Silent Blogger

I have my reason's for lack of blogging. I am working on a project that has consumed my time. I will hopefully be able to unveil it to all of you in the next week or so. I am on a huge learning curve, so what I thought would take me a few days has turned into a few weeks!

Last week Friday, my very cute, adorable, tall, and baby faced brother came into town to spend a day with the family. Sadly his beautiful wife was not able to join him, so we are now going to have to travel to Chicago to see her....oh darn.

Anyway, our bonding time was scheduled to take place at Uncle Paul and Aunt Nadia's house. They live up by Lake Bella Vista (about 40-45 min from our house). It is quite comical that my children think that Uncle Paul lives sooooo far away. We all climbed in the van getting ready to leave. I went to buckle Tyler in and he hauled out a map. "Mommy, show me where uncle Paul lives on this Map". The really funny part was that it was a map of the southern states! They think Uncle Paul lives that far away! Tyler followed us all the way on the map, he kept saying that he sees us on the map...Kev and I would just smile. Then we past by a gravel pit and Micah exclaimed that we were passing the desert! My stomach was just getting warmed up for an evening of laughter.

On the final leg of our trip we pass a big hill and on the other side is the lake they live by. Micah says "OK, OK, I know where we are...we are almost to Uncle Paul's, that's the ocean." I have been teaching the kids about the difference between the ocean (salt water) and most lakes (fresh water)...but they know that we don't live by a ocean. It would take a long time for us to travel too one, naturally this is why the thought was Paul and Nadia lived by an ocean.

Once we were there we all had a great time too. Uncle Paul has an X-box (I think that's what it's called) and had games that us kids could play even though my 6 yr old could play them better than Aunt Laurie and I. Micah kept telling us what button to hit...by the time we were done we were laughing so hard our stomachs hurt.

Jilli kept Uncle Paul very busy...they have 2 cats that live in the lower apartment (aka basement) and she wanted to play with them, so Uncle Paul was kept very busy between the cats and his air hockey game that all the kids love to play with.

When it was time to go home the map came out again, but our little adventurers were so tired from the long drive up, good food, and hard play that they fell asleep on the way back down. Good thing Daddy knows the way without a map!

Blessings!