The Madness!!

Each year in our town *BLEEP*
...we have a festival. There are festivals and parades in the surrounding towns, but none as special to me at the Madness!! It started the year I was born. Always the week before my birthday ...kinda a little celebration of FALL!! First there is the parade then everyone either walks or drives down to the park and then its festival time. Every year it gets bigger and bigger. I can't even explain the SIZE of it this year. Ride tickets cost $1.00 a piece and each ride was 2/3/4 tickets!!! WHAT? That is CRAZY for my son to slide down a air slide three times?!?!?! I had fun though even IF Mason spent 20.00 in less then a half an hour. There were so many vendors...

I went with my friend Mandie (MY GIRL) and her son Tristan a.k.a. Tookie, Nanna (who is doing GREAT!) and my two kiddos!

Mandie had a candied apple FIT! She bought like 20 of them. No I'm kidding, she did get 3. I want to go back tomorrow and get a necklace for myself. I figure it will be a nice treat to get to buy something for myself for a change! ;-)

I only took pictures at the parade of what Mason wanted me too...hence the GOAT, TRACTOR...

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Sunday ...Okay I went back today with Clint and my inlaws. I made the BIG mistake of eating a WHOLE funnel cake BY MYSELF and then riding the two CRAZIEST rides there! We bumped into Mandie and her hubby. She was willing to ride the first ride with me, but she was obviously more aware of the "danger" if the second ride. I used to be able to ride all the rides right after eating and ...nothing. NOW as an adult.... ::BARF::. I didn't actually throw up, but MAN I wanted to! Then riding home with the FIL driving, he thought it was HILARIOUS to stop on the brakes and swerve back and forth. THANKS DOUG!!!

Ohh yea I was sooo sick feeling I didn't even think about buying any jelwrey. I even went to the ladies both and felt so bad talking to her I had to walk away! LUCKELY I got her email yesterday! ;-)

Nanna Drove HERSELF to the Hospital!

The phone rang yesterday is said _ _ _ _ _ _ Hospital and on the other side was a womans voice...."I was just calling to let you know that your grandmother is in recovery and that she is fine."

"WHAT? Recovery for what?" My first initial thought was that she had been in an accident and she was now in recovery. The lady said "This is Elizabeth, ______ granddaughter isn't it?" Uhh YEA!

Okay so basically . . .
This CRAZY lady drove herself to the hospital to have an outpatient surgery done. Worse than that she was planning to drive herself home. The surgery? She was going to have the veins stripped in BOTH of her legs. My grandmother is NOT your typical 70- YO. She goes to movies with her friends (the late 10:00 shows), she goes dancing, and shopping till the stores close! She can keep up with most kids better than us parents can and STILL have time to fold your laundry when you come to visit.

A little background...Nanna is my dads mom, and after he broke his back she along with my deceased grandfather had a large hand in spoiling raising us. Oh and shes STUBBORN and Irish!

It BOGGLED my mind to think that she would have something like this done and not tell me, my father, my Aunt...no one. She didn't want to "inconvenience us". She said that my dad cannot sit that long (he's disabled), I have the kids, and my aunt can't take off work.

So I didn't feel too bad taking this picture.



I DO feel a little bad because she HATES to have her picture taken but she deserves to be exploited! She will be so mad!! te he!

and Terri ate. . . .

Okay so I'm working today and Clint just stopped by and gave me a full update on Terris dietary menu today.....

{Terri woke us as I was about to leave this morning so I went ahead and changed her diaper and handed her off to daddy. HE loves it when he has alone time with the kids and I'm not around b/c he gets all that special undivided attention. But before Nanna could come over Clint already started breakfast which consisted of....}

Breakfast:

Piece of (Clints) cheese, the fake american sliced stuff.
A snack pack of vanilla pudding (Masons')
Bowl of oatmeal....not the good stuff the extra sugared up box kind.

{Clint then came home to wash his truck (YES in the middle of the day: Benefit of being a bossman) and fed Terri her luch which consisted of. . . .}

Lunch:

ANOTHER piece of that nasty sliced pre-packaged stop you up cheese
CANNED spegatti and meatballs
COOKIES.


SO your getting a picture of my baby girl straining for dear life tonight trying to squeeze out that sugared up poop. Whats up not one veggies, no fruit, no REAL dairy?

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