Beam me up Buddy....

Today Buddy finally had his lung function test....

As a proud member of the medical community, I'm glad to report that after endless hours of testing and researching, it is determined that the Buddy is allergic to albuterol....which wouldn't be a big deal, but he's been getting it for the last 2 months multiple times a day "treating" what it was actually causing! Awesome....I'm pretty certain there is a parenting award for that! Thank goodness I could make it up to him today by taking him to a waterfall that is only accessible by helicopter...

Of course, Shane is the one that actually got this arranged...and we were only invited because we had no qualms about diving into the pool at the base of the waterfall to retrieve the dead pig that had fallen to it's death from the cliff above and exploded it's intestines everywhere. It wouldn't have been a big deal, but that's a special landing spot that I'm pretty certain tourists wouldn't think was so special with the stench of exploded pig guts all over the place. Yep,  I'm certain I have definitely redeemed myself as Mother of the Year! So all in all a super fantastic, never having albuterol again, day! 

It's beginning to look a lot like....what?

I feel like after the election that there was way too much hate going round....okay, there was probably way too much beforehand, but let's face it...November 8th was not a very nice day to look at social media. Thankfully, I watched "Buddy the Elf" so I know how to have Christmas Cheer all year long. It includes one ugly Christmas sweater dress...

Two decorated Christmas trees...that would include our gingerbread Christmas tree ya'll..

and you can't forget the train around the Christmas tree....

 No seriously, you can't forget it....especially when you insist on laying with your face 3 inches away from the track and continually run it forwards and backwards, and forwards and backwards for hours on end. The scouts came over yesterday before their campout and even they got bored of it and begged Buddy to do something different.

The answer was a resounding Negatron and thankfully their ride to the camp site arrived shortly thereafter, so I didn't have to intervene during Train Armageddon! Sheesh! Thankfully, I've got my Christmas Sweater dress on to make everything better! Buddy even told me I looked beautiful in it....12 year old boys are easily impressed (at least when you have gingerbread cookies stuffed in your pockets). So all in all a super fantastic, wearing my dress for Christmas cheer until next year, day! 

Awkward....

This week has been a whole lot of awkwardness all around. People are going crazy the day after the elections...and Buddy and I are like....

 As in....holy bananas....the peacemakers in us just want to give out free hugs, sing Kumbaya and make everything better! 

To add to all the awkwardness going round, I took my Troop of Boy Scouts to place flags at the Veteran's Cemetery on Veterans Day. It only got awkward when we showed up an hour after the Girl Scout had already blown in and out, completing EVERYTHING that needed to be set up for their 11 am services. Talk about feeling awkward just standing around! That's okay, I know how to use photoshop now so we can make it look like we actually did something! Afterwards, we high tailed it to Volcano National Park to do some glamping and apparently build a fort....

I promise, there is a fort behind them!!! I pretty much went for the free bike rides...

Unfortunately, those bike rides lasted approximately 3 pedals....but it was an AMAZING 3 pedals worth! So all in all a super fantastic, now we all need hot showers and a week of sleep, day!

Surprises....

This morning I was expecting to get a breakfast in bed, followed by a day at the beach filled with paddle boarding and kayaking to my hearts content. Instead, I was told to hurry up so we could drive 2 hours over to Hilo to look at a car that was really out of my mentally set price range. I wasn't sure why Shane wanted to waste everyones time....especially mine, since unfortunately, my birthday only comes around once a year! We looked at the car, I agreed it was cute, then Shane started hustling a cash only deal....which was weird, because I'm pretty certain between all 3 (that'd be me, Shane and the Budster who has been told to stay out of school for the week) of us we were carrying 20 bucks total and that was mostly in the change scattered throughout my car. I kept punching Shane to get him to stop his wheeling and dealing with his imaginary money, he kept telling me not to worry about it. I'm pretty certain the cops would be worried when they got a call that some guy was trying to pay for a car with imaginary money!!!!!! I mean, I do need a new car, my odometer is close to 270K, the child locks in the back stay scarily locked and my car usually starts after a wing and a prayer, but not at the expense of Shane being incarcerated for wheeling and dealing with imaginary money, and the tight wad in me didn't want to go into debt for a silly little car....I'm pretty certain my Betsy Beast could make it to 300K with enough duct tape! Turns out, the man that usually forgets it's my birthday until I remind him the night before (because I don't want to be mad when he completely forgets like he has in the past) has been saving since Christmas of last year to buy this tightwad a car for her birthday!

Holy bananas, am I the lucky one!!!!! So all in all a super fantastic, what a good surprise, day!

Tis the Season!

If you know anything about me you'll know one of my things about the Christmas season is the opportunity to just sit back, relax and take some casual family photos for our Christmas cards. Just kidding, if you thought that statement was true, you don't know me at all! Buddy and I love brainstorming ideas for our Christmas card pictures, and Shane earns his Sainthood every year by putting up with us! Here are a few blasts from the past.....

Last night Buddy and I joined our evil forces and completed our 2016 Christmas cards....

Like I said, WE had a blast....Shane, perhaps not too much. But if you're on my Christmas mailing list you'll see soon enough! So all in all a super fantastic, love my partner in picture planning crime, day!

The cool kids

Buddy turned 12 last weekend, so this week we grabbed one of our favorite accessories (that would be Buddy's BFF Tyler) and entered our next step into manhood...

Well, some of us are entering the next step of manhood! So all in all a super fantastic, pretty awesome, day!