Jimmy's First day of Kindergarten Kind Of?

Jimmy started school on Monday. Sort of. I took him to the school for an hour and his teacher Miss Paul sang a few songs for the kids and told them some stories and then sent them outside with the PTA President (who is one of my backyard neighbors by the way) to play outside. Miss Paul then told us parents about her class and what to expect from it. We also signed up to do Kindergarten Testing (this goes on all week, so no class until next Tuesday) and to volunteer in her class. I signed up to help on Computer Days. Jimmy has three kids from our ward that he already knows in his class and he is pretty excited. We just have to get to next Tuesday. He went in for his Testing today at 10:00 and I think he did really well. I sat in the classroom and filled out more paperwork while Miss Paul tested him. He knew all of his letters and all of their sounds except for the letter X. He knows his shapes and colors. He can Rhyme. He told Miss Paul he counted to 109 the other day and she told him that was great. He can recognize all of his numbers and then Miss Paul asked him to count as high as he could. He then proceeded to count to 109 much to her amazement. She told him he really could count to 109. She is a very nice lady. She was telling Jimmy she has a brother named Richard after he told her his full name James Richard Barrett and I asked her how many brothers the had. She said three and I asked her if she knew Kurt Price. She said yes, he is a good friend to her brother John. I told her that Kurt is my uncle. Its a Small World. I can't get Jimmy to stop making faces when I take his picture.
This is better but his eyes are closed.
He looks like he is in acute pain in this picture and he wouldn't let me take another, because the sun was shining in his eyes.

Pimpmobile

Mom and Cindy and Michael and Jessica went to South Carolina to see Corbin baptized. Their rental car was upgraded from a Dodge to a Chrysler 300 pimped out with heated leather seats and satellite radio by a very friendly African American who was working at the desk and took one look at Michael and said, "You need a bigger car." He said it would only be $15 more, but ended up being $15 a day more. It had New York license plates and was silver (should have been black). People would get offended with the way Michael drove and call him a "Darn Yankee". They didn't care they are from Montana. They had fun with it. More pictures of the baptism will come later.

Michael driving the Pimpmobile on the way to Leah's.

Cindy vamping.

Birthday at the Davis County Fair

It is becoming kind of strange tradition for our family to attend the Davis County Fair every year. I don't know why, because its mostly pathetic. Jimmy loves it though. We went on my birthday this year. I was depressed, because I couldn't be out in South Carolina with my twin, so I decided I wanted to go to the fair and the Demolition Derby that night. I asked Eric if he could take the afternoon off and he ended up getting the whole day off. I love his boss. Jimmy and Eric gave me Sees Chocolates (yummy) and a book called Home by Julie Andrews about her childhood up to the birth of her first daughter. I loved it. The Miller family decided to join us at the fair. We met at about 4:00 and the fun began. These were in the building with the Senior Citizen's displays. Who knew you could do that with your money.
Chelsea, Hailey and Jimmy looking at a pig. The Petting Zoo was closed when we were over there.
Then we went to a lame Logging Show. They were mostly interested in telling bad jokes.
Here are the kids on the motorcycles.
You can see Hailey's head (in front) and Jimmy's head on the Dragon Coaster.

Jimmy and I on the Tilt-A-Whirl. It mad us both sick to our stomachs.
Chelsea on the Tilt-A-Whirl. You can't see Hailey sitting next to her. The loved it.
Jimmy on the turtles.
On the Heart ride. Of course its Pink.

This is Jimmy on the fire truck. If you listen closely you can faintly here him making siren sounds. What do you expect? He's a boy.

After the kids rode on the carnival rides we had some dinner. Typical fair fare. (Hah, Hah, I'm so funny) and then the Demolition Derby. It was okay. The drivers kept leading with there engines instead of backing into each other and the cars died very quickly. The La Schwab Tire Trucks (they were sponsoring the event) weren't four wheel drive so they couldn't tow the wrecked cars out. They best part was one car got shoved up into the hay bales and it hit a gate where the horses for the rodeo were penned. They horses didn't try to run away. They just backed into a corner and rolled there eyes a lot. So that is my birthday excitement.

A Birthday, Mowing the Lawn, and Camping?

Happy Birthday Cindy!!! She is 20. It was Sunday and we had Grandma and Grandpa and Mom and Cindy over for dinner. We had Roast and Potatoes from the crockpot. It was yummy. Eric cutting the French Bread I made in my Bread Maker. What a man!!!

For some reason while Eric is mowing the lawn Jimmy has to tromp along behind him in the freshly mowed path in his snow boots. I don't know why. Its just one of those Jimmy things.

This is the beginning of the camping saga. It started with Cindy going camping with her friends Adam and Anna at Bear Lake. They spent Thursday night in Cindy's car, because it was raining. We were discussing their camping trip and Eric made on of those off comments that come back to bite you. He said that he and Jimmy had not set the tent up in the backyard yet this summer. Well, guess what. He set the tent up, plus an extra. He had to go get his little two man dome tent that had been existing at Kristin's old house and then moved with her. Mom came over to watch the Olympic Opening Ceremonies (which were out of this world) she told me to call Cindy and see how they were doing. They were packing up to come home, because it was going to rain again. It was about 8:30 at night. Mom made one of those off comments and said they should sleep in our backyard instead of going home and sleeping in their own beds. They only had a small two man tent with them, so I don't know how they would have slept in it up at Bear Lake anyway. Eric trooped up to his parents and borrowed their Big Dome Tent for the kids to sleep in. Jimmy was bouncing off the ceilings about sleeping in a tent. You know how little kids are. I have a cold and there was no way I was sleeping in a tent, so I escaped the fun. It was Eric's idea. Cindy and friends got here at about 11:00 and went right to sleep. I wish I could say the same for Jimmy. He would wake up at every little sound and I think he came in and went to the bathroom 5 times. When it started to get light out at 5:30 he told Eric it was time to get up. Eric then dragged Jimmy back inside and we made him go to sleep in his own bed. He slept until about 8:30. Cindy and company didn't hear any of the goings on with Jimmy and their tent was almost on top of Eric's. They got up and made us breakfast which was very nice. What an adventure.
The Tents in the dark. I'm surprised out how well the pictures turned out. We have tarps under the tents, because we are still trying to figure out what our lawn likes and we went from killing our grass to a swamp in the backyard.
Eric and Jimmy slept in the little tent and Cindy and friends in the big tent.
Jimmy's ready!!!

Eric's not.Making breakfast.
Adam reading a magazine. He did get up and help make the pancakes which were very Delicious.
The tents in the daytime.

The Little Things

Do you ever just feel like your day is a chore and nothing changes. I do all of the time and I forget to take joy in the little things. Jimmy was singing as he put his clothes on this morning. He likes to sing, but mostly he just sings nonsense songs at the top of his lungs. He was singing I Love To See The Temple in a nice quiet voice and he came in to my room singing it with a big smile on his face. Those are the little moments that help me get through the day. He knew the words really well except at the end he was repairing himself while he was young and it is his secret duty to go to the temple. What a nut!!!

The Honda Lives!!!!

The Honda is fine. The only thing wrong with it was the ignition switch had shorted out. Thank you to Kurt for fixing it and Mike Thomas discovering what was wrong with it. It was his idea to hold the key on and that kept the Honda running, but when the key was let go that is when the Honda would die. So Eric and Kurt finished working on it last night and we have our car back.

What Else Can Go Wrong?

Martha had a bad week a couple of weeks ago, so I guess last week was my bad week and going into this week. I was talking to Leah on the phone and telling her how nice things have been lately. Well I jinxed myself. Last week started out great. We had an extra child on Monday. Evan who is Jimmy's friend. His Dad's sister died all of a sudden in the night. She was 30. It makes you think. Anyway they have five children, so the kids had to be farmed out around the ward so that the parents could go to California. We were supposed to have Evan during the day all week, but things changed. Tuesday was fine except that Jimmy was beastly, because Evan didn't come over. He wanted to stay with his older brother and sister and I don't blame him. Poor Kid. Eric took Wednesday, Thursday ( he had it off anyway because of the 24th), and Friday off. So on Wednesday we took Evan and Jimmy to see Wal-E. What a cute movie. Eric and I went to Ward Temple night that night and then after we were going to meet Sue and Steve who had Jimmy at Kerri and Scotts in Clinton to do fireworks. The temple was very relaxing. For once there were no obstacles in the way to get to the temple. Everything happened afterwords. We were going to get some Ice Cream when my cell phone beeped. Steve had left a message saying not to go to Kerri's because Jimmy was throwing up. That is your worst nightmare, Having your kid throwing up for someone else. At least it was Grandma. He started throwing up at 8:00 p.m. and didn't stop until 5:00 the next morning. No sleep for Eric and I. Then he boinged awake at 7:00 his normal wake up time like nothing was wrong. Obviously we didn't have Evan again, so we spent the 24th of July watching the parade on TV and waiting to see if Eric or I would start throwing up. We made it through the day and went over to Mom's to have a picnic dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Clark. Mom fried potatoes, because Grandma Clark has been wanting to fry potatoes and roast hot dogs on a picnic all summer. So we roasted hot dogs on Mom's charcoal grill. Mom also made corn on the cob, but we couldn't bring ourselves to touch it (that was what Jimmy was throwing up). It was a nice picnic and Grandma loved it. Grandma and Grandpa went home and we did fireworks with Mom's neighbors. Cindy's friends Adam and Anna came to. We had tickets to go see the Osmonds with the Tabernacle Choir on Friday night, so Eric and dropped Jimmy off at the Gilmore's. They are the people we bought our house from and they have two boys 10 and 13 who love to play with Jimmy. Eric and I left our car at Mom's and we rode down to Salt Lake with her and Cindy. We met Kerri and Scott and Chelsea and Hailey there. We saw Kristin and Kaitlyn. They were sitting a few rows above us. The concert was fun. I have never seen the Conference Center so rocked out. They had strobe lights and drums and electric guitars. They sang lots of their old songs. Maire sang How Great Thou Art with the choir, but we couldn't take her seriously because she was wearing a long silver, sparkly dress which was fine, but she had some sort of jacket on with a high neck in the back that looked almost like something Queen Elizabeth would wear. Anyway after the concert Eric went to start the Honda at Mom's and it wouldn't start. It would turn over a little and sound like it wanted to start, but then it would just die. So we took Mom's car to pick up Jimmy and Eric and Kurt towed it the next day to Kurt's house. He is going to call his brother to get some sort of schematics on it so they can fix it. He hasn't got a hold of Dave yet and it is Tuesday. So I hope things get resolved. I thought I would have to go to Jury Duty this week, but I just called and the case had been settled, so at least I don't have to do that. Jimmy is playing nicely with Thomas and his Legos, so that is good. Things will turn out all right. They always do.