SUMMER'S GONE

I don't know about you guys but this summer has flown by.

Mandy has been busy with sports since she got out of school,so she hasn't had much of a summer. Softball went until the middle of July with the girls winning one championship and coming close one other time. We also had one week-end in Holland, kinda a mini vacation but it consisted mostly of ball games. She also has played basketball all summer with practices, camp, and tryouts. Her first JV game is tomorrow against Grass Lake. We also attempted to color her hair...the first day was okay but then it turned a red color. So we have learned it's best (I knew this) but Mandy has figured it out also that it's best to let the pro do it. So today we visited the pro(Bonnie) and she added some highlights which also toned down the red in Mandy's hair. Thank goodness especially since today was picture day at the high school for sports. Mandy is also grounded for the week because she chose to stay over to her friends house without letting me know...I told her to be home at nine. She must of thought she could get away with it because mom was suppose to work but I got staffed and she got caught! So she's stuck with just mom on her last week of vacation.

Nick started at Siena Heights College today and his first Cross Country meet is Sept. 9th...stayed tuned for more on Nick!

Bon, Tracy and I went to Washington D.C. Aug. 18th through the 20th. There was a dinner in honor of Marie Osmond for her dolls and since we all collect her dolls, and we all love to eat dinner and play dress-up, away we went! No kids, no husbands...
We got brave and took the subway into the city to see the sites. That was fun! Confusing at first but fun...then we got turned around in the city and added a few extra blocks to get back to the subway station, in flip flops no less! I'm the only one who did not get blisters on her feet! Tracy ended up with a sun burn because she doesn't tan...needless to say none of us noticed until she put her dress on for the dinner. YIKES!! She had quite the farmers sunburn going on. I was one of the 15 lucky women to win a proto-type doll from Marie...and I got to talk about my favorite doll with Marie plus other things. It was the first time I had ever won anything!
We had the doll expo the next day, and Marie signed dolls for about 3 hours for all her fans. Then we headed out to go back home...but we added over 2 hours to our trip because we decided to go to a QVC store to buy some more dolls...like winning one and getting 2 in a gift bag was not enough. Oh well...
I can't think of the name of the town that we stopped in for dinner (somewhere in Pennsylvania)but all I have to say is...we never got dinner. We sat in a Perkins for 45 minutes and never ate except for a salad that we had to ask for and our drinks which we also had to ask for...dinner we just plain got tired of asking for! So we walked out and went through the Taco Bell drive-thru and Bon drove another 2 hours because she was so steamed about the slow service. Plus we really didn't want a 8 hour drive on Sunday. OH and we also got turned around and ended up in Pittsburgh! Thank goodness Bon's husband drives truck and has a cell phone! All he said was get the hell out of there! Why I don't know...but we did get to see the Steelers Stadium all lit up, thank goodness the game was still going on...who knows what the traffic would have been like. Well Brian tried to get us to drive all the way to Youngstown, Ohio...but the very next exit I insisted Bon take it...one Hotel and it had our name on it!
We finally made it home Sunday afternoon, after a slight detour (only 5 min) in Ohio because needless to say we took the wrong exit again! And once again thank goodness Bon's husband has a cell phone and use to live in Ohio. We were taking our time because it was race week-end in Michigan and I live right in the middle of it all, so traffic does get heavy. But we timed it just right for Bon and Tracy to continue on their way home. And needless to say I came home to an empty house...nobody thought it was important enough to stay home to greet mom. (big sigh)

Well, Prison Break is on...I'll be back later!