Sunny Side

Po Da

Can I just tell you how much I love this time of year. I am not talking about all the end of the school year gunk that crowds my schedule. Seriously who sits and thinks up all this stuff to crowd into one month. So no, I am not talking about that stuff. I am talking about Father/Sons outing. I just love it. I love seeing Thayne and the boys getting ready with all their fishing and camping gear. Of course they take the 5th wheel trailer so they are not really roughing it, which this year is a good thing because Thayne left his sleeping bag on our bed. I bet he will be glad the bed in the trailer is made. Ü The boys miss the day of school and they head up early so they can get extra fishing time in. I sure hope Thayne takes some pictures. It is just great seeing them packing up and excited to have some fun.

but really I need to be honest about my excitement.


When the boys are gone, the girls play.

The girls and I have a yearly salon date when the boys are at Father/Sons. This is what really excites me the most about this yearly manly outing the church sponsors. I just could not support it more. So after school the girls and I went to the nail salon. First let me say that I wasn't totally thrilled with the paint jobs we got, but really it was the fun we had that counted, right? So the best part is and I know you all know what I am talking about when I say their is definitely a language barrier in the salons. I am usually pretty good about figuring out what they are asking me. (By the way the language they speak is Vietnamese.) So they ask you stuff like "you pick cula (color)" and I have that one figured out now. There is also "you want flowa" which is your want flower. So many of these I got. However today the cute lady Jessika had doing her nails says to her,"you want flowa oh po da" I was just staring at Jessika wondering if she knew what she said and I just couldn't figure it out. Jessika kinda gave her a weird look and the lady says it again and then Jessika quietly said something to her and it seems like they worked it out. However it was driving me crazy trying to figure out PO DA. I just kept repeating it in my mind wondering what the heck it meant. So after a few minutes Samantha had a guy doing her nails and he asks her if "she want flowa". She nicely says sure. So I looked over at Jess and asked her if she was getting a flower, and right when I asked her the lady doing her nails looks at me and says on no she wants PO DA. So I just nicely smiled at the lady and looked over at Samantha and said "do you have any idea what the heck she just said?" Samantha says "ya she said she is getting Polk a dots".

POLK A DOTS!

How in the heck did my girls figure that out. They are genius.
I really don't think I could have ever gotten that one on my own.

After getting our nails done we headed to Outback Stakehouse for dinner. We got there at 5pm and beat the dinner rush. In Arizona the dinner rush means an hour or more wait for a table. We had no wait and we had a fun yummy dinner. We had ribs and steak and Samantha will tell you the yummiest mashed potatoes ever. After dinner we managed to drift into a few stores and shop for alittle bit which is always fun. I have to say that my girls either love each other or hate each other. When they love each other they are the funniest kids to be around. We were laughing the whole time. I wish I could explain Jessika's sense of humor but really there are no words to describe this child. She doesn't miss a beat and the things just come out of her mouth at just the right time can be hilarious. Sometimes she could be censored but she is just the funniest thing and Samantha's little chipmunk laugh laughing at her the whole time just completes the moment.

As we pulled in the driveway my girls said,

"Mom thanks for taking us out, the whole night was a BLAST!"

We are home safely with full bellies and cute flowa's and PO DA's on our toes. Yep I love Father & Sons.