Beautiful day ruined by a grumpy old lady!

So we were having a fantastic day. We took Belle for a nice walk around the neighborhood. Then we headed to Lemon Park to play and watch the birds swim. We were having a fantastic time. William came out of his anti-social shell and made a lot of new friends.

Look at Harry's hair is this picture....cracks me up.

The boys were being so good that I decided to treat them to lunch. We went to this hole in the wall diner by our house. I sat us outside (where nobody else was) in case they acted up. Surprisingly enough, this is the ONE time they were little angels. Well an older couple came and sat down right next to us opposed to inside or anywhere else out on the patio. They backed their truck in and left their dog in the back of the truck looking at us:) I am going to make this story as short as possible. I was so incredibly proud of my boys. They were eating all their food and engrossed in their lunch opposed to being loud. William seriously did not say a word. Harrison is learning to talk and he was saying, "french fry." Every time he said french fry, the old woman turned around and yelled at him to shut up. I was about to lose it. Finally their dog barked and Harrison got excited and said, "puppy dog." He said it is a regular tone- didn't even yell. Well the woman started yelling at me: "we are paying for this too. Control your children. Have them use their inside voices." Well I apologized first for what reason I do not know but she kept going on putting Harrison down and then the mommy in me finally talked back. I was so upset and still upset about it. Here we were having a great day and the one time my boys are great out in public, someone yells at them and makes them feel bad. William asked me what he did wrong that the woman yelled at him. William said thank you to the waitress as we left and Harrison told the mean women, "bu bye." Little did he understand that she was a grumpy old woman who hated children. It's still makes me sad. Having an excellent day and praising my boys for being so good and someone has to ruin it. I would understand any other time when a toddler is acting like a toddler but they were too interested in their lunch to even play at the time. Ugh.

"The Blue and The Gray"

Yesterday we went to a Civil War Reenactment and Encampment. It was really interesting and fun. We watched the Wilderness Day 2 battle followed by the Gettysburg Address and the Cold Harbour battle at night. The boys loved seeing all of the horses. This is the largest reenactment of the Civil War in California. They do an amazing job and there were hundreds of reinactors. There were some professional actors there. We stood about two feet from Bruce Boxleitner and David Carpenter as they were introduced. David Carpenter told me he liked Harrison's chocolate face (he was eating cookies).

Halloween 2009

Cheers!

Well I decided to take the test. The last test of my mixology school and it is the speed test. I was very nervous to take it. Over and over again all I heard was, "nobody passes the first time." And I was very intimidated by the instructor giving the test. I heard horror stories. Even with hearing how horrible it is and that no one has ever passed their first time, I couldn't go in with the mentality that I was going to fail. Nervousness and excitement stem from the same hormone. So I went in with the "excitement" of thinking I am about to graduate from this school. Call it excitement or call it me shaking in my boots. The speed test is making 12 drinks in 7 minutes. They use bar slang and if you have even a tiny error, (short straw, glass, wrong garnish, waste alcohol, etc.) it is wrong. And you also get distracted when he asks you to wipe down the bar or turn a label out while testing. Well I felt prepared but ok if I didn't pass. I drilled with some guys who were very fast and good and that helped a lot. I was drilling and finishing at 6 minutes the night before so I felt I could try and what is the worst that could happen? Ha. So here was my test.

First round:

B-52

Long Beach Ice Tea "Top Cabin"

Courvoisier Seperator "down and dirty"

Second round:

Gold Driver "on St. Patty's day"

Kioki "fit for a king" and "with big red balls"

Traditional Orgasm "top cabin"

Third round:

Old Fashioned

Creamsickle "top cabin" and "with a bang"

Martini

Fourth round:

Mai Tai "top cabin" and "for Joan"

Singapore Sling

Mimosa

Notice you don't get anything like what would actually happened in the real world- a beer, rum and coke, etc. Throughout this, you can call "second call" once to hear the list of drinks before you set them out on the bar. It was tough as I didn't think my nerves would come over me like they did. But honestly, the instructor was opposite of what I expected. He was rooting me on and complimenting me the whole time. It made the test so much better. And guess what? I passed. With 6 minutes and 51 seconds, I am officially a licensed Mixologist. What a relief to have this stress over with (the speed test). Now I can look for a job! :)

The pretty flowers Scott congratulated me with :)

Oh Harry!

Clumsy, yes! Bruises every where all the time, yes! Broken bones or stitches? NO, not yet at-least. But he did make his way to the emergency room yesterday afternoon. But this time it was not his risk taking or lack of fear. It was his big brother! Harrison came out of the room yesterday crying and sat on my lap. He buried his head in my chest and I consoled him. But then I felt something cold on my arm. I looked down and it was blood. I didn't see it when he came to me so I turned him around and sure enough the back of his head was gushing. Now if you don't know this, the head bleeds profusely when there is a laceration. I learned that with William when he got his stitches. I obviously started freaking out because there was so much blood. I couldn't even see his blond blonde hair. So off to the E.R. we went. On the way I asked William what happened. His response was he hit brother with a paci. I didn't believe him because there is no way a paci would cause a laceration like that. When we got to triage, he told the nurse he hit Harry with a block. I didn't believe that either because I was thinking of the plastic stacking blocks. William may have caused the drama but he was very helpful with Harrison. He held his hand and kept saying, "it's ok Harry, we taking you to the doctor." It ended well. Harrison didn't even need stitches. Just call me the over-cautious mom! But when we got home, I saw a wooden block on the floor and it has very pointed edges. Now we know exactly how it happened.

PumpkinLiner

Today we went to Fillmore to ride the train to a pumpkin patch. It was really fun besides it being so hot outside. We thought it was a two hour excursion since the train leaves every two hours but we were wrong, very wrong. It was a four hour excursion! Seeing we left for church at 9:20am this morning and didn't get home until after 6:30pm, we were all exhausted. The ride was very pretty.

The boys loved playing with the pumpkins.

And dancing to the music.

Trying to sit on very small pumpkins...

Jumping in the jolly jump.

Sliding down the slide.

Jumping down the slide.

It was so much fun.

Saturday fun at the park