Noah's Obsession

We met KokoChrispi We (my brother in law and affianced) at Altoona last night. We went to the campus and fed the ducks Apple Jacks, but they weren't too into them. Then we went to the boys' first Curve Game. (not Matt's first one) Noah had an "obsession" with holding his own ticket. A security guard walked up to him and said "Can I have your ticket?" He procedded to take Noah's ticket and then gave him an official eastern league ball that was a practice ball. Noah's Reply. give me back my ticket! :)

Deemed as Doomed?

Did you ever have a day that just seemed to be deemed by the stars as doomed? Wednesday the 20th was one for my husband and I. It started out great. We had decided to spend the day together so we arranged an extremely rare day alone by taking the twins to daycare. We were headed to Dubois for great food and shopping, but first I had to stop at work and address a serious sceduling flaw.

When I got to work, the problem had been analyzed by others, and basically was non-existent. yea! What a wonderful start to a great day...

Mike and I had a great time. We went home before picking up the kids and basically it fell apart from there. Long story short we found out our teenager has been smoking.

Later that night Sam wrapped himslef up in the bungy cord that held my china closet to the wall and pull it over. All my china broke and the cabinet landed on him. Mike, Matt, and I ran over to extract him, but he was still entwinned in the bungy! Unbelievable. Precious wedding presents and my Gramma's sugar bowl and creamer destroyed. Glass everywhere. Oh yeah, not a scratch on Sammy. Could that be the message in the clouds when we were at Pymatuning? We have a pic of The Word SAM clearly printed in the clouds. Anyway he has more lives than a cat and for that I am sooooooo thankful really. But what about my blood pressure??? Does anyone care?

Oh yeah, Sara came over to help clean up glass and while all the confusion and my tears and everything else was going on, Noah whipped it out and peed on the floor. Oh yeah.

Welcome Home Wesley

I am so proud. My nephew Wesley recently returned from Basic Training and his parents threw him a party at Nana's Riverlot. It was awesome. The food was spectacular. And we took a ride on the river. I will try to get a video or slide show up.

Finally- a Vacation

Well, we spent almost week in Pymatuning State Park. Our campsite was feet away from the beach. The only problem was that it was a little colder and rainier than we expected, so we had to find other things to do. Matt had football all week so he stayed home with my parents. We took my sister and neice, Sara and Kess.

We visited the deer park which is a lot of fun and we also spent a day in Erie which is my favorite place in the world. We visited Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe- for the best Choc Chip cookies in the world. It is on State and 4th Street. We went in the Tom Ridge Center. The kids loved that. What a great addition to the city that was. Kess lost her glasses somewhere and we still haven't found them. We swam in the lake and the twins absolutely loved the waves. so much fun. We took a boat tour and guess who got the wettest out of the 39 people on board? Yup. me. still- fun.

The kids rode Kess' scooter all week. Maybe a future present. they turn 4 soon.... Geez. School starts soon. My room is almost ready but my Lesson plans aren't. Getting nervous as with every year. Matt is a freshman this year.

Cute Quotes We'd Never Want to Forget....

Answer: I can't. There's a bagel in it.
My Request: Sammy! Quit picking your nose!
(btw, there was.)



Noah has been heard to say a lot lately: "I'm thirty with water." (or milk or juice....)

Camp

I belong to a family camp. 18 active memberships and several retired members. You must belong to the Laich/Nelson family to apply. Anyway, we are several generations into this thing and what has started happening is that camp is not being used as much. It's complicated, but the further spread out the family is getting the less socializing that goes on between us. Thus the poor building "LuckyRidge" sits empty.

At our reunion this year a few of my cousins and I decided to plan a weekend. we went out last weekend and honestly, it was one of the best times ever. Of course the twins were the twins. Noah went through 4 outfits on Friday and we didn't get there until after 5 sometime... They can't stay away from the spring. but neither could we when we were little.

We had great laughs and so much fun. Dave told us about some worm that gets in crickets and makes them kill themselves and then the worm comes out like 6 inches long. well we all laughed at drunk Vern and laughed and laughed. well Mike came home and googled cricket worm and it had a video. It is the grossest thing ever. We burnt furniture and felt like naughty children. We all swore not to tell anyone and then ran home and told everyone. Because it's fun. We saw lots of shooting stars. My cousin Amelia researched it and there were meteor showers. We went to the creek in the middle of the night and "paid homage to Aunt Nancy". We sang "there's a lonely little robin" on the way down and then did the Black Mo Shuffle to "I'll be done to get you in a taxi Honey..." I'm sure she loved it.

We resuscitated camp. (sorry for not being able to spell. I'll fix it later). I can't wait to do it again.

Going camping to Pymutuning this week from Friday to Wednedsay. I'm sure we'll have lots of stories. Campsite is right on the beach. Oh yeah, I know. smart. and we're taking a day trip to Erie. Monday probably. Erie is my favorite place in the world. Best chocolate chip cookies ever at the corner of 4th and state. really. tell them Betty sent you. They don't know me, but tell them anyway.

Oh, and before i forget, Matt had his first job working at the fair last week. He did really well and loved it. i was very very proud of him. Football started this week so he can't go camping with us. He loves that though. He'll get lots of fun time with Gram and Pap= who doesn't know us half the time, but loves matt.

VBS Hell

Don't ask me why, but with Mike's extremely busy graduate schedule, and me dealing with my wonderful preschoolers, we decided to volunteer to help out at VBS at our church. My sister Sara was in charge so that probably had something to do with it- not to mention I used to teach Sunday School and loved it and Mike needs as much teaching experience as possible for his resume.

Well all went well with that part, but what we didn't realize was - with Mike teaching and me in charge of snack time, the only people in charge of the twins were their teachers. This was a few weeks ago, but let's just say they were BAD. Mostly Sammers. Noah loved the music. We got a CD and still sing the songs repeatedly daily.

It was an awesome program called Power Lab. Lots of Science experiments. The fav was walking on water. It took 20 pounds of corn starch. It was very cool. If the kids walked quickly, they walked ON the water. If they faltered (like Peter in the story) then they sank. I tried it. Very neat.

Another experiment involved dry ice. neat. do you know that dry ice only loses 10% daily? and it is colder than regular ice? Why don't more people use more it when camping? I don't know. anyway, she blew bubbles with it.

Lesson learned? probably not. My kids love Jesus. Most people at the church love my kids... I guess I will live through this too.