Chicago bound

Well kinda wishing this was the way we were rolling to Chicago. Not so much that would be our neighbors! Just can't seem to keep up with the Jones!

Cole, Aidan, and two of their friends have a lemonade stand by the pool. They want to raise money for the one eyed dog on TV. Can you just hear the Sarah McLaughlin song as I'm saying this??? I go to check up on them and Aidan is the only one working it! Sucks to be the little guy. The other three are off in the pool.

Packing sucks. I hate packing, I wish I could clone myself for this kind of crap.

I can't wait till they can pack themselves. I think I may have an abercrombie obsession!

We go to HEB before the trip to pick up all our favorite sauces to cook with.

The night before we go there is a benefit for our friend Chris. He needs a kidney transplant! Organ donation is something that is real and we all have the power to help.

This is Chris he is the brother of our best friend Kevin who passed away unexpectedly right before we moved to Austin. Kevin's family decided to donate his organ's after he passed. Who knew at the time that their other son would need an organ. Like I said this is important. Great family if anything please pray for them and think about organ donation!

Julie who is their cousin was one of the people who was in charge of the event. They had a fun silent auction, good food, and a raffle. I think Cole has always had a little crush on Julie.

SCARY!!!!! I swear I raise these kids right!

Here are Kevin's parents, they are amazing people. They had three boys just like me. All they want is for Chris to get a kidney. They can't imagine losing another son.

Kyle is Kevin's son. I meet him when he was in 5th grade. I can't believe how fast times go when I look at how grown up he is. My boys love him. When we lived in Frisco he lived across the street from us. He was at many family dinners and holidays with us. Seeing him makes me miss our time in Frisco.

Kids have so much fun with Kyle and his friend. Hubby goes to pick up my Dad from the airport while were here. My Dad is going on a 19 hour drive with us to Chicago in the morning. I love my Dad, I think it is great that he is willing to fly here and drive us to Chicago! Three boys and a dog is a lot of stress for 19 hours in a car. Stay tuned to this blog the drive was not uneventful. When I recover I will be posting our trip. Let's just say it was a trip!

BLISS

Found this picture on my camera while uploading. These kids are messing with everything in my life including my camera. The cute thing about this picture is I see a glimpse of the baby face in this one that went away way to fast.

So Aidan and Cole went overnight at my friends the Mc Craws house tonight! I have to say it is BLISS for me. I don't miss them at all! I know it sounds bad but summer is doing me in with these two. I have not heard one time tonight he's starring at me, No fair, what are we doing next, and MOM! I have enjoyed this night as if it was a vacation. Now Blake is home but he is at the age where he thinks he is smarter than me so the only time he bugs me is when he needs a ride or some money.

These boats are still driving me nuts.

Boats again!

All I have to say about this picture is Seriously??????? Regretting that birds and bees talk even if it was needed!

We went to the vet to get Ziggy a nail trim and some drugs for our 19 hour drive. I tell the boys to get their shoes on so we can go. I'm in the vet waiting for help and turn around to see this. What is with these kids wanting to go out in pubic in non matching shoes. I'm asking Cole why the hell he not only has non matching shoes but why one of them is mine. He just laughs! I turn around and everyone in the vets office is laughing. They are probably thinking why I didn't catch this till now!

Texas bugs! I still can't get used to them. Anyway enjoying a night without the most annoying of these people I live with.

Daddy day

Father's day! I got Hubby a round of golf for Father's Day. I just might say it was a brilliant idea, not mine but brilliant. Hubby left the house before we even got up. There was no cooking breakfast for him. We all slept in and got to get up and have control of the TV. Now everyone is happy. So we wake up at about ten and turn on Bravo. I get to watch a few episodes of the real housewives. What a train wreck they are, they make me feel so much better about myself. I just don't get how these fame whores landed millionaire hubbies. Cole walks in the room and asks me why all their teeth are so white. I just laugh because they all do have super white super fake teeth. Then he asks me why the one who is not married is pregnant. We just had to give him the birds and the bees talk recently since he thought everyone had a wiener. Anyway he seems to be obsessed with it now. Like every child at his age he thinks the only time someone would ever have sex is to have a baby and they have to be married of course. I tell him since she is almost 40 she could have sex without being married. He then asks me if I could have sex with Hubby one more time so he can have a sister. I tell him I'm to old and I can't afford the therapy another child would create for me. He moves on to my sister Kelly and asks me if her and Buzz had sex a year ago since their daughter is one. I tell him yes a little more than a year ago. I'm starting to regret the birds and the bees talk with him at this point. He then asks me what day Kelly had sex! I tell him he is starting to push my buttons and he is no longer funny. After that he asks if my sister would give us Ella her daughter since Buzz and her are young and could make some more. Now as annoying as this whole conversation is I am laughing inside. Anyway I decide the housewives as entertaining as they are need to be turned off while Cole is in the room. We end up outside so the kids can hit some golf balls.

Cole being an Entertainer comes out in his full cowboy attire. Who say you can't play dress up if your a boy! Those are my cowboy boots he has on.

I'm sitting on the back porch sipping tea since I gave up soda laughing at the cowboy in my yard. After that I go in to do some yoga. I don't know what happened to me but since I have turned 40 my world has done a 360. I was never that girl to do yoga and sip tea. I don't know if I like this new version of me. It's almost like 40 years of guilt set in at once and I decided I had to quit abusing my body. I had a muffin top and I was really starting to look like I was rode hard and put away wet. Now I'm not going to lie there were a few nights I'm sure I was rode hard and put up wet. My mom always said that shit catches up with you and that it did. I was much happier drinking sodas and beers and eating cheeseburgers and fries. I guess you can only do that so long. I do blame that damn Dr. Oz too! I watch him way to much and find myself trying to choke down Greek yogurt in the mornings. Who even knew what the hell Greek yogurt was till his show. I like to say ignorance is bliss but hubby did say the other day ignorance could be death as well. Worry, worry, worry, I'm sick of worry. Now I have guilt about me and guilt about what I'm feeding these people. While Hubby is golfing kid free I'm sitting at home listening to things like mine, I had it first, so and so did this, and MOM!!!! I think the best is when Aidan came out of the potty with his butt hole spread asking me if he got everything.

Take a close look at this picture. I was laughing when I was uploading it. I guess I wasn't prepared for this picture because it kinda looks like I got some injectables. I think I like it! It looks like a frozen face. I would like to think it is because of all the yoga I have done and the apples, Greek yogurt, nuts, and seeds I have been obsessively eating for weeks. But bottom line it is just a fluke of a picture. I do see injectables in my future even though hubby says hell NO! I do have to say who knew parentheses on the face was a problem till that damn commercial!

We are getting ready to go to the famous Salt Lick for Father's day. In this picture we are laughing because Cole can down from his shower with his hair parted like a nerd in the middle. Hubby is fixing him up.

How cute these people I live with can be.

Ok back to normal face Kerry! I do love these boys as many grays and lines as they have caused.

We are at the Salt Lick waiting for a table enjoying some music! What I love about this place is you can bring a cooler of beer.

We get a table after about an hour. We went with a few other couples so the adults are at one table and the kids are at another. Cole walks over half way through the meal beat red. He tells me that the ADULT lady sitting next to him dared him to eat a bunch of jalapenos covered in hot sauce. Being the entertainer he is he did it. I look over at the girl and give her the glare from hell. I really want to get up and show the white trash side of myself and tell her off but I just glare. I tell him that was stupid of her to dare him but it was really stupid of him to do it! But really what the hell is wrong with people???? Who dares a nine year old to eat japs with hot sauce! Karma is a bitch lady and its got your number! Anyway great day with these people I live with.

Summer

So Aidan and Cole had a friend spend the night last night. We were getting ready to go to the pool today. I tell the friend he can change in my room. I hear Aidan say "hey you can change in there but don't look at my Mom's bra's while your in there. I'm laughing because my bra's are in a drawer they are not spread out in the room.

Cole what can I say "entertainer" that is it today!

I tell Cole to take a cute picture of Aidan and me. I don't realize till I up load that Aidan put bunny ears over my head!

Now Cole takes a cute picture every time I ask him to. Aidan on the other hand does things like this. Do you think he is trying to tell me to kiss his ass???

I love that my kids love to take pictures, since I am camera girl!

Hello this is the story of my life in one picture! These two have a love hate relationship very similar to married people.

I'm at the point where I'm just going to let them beat the hell out of each other.

Those damn boats are driving me nuts! There have been more fights over me taking them places to use these boats. Just summer lovin these people I live with.

How not to show your ass when someone's kid is in the car with you.

Were really only in week two of summer and I am pooped!

I love this picture of Aidan laying with Ziggy in the dog bed.

Aidan even covers Ziggy up in the bed. I wish he was that nice to me. It does seem like we are all nicer to Ziggy than we are to each other.

Hubby got me a filter for my lens and it really makes the clouds pop! I love it.

My almost famous children got to go to a movie preview for the movie they had a SMALL part in. It was fun for them to see themselves on screen.

Finally the boats arrive. The boys had got some money and spent a few hours shopping on line for the perfect boat. They both picked the same boat which is fine with me. Having the same thing mean less fights. They were so funny counting down the days till the boat arrived. Every time the Fed guy drove by they thought he had the boats. They were so excited when the doorbell rang today and they saw the truck in front of the house. I'm just sad that the leverage I have had over them for the last week is over. Every time they acted up I told them I was going to call the Fed guy. I have him on speed dial of course.

Their faces were so cute as they opened these boats. Now here is the kicker. We have bought many remote control boats in our time. The kids love these boats. We usually get them at Toys R US. Since we we have every damn boat that Toys R Us sells(there is not a huge selection) we had to on line shop. Now I know a lot of people who like to on line shop, I'm not one of them. Don't get me wrong I'm ok with it if I have seen it at a store and I'm getting a better price on line. I like to see what I'm getting. We get the boats open and they want to take them to the pool to check them out. We can't because they didn't come with the batteries. Now we have never bought a boat that didn't come with the batteries. It doesn't take your standard everyday batteries. It takes a rechargeable battery pack that is impossible to buy at Walmart, Heb, or Walgreen's. Yes, I did go to all those places looking for them! Mind you driving around with these people is not my favorite thing. These much waited boats are now just pissing me off. I finally find the batteries at radio shack and they are 25 dollars each. So 50 dollars later which btw, could have been spent on a cute pair of shoes gets spent on a frickin battery pack! I want to go home and write a nasty Email to the store we got these stupid boats at but I know they don't give a shit. The least they could have done was tell you that you needed this battery pack and offered for you to buy it on line with the dumb boats.

They are happy as clams with the new boats even though I'm not.

I hate that I'm raising my kids in this time that they could shop on line. It causes me much pain! I wish we lived in the day in age that if you didn't see it in a store you had no idea it exist.

Now I have to come up with a plan of how they can earn that 50 dollars I just put out there. I do love that part of it!

Did I tell you Ziggy is my favorite of these people I live with???? No maintenance. He is just happy being loved and fed.

Don't ask me why but these guys love to walk around with their pants around their hips. I hate this look. I don't get it at all. It looks uncomfortable to me. When I see a kid like this I have this urge to go pull their pants up. Could you imagine if I walked up to some teenager and pulled their pants up??? I think teenagers do half the shit they do for shock effect. I act like it's no big deal to walk around like idiots with your pants half way down your ass. I am hoping they get this out of their system before they hit the nasty teenager years.

Now we go to see Hubby's softball game. Last year they were like the "bad news Bears" except they were between 35-45 years of age. This year they are really good. Cole has a friend spending the night. We go to dairy queen after the game to get ice cream. On the way home there is a fight about where everyone is sitting! I wish this was my biggest worry. I tell Cole to sit in the way back since Aidan sat there on the way to the game. He is not happy and he tells me he hates being in this family. Now normally this statement would send me right over the edge. I would show my ass as he has shown his. I have to start taking deep breaths because I have someones child in my car. I can't show my ass with someones child in my car. I know the family and by the looks of it none of this crazy stuff happens in their house. They for one did not out number themselves which I found is huge. I'm am fighting in my mind to keep control. I want to tell him if he hates this family so much he needs to move his ass out out and see how much the grass is greener on the other side! I instead say I'm disappointed at the way he is acting and I am sorry he hates us. We get home he walks up to me and gives me a hug and tells me he is sorry. Maybe keeping my cool is the way to go.

I'm writing this blog which btw, is starting to drive me nuts. Cole has his sleep over and it sounds like they are bowling upstairs. I'm my PJ's and I go upstairs to lay down the law. I tell them to keep it down because Hubby is sleeping and has to work. They say they are going to to keep it down. As I'm walking away(mind you I'm in my PJ's) Cole comes up to me and tells me I'm embarrassing him. I'm thinking it's because I told them to keep it down. He tells me my boobs are hanging out of my PJ's. Now my boobs are not hanging out, I have a small bit of cleavage but they are not hanging! It's so funny what kids think.

Some people were asking about how my Grandma was. She started chemo and unfortunately she is getting very painful sores in her mouth. I just want her to be comfortable more than anything. I don't know how you can do that at any age knowing your dying. She is by far the best person I have ever known. Like I said before I have never heard her say a bad word about anyone. She is the only person in my life that I know has never talked any shit about me even when I deserved it. I try to be like her but I just can't seem to get there. Bottom line is talking shit about other people makes me feel better about myself. As much as I wish I could change my ways I just can't seem to do it! I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time with her this summer. Anyway on another note these people I live with are still driving me crazy.

Zilker park

So Brian and Sherry are on their last day in Austin. Even though Brian hurt his ankle playing basketball we make him go to Zilker Park with us.

We feed the pigeons.

Aidan is not crazy about the pigeons in fact he is down right scared of them! He is my child such an over thinker of the "what ifs". I hope I can break him of this bad habit, sometimes it really stops you from doing things.

Now Blake is all good with them! Me I'm sitting there thinking I hope that bird isn't carrying any funk.

Cole has got to do whatever Blake does. I do think if Blake jumped off a bridge Cole would follow.

That bird is thinking thank God that nasty kid let me go. He is also probably rethinking the next time he comes down for some Little Caesars pizza.

Ziggy our dog does not like the birds at all! Can you see him coming around from the garbage can.

Do you think I would get arrested if I tied him up and left him here???????

We take a walk down by the water. Always good people watching here. I love to people watch some of them really crack me up. I do think it would be cool if I could hear what people were thinking though. I bet some people are thinking some shit about us too.

Blake looks naked in this picture. I'm just glad he decided to hang out with us today. It seems he has gotten to the age were I am no longer the center of his universe. It goes fast, so sad. I really sound like an old ass right now and I hate that!

The boys want to stop by and offer these old farts some pizza.

While I'm chatting with the nice old fart the other one tries to grab my ass. I told him he was a little to stiff for my taste. If you were wondering that white spot on my shirt is in fact pigeon shit! No one told me it was there till I saw it in the picture. Thanks family...:)

We are getting ready to go and Cole is pouting about not going on the train. Now we have rode that train more times than not. We missed it and would have had to wait an hour for the next one. It was hot and we were tired. I tell him we are going to leave him there if he doesn't get in the car. I get into the car and he is still sitting there. WHAT do I do now????? I thought for sure he would follow once we started walking. I drive away and circle around the lot. I pull up next to him and yell get in the car or I swear I will leave you here. Talk about people watching I'm sure some people were watching us thinking take your ass back to the trailer lady. I have to laugh because while I'm writing this entry I'm sitting on the sofa. Aidan is laying by my legs. He just told me my legs smelled like play doh. Now I know my legs feel like play doh but I had no idea they smelled like play doh. Another evil thought is swirling through my brain. Do you think I would get child protetive service called on me if I took all the wasted food from the day stuck it in a blender and made them eat it???? Just a thought! Another most annoying day with these people I live with.