Chuck E Cheese Trauma

So last night some of our good friends called us up wanting to know if we could go to yes, that's right Chuck E Cheese. For those of you who have never experienced this magical (ha ha) place let me give ya the run down. First of all it is way over priced - $25 for a large nasty pizza and four pops, but get this, you get 40 tokens which you can use on rides whoa nelly! It doesn't stop there, after you play on all of the germ infested rides and games they give you like 5 tickets that you can redeem at the counter for a plastic fish or something your child will really cherish:) My friend is way on top of things though and she had gotten some coupons from the internet, and the kids absolutely love it, so we really thought it would be fun for them. After telling Tyler that we would be going to Chuck E Cheese, he was thrilled! You have never seen a more excited child, he was talking about rides, games, tokens, and could not WAIT to get there. When we got there, literally the whole city of Cleveland was at Chuck E Cheese and it was going to be at least an hour wait, so that's right, we had to tell Tyler we weren't going in. The poor child had his coat off and we weren't even in the door yet! He was scoping out all the rides and I cannot tell you the shot of pain I felt after crushing his dreams by telling him we weren't going to get to go in! OUCH! Everything worked out, we went to our friends and had $5 pizza on their living room floor and watched a movie, and it was way better than the germ infested Chuck E Cheese. PS I'm taking Tyler and Halle there for lunch next week to make up for the trauma they experienced last night:)

New First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Thomas S. Monson is the new president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President Monson, 80, succeeds President Gordon B. Hinckley, who died 27 January 2008.
The new world leader of the Church has called to serve with him in the First Presidency, the top governing body of the 13-million-member faith, President Henry B. Eyring, 74, first counselor, and President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 67, second counselor.
I love these elect men called by our Heavenly Father to lead His church on the earth!! Follow the Prophet, he knows the way:)

I wanna barbeque a fish!

So let me tell ya about my good buddy Tyler. He is such a great kid, anyone who has been around him knows that he makes friends with everyone wherever he goes. Whenever we have a gathering with our friends he is usually the entertainment. I find myself laughing a lot out loud at him and with him, he is such a fun little person... anyways, he is also very deteremined, and once he decides to do something he won't leave it alone. A few months ago he did "jobs" and "earned" a baseball mit and ball for T-ball this summer, and the other day he was saying that he wanted to do more "jobs" to get something cool, so I asked him what he wanted and he said, "I want to earn a fishing pole so that I could fish in Montana." Then I asked him what he was going to do with a fish, and he said, "I wanna barbeque it!" So everyday he does his jobs to get his fishing pole and can't wait to barbeque his fish in Montana:) We can do the fishing pole, but I don't know about getting to MT to barbeque it:)