My 4 kids

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Oregon Crusaders Audition Camp 2013

Check out how many teenagers my minivan, Claire, will hold! Thank goodness they are such good (really, really good) teenagers. Three of them were offered contracts to be Oregon Crusaders for the 2014 season! The other three received call backs which I'm sure will be followed by contracts as well. (*Edit-Sorry, my bad. Four of these talented young people were offered contracts!)

By the way, it is a 7+ hour drive from Kuna to Aurora, Oregon where the auditions were held.

I hate to be negative but I'm gonna be anyway...Chance and I spent an awful lot of money flying Davis back and forth to Portland last year for camps. So, I thought if I could drive him instead (and get his pals to pitch in some gas money) and volunteer to cook so I could stay at the school for free, it'd be a lot cheaper. And it was, it was nearly free! But man, did I work hard! You may or may not be aware that I really don't like hard work. At all. Hate it.

Also, I got very little sleep. You may or may not know that I sleep a minimum of 8 hours a night. And I nap every afternoon. Every. Afternoon. I sleep a lot. Except this past weekend when I slept very, very little.

So the combination of hard work and little sleep was a crappy combination for this mama. But I love my kid and like my father-in-law used to say, "I can sleep when I'm dead."

Friday, November 23, 2012

Black Friday 2012

Dayton is all snug in his bunk at the River Cabin. His tummy is full of warm soup that Papa Dale had ready for us and perhaps he is dreaming of the dogs he and Nama Jane saw on the dog show.

Sarah and Maggie are sleeping over with cousins at the Log Cabin and Davis is staying up late watching tv.

Daddy is home trying to recover from Black Friday...just in time to do it again tomorrow.

I wish we were all together, but I'm content knowing we are all safe and happy.

Giving Thanks 2012

The Hodgson's celebrated our first Thanksgiving without our beloved patriarch, Kent, this year. I think he would have been proud of us. We made too much food and ate ourselves silly. We laughed a lot and cried a little. And we carried on his tradition of pictures of the table and people eating!

Maggie showed up just long enough to surprise Chance with his favorite dessert. I haven't seen him smile like that in weeks. Thank goodness for sisters.