Our beautiful brace face!

After many months of preparation, Kimrie now has braces! If I were still ten, I would be very jealous! I wanted braces so bad! Let's be honest, I'm still jealous, I could use some braces. I weaseled my way into watching the braces put on her teeth. It is really interesting. You know you're old when you think things like: "Well I'll be!" So, after the appointment we went to Sonic to get a milkshake and a diet coke for me. Jim called to see where we were. He could barely stand it. We walk in the house and there is Jim with a big smile on his face. He grabs Kims saying "let me see!" Next thing I see is Jim peering into Kimrie's mouth with a vice grip on her head. Needless to say theres a bit of commotion about the braces. Then Jim points at Kimrie and says "I AM NOT OLD ENOUGH TO HAVE A KID WITH BRACES!" I must agree!

Binns family weekend

We had a great, fun, rowdy weekend with the Binns brothers. We went to the Mets Rockies game on Saturday, which was alot of fun. Thank you to Amy for the great pictures which I stole off your blog! I love the picture of Jim, Paul and Dave with count em.... 8 kids!!

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Toto...

This beast of a tornado was a very unwelcome visitor to our neck of the woods. It was no more than 5 miles away from our house! All together there were 7 tornadoes that day. (Last Fri) Our two foster kids Danny and Emilie, were in lockdown at their school because the tornado went right by them.
Today Jim and I drove to the town of Windsor(10 min away) which was truly devastated. The damage was unbelievable. Entire neighborhoods were completely destroyed. The images on t.v. are nothing compared to seeing it with your own eyes. Yesterday we went to church and there were no men there! The stake had a quick sacrament for about 300 guys and they spent the whole Sunday working in Windsor. I thought it was a really wonderful thing to spend your Sunday serving others.
Anyway, it was quite the exciting (not in a good way) weekend.
We have experienced Hurricaines(Virginia), Earthquakes, (Japan) and now tornadoes. It sure makes you feel small!
The day we drove into VA while we were moving there, we drove right into Hurricaine Floyd. Then just weeks before moving to Japan, another hurricaine, can't think of the name, came to town, and we were actually evacuated in a flat bottom boat with water up to our waists. Jim had Kimrie on his shoulders, and I had garbage bags on my head with our stuff! Luckily we had put all our pictures and valuable things upstairs, our couches were up on kitchen chairs, and all was well. Then we move to Japan, we hadn't been there a week when I was sitting on the floor playing with Kimrie. All of a sudden the floor started rolling like waves on the ocean. It was the wierdest thing I've ever felt. It wasn't bouncy and shaky, it was smooth. I remember being so upset because it was freezing outside and Kimrie was just in her diaper. What if we had to go outside afterward? Then while spending 3 years in Japan, we felt zillions of earthquakes, most of the other ones felt bouncy and shaky like you'd imagine. Then we have our tornado. I just need a volcano. But I'd be fine without that one thank you. Although I am from Washington and was there for Mt. St. Helens. So there you go, I'm done.
I don't mean to be flippant about scary situations, I truly hope all the people affected by this tornado and other natural disasters are filled with peace and hope!

You're the missing link! he he!

Hi all! Not only have I changed my blog look, but in the process managed to lose all of your links! Can you please add them to my comments and then I can blog stalk you again!



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I'm weird

I think I spelled that right. I've gone back and forth on the private blog issue. I'm switching back to regular blog for a few reasons. #1 Having a private blog is boring. #2 I hate having to sign in to my own blog. #3 I like reading other people's blogs, that makes me a hypocrite. #4 I've found some old friends by blog surfing. That's cool. #5 I'm pretty sure I don't have any crazed stalkers. So, my apologies for making everyone send me their emails to go private.

I can't stop laughing!

This is so hilarious!


http://perezhilton.com/2008-05-06-you-must-23

The Theeatah Dahling!

This week was Kimrie's stage debut as cat #2! She did a marvelous job acting like a cat, scratching herself and playing with her tail. Unfortunately, it just looked like her costume was too itchy. But that is beside the point! She remembered her line, and did awesome. They acted out the childrens book The North Star, with all original music and lyrics by their music teacher. I was actually quite impressed, and had more than a few moments in the theatre where I was "vaklempt" I know that is spelled wrong, but just picture Mike Myers, that's who I was! Then, today we went to a dinner theatre (picture Shrek 3) to see a performance of Cats. There is a whole post all together about this experience, and it won't do it justice without pictures. So, next post I promise. Today was a swim meet for Kimrie, she only got DQ'd twice.... Not a happy camper indeed. All in all a great week for culture in the Binns family, even if it is Dinner theatre.