Our New Year's Eve Day walk with the new scooter

The snowman we built during one of Lexy's breaks

It may look like she's waving but she's telling my NO MORE PICTURES!

Girls are brave. Boys are chicken.

We were running around for no reason on Friday and decided to go to Scheels over in Sparks. We figured we'd have to battle our way through giant crowds but it actually wasn't bad. Know what I didn't expect in a sporting store? A giant Ferris Wheel! Lexy and I got inside before the boys and bought 4 tokens for the wheel. Kiernan took one look at it and decided he wasn't going to have anything to do with it. I looked at him, "Really?" I thought he was kidding. But no, he didn't want to do it. Lexy was still game so we stood in line.

At some point Lexy saw Kiernan standing at the second floor balcony and yelled as loud as she could, "Kiernan! You're a big chicken! You're a chiiiiicken!!!!" He later said, "I am NOT a chicken. I just wasn't in the mood." That was such a peaceful ferris wheel ride and we had a beautiful view of the mountains.

Taking a walk

This will be the story of Kiernan's life; Him in front with Lexy running to catch up. It could also be subtitled Kiernan "borrows" Lexy's stuff then doesn't give it back until she's crying.

Dad update

So, dad called today. Why is that unusual? Because he only calls me when he’s in the hospital. Guess where he is; in the hospital. I asked him why he had been admitted and he said he didn’t know. “So they just started calling random vets and let them know it was their turn to be admitted?” “No, I came to get checked out and they admitted me.” But he still doesn’t know why. “I was having some shortness of breath, that’s all.”

C: Is it because of all the water you’re retaining?
D: No, they’re taking care of that and it’s much better.
C: Is it your hernia?
D: No, it’s not that.
C: Are you going to get your hernia repaired?
D: No, it doesn’t hurt.
C: How can it not hurt, dad. I would think it was getting infected?
D: It doesn’t hurt, it just looks stupid.
C: Maybe it’s your conjoined twin? Why don’t you get it taken care of?
D: Because I cough so much that I’d just end up spreading my guts all over town.
C: Ewww
D: Yeah, all 27 feet of them

The VA has two new doctors from Lithuania and they seem to think it’s *something* and decided to admit him. But he doesn’t know why. I gave him what he called for in the first place which was my sister’s telephone number, told him I loved him and that I’d talk to him later.

And here I sit at work shaking my head. Seriously, I don't know what keeps him going.

My mother can't play Uno

I have to give her a little credit (she had been drinking quite a bit) but my mother can't play Uno. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNO_(game) She says there's no strategy to the game but if the suit is blue and you don't have any blue cards, don't use your wild card to change the color to blue. And that being said, don't do it multiple times. Uno is a fun game but hysterical when you play it with her.