When you get up in the middle of the night...turn on the light!

It is 2:05 a.m. this past Thursday. I get up to go to the restroom. Wash my hands and am off to bed when WHAM! SLAM! SCREAM! I have just dove nose first into my bathtub. Yep, the bathtub. I will avoid the yucky details, but it was not pretty. My scream woke Richard up and he could not believe what he saw. Me completely folded up inside our tub.

After the whole scene was cleaned up and I was laying in bed with an icepack on my nose, I realized what Marsha Brady felt like. It was not a pretty sight. Richard and I laughed about it, because there was not much else we could do now that the tears had flown.

So off I went to the doctors on Thursday to confirm that yes, the nose was fractured... and quite nicely. I did find some positives out of the whole experince though. One being-there was no damage to my teeth. Two, I did not go through the glass or there would have been only half of me left. Three, that I was not knocked unconscious and was able to scream so that I was not left there till the morning alarm went off.

Today I went to see Dr. Carter-surgery was needed. So at 2:10 today I was wheeled into the OR to get the nose repositioned and stabilized. Except for the Stormtrooper looking tape job, it is all good-must be the meds.

So after I told the story to my 6th Graders, I left them with this lifelong lesson...When you get up in the middle of the night...turn on the light!!

Bazzill Bound-7 Sleeps

In exactly one week I will be off. Off to the craziest, 5 days of margaritas, scrapbooking and maybe a repeat of last years cannon ball competition. I am so excited and although many don't get the whole scrapbooking thing-it is my haven.

As Jessica would say, "I only have 7 sleeps left." It's as if Christmas was a week away...

Peace and a whole lot of fabulousness!

Happy Birthday Neighbors!

Just sending out a Birthday shout out to my awesome neighbors Mark and Kyle. Hope you had a fabulous day! Great to see that Grandma Joan came. We are so lucky to have the BESTEST NEIGHBORS in the WHOLE WORLD!!!

Happy Birthday guys!

1976

Does underwear grown on trees?

Last night, Ricky, Jessica and Richard were swimming. Ricky came in mortified. Richard had tossed his underwear over the fence. I hoped they were clean! Later Jessica and Richard came in laughing about it...Jessica said, "daddy, tomorrow that little girl over there is going to ask her mom why underwear is growing on their tree."

The underwear was rescued in the darkness of night so no child was traumatized by seeing a pair of black boxers hanging from their tree.

Today we went to see "Mama Mia." It was my first introduction to the whole Mama Mia Mania of the Delgado family. Ricky and Jessica have seen the actual Broadway show three times and my mom has seen it 11 times in places like London, S.F., New York, Vegas, and Fresno just to name a few venues. It was a cute movie and now I too am in on the mania. My goal is to see the actual show.

Peace for now and have a fabulous week!

One World-Cheetah Style

Well, last night was the big premiere of the Cheetah Girls, "One World." In keeping with the tradition of Disney premiers, we had our premiere part complete with pizza, popcorn and capri suns. Grandma Jennie came to join us as we pulled out the blankets, pillows and pjs. It was a cute show and Jessica was thrilled because we have been doing the "just how many sleeps left?" for atleast 30 days! To top things off, she Tivoed it so we have watched it another 3 times today.

We just finished an impromptu game of soccer in the middle of the court. Ricky and I won 4-0 over Jessica and Richard. I now know why shin guards were invented as I believe my daughter damaged the three top levels of my lower legs epidermis with a major kick!

School is going well. Don't want to jinxit but I have 4 groups of really good kids. Not something that is easy to say after the first week but these kids are cool.

Ricky likes 6th Grade. He is in an all boys class and seems to like it. I can't believe in two years he is off to high school.

Jessica was blessed to get the best 2nd grade teacher that Mc Swain has to offer. She got Mrs. Van Horn and I can't tell you how happy and excited she was when she saw who her teacher was. Ricky was happy for her as he had her as a teacher as well.

Max continues to jump in the pool and as neighbor Jenn says, he tries to show off. It's like he is saying, "hey, look at what I can do."

Something is going on with Fenway as he will no longer jump up onto the bed. He needs help so I am a bit concerned. He seems fine otherwise.

Well, I need to go throw in another load of laundry. Didn't do it for 8 days-not good. Plus throw in all the bedding and let me tell you, my washer, dryer and I have become one today!

Peace and have a FABULOUS day.

New York Pix 1

As promised, here are a few photos from the first few days that Jessica, my mom and I were in New York. Cooperstown will follow...

Jessica enduring our first flight complication... a 2 hour delay in Sacramento.

Post American Girl damage.

FAO

Some of Jessica's favorite places!

Having some issues posting pictures. I need to plan for next week. Will post more later.

Home...

Well, this will be brief and without pictures. New York was awesome. We saw "Wicked" and "Mary Poppins." We did the American Girl thing and rode the "red double decker bus." (One of Jessica's must do things when she is in NY-she just loves the thing and we never got off-we just went in a BIG circle around the city and she took pictures and smiled the whole time)

We saw Miley on the Today show. There were some insane parents that had actually camped out ALL night and then LEFT before she came on because there were too many people. Whatever!

Jessica had a great time. Girl got a $5 umbrella when we were leaving "Wicked" due to the torrential, and I do mean torrential downpour. I never knew that all I had to do was spend $5 and the kid would be so stinkin' happy. I am glad that we had those three days together and were able to focus on just her before we were off to the land of baseball.

All was well until I got a phone call from Ricky that their flight had been cancelled and that they were stuck at JFK. Between lost luggage, a last minute $350 ticket, a "malfunction" with the airplane, sitting on the tarmac for an hour and a 6 hour drive for Richard, my dad and MIL, Jennie we all made it to Cooperstown. Ricky's equipment and luggage were lost. I almost "lost it" in the airport. I was either going to cry or be very unprofessional. I tried breathing, I tried acting like it would all be okay and then, to what did my ears hear, but it was "Dancing Queen" on the airport radio and I started to sing and dance. I did not care what the hundreds of people thought. Little did they know that was their salvation...salvation from not seeing a crazy Mexican go ballistic and end up either on Youtube or on the news for going psycho.To make matters worse, my son traveled to NY with no shoes-just cleats and shower shoes for 2 weeks.

Ricky did not place in the Home Run Derby. He was a bit sad but his team placing 3rd out of 96 teams in the "around the horn" competition made him feel much better. His first at bat on Sunday morning he went yard and crushed the ball over the fence for his first of four homeruns during week 1. The 11 year-old Blue Devils ended up 30th out of 96 teams-please remember that they were playing against 12 and 13 year olds. The team that knocked them out eventually won it all and are a baseball academy out of Florida. Ricky pitched against them and was the only pitcher in the tourney that did not allow a homerun, struck out two and gave up no runs.

Week 2 the 12's came and they faired a lot better ending up 5th out of 99 teams. Ricky hit 2 more home runs. His bat did well and he had a great time. We went back to the Hall of Fame and saw Barry Bond's asterisk ball. It was not there during week 1.

Jessica turned 8 on the 4th. We clebrated by going to Sal's (pizza equal to Pizza Villa but NY style) and then her and her Nana baked her cake. We took her to the Soccer Hall of Fame and to Cooperstown Family Fun Park. Her three days in New York City were also part of her celebration. Her favorite food in NYC-a Dunkin Donut!

Finally we made it home late Saturday night missing 7 pieces of luggage-the saga continued. Jessica and I stayed in Sacramento at the Marriott so we could get some school shopping done as I had no clue that Mc Swain started on the 12th!

It was a great 17 days...would do it again in a heartbeat. Next year will be Ricky's last year to play in Cooperstown. They want to play two weeks and are in the process of building, what he calls... a powerhouse team. Oh to be 12 and have that be your biggest concern.

Our family made a lot of great memories. We laughed, ate good, laughed some more. It was definitely a trip that will be forever remembered by all.