Not a woman anymore....

I'M A MOM.

Have you guys seen the "Mom Jeans" Saturday Night Live skit? Oh, please please please go to Hulu and view it. Please. Now. If you are a mom, or have a mom, or know somebody who is a mom..... do it.

Okay, I was dying. It really hit home for me. Maybe it was just so-so for you. Well, you obviously don't "get it".

And on that note, I'll blog about how I DO have a life beyond my kids. About once a year. And this year, it was on a giant catamaran with free booze and top 40's blastin'. We enjoyed the free Gatorade and the opportunity to hear what the kids are listenin' to these days (man, that stuff is crap. Send me back to the golden grunge era, please.)
Spencer is doing an internship this summer with Bain Consulting here in Dallas, as most of you know. They do a lot of fun/cool/schmoozzhzhin' activities to show the interns that this is the place we want to be when we grow up. So this was one of those activities. Bring on the schmoozhzhin'.
Spencer impressed everybody with his serious wakeboarding skills. Really, he was pretty good, especially since it's been a while since he's gone frequently. (Oh, how I miss those college-years trips down to Powell). Sorry, I didn't get any pictures of it. I was busy letting my thighs get deep fat fried. (the "deep" and the "fat" were more a function of my thighs than my actual sun + skin experience).

But somebody did snap this picture of Spencer and I enjoying the boat-ride.

I love boat rides. Oh I do. It felt so good to have the wind on my face and feel the splash of the (slightly anti-freeze-colored) lake cool my skin. When the boat stopped and we felt the sun beating violently down upon us...it was HH-HH-Hot. Oh we had such fun. I have rarely left my children for that long (nearly 7 hours), but it was a much needed break for me.

But now let's be serious. Why bother posting if I'm not going to put some pics of the kids up? Here are some super cute pictures of Cadence with Cache at the St. Louis Zoo. On our road trip (remember, the one where I looked homeless?) we got to pass through St. Louis and see my cousin Devin, his beautiful and awesome wife Amie and their two kids who are fairly close in age to ours. Cache and Cadence were two peas in a pod. It didn't take them long to become fast friends.

And here's one of the whole group. Also some of the only picture proof that Mikalyn was with us. The other proof is that we made it and we're all still alive.
We had so much fun with Devin and his fam. I wish we could get our families together more often. And I wish Mikalyn never had to go home!

And wow, that post just sort of went all over the map, didn't it? I hope none of my readers are English teachers.... (dang it, Nor.) This is exactly why I got horrible grades on writing assignments.