Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Top 10 reasons why Cash is a Professor...

Reason #1. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvnkeqmusk
(Cash, his brother Jared, and his brother-in-law Brent -- they look pretty awesome if I can brag a bit. And I guess since it's my blog, I can.)

Reason #2. Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtFscu9OZwI (That's Spencer in the first part of the video -- his nickname is "Zeus" -- Cash was SO proud!).

Reason #3. Cash coaching Spencer's baseball team this summer.


Reason #4. Conference in Chicago every April that happens to coincide with opening weekend for the Chicago Cubs. Hum...

Reason #5. He get to read books for work.

Reason #6. See previous posts about Family Reunions. (I'm not sure that's what he really wanted to do this summer. I think it had more to do with #1 and #2, but he's a good sport).

Reason #7. Baseball starts in April and ends in October. If the Cubs make the playoffs he's really in a pickle during fall semester.

Reason #8. He thinks "running numbers" is fun.

Reason #9. "I'm a teacher. All I need are minds for molding." (movie anyone? one of Cash's all time favorites...)

Reason #10. After 12 years of school he finally decided he better get a "real job."

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Viva Las Vegas!

The Rockwell Family reunion (my mom's side) was in Las Vegas over 4th of July weekend. It was a blast and great to see everyone. But, WOW -- July in Las Vegas is hot, hot, hot! We weren't certain that the read out in our van went to triple digits, but evidently it goes up to 113 degrees! But, it was certainly a fun trip.

One day we went to a huge indoor (whew!) Bounce house place with slides, webbed obstacle towers, and boxing rings. Everyone had a blast -- even the adults got in on the fun.

Audrey racing down the huge slide (Emmett even did this one with me!)
Don't be fooled -- these gloves look soft but I could barely lift them! Which means 1) they're really heavy or 2) I'm really wimpy. Please don't actually answer.
Cash and Emmett enjoying the tall slide. I think Emmett is enjoying it...
Audrey cheesing it up in the mountains
One day we went to Mount Charleston (it was about 15 degrees cooler) and had a picnic and just enjoyed the beautiful mountains. I love the mountains. At the talent show, Spencer and his cousin Tanner showed off their athletic prowess with their own spectacular version of plastic jai a'lai. We had to clap them off the stage. It was cute.
Audrey and Grandma went up to learn how to hula dance from some hula dancers that came. Not sure what's going on with my camera...
Grandma and Grandpa with the grandkids. Travis is MIA because he got struck by "Typhoid Rockwell" -- some nasty little virus that spread like wildfire and had about 14 casualties by the time it was all said and done. Not the best picture of my kids: Spencer is looking at Emmett, I have no idea where Audrey is, and Emmett is screaming.

Well, it was a great reunion and although it made me miss my mom terribly, she comes from a fantastic family who really step in as our "moms" when we need them.

We're leaving tomorrow for Cash's family reunion in Cascade, ID. It should be lots of fun, lots of food, and lots of skiing.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The "Show Me" State

Two family reunions down, one to go! Actually, that makes them sound like a bad thing, but they're certainly "good things" and they have made this a summer to remember!!!

To start off with we went back to visit my dad (for the first time since we moved to Boise) and got to tag along to the Shedd Family Reunion in Branson, MO. Now, understand that Cash had been (half-jokingly) telling everyone that he was going to go see the Osmonds. Unfortunately, they have packed up and left Branson... However, we did manage to find other things to do and see. :) First, we spent a few days in Texarkana with Grandma and Grandpa and got to see my sister Kim and her husband Joey. It was great to see them.

A stop in American Fork, UT to take flowers to Grandma Carolyn's grave

We saw the Amazing Chinese Acrobats -- they were amazing!

Spencer liked the karate guys

These girls had incredible balance - and though they weigh 42 pounds they are strong!

We spent a day at Silver Dollar City -- it was a blast. Emmett rode these kiddy rides in a seat all by himself!
We went to the Titanic Museum; it was so interesting and the kids really enjoyed it. They had an iceberg to touch, a deck the temperature of that night, a barrel of water the temperature of the water that you could see how long you could leave your hand in there (some of us made it almost a minute), and you went in as a passenger from the trip that you followed through the museum and found out at the end if you survived.We finished up at my Uncle Joe's farm in Missouri. The kids ran around, they fished in the pond, jumped on hay bales, and above they're showing off Uncle Joe's quail eggs -- around the corner there are probably a hundred little baby quail. oooh, cute.

There was so much to do in Branson, and it was a really fun place to visit.