It's Just You & Me, Babe...

Jessica, I think you and I are the only real bloggers in our entire family.  Wait, I take that back.  Julie blogs, too, though I don't know that she gets to READ blogs.  One of these days we'll get them trained!

I love that you are excited about baked potatoes for dinner.  I would be, too.  My kids don't like baked potatoes.  I think they have weird texture issues or something.  But I love a good, overcooked baked potato with a slightly tough skin... salted, buttered, and anything else!  Yum!

And before I get onto my list, let me tell you about one BIG thing that happened to me today that can't qualify as exciting because it HURTS.  I was pushing Connor's high chair in this morning at breakfast using the inside of my right foot and I pulled my groin muscle.  I can't believe it!  I finally looked up how I am supposed to care for it tonight, and I need to ice it.  Really.  Well that's going to be comfortable.  Not.  Anyhow, if I rest it as much as possible it will hopefully be okay in a couple of days, but in the meantime it hurts to walk and move.  Lovely.

So here's my list:

1.  One exciting thing that happened to me this past week.  Probably the most exciting thing happened today.  I have to preface it by saying that yesterday our AC went out again.  I say again, because it just happened 2 weeks ago.  We had a father-son company come out and work on it (our drain was clogged), and for some reason it was acting up again yesterday.  We turned it off, sweated out the night, and this afternoon Steve (the son) came to work on it for me.  He stayed about 30 minutes, took care of the problem, and didn't charge me a thing.  That's right, folks!  Nada!  And it wasn't the same problem as before, though it may have been slightly related.  It totally made my day.

2. Something delicious that I either ate or cooked this past week.  Mmm.. this one is easy.  Ben and I went out to one of our favorite places for lunch on Monday.  He was going to go with me to my doctor's appointment so he could actually MEET the midwife before I go into labor, and we had gotten a special coupon for his birthday from one of our favorite restaurants - Italiano's.  So I got a babysitter for the kids, and we were off to lunch!  They have a fabulous pizza bar at lunch, and they make some of the BEST pizza I have ever had.  They have a crust that is just perfect.  If we go there for dinner we get their pasta, but lunch is all about the pizza bar.

3.  A picture.  Okay, so I could have used this one for my "exciting thing" for the week, but I wanted to use this picture for #3!

Yesterday the kids and I went to the Oklahoma State Fair Academy, which is a free field trip the fair offers to all school kids - both home-educated and public school.  While we were there we saw the "Wild West Show" and as part of that this entertainer called "The One-Armed Bandit" did his show for us.  Apparently, this is so well-known in rodeo circles that he's been voted "Entertainer of the Year" ten times.  Even more impressive... the whole entire outfit/show (horses, bison, truck, etc.) was just sold to the ruling family of Dubai.  As soon as the fair is over, it's all going overseas to the Arabian Peninsula to be owned by the king.  Cool.  So what does the show entail?  Basically, the guy on the horse (left side of the picture, purple shirt if you can make it out) is in the ring with these two bison.  He herds them UP onto the top of the truck and trailer.  It was really cool to watch.  And funny, because the second buffalo didn't want to go up.  He kept getting on the low part and going to the other side without going up onto the trailer.  He made the One-Armed bandit work for it, and THEN he got up.  It was a pretty awesome show with stunt riders, gunslingers, bull-whipping and more!