The Silence

This is what I get for sitting on the computer reading blogs. Benji's normal routine in the morning is to wake up, sit on the couch to eat oatmeal and watch cartoons. While he does that I get on the computer. As I was reading I noticed it was rather quite, I looked to where Benji normally is and this is what I found.........empty. So I went to look for him.


This is what I saw next.......Where it shouldn't have been.

I looked in the kitchen and found him......in the strawberry milk mix.......

Creating Art work.........

Moral of the story, silence is never a good thing when you have a toddler.

GO KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS!!!!!

Tonight the Angolas went to a hockey game. We went to see the Knoxville Ice Bears take on The Huntsville Havocs. It was a great game. The Ice Bears won 4-1. Benji really like it and was screaming when everyone else screamed. Even when the crowd was screaming more adult words. The first time he said it, we explained to him that he shouldn't say those words so instead of screaming "hey, goalie, you suck!!!" He was screaming "hey Goalie, You're bad!!" Granted its not as strong but comming from a 2 year old it was pretty cute.

Our 2 favorite parts of the game was when the referee knocked over a player and of course the fight.

A day in Atlanta

Last week Albert and I decided to go down to the Atlanta Temple on Saturday. We asked my parents if they would take care of Benji for us. They agreed happily. Saturday morning as we were leaving. We realized that this was the first time we were going on a road trip with out Benji. We were kinda sad and almost turned around to bring him with us. Fortunately sanity set in and we kept going. We stopped at Waffle house and had breakfast then were back on the road again. Albert drove the whole way and we didn't even make it out of Knoxville before I fell asleep. Albert wakes me up and tells me we are in Atlanta and needs help with the directions. I looked at the clock, 8:05am. He made it down to Atlanta in 2 1/2 hours. Good Grief, how fast was my husband going? Anyway, we pulled up to the Temple.......Gates closed. WHAT????? I had checked the website last night to make sure. So we call the temple and sure enough it was closed for cleaning. We were so bummed. We then went to the book store where we meet a bus full of members who drove 1 1/2 hours to go to the temple only to realize that it was closed. Albert decided to make the most of our trip any way. We decided to take the subway to downtown. When we got to the station, we realized we had to buy tickets from this automatic machine. Figuring it out was exciting.



We finally did!!! Then we realized we had no idea where we were or where we needed to get off at to get to Downtown, So I finally called............

No one answered. We walked down to the platform and finally found out where we were. So the next train that came we got on. It was really fun because neither me or Albert has ever been on one. People got on, people got off. We realized that we might have gone to far so we got of at the next stop. WOW!! Talk about scary. Out of maybe 500 people, I was the only white one. Normally I am used to that considering I grew up in a shady side of town myself, however the people there didn't looked to pleased to see me and I was being stared down by everyone. We got back on the train going back in the direction we came from and finally found the right stop. We walked around a little bit and were getting really Hungary so we decided to go back. We had already decided......better said is....I already decided that we were going to have lunch at the Cheesecake factory. Pure Heaven right there in my mouth. The food was great, especially the cheesecake. Then we headed for home, and again I was asleep before we even made it out of Atlanta. How was Benji being without us the whole day????? The little runt didn't even miss us. He had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa that he was mad when we came to get him.

New Year's day Activities

Benji's Funky Due after the movie
Albert and I at the park

Grace the beautiful (I'm kinda jealous)

We had a lot of fun on the first day of 2009. The first hours of New Years we spent with the Craft family. Benji says that Grace is bella (beautiful).

My sister's friend, later in the day to become boyfriend, came over so the Angolas plus Rosie and Brian went to the park. After the park we went to see the movie Madagascar 2. It was cute. Benji, fell asleep half way through it and as a result we got the most laughs from his hair as we were leaving.