The Blaming Horse Rider

I think blaming things on other people to spare getting into trouble runs in the family. When I was a little girl my mom spent a lot of time making a pecan pie. The next morning when we woke up, amazingly enough all the pecans were gone off the pie! How could that happen? Well, my sister told me the cat ate them. It sounded logical to me. My sister told me that we didn't want the cat to get into trouble, did we? So tell mom that I ate them. I was about 4 or 5 and believed her, so that's what I told my mom when she came in furious wanting to know what happened to the pecans! My sister got off the hook for eating them and I got into trouble for supposedly eating them! Dirty trick! My mom later found out and took care of my sister! Fast forward 30 years to our house. Whenever I say something like, "Who left this out?" or whatever the case may be, inevitably, Averie is right there to say as she crinkles her nose, "I think Sydney did it."

So, yesterday I finally swept and mopped all the floor downstairs. Averie wanted to help mop, so I let her. She mopped all around and when she was done I said:
"Averie! Great job! When you grow up you're going to be a good mopper!"
She said, "No, mom. When I grow up I am going to be a horse rider."
"Oh, well then at least you'll know how to mop the floors in your house when you grow up."

Nothing much!

I don't have much to say. We just added our 3 favorite songs these days to this blog. Whenever we hear these songs, it brings a smile to everyones face and one or more of us starts dancing and singing! That's all for today!

JoBros!!!!

You know how much fun it is to have a teenager and an almost teenager in the house? Ok, it's not ALWAYS fun. Let's be honest! But one of the things that is so fun is going to concerts with them. So far we have been to Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, Clique Girls & Cheetah Girls, Demi Lovato & David Archuleta, and by far, the best so far, is Jordin Sparks & The Jonas Brothers that we saw last night for Sydney's birthday!!! They put on a great show!!! I look back at alllllllll the concerts I went to as a teenager and I have to say nowadays they are so much more entertaining (well let me back up a minute and say the Red Hot Chili Peppers were pretty entertaining!) Last night at Jobing.com Arena, the whole arena was opened up and it was sold out. The stage was HUGE. They had all kinds of lasers, lights and video and toward the end Joe and Kevin got up on this "lifter" that took them out over the top of the audience and they squirt everyone within reach with foam! Of course the crowd went absolutely WILD when Nick was lifted up on to the stage with a white baby grand piano and played for everyone. I think he is definitely everyone's favorite.

Way tooo much...

I have been such a slacker this summer. I need to catch-up before the next school year begins. You ready? It'll probably be all backwards...but here we go...

Lego Master in the House!

Josh is soooo into Legos. Lego Pirates, Lego Indiana Jones, Lego Star Wars and definitely Bionicles. I think he is so diligent in doing his chores this summer because he knows he gets paid at the end of the month and that means he has enough for a new Bionicle. Yesterday, he was on the Lego website and found that he can create something Lego or Bionicle that is original and post it and then other kids can vote on it and you can see if yours wins. So here is his creation of a few Bionicles combined together that I'll be posting when I am done here. It's all he thinks about these days!

Kallie and Jason went to a fun Daddy Daughter Dance for Activity Days. Jason bought this shirt a few years ago and people make fun of him in it. So he brought it out for the dance!

Our next to last fun summer event was going to the Demi Lovato and David Archuletta concert. I thought Sydney was going to have a heart attack!!! She was DYING! She is sooooo convinced he looked right at her and waved! It really did look like it though! So, whether it happened or not, we are saying it happened! So, Sydney just walked in and read this post and said, "Mom! What do you mean 'convinced'???? He did! He really did! Erase that!" Oops! Here's the new favorite shirt of the summer she saved her money to buy, that was actually $15 more than she had that I had to kick in. When did concert shirts get so expensive? Remember the good 'ol days when they were only $20??Help me out people!