Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Time flies when your having fun

Can't believe it's been 3 weeks since I last posted anything. I even forget about this blogging stuff because of Face Book and Twitter. On March 12th we headed down to Victorville to meet up with some old neighbors of ours, like from 24 yrs ago. They found us on Face Book and we found out Steve & Jill are still doing promotions of Monster Trucks, Bands, Car Racing ect. all over the states. They were having a Monster Truck show going on in Victorville, where they live, so Dave & I thought it would be a great idea to go, see the show, see Steve and Jill, plus, it was a great excuse to go and see the kids in Bakersfield too, while we were down that way. The Victorville thing turned out to be a bust. The Monster Truck show was OK, it's just it was freezing outside so we just walked back to our RV and didn't finish watching the show. We got to visit with Jill Friday night but Steve had to stay home because he had another show going on, in another State, and had to make sure nothing went wrong. Saturday Dave and I just hung around waiting for the show which didn't start till 7:30pm that night. Didn't see Steve or Jill until right before the show started. They came by the coach and gave us wrist bands so we could get in for free. We never got invited over or anything, so needless to say, don't rush to see someone you haven't seen in 24 yrs. We headed out 1st thing Sunday morning and went to Bakersfield. Kim was working at Little Feet but Madison and Danny were home. Thank goodness it hadn't been that long since we had seen Madison, she wasn't afraid at all. We parked the RV in front of the house, hooked up the electrical and stayed for 3 nights. The weather was nice, so Madison and I went into the backyard. Dave was off doing Home Depot stuff and Danny was doing a deep cleaning on their bathroom shower. While in the backyard Madison found a hole with water in it, and started doing Happy Feet, where she splashed mud on her shoes and legs. Danny got the movie camera and filmed her through the bathroom window. She then fell and now her butt was all muddy, she didn't care but Kim wasn't too happy when she got home. Kim said she wanted her to do girl things not play in mud. Monday we did the same thing in the backyard, but this time I covered the muddy spot, Madison filled and dumped Toby's water dish so many times, then she figured out if you keep dumping water in the same spot you can make new muddy holes and do the happy feet thing. Tuesday morning Danny and Dave went and got Madison a 2 slide climbing thing. She couldn't wait for G-Pa to put it together for her. After it was put together she was all over that thing, the little turd even figured out how to climb up the slides and not have to use the stairs. It also has a climbing wall but we didn't show her how to use that. With the sun beating down the slide would get hot, so Kim ran out and got a 10 by 10 easy up canopy. That worked out really great for cover, keeps the play thing in the shade and Madison too so she won't get sunburned.
We headed out Wednesday mid morning to Laughlin NV for the night. Lost $20 on the slot machines and that was my limit. Thursday got back to Cornville unloaded the RV and put it back in storage. Since we've been back we have just been hanging around, last weekend we went to a hot rod car show in Cottonwood and saw Old Time Fiddler's in Cornville, boy was that boring. Still hitting the estate/garage sales, last Friday we went to an estate sale in Sedona 6000 sq ft house, amazing to see, and was up for sale for almost 2 million dollars.
Dave has wanted cabinets for the garage so he started that project the other day. The weather is starting to warm up so I have been able to sit outside, in the lounge chair, read my book, while working on my suntan.
All caught up now.

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Kim, Danny and Miss Madison's visit

We had a great visit with the kids, it was a lot of fun having them here. They drove up Wednesday afternoon and Dave and I tried to stay up but no go. We both kept waking up now and then and looking at the clock. At 2:30am I told Dave we needed to call them, they should have been here by now. Dave got up and walked into the hallway and noticed the bedroom door closed. They had arrived around 1:30 and didn't call us, like they said they would, and just went straight to bed. Dave and I went in the morning at 8am to go pick up trash with our group, thinking they would sleep in, but as soon as we started Kim called me and said that I should get home and child proof my house. Dave said he would help with the trash and that I should go home and be with the kids and Madison. Dave had put some locks on the cabinets and drawers, I had picked up a lot of stuff so we thought we were pretty much child proof, but not enough for the smarty pants Miss Madison. There really wasn't much stuff I had to move, it was just the stuff I thought was high enough that she couldn't reach, but she is so darn tall, we keep forgetting that.
Madison loved the gym room I have, she was always getting on the treadmill, the bike and elliptical were too much for her. The exercise ball was another favorite for her, it had to be in the living room everyday. In the mornings we would open the shades and the hot air balloon would be out and she loved watching it. She also loved being in the backyard, the crunching of the rocks under her feet, she loved hearing it. She would even do the fast dance on the rocks. Getting bored walking around the backyard with her that's when I got the idea to put her in our wagon, she was in 7th heaven. She would ride around the back and front yards then I would take it to go get the mail with her. She would just sit and ride until the last day, she only wanted to ride for a little bit, then all she wanted to do was walk in the rocks of all the neighbors houses.
While the kids were here we drove up to Jerome and had lunch at the Haunted Burger, then let Madison play at the playground, we did a little walking around shops too. Another day we went to Sedona and did some walking around there too. Miss Madison has developed some nice temper tantums, plus, if looks could kill she can throw a few of those at you too.
Kim had brought down my Mom's jewelery bag with her, it was so weird because when we opened the compartments you could smell my mom. Dave, Kim and I all agreed on that, and after the kids left for home I went through the whole thing and matched up all the earrings. I went from owning only 4 earrings and now with all of my mom's I have like 35 now. I even remember her wearing the Christmas ones, Santa, the Snowman ect. God how I miss her.
Anyway, hated to see them leave but glad they made it home safe. We are looking at driving down to Victorville in a couple weeks to go to a car race that an old neighbor of our's is promoting and we haven't seen them in at least 20 years, so on the way back to Arizona will stop by and see Kim again. Our big trip, to remind everyone is in May, we are headed for Iowa, but before we get there we are planning on visiting, Kim, Mike, Aunt Evelynn, and Marisa. Will know more details later and let everyone know.
Posted new pics under our picture albums
Just remembered another thing, while Kim was brushing her teeth, one morning, Madison managed to empty the bottom drawer of the cabinet climbed inside then stood on the side and was asking mom if she could wash her hands, little shit!! 1st time said she had done that, that's only because of all of Kim's cabinets are child proof and our's aren't.