The Family Lawson: 10.2009

Stupid Blogger

Are the landscape oriented pictures cut off for all of you? I didn't realize my photobucket account was set to a larger size than normal and uploaded them all at that. I went back and changed them all to a smaller size so you could see the entire picure, but it won't fucking change. Seriously? Why? I'm quitting for tonight. This is why I had updating this site. Lame, Blogger. Just lame

I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.

August meant no rain and a very crabby and hot mommy.

Carter wanted a chest piece one day. Directions were a whale, an ocean and a garbage truck. I'm a super awesome artist.

Carter drew on Oz's.

I celebrated my birthday. (OMG!IFEELSOOLD!!)

Grandma Lawson, Auntie Jennifer and Emily came to visit. We visited the zoo and watched Andrew play hockey. It was Jennifer and Emily's first visit down here so it was nice to have them. (Which is not to say it wasn't nice to have Suzanne, but she comes pretty regularly so it wasn't that out of the ordinary)

We also went to Great America. Carter loved it.

Bumper cars

Andrew and Heather steal a moment before the ride starts.

Lastly, Meghan was able to visit. We hung out, she got to meet my friends when we had a playdate at the cemetery. It was nice. Kristin also came to visit this summer, but I have no idea where those pictures are. Seriously, where did they go? Did I take any? Were there only the ones that Kristin took? Kristin, do you ever send me those pictures? You probably did and I just suck.

Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.

In July we visited Wisconsin for my 10 year high school reunion (OMG!IFEELSOOLD!). It was at a bar in downtown Milwaukee which was nice because the only cost was the beer I chose to drink. Heather went with me because Andrew just didn't feel comfortable going. We ended up driving down with Chester, who decided to go at the last minute. I was able to reconnect with some old friends and was surprised by how a few turned out, but overall it was good. Heather's friend, Megan, met us down there too so all in all it was great. We stayed with my dad.

We visited Summerfest in hopes of seeing the strongman competition. That ended in disaster, but other parts of the day were fun.

Fireworks at Sussex Park (while Heather and I sent picture texts back and forth, me of our fun, her of sad faces on the empty patio at Pete's).

We hit the Milwaukee County Zoo with Heather, my BFF Meghan, her husband Dan, and their kids Noah, Xander and Sera. Oz walked around in his diaper for half the day because I didn't change his diaper in time and forgot extra pants.

We also visited with Urgrossmutter. We actually made her smile a real smile.

And we probably did other stuff the rest of the month, but I guess it wasn't that interesting. I really hate summer so we probably spent a lot of time in the basement playing with toys.