Ever Heard This One?

During our interview with a former railine employee today, he told us about a man who was known as a tightwad, but I bet you never heard a tightwad put like this before...

"The man was so cheap he wouldn't pay a dime to see Jesus riding a bicycle."

Don't ask me why that was so funny. I think it had something to do with hearing it from a 90 some year old man while we were standing in a garage in 90 degree weather. Guess you had to be there.

Glamour Girls

A few friends and I attended the Glamour Night Summer Soiree, a fundraiser held by Lutheran Family Children Services. My friends found some cute things at the booths. Although I saw several things I really liked, I was proud of my restraint. Still, I had a great time. I bumped into Janeene, one of our social workers. Have I ever said how awesome she is? She's so much fun. Janeene is a rock and has provided fabulous emotional support to us over the past couple of years. Love her!

Janeene, me and Jennifer

Unfortunately, I did not win the dermatology package or the diamond necklace, the big giveaways during tonight's event. I did walk away with this free botox hat. Ha, ha. Too bad I didn't have it on during the entire evening. I spent a couple of hours on the road today in a non-airconditioned vehicle, giving myself the natural windblown look. On the upside, I met and interviewed a neat man who worked for the railines. On the downside, my hair was pretty wild.

No one is going to believe I had botox, are they? :)

Happy Father's Day!

We hope you are having a wonderful weekend with your family. We've had fun with family, trying to keep cool this toasty weekend. My father spent half of the day in the field.

While the kids played with Meaghan's Little Pet Shop toys.

Jack can now peddle his tricycles and jump backwards while bouncing on a bed. He's also a great ball hitter. While we were playing ball this morning, he kept saying, "Gotta go to my baseball games." Of course, we wouldn't miss them for the world.

Hmm...something or somethings are missing here.

Owie

During a visit to my hometown, we stopped by this grotto dedicated to the unborn. After checking it out for a couple of minutes, Jack said, "Jesus have owie" and pointed to his hands. 

The Blessings of Family

Jack and I joined family and friends and showered his birthmother and her fiance with gifts yesterday. They will be married at the end of July. They bought Jack a ring bearer vest. He'll look so cute in it if I can ever get it on him. Aunt Jay modeled it for us.

Jack also let Aunt Jay borrow his new Spongebob sunglasses.

Jack had a blast with cousins, Chris and Allysa.

Uncle Parker and cousin Josh helped Jack fly up in the sky.

I took a decent picture of Sam and Aunt Jay but Jack's head was turned. In all fairness, he was being tickle tortured at the time.

Then Sam and I tried to take a picture with Jack.

Hopefully, we'll have much better luck at the wedding. Jack didn't want to slow down yesterday. He didn't have time for pictures.

Stinker!

Batter Up!

Last night, Jack and I went to my niece Meaghan's tee ball game. It was pretty hot but the kids were excited. I taught Jack the chant, "Go, go Meaghan. Go, go, go Meaghan."

It must have worked. Meaghan had told mom that she hoped they wouldn't pitch to her and instead use the tee ball stick. Well, my niece hit that ball each inning without the stick. I was so proud of her. She even brought in a homerun. :)

But she was more concerned about her loose tooth and spent most of her time on the field playing with it. Mom spent most of her time keeping my nephew Garrett busy. Here, they are playing "Itsy Bitsy Spider."

Garrett snuck on the field a couple of times. Mom and my SIL JeNae took turns running after him.

Good game. Good game.

The boys were proud of Miss Meaghan, the champion. You can just see Grandpa's head behind them.

I love tee ball games. No parents yelling at their kids, only cheering. And cheering for both teams. The kids have some good old-fashioned free-spirited fun, like the two boys who laid down in the in-field during one inning. We had a wonderful time and wish Miss Meaghan the best during her remaining season.

History

I visited with a train historian today. He had some interesting tales about the Mid Missouri area. We talked about the Centralia Massacre that occurred during the Civil War when unarmed Union men were taken off a train and executed by pro-Confederate guerrillas. The man's family lived near a train depot. His great uncle was a bushwacker or guerrilla, not the proudest moment in his family's history. The uncle was later shot in the back by some other guerrillas as they attempted to break free a man from the Boone County prison. The man's family also knew Jesse James. As a kid, the historian used to pretend he was a sheriff trying to capture Jesse James at a watering hole on his family's land. Later, he learned that Jesse had stopped at that watering hole because he had family north of the area. It's a small world.