The Button Family: Aunt June's 80th Birthday

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Aunt June's 80th Birthday

I drove the kids to Casper, Wyoming on Saturday for my great aunt June's 80th birthday party. My grandmother had 10 siblings and I have known 8 of them since I was a child. I have the best memories of them all. I loved our family get togethers. They are a very funny bunch and make me laugh like crazy to this day. There are only 3 sisters and 1 brother still with us. My aunt June reminds me most of my grandmother who passed away 5 years ago. I'm so glad we were able to share this fun day with her. I was a little nervous to take the kids on this road trip by myself but they were great. Wyoming looked so green and beautiful. I don't remember ever seeing it so green although it has always been beautiful to me.

This is my mother on the left with her cousins, Carol, Lorna, Laura and Sherri. Lorna and Laura are twins and Sherri is their sister. They are all hilarious!

Tommy found a new best friend. My cousin Bruchele's son, Bridger and Tommy were inseparable for the entire weekend.

This is the best climbing tree I have ever seen.

Thanks to whoever brought the bubbles. Katie and Tommy chased my mom around the whole day and blew bubbles right on her. Then Katie tossed back her head and laughed like it was the funniest thing she had ever seen. Everyone was very entertained.

June and her sister Dorothy are trying to help the twins determine who the people are in the old pictures they brought. They are awesome pictures of our family from way back that I hope they will scan and save for genealogy. Unfortunately, no one back then put any names on the pictures, so we may just be guessing as to who anyone is.

Katie is definitely Grandma's girl.

Mike flew into Casper after he was done with working in Chicago for the week. I picked him up at 11 pm on Sunday. Tommy and Katie were very tired from their fun weekend of meeting a lot of relatives they had never even heard of before. We drove back to Colorado just in time for Tommy's T-ball game. We woke him up at the park, put on his uniform and he ran out and had a great game.

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Tommy & Katie funny quotes

Katie is getting ready to baptized so it comes up in conversation a lot. Like when I said, "Isn't it neat that you will be washed clean and all your mistakes gone, like a fresh new start?" and she said, "And we'll have to change our names and move to Alabama?" I missed that lesson. Or the time she was cheating at a game we were playing and I said, "you shouldn't cheat, you're about to be baptized" and she said, "I know, I need to get it all out because it's almost the end of the road".

Tommy patted my belly and asked, "how long did you say it takes this to go away?" I was like, what? "You're tummy...after you have a baby" I told him a minimum of 8 years.

I was sharing some popcorn with the kids while I was driving. We were passing the bag back and forth. One of my turns was too long I guess and the kids were shouting for me to pass it back. When I finally did Tommy said, "Surprisingly she didn't eat that much".

As I was getting Katie ready for school after a long weekend, I found some homework in her backpack that we didn't do. She said, "In three days we couldn't do the homework!"

My nephews told Tommy that my laptop was really nice. He said, "Ya, my Dad's laptop is like Wall-E and my mom's is like Eva".

Some of the kids in Tommy's class are expressing their doubts about Santa. Tommy told me there was even a boy in 5th grade who didn't believe. Tommy said, "He's in 5th grade! He should be smart enough to know there is a Santa".

Tommy whispered something to me as we were taking Katie to school. I knew he was going to suggest something fun for us to do without Katie so I told him to wait and tell me in a minute. Then Katie was very curious so she said, "tell me Tommy. I can take it, I give you my word."

When I told Katie to stop swinging on the mantle, she said, "Do you want me to save the world or not?"

I was watching a cartoon with Tommy. I told him it was weird that one of the characters was not getting along with his friend. Tommy said,"well mom you have to know there is a back story".

Katie to Tommy, "Kiss me on the cheek Tommy. That's the only way I will forgive you for kicking me in the throat." This particular element of my blog may come to an end if the quotes continue to be this disturbing.

We were eating at KFC. Katie wanted to take home the balloon tied to her chair. I told her she could if she stopped playing with it and finished eating. She said, "then I can play with the balloon in the car?" I said, "yes" she said, "and marry it?" and I said, "yes, you can marry it" she said, "but we just met".

While Katie and I were doing the dishes, she had a couple of good ones. I was putting chili in the garbage disposal and she said, "eww, that stinks". Then I pushed it down with my hand and she said, "eww mom, I can't believe your doing that, it's so gross". Wait until she has kids, she'll realize nothing is gross anymore. Then I was scrubbing a dish. Grabbing the spray hose she said, "Allow me".

Katie to her grandma at the dinner table: Feed me if you dare. (think Puss in Boots from Shrek)

Tommy was correcting Katie on her ABCs because instead of saying LMNOP she says elmo elmo P. It hurt her feelings so I was explaining to him that we need to encourage each other. He finally conceded and said, "You win this round mommy".

Tommy was trying to get Mike to play his transformers video game with him: You don't practice that's why you're not good at it. I want you to practice.

Tommy and I were watching a dinosaur special on the Discovery channel. They were giving details about how certain dinosaurs lived. I asked Tommy, "How do they know that?" Tommy said: Uh...they're scientists...they're smart.

Tommy telling how Katie had hurt him while they were wrestling: She damaged me a lot.

Me to Tommy while he was chasing Katie around the jewelry stands in Santa Fe: Tommy stop it!
Man selling jewelry: She started it.
So Tommy had a witness.

Me: Katie, go downstairs and finish your lunch.
Katie: But I'm scared.
Me: Tommy is going with you, you'll be fine.
Katie: But we don't have any weapons.
Me: ??? Just hurry up and go eat.
Katie: But I'll fall if I go downstairs too fast.
Me: Just hurry and eat so we can go to the park.
Katie: But I will choke if I eat too fast.

Me: Can you guys please just give me five seconds of peace!
Katie: How about four.

Katie: Mom, Tommy called me a tattletale!

Katie while rolling dice for Clue: Come on, momma needs a new pair of shoes!

Tommy to his friend while playing Star Wars: We need a tail gunner. Let's just imaginate one.

Tommy: This is going to knock your socks off!
Katie: I'm not wearing socks.
Tommy: Katie, it's a joke.

Me: Katie, what happened to your cheek? Did you get hurt?
Katie: No, that's how it's supposed to look.

Me: Do you want any more of your egg, Katie?
Katie: No, thanks for the offer though.

Me: Thanks for being such a good boy at church today.
Tommy: Aw, it was nothing.

Me: These flowers are so pretty.
Tommy: Not as pretty as you.

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