Best anniversary yet! Take notes all!

Well, well, well! Ok, I knew our 11th anniversary was coming up and I was determined not to screw this one up. I started early thinking of what to get her. I finally decided to get her a bouquet of chocolate dipped strawberries from edible arrangements. I had to be sneaky about it because Shani likes to watch our bank account dwindle and I know she would see I spent money and where it went. So the day before our anniversary I went online and order the bouquet. I thought this was great because she would receive it in the morning, snack on it all day, then I would take her out to dinner at her fave restaurant, and then if I did good we would play twister J. So the day of comes and I call her around 10am or so to see if she received anything yet but no dice. I call the place up and ask when they will be delivering the goods and they told me some time in the afternoon. OK, no problem, she can still snack, go to dinner, then twister. I call Shani again around 2pm or some time around there and still no fruit, WTC! (What the crap MOM) I remain calm about the situation because we still have a good dinner planed with no kids, they were going with grandma to a football game. Anywho, at approximately 4pm I get a call from edible arrangements to make sure someone would be home because they were going to deliver now, good thing Shani wasn’t waiting all day for them.

I get home a little after 4pm and still no delivery. I get dressed for dinner and we wait and wait and wait some more. I call the place again and ask them what is going on because we have dinner plans and this is starting to take away from it. Lady says she is sorry and the delivery lady should be there any minute. RIIIIIIGHT! 10 minutes go by and still no delivery. I call again and let her know I wasn’t happy and that I needed to leave because we were already late. Then the lady asked me if I would like them to leave the bouquet on the porch, WTF!!! (F=Flip MOM), or with a neighbor and we could get it from them in the morning. I informed the lady the bouquet was for our anniversary and I would like to have if for our anniversary and not the next day. By the way, the bouquet was not cheap. If I would have known it would have taken them this long I would have picked the damn thing up my self on my way home from work!! 5:40pm arrives and brings us the bouquet. I told Shani she had better answer the door because I was D.U.N. done!!!. Shani lets the lady know we weren’t happy and send her packing, go Shani! (If you don’t know the wrath of the DeSpain girls, especially Shani, watch out) So now I am pissed, but at least there is still dinner and…well…TWISTER!!

We go to Shani’s mothers house, drop the kids off and head out to dinner. At least we will have a good time eating. RIIIIGHT! We get to Power and the US60 when we receive a phone call. Apparently McKade is screaming and Shani has the diperbag, goooo Shani! (No I was not mad at her) Well we can’t let our already malnourished Barbie sized child starve so we turn around and head to the football game back in Queen Creek. Now I am really pissed, super hungry and twister is no longer on the mind! L I decided I could still take Shani for some classy food so I stop at TACOBELL for some eats from the drive through and wouldn’t you know, the line is a friggin hour long, what is this Disneyland!! I drive to another Tacobell and same story. We finally ended up going through the drive through of Panda Express (no complaints here) and head to the football game. We arrive at the school and eat in the car because Bodin’s favorite place is Panda and we would not be able to eat. So being the romantic guy I am I pull a candle out, pour two cups of Mountain Dew and we slurp a string of chow mein just like on Lady and the Tramp with the spaghetti. Ok, Ok, I hit the over head lights and we shove Orange Chicken and rice down our throats and sucked down one of the worst tasting Mountain Dews I ever had. Needless to say, we spent the rest of the night at the football game with our kids. Love ya babe, happy anniversary!!!

It's that time of year and Flu season is here!!

Where do I start?? After promising the kids a new toy if they don’t cry when they get there flu shot we were off to the free clinic (they didn’t see us coming). As you can see by the first pic we got there and everything was fine except Bodin was already getting worried by all the screaming kids that had already received their shot. As the time got closer for them to be center stage Bodin was starting to cry at the anticipation of the shot and it didn’t matter what you said to him or what toy you promised him. We watch Landon go first and the boy didn’t even flinch when the needle struck his arm, he was done and happy. Van was next and got railroaded by the shot but I can except this because he is only one years old. Bodin was up next and he was already bawling (there goes his toy) before they even wiped his arm down. They sank the needle into his arm and sent the flu gushing through his veins as he let out a yell but no more than the other kids that had already received theirs.

By this time McKinna was hysterical and it was now her turn, this is where it gets interesting, or funny, or very embarrassing. She started screaming “NO, NO, NO” as she sat down in the chair so I bear hug her. This sets her off more and she starts screaming “NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!” I kinda look around and all eyes are on us. I grab McKinna’s arm a little tighter while she is still screaming “NEVER” to the lady administering the shot. McKinna’s next move puts her into the Cobb Hall Of Fame as she raises her left leg and is about to shove it up the poor ladies nose who is so patiently trying to give her a shot. With my cat like reflexes I wrap one of my legs around hers and I have her in this Anaconda like snake hold before she releases leg of death on this poor lady. Good thing I was a Martial Arts Instructor for the Marine Corps or that lady could have been dead!
McKinna freaks out even more and starts wiggling her arm around so she can’t get the shot. I grab her arm with both of my hands and pin her other arm down by my forearm so she can receive her now well deserved shot. At this point I didn’t even care if she got the actual serum, I just wanted her to get stuck now!! So we have her pinned down and here comes the needle. McKinna freaks out even more because she is watching the needle of death inching closer and closer towards her arm so she starts jerking her arm any which way she could and I almost get stuck. Sooooo, being the calm, cool, collective person you all know I am I Yell “IF I GET STUCK I’M GOING TO BEAT YOU!!!” in front of every mother and child in the room. GOOOO BEN!!! (Number one in the hall of fame) McKinna freezes for a moment and finally gets her shot. I look up and every set of eyes in the room were fixed on me so I say the first thing that comes to my mind “Sorry everybody”, yaaaaaa that made it better! We leave the amputee clinic, I mean shot clinic, and get in the car and the little turds had the audacity to ask if we were going to Target to get them a toy!!!!!! Oh no you didn’t! Needless to say, we went home with crying kids.

Caption this picture!!

I think he looks like one of the pygmy mummies on "The Mummy Returns"

P90X update

Well, at the bottom end of 7 weeks of P90X workout. I don't notice much difference from the pic but the all around view (360 degrees) I can definitely tell a difference. Arms, shoulders are bigger, back is more defined, all around feel better. I just hate the days where I don’t want to go to the Gym, it makes you want to skip some of the sets you are suppose to do. I Still highly recommend the P90X no matter how much fun people poke at me for it!!

Movie night at the park

Queen Creek hosted a movie night at a park on a huge screen on Saturday night. They were playing Transformers so we packed up some blankets, hot chocolate, candy, the kids and headed for the park. We watched most of the movie but it got freaking cold out so we left early. Good family activity though, the kids loved it.

Mini-me chronicles, Hulk edition

Got home from work today and was changing into something more comfortable (Yes Amy, without a shirt on!). Bodin meets me upstairs in his underwear and asked what I was changing into so I tell him shorts. Bodin says “Shorts without a shirt on?” and I say ya. Bodin “Oh, that’s what I’m going to wear too”. Later, Shani tells me Bodin was mad at McKade because McKade has hair on his arms like I do and he doesn’t. Little does Bodin know, when he groes up he won't want as much hair as I have. This picture was after we wrestled so he was pumped up being the Hulk!

A mini-me is kinda scary!

WE VOTED, GO MCCAIN

We voted at approximately 10:00 am at our church and there was no wait!! Hope everything goes my way otherwise I will have to stock up on guns that will later be deemed illegal!