A Day at the Zoo

Today, I took the boys to the zoo in New Orleans. We didn't go alone, though. We went with my good buddy, Regina and her 3 kids, Haley, Paige, and Maicol (Michael). Even though it rained most of the way there we got to the zoo and it quit... for a little while. It was comfortable at first, but the later in the day it got the hotter and more humid it got. All in all, it was a great day! The kids had fun, and Regina and I had a blast as well.

Of course, I made another video. Check it out:

Rural Life Museum

I took the boys to the Rural Life Museum today. I wasn't sure if they would enjoy it, but we all had a really good time. Check out the video I made from the pictures I took. Watch out HPC video team! They might want me to replace you!

School Supply Shopping

Parents - it's T minus 3 weeks 1 day until school begins. Are your kids ready? I took the boys shopping today for school supplies. I really didn't spend as much as I thought it was going to be considering Nick has to have a 3" binder and Logan has to have plastic binder subject dividers with double pockets that cost almost $3.00. I guess we make that back by only paying $.60 for notebook paper. I think my total for school supplies was around $53.00. Of course, that doesn't include Logan wanting a rolling booksack or art fees or gym uniforms, or band fees, or school sweatshirts, or a school logo pencil bag, etc. Oh well, believe it or not, I actually enjoy the whole supply shopping thing. Here are some pics:

Logan picks out the color pencil sharpener that he wants for school.

Nick gets his 8, yes 8 packs of notebook paper.

New Endeavor

Okay, well, I am jumping on the coupon clipping bandwagon. I have seen several posts from my bud Jennifer Maggio on how much money she has been saving. Lance gets those posts, also, and he has been bugging me, yes bugging me, lately about why I'm not clipping coupons. "Why aren't you clipping coupons. You used to clip them all the time. Jennifer saves all kinds of money." You know, because I just have so much extra time on my hands. So anyway, I'll let you know if I actually do save any money.

4th of July Recap

Wow! What a fun weekend! The family decided to travel to Atlanta and spend the weekend with my parents and brother and his family. We left on Wednesday and stayed through yesterday. While we were there we visited with my grandmother, Lance helped my dad in the yard, I took Mom to the grocery store for the items needed to cook on the 4th, my brother and sister-in-law threw a birthday party for my nephew, and we went to the zoo. It was lots of fun! Check out the pics below:

Logan and my nephew Will are having a staredown!

The guys are monitoring the progress of the grilling.

Okay, does Nick look like he's about 16 in this picture? Makes me sad!

My nephew had a Thomas the Tank birthday party. Duh! I guess you could tell that, huh?

We sat on this porch at the zoo for about an hour waiting for the rain to stop.

Listen carefully for the thunder in this video. It was like a monsoon!

Unfortunately, on the way home we came to a halt on the interstate for about an hour due to an accident that had at least 2 fatalities. Doesn't Nick look like he's enjoying the wait?

We were eventually turned around and sent on a 45 minute detour that got us about 8 miles up the road back on the interstate. We got home at 4:00 a.m. instead of the original ETA of midnight.