I got a fever for some cowbell!

We went out last night with some friends and we had a FABULOUS time! In the downtown area, they had a Thursday evening concert series and it wrapped up last night. A band we know, Root Doctors, was playing. I actually used to work with one of the horn players.
It was outside in a parking lot, super warm and sunny, beer from a beer truck and free admission. Everyone was dressed all summery and we got an occasional breeze. The beer was going down good and we all were having a good time. So we eventually work our way up towards the stage and started to get our groove on! We took some random pics of our fellow "dancers" for fun (I don't have them now, will have to post later). We saw Vanilla Ice, Elvira, our friends' dad, a she-man and a retired Solid Gold dancer...not really, but they were in our minds. Towards the end of the show I walked up to the lead singer, put my hand out and Ta-da! I was suddenly their back-up dancer! I even got handed the cowbell, so I was also back-up percussionist! So much fun!
After all that movin' and groovin' and sweatin', we headed to Mellow Mushroom for nurishment, but nobody wanted to wait on us except the bartender. That was OK. We got our food and it was good!

House Update

We met with the builder Wednesday, signed a contract and we have house plans in hand! Whoo-hoo! Contractually, they have a year to finish it, but probably sometime between Christmas and Spring Break we would move in. I'm so excited to finally be at the point.
On the other hand...looks like we will have to put in some elaborate, expensive drainage system b/c our property isn't fit for a regular well and septic system (don't have city water). Oh well.

10 on Tuesday: summer to-do list

Today is my first official day of not working! Yep, off for the summer, for about a month and a half, anyway.
Already today I've scrapbooked all of last summer! Before you become too amazed, I sorta cheated. I love to scrap but just don't have time anymore. What I've done for several things is to do a whole scrapbook online. For example, I did an entire book for Christmas and for our trip to Hawaii. Wal-geens, Wal-mart and Snapfish offer pretty much the same service. You download your pics and you pick and choose your backgrounds and layouts from about 2 dozen choices. My favorite is a service called Picaboo . You download the program for free and upload your pics. You can choose from TONS of backgrounds or scan your own. Then viola! You have an instant 20 page scrapbook. Costs around $20 (plus shipping) and it's way more time efficient than doing it by hand. Not as creative, but it counts, damn it!
Here are 10 other things I'd like to do this summer:

I added a few more, unofficially...
12. Go to the zoo.
11. Cruise in Daddy's convertible.
10. Get Savannah a haircut. She hasn't had one yet.
9. Walk across the dam at the lake.
8. Try to make a lot of decisions about the house so I don't have to do that once school starts back.
7. Go visit friends out of town.
6. Scrapbook our Disney trip and anything else, If I possibly can.
5. Get Savannah 100% potty-trained! I'm tired of giving all my hard-earned $ to Pull-Ups...
4. Go to the beach for a mini-vacation.
3. Take Savannah to the dentist. She hasn't been yet.
2. Have at least one night out on the town with the girls (no diapers or sippy cups allowed)
1. Go out on the lake in the boat. Even though I grew up on the lake, we hardly do this anymore. Of course with the price of gas, one trip on the water will suffice. (2x)

I'll be referring to this list regualarly and cross them out as I go. Here's to a great summer!

What the...? Men, schmen

"What's this?" you ask. Really rotten bananas? Savannah got a hold of a marker? Nope. They're burnt. How do you get burnt bananas? You leave them on top of the toaster oven while you cook something. "That's silly," you say. Yep. It's an obvious mistake, I think. But my dear husband has done it not once, but twice in the same week. "So move the fruit to a different location," you say. It's on the toaster oven to begin with because if I put it away, Steve says he can't see it and therefore won't eat it. Well, you won't eat it extra crispy either. This from my husband, who, if you didn't know, has a Ph.D. in engineering. WTF?!
As you know, we just got back from Florida, but he had to go out of town for work again this week. I was supposed to go with him on this trip but it didn't work out. That was fine. Well, then I had the opportunity to go visit some friends out of town this weekend. He would get in Saturday a.m. when I would plan to leave."No", Steve says, "I get in town on the red-eye and I need to be left alone so I can sleep for a few hours." OK then, I'll take Savannah with me. "Oh no," he says, "I haven't seen her all week and I want to spend some time with her." Excuse me, you just said you would be sleeping most of the day?!??!
THEN, he calls me tonight. He says he may not get in until 5:30 tomorrow. Not a surprise b/c he gets flights changed/ cancelled on him all the time. Oh, actually, the guys from work want him to go out tonight and take a later flight home. I politley told him that if he has a choice, I'd like him to come home in the morning as planned, especially since Savannah has been very whiny for him all week and oh, yeah, she had a fever of 103 this evening.
WTF?!?! men......

Disney Recap

I'm baaack! So the trip to Florida was good. We stayed at the Contemporary Resort in Disney World. It was the 3 of us and my parents. They haven't been on a vacation like that since I was probably in middle school. Anyway, We visited Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Downtown Disney and Sea World. The weather was perfect and the crowds weren't too bad. But that is perhaps due to my #1 tip: Get there when the gates open, leave after lunch for a nap and then go back that evening.

Really, we did that almost everyday! At MK, we were on our 5th ride by 9:45! (gate opened at 9:00)And Savannah hung in there like a real trooper. She had a lot of fun and got to meet Mickey, Minnie and others. We did a character breakfast one day. That's where they come visit you at your table as you eat. Pricey, but good.

I think her favorite part were the roller coasters (Barnstormer at MK and Shamu at SW). She would have gone on the great big ones if she could.

When we weren't at a park, we were hanging out by the pool. Savannah loved to jump in over and over. Lucky for her, Papa didn't seem to mind. She was also swimming...with a life jacket on.
We were so exhausted when we got home Friday night. Overall, we had a great time.

Yee-ha!