Mattocks Family News

It was another beautiful day here in the beautiful state of Nevada!!!!

Zaylee arrived bright and early to spend the day with her Auntie.

I made sure I woke the boys up early and didn't let them sleep in like the day before. They get quite aggravated if I let them sleep past 8. That takes away from their play time ya know! They like to be out the door by 8:15 but some days if they went to bed super late I let them sleep till 8:30 and that is so not cool. LOL
So I got them up at 7:45 which is when my day usually starts, Travis likes to remind me that is 4 hours after his day has started. THANK GOD I'm not him!!!!
Sunday night he left here about 10:10pm, an hour later than what he was supposed to. Got to his Grandma's at 1:45am and got up for work at 4am, and made his hour and a half drive to Seattle. He called me at 5pm and I could tell he was out of it. I tried to tell him that it was quite alright to go to bed at 5 but if you know my husband at all you know he didn't, I think he did finally give up a little after 7pm.....

This past weekend we went camping......
No that is not my favorite thing to do but I actually didn't hate it. I took 2 showers a day and I survived actually. :)
The boys on the other hand did not take even one shower. Why take a shower when you are just going to get dirty again!? That was thier thoughts on the matter and they went swimming in the lake so that washed all the dirt off each day so what did they need a shower for anyways. Oh to be a boy and not care about dirt! UGH
It was a memorable trip to say the least. It was very much bear territory and the bears had figured out that humans can be quite stupid which the bears were quite happy over and us smart humans were not happy about. The first night if it wasn't the bears bumping people's cars to set the alarm off looking for food then people were setting thier alarms off to scare the bears away because they had left the food on the table to make it easy for the bears. Kinda like setting out milk and cookies for santa, well some campers set out fruit and candy for the bears and boy did the little guys enjoy.
Then the second night it wasn't car alarms, it was a new set of people. They shouted and banged sticks and clapped thier hands all night, our new neighbors were quite scared and lit their fire as big as it would go and lit 2 bright lanterns and the dad sat up all night keeping watch, poor guy. We actually ended up kinda making friends and found out they were here on vacation from Germany, so they were not used to such stuff and were expecting a large Grizzly to come tromping on thier tent any minute.
I was fine so long as Trav was right near by and thankfully he had drank alot and so had to use the restroom in the middle of the night because I wasn't scared to be in my tent but I had no desire to go to the bathrooms alone and meet up with one of the lil guys by myself and he think I was a candy bar or something......
But anyways the boys had an absolute blast and we all enjoyed ourselves.

So life is all back to normal, well as normal as my life is anyways. Seems like there is always something new popping up to scare me spitless. Travis says its just part of life and that I will be fine and make it through each thing as it comes and that even he has scary days. EEKS! I tried to explain the different personalities that each of us have make things much different but alas being Travis he just says "you will be fine" HMPH! Somehow he does make me feel better, but only for a little bit, I'm sure its hard for an actual normal person to understand what an abnormal person such as myself goes through on a weekly basis.
I had to take Coda his homework folder to school the other day because he forgot it and I thought for sure I was going to have a slight stroke or heart attack. Especially when I open the door to his class and 25 or so pair of eyes turn on me, I wanted to run screaming to my car but I very calmly walked all the way to the front of the class room as if I had it all together and handed Coda his folder. And then wouldn't you know I had to do it all over again a few days later when Dallas forgot his! AAAAHHHHH! I do believe my kids will be the death of me! Or just people in general maybe......But like I said I'm sure you couldn't possibly understand and you are thinking what a complete nincompoop I am. But I am told it takes all kinds to make a world so my only consolation is perhaps there is someone out there that feels the same as me! LOL

I do have a couple pictures of our camping trip but it is 12:10am and so I better shut up for now and go to bed. Morning comes early and I am not a morning person and I need all the beauty sleep I can get so I will post my pictures later.
I hope you are having a wonderful week!!!