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Taking back time

This week we've just been living life - going to work and school, grocery shopping, the usual. And it still feels different here. Even though, according to my mom, I "don't get home until about the time I would have anyway," (meaning that I get home around 6 most days, which is when I got home living in Blue Springs) there's still more time in the day. You see, now the store, dinner, ice cream or anything else we need is always less than 5 miles away.

We spent a couple of evenings this week just letting the boys ride their bikes out front. This let us visit with neighbors and enjoy the weather. The resident 12-year-old told me this week that there are 20 kids under the age of 12 in this neighborhood - on three streets.

Baby time!
And not for us, if that's what you crazy people may be thinking. I just wanted to shout out to Donato Carroll Ruggeri, Dave and Karen's new little guy who was born on Sept. 19. AND to Carson James Gift, my cousin Erika and Landon's new little guy who was born yesterday!

I'm heading to St. Louis to spend a couple of days with the Ruggeri's tomorrow, and I'm so excited! Dave, Karen, Erika and Landon are all going to be looking for ways to take back time now that they have their little ones :-)

Back to business
So Brayden had a football game yesterday, and he's totally getting into it. And we signed up Beau for gymnastics finally. He'll start on Thursday.

Nate and I rode the motorcycle up to Fayetteville yesterday for Bikes, Blues & BBQ - the largest, non-profit bikefest in the nation. If you're ever looking for some good people watching, go to a bikefest. I'm guessing it doesn't matter where it is. We went with Dave and Karen to the one in Myrtle Beach in 2003, and it was much of the same. Here are the highlights:
  • A 10-year old with a fools/rat tail (I'm not sure if these are coming back in or if his parents are stuck in the 80s and are trying to start a new trend).
  • A mohawk in the front, party in the back on a big, 'ole samoan looking dude.
  • A blue mohawk on a chick.
  • A girl in leather chaps with spandex boy shorts that had metallic skull and crossbones on the back. The good news was that she had the body to pull this off.
  • The bullet above is opposed to the hundreds (and I'm not exaggerating) of women, young and old, in mid-riff tops. We saw a wide variety of belly tattoos, belly-button rings, fakies, droopies, fat, stretchmarks, and not a lot of toned bodies that, even if this look was in style, could pull this off.

So that's about it from here. The boys are still enjoying the pool - they were swimming yesterday. And we went to a 4-year-old birthday party last night of a little guy in Beau's class whose dad works with me. It was fun, and the boys had a blast.

Until I find a few more spare minutes, take care!

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Shelly Thorington said…
Okay so I'm totally loving this blog thing and I can just hear y you talking about your experiences so far. I think you should write a newspaper column in your spare time from the World's Largest Company (what does THAT feel like saying? By the way, I'm loving WM extra much in this crapulant economy.
December 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM
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