A Drive Thru the Game Farm

Puking, Parking, Picnicing and Playing

Monday: Lars continues to cry. He has a new tooth and another one coming through. Eden skipped daycare because of an upset stomach. She slept on our floor that night.

Tuesday: Lars cries. Eden wakes up and eats breakfast, pukes. Load into the car for a much anticipated trip to Scottsbluff for ‘stuff’. Al has a visit with a parishioner and also has to record for the radio station. Eden throws up in the blazer on the way out of town. Lars continues to cry. Drop Lars at Carla’s daycare. Continue on to “The Bluffs”, as they are commonly referred to around here. Eden sleeps all the way over. Al drops Eden & me off at the store, where she pukes again. I get our ‘stuff’, Al picks us up & we head home. Eden sleeps all the way home.

Wednesday: Lars cries, unless you hold him and let him squirm nearly out of your arms. Eden is feeling like a new toddler. Busy day at home, putting ‘stuff’ away. I drag out the suitcases and put them in the spare room to get ready to go home in August. If I don’t start setting things aside now, much will be forgotten. For date night, Al and I head over to Scottsbluff (twice in one week is unheard of, let alone two days in a row!). We are making a down payment on something fun, practical and bright yellow. Feel free to make guesses…next week, I’ll have photos. We then go to Applebee’s for supper. Not usually my favorite of all places, but they’ve updated the menu since my last visit & have a smaller portions section that I enjoyed. I could go there again. They even have a Weight Watchers menu now.

Mom pushes Eden "HIGH" on the swing

Lars loves to swing!

Time for snack

Thursday: Spent the day indoors and got ready for a short camping trip to the State Lakes, 5 minutes from our house. When Al got off work, we drove the kids to Laura’s house, then went to the lake and set up camp. We then went to collect the kids. That’s the way to set up camp!

Friday: Woke up at 0730 to 80 degree weather. Ate breakfast, took a walk, went to the swimming hole and jumped in. It felt nice and Eden had a blast, playing for almost 2 hours. We had a picnic lunch there, and then headed home to beat the heat. Took naps, watered flowers and went back at supper time, when our camp site was in the shade. We made pizza pockets, Eden played on the swings and by 0230 the next morning, and we needed to turn the furnace on.

Saturday: Ate breakfast, played on the swings and in the rocks, and decided to break camp and clean out our camper at the same time, since we just sold it. We emptied everything into totes and headed home by 10:00. Al went to Mark and Laura’s to put the camper in their garage, since they are the new owners, and I took the poopy kids home. I had just pulled into the driveway, when Al called for me to come help him.

It’s nice to be needed, but even I couldn’t help this situation. While Al was in their garage, opening the door from the inside, he heard a loud crunch. Looking out, he saw that the parked truck and camper in tow had lost its grip in the rocky soil and slid down the hill, jackknifing in the process and slamming the upper left corner of the pop-up into the rear left corner of the pick-up, locking them together into a crushed mess. I called Mark at work and he came home with his pick up to pull the two apart. We all left and decided to come together at the end of the day with supper, alcohol and ideas on what to do.

Neither looks too bad from this angle

But if you look at it from this side...not so great

Saturday evening, I packed up the fixing for some amazing Chimichangas and Al brought his working hands. The guys worked on the camper and the ladies worked on supper and margaritas. All in all, the camper is salvageable and the pick up is drivable. Neither looks to great at the moment.

Sunday was hot. Lars was happy at church and cried as soon as we walked through the door at home. Al and baby are napping and Eden is watching Noggin on TV (Pre-school cartoons all day and night).

Life is good.

Camping at The Pits

I love my children, I love my children, I love my children, I love......

Today (Sunday) is hot and sticky here, so instead of being outside and productive, I am sitting in front of the TV, watching a race and enjoying the air conditioning while Lars sleeps and Eden entertains herself with her dolly. I missed bible study after church this morning b/c of a huge 5 alarm fire south of town. An oil tank caught fire and started everything else around it. It burned hot and fast and then it was over. Hoping after nap time that we can take a family trip to the pool.Last night (Saturday) we waited for Daddy to get home and went to a block party across the street in our neighbor's back yard. They were having a Mexican fiesta, so I made homemade chips and salsa for the occasion. Lars was crabby and tired, per usual. I eveuntally walked him home and put him in the crib, then brought the monitor out to our driveway and turned it up real loud. Eden had fun watching all the other kids play games they had set up for the kids, including an egg toss, a sombrero game, and a pinata to wack at. After enchiladas and margaritas, we visited for a while and headed home.

The 4th (Friday) was Al's first day off in a long time. We went to the park in the morning and enjoyed the playground until the sun made everything too hot to play on. We walked home, attempted naps and got Eden ready to go to the races in Gering with her daddy. I got to stay home and enjoy the quiet once Lars went to sleep. I managed to scrapbook 2 pages! That's a record of late.


Thursday was day one of the annual Bridgeport Rodeo. It's a huge event here, put on by the National Rodeo Association, that draws bull riders from all the surrounding states. I've never seen anything like it. The very first rider got bucked off, kicked in the head and knocked unconscious. Needless to say, all of us EMTs were kept busy. After the wild horse race and before the final bull rider, the firefighters set off the fireworks to a cheering crowd of about 2500. It was an interesting experience, but once a year is enough for me.Wednesday is too far back to remember. I do remember having a fire meeting that night, now that I think about it.

Tuesday is way too far back to remember. Al had marriage counseling for yet another couple jumping in to marital bliss. Monday was Monday, which is to say, I REALLY can't remember. We had an evening visitor come after supper, who stayed way past Eden's bedtime.

One of us had something every night this week. Lars cried a lot. More than usual. One day, he cried all day w/o stopping to eat or sleep. I think that was one of those days I'm choosing not to remember.

Eden was naughty this week and spent much time in her room, refusing to apologize for any wrong-doing. I think she was bored b/c I was holding Lars all week long.

I do love my children. Some days are just harder than others to be away from grandma.

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