MIA HAMM JR!

Emma finally gets to play her "favorite" sport she says (although I really think she is just trying to be like her dad.)


She is getting better each week especially when you consider the first week she just stood around and sucked her fingers, now she will try to "attack it like a tiger"...something her dad made up for her, dont ask :). Doesnt she resemble Mia Hamm to you, or is that just her parents being really proud of her?!

MR. NO NECK!

Emma: "How come bubbas has to face backwards (in his carseat)?"
Carol: "Because he has to until he is 1 so he doesnt get hurt."
Emma: "But how would he get hurt?"
Carol: "If we get in a car accident he can hurt his neck really bad."
Emma: "But he doesnt have a neck!"

She still doesnt believe that he has a neck :)

HANNAH MONTANA OR BUST!

I heard about a contest on KISS FM where you can win tickets to go see Hannah Montana in concert. All you have to do is take a picture by a KISS FM billboard, bus sign, etc and submit your photo online and they will randomly pick people to win the tickets. I sent out an email to some people asking them to keep their eyes out for a sign for us and bless Randi and Nick's hearts because they went to so much trouble to find a billboard for us and they finally found one.

Emma and I went and took a bunch of pictures by the billboard and when I went to submit it online I decided to tell them my sob story of why I should win the tickets because I heard other people do it and their stories were dumb. Apparantly I am still a good sales person because I was able to sell our story to them and they called me yesterday 4 times to put me on air but I was at the gym. I was so frustrated with myself at the thought that I had just blown Emma's chances of going to the concert.

In an attempt at trying to get the station to call me back again we went down to the billboard and took another picture. It worked, because at 6:45am this morning they called to have me on stand by to put me on the air. At 9:30am they finally put me on the air and told me right before I went on to really ham it up so I did. I told them that the caller before me had a really lame story and mine was better, blah blah blah, they liked my competitive spirit and in the end I won the tickets (um ya, I cried on the air when they told me I won - why would I do that - I am such a homo) - so now I get to be a cool mom and take my daughter to her first concert!

"LIST" OBSESSION!

Ok so I think my obsession with lists is wearing off on Emma. Last night she wanted to make a list of the things she was going to do today. It sounds nice and all until this morning she wouldn't eat breakfast until she crossed off "wake up" and then she carried on about her morning but when I was doing her hair she told me, "I crossed off "get Sabrina" (the neighbor girl who rides with us to the bus stop) even though I didn't get her yet because in case I get hit by a car when I go get her I want it crossed off the list."

SOCK HOP!

Last Friday at Emma's school they had a Back to School Sock Hop. When Emma and I got out of the car her friend Kai had just gotten out of his car and he saw her and ran up to her and they each hugged and then he says, "Emma lets hold hands and go dance".
So they held hands into the gym/cafeteria and found their other classmates and danced the night away. (Kai is the one dancing in the front left side of the picture)

BIGGIE FRIES!

Biggie Fries: When the wakeboard bites it, or wipes out really bad.

Basically I am Biggie Fries. I have to give mad props to wake boarders, they make it look so easy. I got up - sort of, but tasted the delicious Saguaro Lake before I could pull off a 360.

Yesterday we went to the lake with some Slys and some Jensens and enjoyed 6 hours of sun, wakeboarding, tubing and relaxing.

HSM2!

For those of you who aren't "hip to the boppin'", that means "High School Musical 2". Some nay sayers poo hoo Disney and say they are just out to rip people off, well poop on them because I just attended a totally free event and was pretty impressed by it.

Last weekend Radio Disney gave away free tickets to go to Bank One Ballpark/Chase Field for a "Wildcat Pep Rally" and then watch the premiere of the movie on the jumbo tron. We showed up at the ballpark expecting to pay parking but that was free, they let us bring food in to snack on (although they did have a few concessions opened for food to buy), a few people won free HSM2 stuff, and it was just fun to be there with a big crowd and scream and shout when Zac and Gabriella kissed (sorry to ruin it for those who haven't seen it yet:)), scream when the cameras would pan over the audience and show you on the jumbo tron and count down the start of the movie with a bunch of screaming fans. I even brought cash thinking the girls would bug me to buy them HSM2 souvenirs but there weren't any, Disney did not offer or charge anything for the entire evening!

Other then the fact that the ballpark's sound system stinks, thank you Disney for a free exciting night out!