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.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

What did you expect after 20+ yrs.?
A superstar welcome? Mabe they didn't know about the carney adventure this summer. That should have put you right over the top!

Jeri said...

We were the ones invited down to a show and get together for dinner. Yes they did know about the carney stuff but that didn't help any.

marisa said...

Why is Kim against Mady doing "boy" things like playing in the mud? Mady should explore everything, regardless of it's classification of a boy or girl thing. Playing in mud is so good for kids to learn and explore texture, nature, and have fun. I say Nana and Grandpa should let her play in the mud everytime you guys are there.