayed for our trip about an hour before that happened.

So after that little stunt we continued. Next we hit La Vevda Pass, which from everyone that we talked to said if it's been snowing you don't want to drive on. Well we didn't realize we were on it until we reached the summit. We made it down the pass safely and from there it was only an hour to our lodge where we were staying. We thought we were home free but as soon as we got to the bottom of the pass they we ran into a road block. The road was blocked because a semi had jack knifed and then they closed the pass behind us also. So we got stuck in Ft. Garland. We stayed there for the night. The hotel we stayed in was run by a very strict German woman. For some reason she liked me though and gave me a hug and told me I was her new boyfriend when we were leaving. Jackie was standing right there so don't judge me :)

Quote of the weekend: When we were in Ft. Garland we went and ate dinner at the restaurant across the street. The lady that owned it told us about the semi. Kyle said, "Are you sure it was a semi?" and the lady said, "Well it's kind of hard to jack knife a dump truck." Hilarious!!!

The skiing was awesome but tiring. One the way back we got rerouted through Texas because Hwy 412 through Slapout, OK was still snowed in and to many accidents on the road. We made it home safe but it was a long trip.