Tyler put this on for Derek but Derek didn't care because he was too busy setting the toy table for dinner. I tried to take pictures of Derek but he would never hold still long enough for my camera to focus.
Tyler's Quote of the Day - To the waitress at Olive Garden: "Yeah, my parents don't really drink wine because they know what happens to them when they do."
Here is the biggest spider I've ever killed. It's dead in this picture because of the 2 cans of Raid Spider Killer I sprayed on it in the garage.
When I saw Jared come around the corner toward the baggage claim I sent Tyler off to meet him. Tyler (as usual) wasn't really paying attention and walked right by him. I called to Tyler and luckily Jared heard me and caught Tyler before he disappeared down the hall. Derek was shy of Jared at first (his haircut is a little different) but he warmed up right away and told Jared about "Thomas and Friends" (Thomas the Tank Engine) about 50 times.
Jared brought the kids little camo outfits (known as ABU's or Airman Battle Uniforms) as souveniers. Tyler was really excited, but Derek wouldn't even put his on. All he said was "No way! Never!" and ran off.
We're glad you're home Dad. Now go fix the car and mow the lawn while I get in the kitchen and make you some pie.
Since Jared is gone, I need to take both boys with me every time I go shopping. It's a little bit of a pain for them but a really big pain for me. Lots of times they are hungry (even if they just ate)or tired (even if they just woke up) and therefore noisy. Today we went to the Gap Maternity store. We were in the dressing room and as I turned away from the mirror I was greeted by the above scene. 
Thanks to the "How to Cook Everything" America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook - we had a perfectly steamed lobster 13 minutes later.
After a little bit of work and quite a bit more squirting than I thought there would be - we had approx 5 oz of premium lobster meat. I was actually pretty suprised by how easy it was to get the meat out. I have ordered lobster like 3 or 4 times at restraunts and it always seems like it's a giant ordeal to get all the meat out of the tail. This time however (per the book's instructions) I just broke off the back tail fins and pushed the meat out through the big end with a fork. It slid right out! Maybe it's the fact that it was so fresh. The claws were really easy too. I just broke them in half and the meat fell out. Tyler was disappointed by all the fuss we made over such a small plate of food.
It turns out that Tyler doesn't really like lobster (but he still likes shrimp - he told me that like 400 times). So I got to eat all of it - yay! I especially liked the claws - which I didn't think would be as good as they were. It was super!.jpg)
The Salvation Army came today and took away all of our old furniture so that we could finially move around in the living room again. For the last few weeks we've had 4 couches and I don't even know how many tables all crowded together in there. I worked all day arranging the furniture and putting up the curtains and some decorations. I will work on the dining room next and put those pictures up soon. I am still missing two chairs (backordered) so it might be a few days.
It actually looks better in person than it does in the photo.
I was talking to my mom and she was a little worried about the hurricane. I don't know what kind of press it is getting in Utah but here it's on every network channel every 20 minutes. It isn't going rain very much here in San Antonio, they just say that we'll get scattered showers. Note however that a "scattered shower" in Texas is more like a waterfall falling on your house (or car if you're driving) for 15 or 20 minutes.
Here is a video of some rain outside our house. This might be boring to you (mostly because you can't really see the rain) - but I think it's awesome. I really like rain because it's so cool and refreshing. Wait - it's cool and refreshing in Utah. In Texas it is a little bit more sweaty and steamy. Oh well, I like it anyway. Polygamist Update: They backed their truck up into our driveway and left tons of black tire tracks all over it. That dosen't mean that they are polygamists - it just bugs me :)
There's nothing much new here. Tyler ate his dinner. It turns out that he really likes broccoli and also raw spinach - go figure. I'm still working on Derek, but I have more time with him. He went to bed hungry last night because he didn't want to eat a hot dog. I felt weird trying to force him to eat a hot dog but it was an all beef Ball Park frank - they're really yummy!
We went swimming yesterday for the first time since I was a negligent parent and let Derek fall into the deep end of Lisa's pool (even after she warned me to watch him.) Anyway, my kids are both scared of water. I planned to take them to the pool again today but it was too windy (because of the hurricane) and I think it will rain most of tomorrow and Thursday. Oh well, we'll go on Fri or Sat.
We are taking Ralphie to the discount spay and neuter clinic tomorrow (big cities are awesome because they have lots of cool welfare things for poor people that regular people get to use too). Ralphie is turning into a bad dog and he needs to be fixed! He marks all over the house and he's starting to get a little aggressive toward me. Hopefully all goes well - here a photo of him being scared to go to the vet :) His eyes look weird because I tried to fix the glowing "possessed" look that he always gets when we use a flash.
Polygamist Update: They have three cars. One is registered in Utah, one in Arizona and one in Texas. A coincedence? I think not! Plus the dad goes everywhere with the other woman. They went to Walmart on Sun and again today. Maybe the woman I met is the other woman? Hmmmm.....
