Whew!

Last night we celebrated.  We whooped.  We hollered. And balloons rained down.

Vicki had just completed her tenth 13 hour day marking the end of the clinical portion of Nevada's requirements for re-licensing.  Soon she will have her license to be a practicing RN in the state of Nevada.  Then she can go back to school to work on a master's degree and be the boy scout camp nurse.

That was a long five years.

Spring Break

Ben and Spencer had the great idea to go camping the first night of spring break.  Now this isn't the official boy scouts camping, its more like "Dad" camping.  They loaded the 4" thick foam cushions from the futon into the back of the Tahoe and Ben drove them up to the mountains. 

I was sitting in the family room the next morning when they came in about 8:30. 

A reliable source stated that when they got ready to go to bed, they discovered that Spencer forgot his sleeping bag.  Ben unzipped his bag and laid it over them like a blanket.  That was nice but, Spencer with about 0.2% body fat still got cold.  He would get as close as he could to a heat source (Ben) and his heat source would push him away; all night long.  When they got up and saw how cold it was in the morning, they climbed over the front seat, started the car up and headed home.

Like all true "Disciple of Dads" campers, they stopped at McDonald's to get a breakfast of soft serve ice cream cones. 

Yep!  The apple doesn't fall to far from the tree.

Winter time

Oh what do you do in the winter time

When all the world is brown

Do you swim in a pool

and scream like a fool

While your temperature drops to 5?

Is that what you do?

Not I.

But Ben did, today.  You have to admire his courage.

Another Angel Got His Wings

Ben had an appointment at 10:30 this morning to take his driver's test.  We showed up at 10 to start the paper work portion.  After 60 minutes of testing, verifying, talking, picture taking and paying; he had his license.  That's right the process took 60 minutes.

That would have been great I just didn't mention that we waited another 4 hours in between all the testing, verifying, talking, picture taking, and paying.

Ben used the time to finish up some homework.  I read about the pilgrims.  Did you know their trip took them 5-1/2 months.  I figure it took them 3-1/2 months just to get the Mayflower licensed at the DMV.

I just can't wait for the government to get their hands on health care. We'll have a bunch more angels.

Get a Life

It wasn't as embarrassing as I thought it would be.  Some people may not have even noticed, but I got to play Mom for a weekend including all the good and bad that comes with that.

Vicki went up to Provo with a friend from Kingman to celebrate her daughter's birthday.  Lucky for Vicki, Katherine was the roommate so Vicki and Katherine got to spend time together.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we had a court of honor.  This wasn't just any court of honor, it was the court of honor when Spencer received his Life rank advancement.  And I got the mother's pin.    ;-)