Babysitting SAGA

We had a hard time getting the boys to want to do anything.

Finally, a brilliant idea! we made a fire and had smores. But alas after about 5 minutes they were bored again!

But Kyle had fun with Griffy

Kyle made spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. It was great to have dinner made for me.

He REALLY LIKED it

Babysitting

Here we go agian another baby sitting job. It's not so bad. And we make ok money. but everytime we babysit I do something dumb that costs us more than we made. No only that, we house dog, cat, lizard and fish sat last weeked this time the parents will be gone for 2 weekends.

The boys not only have school that we pick up and drop them off for they have scouts (not a bad thing) young mens, personal training, tennis lessons, physical therapy. We have to watch 3 cats that like to puke and pee and poo when the mom is gone, the lizard who needs fresh crickets about every 3 days (yuck) and the coolest dog in the world Griffin.

He goes by Griffy and he loves kyle. Although he should like me. I give him treats, sneak him people food beneath the table and let him inside. This kiesh hound is adorable but huge.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention the 35k dollar fish tank that in the past has been known to over flow underheat and cause me stress.

The boys are so cute and the parents love us. We make sure their homework gets done, feed them and don't have any hospital visits, except the scheduled ones. If anyone needs baby, house dog or other exotic pet sitters you know who to call!

Oma's Birthday

78 and still looks great!

Getting together with family has to be one of our favorite things. The Wooden side doesn't get together as much as we should, but everytime we do it is a blast.

Ky and I got to reminisce about our wedding because Omas party was in the same back yard as our reception (although a little decorating really did spice it up! Oh yeah and there was not a volley ball net at our reception, wish)

Everyone was so excited to see us and the girls loved my big red necklace, but bad news my shirt buttons didn't like to do what they were supposed to do, and stay buttoned. Good thing I always wear undershirts.

Some random girls came over to cut cousin Andrews hair. He wants to look like the office guy.

Opa tried to convince Kyle to move in with my Aunts parents. Basically to be their farm hand. I say he would be the arm.

Helping Grandma, gone bad

Grandma calls Kyle "Muscles".

When ever she needs anything done like pulling, down the blinds, opening stubborn jars, or pulling out bushes MUSCLES is there.

Well the other day Grandma asked kyle and I to help her pull out her ugly old roses that were not producing, so basically these nasty thorn bushes. I tried to help, but I was mostly in the way so i just picked up branches and started the digging around the bushes--- while ky literally hacked at these poor bushes and their roots. For some odd reason I felt sorry for these pokey sticks. I made the mistake of telling Ky that I felt as if he were killing them. He said that is exactly what he was doing.
We pushed and pulled and wriggled those dang things out of the ground. We kept score. Amanda 1, Kyle 5 bushes 20. But we really didnt know what to do when the shovel decided that it wanted to play.


After a few dings and dangs the shovel went kapute and that was the end of that... until we found a shovel in the garage made out of metal.

buses 20, shovel -1, summers 21