And she's having another....

...that's what the Fire Department and Ambulance men were thinking today when they came to unlock Beckett from the car. Yep, you read that correctly it took 6 men and approximately 15 minutes to rescue Beckett from the car that I stupidly locked him in. Here's how it all went down.

- Groceries purchased

- Grabbed a much needed Starbucks on the way out of the store

- Unlocked the car

- Opened the car and buckled Beckett in

- Tried to automatically start the car (but in order to do this the doors have to be locked)

- Car didn't start, so I lock the doors

- Car still doesn't start (it is only later today that I discovered you can't automatically start the car with the doors open).

- Give up, "it's not too hot," no biggie

- Put the groceries and my purse away, put keys in ignition

- Shut the doors

- Go around to the driver door, it's locked

- Start to panic, check all doors, they're also locked

- Scope the parking lot, I have nothing and I am standing outside the car door looking in at Beckett, panic a little more

- Man pulls up next to me to park

- Blurt out, "I just locked my son in the car, can I borrow your phone?"

- Weigh all my options quickly, call 911

- Report my emergency to operator

- 5 minutes later a firetruck and ambulance show up, lights, sirens, the works all on

- All jump out and immediately go to work (I'm sure one glance at me and they immediately shake their head)

- Fireman asks me a couple questions, they cannot get the door to unlock (the unlock button is in the center console, they have a hard time getting door unlocked)

- Door finally unlocks, I jump in and grab Becks (who is sitting patiently the entire time, pointing at the truck saying "car")

- Fireman, Ambulance all check out Becks, he's warm but not sweating (thank God it was not the middle of summer)

- File a report, profusely thank fireman, hug Beckett who is still pointing at the firetruck, "car"

-MOM OF THE YEAR!!!

Soccer

First day of soccer practice

I have to say an hour is a little long for these 3 and 4-year-olds but for the most part they all did great. As you can imagine I had a hard time containing Beckett from stealing all the balls, the cones and running on to each team's field but he had a blast.

Listening to the coach

The kids got to pick out pumpkins at school today, Kendal had so much fun she wanted to put the pumpkin in her room.

Fall Fun

Despite the un-fall weather it is in fact fall. Today we met a few friends at Vertuccio Farms in Gilbert. The kids jumped in the bounce house (Beckett couldn't wait to go in), rode the little "train" (I barely fit with Beckett in my lap and Kendal next to me) and saw a few animals. We had a great time and are looking forward to picking out a pumpkin to carve!

Do I need to point out Ariel's top Kendal wore over her top?!

Kendal starts soccer tomorrow so we decided we better take her to the park and teach her what soccer is. She did amazingly well all things considered but she did get a little tired of running, do you think this will be a problem with soccer?

While Beckett wasn't running behind Kendal chasing her or the ball he was hitting his ball and club until it got stuck in the goal.

2010 Boys Only Golf Trip

Brian here... I know I am stating the obvious, but my wife is freaking awesome. My annual golf trip with an impressive group of fine upstanding gentlemen happened to come this year when Michelle was 8.5 months pregnant, Kendal demands that you "be a horsey" at least 35 times a day, and Beckett is out of control trying to run everywhere and break everything. So the fact that Michelle still thinks it's important for me to have "guy time" is pretty sweet.

So myself, Chase, Woody, Garrison, Gregory, both Groats, and Whitmire headed to Alabama to enjoy the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. As you can imagine with this crew, we had a ridiculously good time.

Because we had 8 players this year, Gregory decided we would play in a Ryder Cup format. Team points were awarded for each match, and each round was a different format. To enhance the experience this year, points were also awarded for the best mustaches. We all showed up with some serious lip hair. Here is our official logo for this year's trip...

Group photo...

Team Old Gold holding our 1st place trophy. The losing team dubbed us "Team Sandbaggers" because Chase and I are the only two who don't carry official USGA handicaps and were given a few too many strokes in some peoples opinion. No matter what the second place team thinks, I was extremely proud of my team... we hit a few good golf shots, and our Cookie Dusters were legit...

Very happy with my setup here... club parallel, solid arm position, full shoulder turn... and I happened to birdie this hole! Couldn't resist publishing this photo for the world to see. Ummmm, or at least for the 7 people who read this blog to see...

We wanted to step things up this year to really penalize those who didn't reach the ladies tees with their first shot. This is what we came up with...

These panties will never be the same...

We enjoyed a great dinner at legendary Dreamland BBQ in downtown Birmingham. You can decorate a to-go box that they leave for future visitors to see. We made sure that ours included a Flying T and a mustache...

Of course any trip like this had to include a late night hunt for Whataburger. This part of our weekend made me think of college more than any other. Garrison was nice enough to wake up just for this photo...

Can't wait until next year!!!! FOOOOORRRRREEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Rusty and the ball

He just couldn't resist

1st Haircut

I have to point out Kendal's outfit today. As always I ask her what she wants to wear (because whatever I say she does not want, foreshadowing anyone? so it's just easier to let her pick it out herself. Anyway, she said she wanted to wear a "riding outfit." Great, go pick it out. Of course the red boots were in and she decided on the black and white stripe shirt because it matches Racing Strips (a zebra in the movie Racing Strips). Don't you love the bracelets and watch too, I love her independence on this and really wish I could be in her head.

For a lot of reasons it's hard to believe that Kendal is already 3 1/2 but I have never taken her to get her haircut (I just trim her bangs). While I've been wanting to get this done for a few weeks now we finally had the time to get it done. It's funny while waiting for Kendal's turn (which took longer than the actual haircut) I saw a photo of a baby's 1st haircut, it was at a month!

Before

Waiting our turn

Beckett loved banging on this thing while waiting, he even got stuck behind the sign a few times.

During

After

Ah having fun together

Hot Sauce

Up and Down

Beckett did this for at least 10 minutes straight.

Busy Busy

Today we went over to a friend's house for some water fun. The kids had a blast and daddy did such a good job filling in for mommy who surprisingly did not want to get into her bathing suit.

This is only part of the slide, can you believe they own this and why is this the last weekend they are using it before fall (it's still 100 here)?!

Tripp and Beckett playing together while TCU was pulling out a victory.

Kendal leading Beckett and the horse stampede (notice the gloves and she also has her lip gloss in her hand). Note - it seems as though Beckett isn't dressed that often but he really is it's just most pictures are taken in the morning after I've stripped him down to eat (since he gets food everywhere)!

This picture also cracks me up because we are about to take Kendal to school and she is obviously instructing him on something and (he thinks she's the greatest, it's only a matter of time before he figures out she bosses him around and he's getting the short end of the stick).