Baseball

Baseball season has started. Wyatt plays 10 & under this year which is kid pitch. So this is Wyatt's first year of kid pitch instead of coach pitch. We get new rules playing 10 & under. This is the first year Wyatt can steal bases and if the catcher drops the ball on the third strike the hitter can run to first base as if he hit the ball. This makes watching baseball much more exciting.

Wyatt's coaches name is Lisa. She hasn't ever been his coach before but Wyatt has played football and baseball before with Lisa's son Trey. We like her.

The team name is the Collinsville Cardinals. Very happy about that. Wyatt has played on the Buccaneers,  Rangers, Harrah Sandlot and this makes the 3rd year of playing on the Collinsville Cardinals.

A tournament started last night. We played at 7:45 last night. We lost. This morning we were supposed to play at 9:45, that was cancelled for unknown reasons. Then we were supposed to play at 1:00, the team we were playing decided to drop out of the tournament. So now we are scheduled to play at 6:00. But it looks like its going to rain.

I hope we have a great season!!

Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 was wonderful. Heidi stayed the night with us at our house. Poppy came over Christmas morning and brought Wy presents and we played Cabelas

Big Game Hunter. It even came with a big orange rifle. Wyatt loves it of course. Then we all got ready and went to MeMaws house where Grandma was preparing us a wonderful Christmas dinner. We had to eat first before opening presents to get Wyatt to eat something. We had a great time and opened way too many gifts! It was a wonderful Christmas.
Cant wait until next year!!!! I also hope we have tons of snow in 2010 for Christmas too!!

Wyatt 9th Birthday Swimming Party

January 16th, 2010 we had Wyatts swimming party at the Claremore Recreation Center. It was lots of fun. It had the largest indoor swimming pool i have ever seen.

Wyatt invited 10 of his friends from school to come to the party. 3 of them came. Another boy named Wyatt, a "hottie" (Wyatt calls her that) named Julie and a boy named Tristian (whose mother dropped him off with no swimming trunks so he just sat and watched)!

They have a diving board, a slide, kinda of a rock wall, places to swim laps and a kinda kiddy pool (but hooked onto the big pool). It was such a nice pool I was really wishing I would have brought my swimsuit!

We had cookie cake. (Wyatt doesn't like cake.) I'm not sure whats wrong with him!

Wyatts best friend Wade came with us and he is staying the night with us tonight. Tony, Tonya and Alexis were there. My sisters Heidi, Jennifer and Lisa were there with my brothers in law Ricky and Brett and my nieces Abi and Kenzye and my nephew Caden. Grandma came. Aunt Paula, Micha and Laney Jo were there. Kayla, Aaliyah, Chaera, Kynden and Faith all swam.
Cassondra came with her 3 little girls Riley, Ireland and Kathrine.

We had a great time. If i have a complaint its

that it was so humid in there! I had to put my hair up and I was still sweating. But I understand its warm to keep the swimmers from freezing.

We had cookie cake on the Observation Deck overlooking the pool. It was very nice. But next time I will wear summer clothes and bring my swim suit!!

Christmas Eve 2009

We had a white Christmas in 2009. The weatherman actually said we had a "Blizzard Warning" for the first time in Tulsa County. It was great. Of course, I may not have thought it was so great if I still had my Mazda RX-8. But in March I traded it in on a 4 wheel drive tahoe and never had a problem in the Blizzard of 2009!!!!

On Christmas Eve it started snowing around noon. I was at work and it was so bad we got to close the store early at 3:30. The kids loved it. I loved it.

Heidi stayed the night with us. Tony, Tonya and Alexis also stayed the night here (and left the next morning to go to Grandmas).

The kids and Heidi made little Gingerbread houses that Susan had bought us to decorate.

We let Wyatt open his gifts from Aunt Angie and Tony and Tonya and Alexis opened their gifts from me and Wyatt and Grandma Suzanne and Heidi.

At 10:30 Christmas Eve night I opened the front door to check out the snow and the kids saw how much there was and went outside to play! Dixie and Princess also had to go play with them. So all three kids and two dogs playing in the snow in the moonlight. Heidi tried to push me outside. It was so much fun to watch the kids. Of course they had to change their pajamas into not snow covered pajamas.

We left cookies and milk for Santa.

We put Buttons in his box and underneath the Christmas tree for Santa to pick him up when he left Wyatts Christmas presents. Wyatt cried about Buttons leaving us.

• It was great Christmas Eve memories. I hope we remember them forever!!!!

Buttons the Elf

A couple Sundays ago when Wyatt got home from hunting with Poppy there was a box on the front porch. Wyatt brought it inside and gave it to me. I told him to open it, he did and there was an elf inside with a letter. Wyatt opened and read the letter, it was addressed to him. The letter basically said Santa is too busy to watch every child this year so Santa sent this elf to watch Wyatt. Its a new elf and doesn't have a name so Wyatt named him Buttons. Its a shy elf and wont come to life in front of anyone but may get into trouble at night and will report to Santa at the North Pole every night on Wyatt. We have to put Buttons back in his box on Christmas Eve and Santa will pick him up when he leaves Wyatt's present. If Wyatt is good then Buttons may come back next year.

So Buttons prefers one spot in the living room to sit on a shelf and watch everything. Sometimes Buttons moves to the mantle or the bar but mostly he just sits on the "O" out of the "LOVE" hanging on the wall in the living room.

One day after school Grandma picked Wy up and brought him by the house. Buttons had tied himself to the ceiling fan in the dining room and was flying around the dining room!

One night Wyatt was playing with a slinky and left it on the coffee table. The next morning when we woke up Buttons was tangled up in the slinky! Buttons has brought Wyatt an "elf" toy, a gingerbread man cookie and last night decided we needed candy canes and left 20 candy canes on our Christmas tree!!

One morning last week, Buttons wasn't in the living room (where he stays most of the time). He was in the kitchen, on the counter with flour all over the counter. Buttons had made a snow angel out of the flour!!! Guess who had to clean up that mess???? Not Wyatt!!

Buttons got out a Tonka truck one night that had a ladder on it and he was climbing up the Christmas tree with it. Wyatt got new house shoes and they came on a little hanger. We didn't pick up after ourselves and the next morning we found Buttons hanging from the chandelier with the house shoe hanger! We have found Buttons at the end of Wyatt's bed with the remote control watching cartoons. Buttons was fishing in our aquarium one morning! Crazy Elf!!!!

I think it will actually be sad to see Buttons go. I sure hope Wyatt is good so we get him back next year!

Holidays

I love Christmas time! Except the working in retail part. People should be happy and cheerful but instead people are bitchy and act like I own at&t and I make all the rules, policies and procedures!!!
Okay, enough bitching from me.

I put my tree up a couple weeks before Thanksgiving. I love my tree but it leans (maybe just because of all the weight on the front of it) and I want a bigger one. Bigger house, bigger tree RIGHT??? i have so many ornaments that they don't fit on my tree, i hated packing up a box of ornaments to go back to the garage because they wont fit on my tree!!!

Thanksgiving was so great. It was my first Thanksgiving to host at my own house!!! The turkey intimidated me so mom made the turkey and ham, broccoli and cheese casserole, cranberry salad and corn casserole. Susan made REAL mashed potatoes (because i was going to fix instant), REAL stuffing (because i would have made Stovetop out of the box), pumpkin pie and pecan pie. Heidi made a strawberry cheesecake. Dave made jalapeno stuffed chicken breast and pistachio pudding. I made rolls, green bean casserole, instant mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes. We had so much food. It was great and the first Thanksgiving i have never ate turkey or ham because i ate the chicken!!!! It was me, Wyatt, Tony, Alexis, (Tonya was at her moms), Memaw, Mom, Heidi, Susan, John and Dave. Memaw didn't eat with us though. She said she wasn't hungry. Mom thinks MeMaw was disoriented being out of her environment and around people she didn't really know (or remember that she had met before) so I'm not sure how we will do Christmas or future holiday get-togethers.

I didn't get to do Black Friday shopping this year BUT who needs to when i have a little sister like Heidi????? Heidi was at Toys R Us by midnight to get Wyatt a DSI. She was out all night. Never went to sleep. I know she was at Target at like 4 am, Kohls at like 9 am, etc. Good news is, she did get the Nintendo dsi and now that she got Wy his, she wants one!!!!

I have wrapped over 40 presents and still have stuff to wrap. Wrapping is the one part I hate about Christmas but I like the presents to be underneath the tree so wrapping is just part of the Christmas fun!

Tony put up the Christmas lights before Thanksgiving but they blew breakers, broke outlets and blew fuses. Dad changed the outlet, we got an extension cord so that only two strands of lights are hooked together and plugged in together and we still cant keep them on. So i think I'm over the Christmas lights for this year and I'm pretty sure we had three strands of lights last year all plugged into one outlet?????

Wyatt saw Santa Claus at Bass Pro Shops with Grandma and told him he wants an electric scooter. Sure hope he gets one!!!!

AN ACTUAL CRAIG'S LIST PERSONAL AD

To the Guy Who Tried to Mug Me in Downtown Savannah night before last. Date: 2009-05-27, 1:43 a.m. E.S.T. I was the guy wearing the black Burberry jacket that you demanded that I hand over, shortly after you pulled the knife on me and my girlfriend, threatening our lives. You also asked for my girlfriend's purse and earrings. I can only hope that you somehow come across this rather important message. First, I'd like to apologize for your embarrassment; I didn't expect you to actually crap in your pants when I drew my pistol after you took my jacket. The evening was not that cold, and I was wearing the jacket for a reason. My girlfriend had just bought me that Kimber Model 1911 .45 ACP pistol for my birthday, and we had picked up a shoulder holster for it that very evening. Obviously you agree that it is a very intimidating weapon when pointed at your head ...isn't it?! I know it probably wasn't fun walking back to wherever you'd come from with that brown sludge in your pants. I'm sure it was even worse walking bare-footed since I made you leave your shoes, cell phone, and wallet with me. [That prevented you from calling or running to your buddies to come help mug us again]. After I called your mother, or "Momma" as you had her listed in your cell, I explained the entire episode of what you'd done. Then I went and filled up my gas tank as well as those of four other people in the gas station -- on your credit card. The guy with the big motor home took 150 gallons and was extremely grateful! I gave your shoes to a homeless guy outside Vinnie Van Go Go's, along with all the cash in your wallet. [That made his day!] I then threw your wallet into the big pink "pimp mobile" that was parked at the curb ...after I broke the windshield and side window and keyed the entire driver's side of the car. Later, I called a bunch of phone sex numbers from your cell phone. Ma Bell just now shut down the line, although I only used the phone for a little over a day now, so what's going on with that? Earlier, I managed to get in two threatening phone calls to the DA's office and one to the FBI, while mentioning President Obama as my possible target. The FBI guy seemed really intense and we had a nice long chat (I guess while he traced your number etc.). In a way, perhaps I should apologize for not killing you ...but I feel this type of retribution is a far more appropriate punishment for your threatened crime. I wish you well as you try to sort through some of these rather immediate pressing issues, and can only hope that you have the opportunity to reflect upon, and perhaps reconsider, the career path you've chosen to pursue in life. Remember, next time you might not be so lucky. Have a good day! Thoughtfully yours, Alex
P.S. Remember this motto ...An armed society makes for a more civil society!