happy birthday to my mudther ...

my mudther's birthday was monday .. 

we celebrated with chocolate cupcakes with rock-hard-teeth-breaking sprinkles on them ..

and a big huge pot of chili .. 

there was singing .. 

and the blowing out of candles .. 

happy birthday mudther .. 

monkey monkey gets a new do ..

this is monkey monkey ..

cash gave him a new hair do the other night ..

he used an entire bottle of sculpting gel on his hair ..

i am now going to have to call aunt mary and get another bottle .. 

at least monkey monkey looks handsome 

because we didn't get enough of racing on saturday night ..

on our way back to the lake on sunday we stopped off at the Quik Trip center .. aka the building with the driller in front of it .. home of the boat show .. 

the chili bowl racers were moving in .. 

jeff and cash were not going to miss an opportunity to see big freightliners .. haulers and race cars .. 

oh boy .. ellie and i exclaimed ..

race supplies .. 

haulers .. 

love how the car is all roped off .. 

more race supplies .. that is a lot of gas .. just how much do the use .. i am going to have to ask someone with more racing knowledge than me this questions .. i will back to  you .. 

for the little racers .. 

there is a car for sale .. i asked my children which one is going to forgo going to college so that we can afford to buy the race car .. cash immediately raised his hand high high into the air .. 

i am fast he says !

i had one of these when i was 12 .. it is called a yamaha-hopper .. i rode it down the street to feed some horses that belonged to a girl named .. ellie .. 

i wish i still had that scooter .. 

and finally .. the track .. 

the bull dozers and graters were still putting the finishing touches on it .. 

cash is on racing over load .. 

he is going to be "racing" thru the house all week .. all i can say is watch out .. and as long as he doesn't light himself on fire and try to jump over something like the guy at half time intermission at the lazy e .. i will be ok ..

our night at the lazy e

to celebrate the fact that i only had 9 loads of laundry left we went out of town ..

for the record .. it was not my idea to go out of town .. i voted to stay home and rest and do laundry ..

i was out voted ..

so we packed up and headed to okc .. 

to the lazy e arena in guthrie actually .. 

to watch the moto-x race .. 

look .. high flying people on motorcycles .. 

since i had to go i made everyone else go as well .. 

greg and johanna ..

ellie and cache .. we call him cj because it is to confusing .. i hollar cash and they both turn around ..

cash and jeff were analyzing the track .. cash didn't think the jumps were big enough .. 

and because it was opening night of the supercross series .. they raced in anaheim, ca .. in case you were wondering .. jeff and cash were checking on the heat races to see who had finished where .. 

dad .. he needs to move over and pass that guy .. i would move over and pass that guy .. dad why doesn't he move over .. 

he sat like this the whole night .. 

and watched this .. 

the whole night ..

 i wonder if his little arms hurt from resting on the chair ?

greg was telling johanna that he could race .. and not only would he win but he would win with one hand tied behind his back .. and that after he won he would take a big ole victory lap and smile and wave to the crowd .. and then the crowd would all stand up and hollar "greg is the best" and clap and stomp their feet .. and say "we want more" and then he would do all kinds of tricks on his motorcycle and fly thru the air .. 

cj and ellie moved closer to the action .. you could really see them coming over the big jump .. so much so that it looked like a few of the racers might land in their laps .. 

the exhaust was finally getting to cash .. or at least that is what i am blaming it on .. 

uncle greg:  oh cash i can that .. 

cash:  me to but i can do it bigger and better 

thank you tod for the tickets ..

everyone had a great time .. 

as we were driving back to the hotel i thought to myself that i should have made everyone wear dirty clothes .. we all smelled like exhaust so bad no one would have noticed ..

next year .. 

what does this mean ..

what do big red trucks in my yard mean .. 

and trailers .. 

and trenches in the ground .. 

it means that i will not see these strung thru my yard all spring and summer ..

that i won't trip over them as i am chasing cash thru the front yard because he has eaten my last oreo .. 

instead i have these laying in my yard .. 

they however .. are just temporary .. 

because this machine digs up all the rocks and makes a spot for them ..

see .. 

this however .. this means that i did not have internet and jeff did not have cable .. 

but now .. it is all patched up .. 

and while they were here fixing the chewed up internet/cable line they also went ahead and marked it with a little orange flag ..

 warning all who might come near with a ground chewing up trencher machine ..

after the fact .. yes .. but at least it is marked .. 

and these little piles mean that cash is going to be picking up rocks and putting them into the trailer on his tractor for a while ..

at least until spring ..

my mom is gone but she left us some love ..

my mom and dad left on saturday and we got home on sunday ..

so not only did i come home to lots and lots of laundry .. i also came home to no momma ..

when cash woke up on monday he figured out that granny wasn't home .. he was wanting to go to her house for breakfast and have a cinnamon roll and milk with her .. 

remember cash granny is gone .. 

but mom .. he cries .. when will she come home .. in 7 days cash ..

what about my cinnamon roll .. well you will just have to wait ..

so i opened the door to the freezer thinking to myself that maybe i could convert him over to a waffle ..

when what did i see ..

a bag of rhodes cinnamon rolls .. just like granny's ..

oh cash i squealed .. LOOK !!!!

oh mom .. granny left us some love in our freezer he said !!

that she did .. so we watched as granny's love sat and raised and then baked them up and had them for lunch ..

we ate all of them thinking that if we did maybe we wouldn't miss her so much .. 

it didn't work .. all we feel is our belly's aching .. 

might have to make another batch .. 

i love vacation .. the unpacking .. not so much

our array of helmets .. 

boots and slippers ..

and my most favorite .. laundry .. 

by the way .. i am out of tide and clorox II