Alivia was able to perform at a Bee's game with other members of her choir group. It was a fun excursion for a Saturday night. We decided to take the kids on the light rail system here in Utah and started out really close to my Mom's house in West Jordan. We made it there safe and sound and got our tickets, took our seats, watched Livi perform and then had to sit through 9 innings of Baseball, the first few were quite boring so we decided to go get some snacks, buying snacks for 7 kids and 3 adults is pricey so we all pitched in some cash and went and bought some ball park snacks, nachos, licorice, kettle corn and cotton candy. (luckily they gave out water cups. Well that sugar overload made the next 5 innings a little bit more exciting and the game ended with a great fireworks show.
9$ Bee's Ticket, 5$ Nachos, Licking the Nachos bowl clean-Priceless.
Where our night hit a snaf-oo was on the way home the trax system had a pretty significant delay because of an accident farther up the line and set us back about 1 hour and 20 minutes. It is hard letting little kids sit on a train platform for that long. However we really didn't have any choice to go anywhere because we were not really sure when the train would come.
We finally got on the train and made it another 30 minutes to our West Jordan stop. AND THEN Cooper forgets his Nintendo DS on the train. Cooper falls to his knees crying and so upset that he left his DS. So we decided to wait and see if the train would come back and I would jump on and look for it. 10,20,30, 40 minutes pass no train. So I decide to drive a little further up the line and see if I can see and of course as soon as I come around this corner I see the train. So I flip the car around drive like a crazy person down this 35mph road. Stop at a red light, look both ways, go through (I know, my justification is the light in the other direction just turned yellow) So I drive and the rail road lights start flashing I step on it under the arms and drive into the parking lot, jump out of the suburban just as the train is pulling up I go running up to the train and the conductor? holds the DS out his window and says "are you looking for this". I was so happy and relieved I couldn't believe it.
What a crazy night.
Other happenings
Haven't heard about our appraisals?
Ben went to his first training session to be a DTL (District Manager) He got so sick, throw up sick, he said said he had to run out the room with throw up in his hands....gross!!
I went to San Diego for a few days, to hang with my cute pregnant friend that never had her baby but is being induced today.
We had to drain and refill the pool.
We had to buy new tires for the suburban, Ben got a flat on the side of the freeway on his way to taking the kids to Seven Peaks. The tire was not fixable and all the other tires wouldn't have passed safety due in September. So a huge chunk of change, mostly all of our money we would have used to go to Canada this week. Temporarily off the schedule unless we find a really cheap car rental.
I am going to be a full time flight attendant in about 8 days and we will see how this goes. I got all my regular shifts but bid two-two days ( I haven't flown those kind of trips in years.) pretty cool overnights though, one in Toronto and one in Vegas. They both get in really early so I am hoping to go to Niagara Falls and Vegas we stay at a really nice hotel off the strip so maybe just go and hang at the pool.
I am realizing I need to blog more so my posts are so long and boring.
