Trip in a nutshell and other ramblings

So, almost all of our pictures from our trip are on

the laptop but I've been feeling particularly lazy

about transferring them over. For some reason I have 

terrible blogger's block with no pics. It's probably just 

because my brain is like a sieve. With out reminders 

I'm useless! Ah well. I'll do my best.

We had an awesome trip! For those of you who weren't 

aware, James and I surprised his parents. They had no

idea we were coming. I really worried about it but he

was completely certain that they would love it. I've 

decided that a person just needs to trust their spouse

when it comes to their family because he was right! 

They were thrilled and it was so much fun to see the

"what the" looks on their faces. We sorted through a 

bunch of ideas on how to storm his parents' house and

settled on having the kids ring the door bell. Martin

(James' dad) opened the door and was like," hey come

on in"....and then the "what the" face. It was classic.

I got a video of it but it doesn't do the moment justice.

We made a few stops that I felt were VERY important.

1. Ottovio's (Best darn Italian EVER!!)

2. Day Murray Music 

3. IKEA (Oh how I'd waited for the moment...it was better

     than I could have ever imagined!!)

4. the E.R (Madeline....what can I say more?)

Really the best part of the trip was getting to visit into all

hours of the night with everyone. I think that's what I miss 

the most. I really love my other family and I'm glad that they

sort of like me too. :) I'll try to get less lazy and post some 

pictures, but I'm not going to promise anything.

Oh, and on a completely different note, I just have to tell you

all (because I promised James that I would) that my brain has

taken a turn for the worst! The other day we were on a date

and I was driving...scary I know. Anyway, so I ran this stupid

stop sign that really didn't even need to be there, and James

was like: " Hey, did you see that stop sign?" And me in all my 

glory said, "No, what did it say?"  "?....uh...stop?"

Yah, my grey matter has shrunk just a few too many times!!!

Wish me luck.