the BIG surprise

the first of last week my husband told me that he had a big surprise for me on friday. so all that week he kept building me up for this surprise. come friday we had bad storms and there was one time where he told me that we just couldn't go because of the rain. then within an hour the skies cleared and plans were back on. he told me that when i walked outside and saw what was in the driveway my jaw would drop. so i got ready and was waiting around for robert to get home. he pulled up and honked, i walked outside and saw a corvette sitting in our drive way. yes, my jaw dropped, my first thoughts were, is this mine? did he buy this for me? then reality hit me and i remembered i had kids and this car had no back seats. so come to find out, robert knows this guy who owned the car and told robert to take it and have fun. we went back in time about 10 years. we felt like we were in school again. we went to eat, then just drove around town. we had a great time. and just like cinderella, my corvette turned back into a chevy avalanche. robert said that it would be something that i would never forget, and he was exactly right. i love my husband!!!

a busy summer already

Tulsa Vacation

to start off luke's summer break we all went to tulsa. we went to big spalsh and to the oklahoma aquarium. seeing the stingrays reminded us of our cruise we took last year. we had a great time that was very much needed. we baked in the sun at big spalsh then relaxed back at the hotel. the boys got a huge kick out of the video games we had in our room and we all enjoyed the hot tub. i think i might have robert talked into getting one. the boys loved seeing all the underwater creatures. this will hopefully just be the start of a very exciting summer.

Memorial Day Weekend

We took our second camping trip of the summer. we went to dam site park this time. it started out almost not finding a camping spot. but we finally did after squeezing into some tight places with a 30ft camper. we had a good couple of days until.......we had to go to the emergency room!!!! here is how the story goes. saturday morning we get finished with breakfast and luke is pushing logan in the hammock. we see that luke is getting a little carried away, so we ask luke to not push logan so high because he might fall out. well i don't know if luke didn't mean to OR if he wanted to see little bro fall out. anyway, robert and i turn our backs, we hear a thud, and see logan laying on the ground. robert drops everything in his hands, runs over to logan and has a melt down. logan had indeed fell out of the hammock with some help from big bro and hit his chin on a railroad tie, busting it wide open. luckily the E.R. was 5 minutes away and luckily he didn't get stitches (which saved us some money). the attending doctor just glued him right up. and we were off camping again. that was the highlight of our memorial day weekend.

Pryor Family Reunion 2009

we traveled to Tishomingo, ok to have our family reunion on my dad's side. i got to see several family that i haven't seen in years. i expected everyone to look the same as i remembered as a kid, but soon realized that people change as they get older. why don't things stay the way that you remember them as a child? like take for instance, when i go to "tish" i always like to drive by my old house. well this time it was different, it was sad. robert and i loaded up the boys and headed off down broadway, and soon things started looking different, i could of swarn that i used to live on broadway. we had to drive around a couple of blocks to realize that my old house had been bull-dozed down and replaced with a school gym. i was devestated. how could this happen? i kept asking robert. he repsonded LIFE happened. i expected that house to be there forever. that's where i used to find horny toads, that's where i would walk to my grandpa's and pick wild strawberries, it's where i learned to ride my bike, and learned to tie my shoes, i even remember getting stung by a bee there. i wanted so badly to show the boys "mama's old house". now i never will. but the stories is what counts. i have wonderful stories that i get to pass on.

MAY 26, 2009

my first born graduated kindergarten. wow!! time has totally flew by. from diapers and bottles to riding bikes with no training wheels and girlfriends. yep, he's growing up right before my eyes. it was exciting for all of us. my mom came to watch and we celebrated afterwards. took plenty of pictures. it was an adorable ceremony. the theme was "from caterpillars to butterflies" which is so appropriate because luke loves them both. so next year, it is off to first grade. bigger numbers and bigger words.