Goldsworthy Family: A day trip, and a day for the history books

This week Amy and I decided to take the kids on a mini road trip to Bartlesville. "Why?" you may ask...There is a GAP outlet there that we occassionally have to go check out. They don't always have the greatest deals, but I was able to snatch up 3 shirts for Jett for under $10.00! Other than 2 kids crying the whole way there, 2 kids not interested in shopping for clothes, and 1 mommy (that would be me)losing her wallet at the water fountain, it was a good day. My wallet was recovered by mall security and nothing had been removed. Luckily, I had used my last $3.00 in cash to get Amy and I drinks before we left Owasso, and we had let the kiddo's throw all of my change into the mall water fountain. What a day! At least I was with Amy though, and we can have a good time not matter how chaotic the day becomes. Before we left that morning Abby and Jett enjoyed playing in the ball pit at Amy's house.

The alligator xylaphone caught Jett's attention right away.

After we got back from Bartlesville, Jett and I headed to my grandma's house. She has a huge box of crayons from my childhood (I am shocked they even leave color on the paper as old as they are), and Jett loves for us to draw pictures on a blank sheet of paper and let him color them. Of course with Jett, he usually asks us to draw some type of animal, shape, or truck. Kinda makes me realize how much I lack in artistic ability.

January 20, 2009, Inaguration Day. My mom has always pounded into my head how important it is not to be prejudiced, and how important it is to love everyone regardless of their ethnic background, religion, etc. I don't think I ever realized the importance of those life lessons until I married someone with a different ethnic background than mine and had a bi-racial child (although you would never know by looking at him). Even if we don't always agree with Obama's politics, I think the fact that the majority of Americans were able to open their arms and minds to change and hope should make everyone proud. I have never felt more proud to be an American than when Obama took his oath of office on Tuesday. I attempted to get a picture of Jett in front of the TV, but this was the only shot I could get before he was off to other things.

These plastic grapes are much more fun that watching that boring stuff on TV....where are the cartoons?!?! And how good am I that I happened to snap this shot at the exact moment that Bon Jovi's name appears in the bottom left hand side of the screen?!? So appropriate since I have been obsessed with him since I was a teenager and can still sing "You give love a bad name" word for word.

Bobby's uncle was a proud contributor to the Obama campaign, so we ended up with several shirts, pins, and mouse pads. Here is Jett sporting his Obama/Biden pin.

This weekend was pretty uneventful. We didn't do much yesterday, and this morning we arrived at church 20 minutes late to a full parking lot and sat in the sactuary for about.10 seconds before Jett started talking out loud and we had to excuse ourselves into the lobby where Jett proceeded to dump an entire bag of mini teddy grahams on the floor. Yikes! Jett is definitely becoming a busy, busy guy. I think this whole 2 year old phase is going to wipe me completely out! It is so much fun, and I love and enjoy him now more than ever though. He continues to say the funniest things. Today after we left church he said "Mommy, I had fun!". I told him I was glad that he had fun, especially since we were only there for about 10 minutes. He wanted me to draw a giraffe earlier today so I picked up what I thought was a black crayon to draw on the spots, and the crayon turned out to be blue. Jett said "the giraffe has blueberries on it!". Tonight Bobby went to Braums and brought home a banana split. Yum! Here is Jett indulging before bedtime. Are we starting bad habits or what!?!? Have a great week!