Pampering The Droid

Months ago, when I first got my Droid, a friend of mine recommended I go to Best Buy and get a Zagg screen protector for it. Which I did. But I had never bothered to apply it until tonight. Mostly because it says after you adhere it to your phone you have to let it dry for 12 - 24 hours and since it's my only phone of any sort I just haven't invested that kind of time. But I just got back from a road trip last night and I've got no major plans for the next day or two, so I decided to get it done tonight. Lisa invited me out to Fordland to spend the night and catch up with her, so I just took it with me and did it there.

Route 66 Roadtrip Continued

We spent the night in Weatherford, Oklahoma and continued our trip today. We stopped at two different Route 66 museums this morning, so it took us about 4 hours to get over to Texola, Oklahoma and cross into Texas. This was our turning around point and since we had already seen everything we wanted to see we just drove the interstates back home. We pulled into mom's driveway at 8:30 pm.

It was a great trip. The only regret I have is that I didn't take more pictures.

Route 66 Roadtrip

This morning Jessica and I left her house in Seligman at 6:00 am and began our journey through Oklahoma on the Mother Road. There are so many things to see... i took so many pictures. My favorite part of the whole thing was The Blue Whale in Catoosie. I had always heard about this icon and had seen numerous pictures of it in Route 66 blogs, so I was extremely excited to finally get there in person. This is the one object I took the most pictures of. And I talked about it for 3 days afterwards. And I want to go back and see it again. I'm such a dork.

Oklahoma Route 66 Roadtrip Begins Tomorrow

Tomorrow morning Jessica and I are leaving at 6:00 am to begin our epic adventure through the state of Oklahoma. We are going to travel the length of Route 66 and see all the old tourist traps. I am so excited. I love Route 66.

Last Christmas she asked for a summer trip instead of a Christmas present. And since my interest in the mother road has resulted in her being interested in it, I decided this would be a cool trip to take. Today is their last day of school in Washburn, so I've come down to Seligman to spend the night and get everything ready to go.

Oops, I Did It Again!

Wow, looks like I forgot to take a picture today. I slipped up again. Tonight Izzy came over and ate dinner with us. We walked around the block and played some Rock Band after we ate. And I forgot to take a picture. :(

New Moon

I had a busy weekend and I feel like unwinding and relaxing, so I invited myself over to my sister Wendy's house to watch New Moon. I love the Twilight books and so I feel a need to also see the movies. But I'm not gonna lie... the movies really are not that good if you have read the books. They leave out so much and the movies are so freaking emo. Yes, there is a lot of emotions in the books. But the movies portray Bella as constantly sad and pouty and Edward is always sullen and reflective, etc. In the books those moods happen, but they also have moments of happiness and laughter and they smile at each other because they are in love. Seriously, I don't care for the way they made the movies. I urge you all to read the books.

Renaissance Fair

Last year I took Marshall & Dillon to the St. Louis Ren Fair and they loved it so much I promised them we could do it again this year. But I didn't want to leave Charlie out so we brought him along too. The trip is my treat. Just something I do to make sure I spend enough quality time with the kids. Today was Charlie's first time at one of these and he really enjoyed it. I gave them each $20 for spending money, but they were all bummed to learn that they weren't allowed to purchase any type of weapon. Because of course that's the only thing they wanted. I felt bad they were so disappointed but we had a great day regardless and I really enjoyed my "boys day".

Side note: Charlie spent Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday morning with me and I didn't find out until the next Tuesday that he had shaved off his eyebrows completely before he got to my house and no one knew he had done it. I can't believe I never noticed. I kept looking at him because something did look different... but he's also lost 30 pounds in the past 2 months and his face is changing as he's getting thinner. So I just kept thinking that's what looked different. But now as I look back through the pics I took, it's pretty obvious that he's missing his eyebrows. His parents, his sister and my mom never noticed either once I took him back home. Once it was discovered they were not amused.