Update…..

Ethan had a blast riding on Thomas the Tank Engine…We were there a little over 3 hours.  Ethan was on the go the whole time…no time for resting.  The only thing he wanted nothing to do with was Sir Topham Hatt…Somebody was dressed up like him and he refused to go near him….LOL

Ethan got his first tattoo!!!! Rub on tattoo, that is.  I was really impressed that he got it…The guy that was doing the tattoos had this long beard and I wasn’t too sure if Ethan would go near him…but he did and he was very happy to have Percy the train tattoo’d on his arm…

The train ride with Thomas was about 25 minutes long.  He enjoyed every minute of it and I think Vernon and I did too….I took lots of pictures of him hanging out the window…Pictures will be coming shortly.

Hey Dad, when you look at the pictures….check out the picture of my tomato salad…it was so good…I even took a picture of the ingredients to make it…just a suggestion for Dot….

Here’s a cute, little funny about Vernon….There is a house across the street that was turned into 2 apartments and it seems they only rent to trashey people…So a couple of Saturdays ago at noon, the music starts.  I see they are setting up table and chairs outside, so I figured they were having a little BBQ…No Biggie….Then the music gets louder, like I was in front row seats to a Brooks & Dunn Concert….I figured it was Country music, it was dealable…heavy metal or rap, I would have some issues….So, let’s jump ahead 10 hours later…Yes, you read it right…10 hours of music…I get my sneakers on and I said to Vernon that I was heading over to the neighbors to tell them to “kill” the music…because now I was just pissed!  Vernon says..I was thinking about doing that….I realized as I walked out the door that I was by myself and Vernon was really only “thinking” about it….LOL..  I confronted the trashey people and they were actually very nice and shut the music right off…here’s the good part…I came home and headed back upstairs and noticed my bedroom door shut.  I opened the door and what do I see….Vernon laying on the floor with his face smeared up to the window pearing out towards the neighbors…I asked him what he was doing and he said….seeing if you needed back-up or if I need to call the troopers…LOL…Only Vernon..god love him.  

Austin had his 2nd break-up yesterday   He seems OK with it, unless he’s hiding it from us…but I don’t think so, because I got word from the mother of the 1st girlfriend, that he apparently asked her daughter out AGAIN!  It would be nice if he had NO girlfriends until schools out.  So much drama with this “dating” stuff.

Myckael came home yesterday and totally surprised me with his Social Biography Project grade…This kid picked a book to read that I thought was way out of his league.  When he finished reading the book he had to do a Diorama in a shoe box.  Vernon & Myckael spent a good portion of the weekend working on and off with the Diorama…I looked at the shoebox and thought it was a good Diorama, but was worried with what the teacher would think…It looked a little brutal to me….People on crosses with fire burning around him….I did skim through the book and he had it nailed down pack…I was surprised and shocked…He came home yesterday and whipped out his grade on the project and oral speech that he had to give and he got a 103 out of a possible 105…The notes that the teacher wrote all over his paper were unbelievable..She was very impressed with his work and impressed that he read “such” a book.  I was so happy for him…I will never critize  another book he reads…

For all you people that don’t live in Saranac Lake….we had some serious weather on Sunday…Snow and Hail…it came in fast and left fast…twice.  I took some video of it…I’ll upload it later and send it….The temp dropped 20 degrees in a matter of minutes…It was freezing out…

I think that’s all I got….Have a great rest of the week….Pictures will be coming very soon….like maybe within the next hour

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