Weekend Review...

Ok so yea, it's Wednesday and once again I am just getting around to updating this. I know, I know!


Friday Rick had planned on going up and helping Scott practice for the last big late model race of the season. When they got there they were informed that they had decided to cancel the races for the weekend due to the weather forecast. They gave teams the option to stay and practice so Scott decided to stay for a little bit. Rick hung out with them but ended up being home for the evening, which we hadn't planned on. I picked the kids up from daycare and took Kaitlyn shopping at Target to spend her birthday money. She got her Nintindo DS, she was just a little bit excited.


Saturday morning Rick woke up bright and early and headed to Rea's house (our SIL Michelle's sister) to hunt. Rea and her husband have several thousand acres of wheat in Starbuck, WA and happily open up their land for Rick and his friends to hunt on. Rick got his deer, a 3 x 3, but not without a MAJOR HUNT...literally! He shot it early in the morning but couldn't find it. Yep, that would be the 2nd time this has happened. He spent all day looking and finally at 5pm he literally stumbled unto it. Needless to say it was a late night for him. He didn't get home until close to midnight.


The kids headed to Jeremy and Nicole's for the day while I worked. They went up to Tri-Cities and watched the Cavalcade of Bands and went and got pumpkins. After work I headed home to meet them. Since I beat them to the house I started cleaning and as it turns out, I did not stop until Sunday night. Jeremy and Nicole's girls stayed the night with us Sat. night and the kids crashed!


I got lots done between Saturday night and Sunday. I cleaned my carpets and hardwood floors. I gutted Trace's room and the living room. Got everything dusted and took down some pictures in the living room and re-hung some new stuff. I'm trying to get as much of the 'cleaning' stuff done as I can before I go to part time so when I do, we are ready to jump in and start the demo and remodel stuff.


This week has been busy. Monday night we had Kaitlyn's dance (which I love because I get to visit with THIS LOVELY LADY whom I have been awful about keeping in touch with since umm, HIGH SCHOOL). Last night I had to rush home so I could watch the debate. I did however get my bedroom and bathroom cleaned while that was on. Today I had Trace's first teacher conference and Rick is at the dentist. It is going to probably be a long appointment, poor guy! His poor, poor teeth. The rest of the week is just as busy! I am sooooo ready to not be working all the time :-)


Well off to finish up an afternoon of work... and to prepare my grocery list. Ugg, its a grocery shopping day.

Political Pondering...

After watching the debate last night, I think I just want to vote for a VP... and for the record, if it was just based off of 'likeability' - I would have a tough decision. But well you gotta throw political stance, views and beliefs in. Last nights debate was encouraging and since it was so well watched hopefully it will spark more people to get out and vote!

Thursday Things...

1) 8 years ago, Rick and I were pulling into Kadlec hospital to have Kaitlyn's belly-rubin tested because she had jondus. As we were pulling into the parking lot we saw Sue walking into the hospital...huh, we weren't there any more so why would Sue be there. Oh yea, Rick's sister Wendy was pregnant too and we were due days apart. Well apparently her and Kevin's little boy decided it was time to make an entrance. Carson Steven Beightol joined the world just 3 days after Kaitlyn did. Happy 8th Birthday Cars!!!

2)I am officially in love with THIS NEW STORE. I wish I would have had 2 hours to go through everything but well I had to settle for the 35 minutes I could spare in my day. Thanks AMY for the POST about it (those huge stars are like $20, the medium size ones were around $15 I think). For those of you that haven't stopped by, they are only open on Thursday and Saturday's and they get new items every week.

3) I can't wait for the VP debate tonight... I am only a tinsey bit mad that it means no Grey's.

4) We left work this morning in a drizzle and it didn't even make me sad. It looks like it could pour at any time but it is 78 degrees out. Its like fall just fell upon us.

Lift Off..

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Oh yea it's October...

Today is my kickoff to fall. Its all a mind thing, I know - I know, but hey it's October 1st! And how appropriate since it is nearly 90 degrees today. But the weather change is a coming (they are saying down to the 60's this weekend). So in honor of my favorite time of year I thought I would share my favorite things about October. And yes I am so copying Heather and Becky in the favorite list post :-)

• Weather ~ I love the change of weather, it is refreshing to have something other than HOT and I love that I don't have to water 6 hours a day just to keep my grass a little brown rather than the total dead it is with no water.
• Work is winding down! ~ Some time in Oct. I get to go back to my 3 hour work days. I am looking forward to this so much, more than words can say! I am in dire need of not being here all the time, my family is in need of me being home more (ok well I hope they are in need of me being home more) and without and doubt my house is in need of me being home more to clean it!
• Fall colors ~ the falling leaves (as long as they don't fall or blow into my yard).
• Jeans ~ I love breaking out my jeans almost as much as I love packing them away in the spring.
• Scents ~ the crisp smell in the air, oh wait that is covered with the smell of smudge pots.
• Candles ~ I go most of the summer without candles because we are home so rarely. But as soon as fall hits I go buy all I can find.
• Cooking ~ ok I could barely type that without laughing so I can only imagine what those of you who really know me must be doing. I like to talk a big game about baking and cooking when I'm home more. I print out the recipes, sometimes I even go buy the ingredients. Then I just buy some candles to make the kitchen smell like I baked and then go get some take-out... see no mess that way!
• Pumpkin Patch ~ we always take the kids to a pumpkin patch and get pumpkins and enjoy an afternoon of 'harvest fun'. The pumpkins usually then rot on the porch until Christmas time. Wouldn't want to waste our money on that adventure.
• Halloween ~ I love, love, love Halloween for my kids. I love that Prosser still does good old door to door trick or treating. I love taking my kids to everyone’s house, I love having our friends bring their kids to our house. Mostly, I love that Halloween is the kick off to the holiday season!
• And just because I am such a good wife, I love how excited Rick gets about hunting. I personally don't get the thrill of it. I can't imagine what could be fun about walking miles up and down cliffs in the freezing ass cold (yep that deserved an ASS) and MAYBE seeing something and god forbid shooting it and trying to figure out how to get it back to camp. He might not get scrapbooking but hello.... at least I can stay warm, have a drink and watch TV while enjoying my hobby.

What are you looking most forward to in October???

Weekend Roundup (last weekend, just a little behind)...

Geesh I'm behind. We had a great weekend, other than Trace was sick :-( Didn't slow us down too much though. Of course Friday night we had Kaitlyn's school friend birthday party. Worked out great leaving with very tired kids who were more than willing to jump right in bed when we got home.

Saturday morning I woke up at 5:30, showered and made my coffee. I woke up both kids, bundled them up and headed to the airport for the balloon launch. It was actually a beautiful morning. I can remember years when there was frost on the ground. It wasn't warm by any means, but it wasn't bitter cold either. We found Jeremy, Nicole and their kids and started walking around checking everything out. They were just unrolling the balloons so the kids thought that was so cool. Trace was completely filled with questions. We decided to start walking towards the gate so when they started going up we could get to the bridge to hopefully see some try to dip in the water. Well the 4 adults looked and saw the group of kids and we all started walking. We got 1 balloon down and realized we were missing Taylor. Jeremy told the kids to stay exactly where they were and he and Nicole started running back to where we had been. As soon as we turned around and looked we could see Taylor back there with a lady, bawling when she realized she was by herself. The other kids were so worried and so relieved (as were all the adults) when she was found, safe and sound. Funny how that ended up playing into our hands though, not one of them wondered more than 2 feet from us and we never had to remind them again to stay close.

We got to the bridge right as the first balloon to go up made it to the water. Unfortunately, he was the only balloon to hit the water on Sat. Looking at some other blogs I see lots made it on Sunday morning. The kids loved every minute of watching and I fully admit, so did I!!! We headed home so I could get ready for work and the kids could get ready to head to Kaitlyn's school for Applooza. When we got home a balloon had landed at the school. The kids ran out to watch them load up. Pretty exciting stuff!

Rick and kids headed to Liberty for another successful Applooza festival. Rick and Trace worked at the ball toss booth, which was Kaitlyn's class booth. Kaitlyn came home with hot pink and purple hair. I think everyone had a great time. Rick said Trace had been coughing all day. He called me to check on what he could give him for meds because I had given him some when he woke up and it hadn't really been working so well. Rick's sister Amee was in Yakima with Mitch who was racing his sprint car at the fair (he raced Friday night with Dave and Steve crewing for him and he flipped in the A main ~ pretty much destroyed the car). Rick said he would go up and help on Sat. so he dropped the kids off with Jeremy and Nicole until I finished work and headed up.

After I got off of work I ran home, grabbed the kids and headed to Yakima. Mitch had to run his back-up car but he did so good. They had so many cars wreck, and when when these cars wreck they WRECK. They don't just roll over they flip and flip and flip. Mitch was able to stay away from all the major wrecks and came home with a 3rd place finish. Scott Walker and Kevin went up to help crew too. I think they all got spoiled working on these compared to their big cars on race day. Not a lot of adjustments to make before the race... just lots of cleaning!

Trace was misrible the entire night. I shouldn't have even taken him up there but we had used watching Uncle Mitch race as incintive to be good all week so how do we not follow through... he was so glad to get in the car to head home, he tried to push Mitch's car in the trailer for about 15 minutes to speed up the process.

Sunday morning we were lazy. Kaitlyn didn't wake up until 9:30 and Trace slept til 11:30. He was feeling so much better after all that sleep. When he finally woke up we sent Kaitlyn down to Dave and Sue's so we could do her birthday surprise. Amee had called earlier in the week and asked Kaitlyn what she wanted. Kaitlyn told her she had a very simple list this year. She wanted an American Girl Doll ($100 plus), and Nintindo DS ($100 plus) and a new bed, a king size would be perfect (ummm, I don't even have a king size bed because they are what $1000 plus!). Well we had been thinking of getting rid of her bunk beds anyways so when I heard that I decided we would move the guest room bed (full size, sorry Kait) into her room and get her new bedding. As soon as she went out the door we flew into action and took down her old beat up bunk beds and move the full bed into her room. When she got home Trace told her she needed to pick up her toys and take them to her room. I was waiting in there and unfortunately didn't get a good pic of her reaction. She was so excited. I had found really cute Roxy bedding and she is all about Roxy right now.

A big hit... look at her fast asleep!

Since Monday nights are dance night we let Kaity pick her birthday dinner for Sunday night. She wanted steak and mac 'n' cheese... my kind of girl! Rick bbq'd steak and we enjoyed a nice down day.

Monday morning Kaitlyn woke up and opened her birthday gift from Grandpa Dave and Grandma Sue. They had oh so kindly picked up brownies for her to take for snack on Monday since I just sorta dropped the ball there. She was so excited to open her card and find out she had almost enough money for Nintindo DS. Monday night she found out she officially had enough thanks to Auntie LoLo and Michael and Becky. So I'm sure we will be hitting Target this weekend to pick one up. 2 items off her list, not a bad birthday I would say!