It’s HOT!

With temps around 105 and 107, it’s hot!!  We were in Target the other day because they keep it so cool in there, and I saw a waterslide for only $4. 

Now I know these things are junk, but for $4 you can’t go wrong!  We had these when I was a little kid, so I got it and the kids did have fun.  The lawn underneath didn’t like it so much.

It’s been some time now and we still have the slide and the neighbor kids even came over and played and still no rips!!   We just have to move it around each time to give the lawn time to recover.

Oh Yeah, We Went To Utah Too

We took a little trip to Utah for 10 days over July 4 and had lots of fun

Celebrate America

Ok, so I am a little behind on the blogging thing….So I need to try and ketchup.

Back towards the end of June, Rocklin (a neighboring city) normally has it’s “Rocklin Bash” which is an all day event in the park, and ending with fireworks at night. Due to budget cuts, it was going to be cancelled this year.  A local church heard about it, and wanted to help, so it was rebranded as “Celebrate America” and the church along with the city of Rocklin put it on.  We did have to listen to a 15 min “sermon” by the paster and his wife, but it was worth it. It was very fun and very free! (Donations accepted)

We got there in early evening to get our spot on the lawn for the show, and it was already getting crowded.  We brought our picnic dinner and  lawn chairs and staked out our spot. It was announced later that there were 10,000 people there on the lawn! It was packed!

There were all kinds of booths to play games, buy food, and get free pens and water bottles and key chains. There was jump houses, water jump houses and other stuff to keep occupied. It was very hot that day and everyone had their umbrellas up to keep the sun off them.  As soon as the sun started going down, they made everyone put away their umbrellas so everyone could see the stage.   Here was our view:

They also had rock wall climbing, and a helicopter from the armed services.

It was pretty cool. The flag on the stage was actually a choir with people sitting in it. They sang, there were stage shows and pretty good entertainment. 

 

A bunch of balloons was let go (don’t tell the environmentalists). 

Can you still see the balloons?

Jacob is intently watching the show:

Finally at the end was the fireworks. And they were pretty good too!  They were synced up to the music, which made a huge difference. 

 

 

We had a great time and were very impressed with what the church/city were able to do. We will definitely go back next year!

Didn’t Your Ma Teach You Not To Drink Out Of The Toilet?

So the other day I was sitting at the computer and nobody else was home. It was quiet. Then I heard some water noises coming from the bathroom.  It was weird. Nobody was here. Maybe a robber had gotten in and was going to the bathroom?

I kept hearing it so I tiptoed over to the bathroom and saw this:

It was SPICY!  Our adopted foster cat. He drinks out of the toilet even though he has water next to his food in the kitchen!  He is such as good cat. He lays around the house all day long, and when he has to go potty, he goes and stands at the door. We let him out, and when he’s done, he comes back and stands in front of the window at the door to be let back in.

He likes to be petted (all our other cats have never let us pet them – they all scratch) and he lays on the couch with us to watch tv and just purrs away.  If we leave the room, he will follow us to where we go. He doesn’t like to be left alone.

He is a long cat too. The longest we’ve seen.

Here is SMOKEY, our adopted cat that Spicy replaced. Smokey doesn’t get to come in the house anymore. He just stares at Spicy through the window.