My oldest son is an aspiring film maker. He has done some pretty cool things in his short life. Now he is getting into sound effects. Am I a bad mom because I am the one shooting him in this video and I don't mean with the camera? Well anyway, the sound effects had me laughing. And my son is weird.

0k, this is late but my son Alex turned 14 years old on Friday. The only thing I think of when I think of my son turning 14 is that it is only 2 more years till he is driving (YIKES!!!!!!)

This is Alex on his Birthday.


His cake. I let him pick it out and he got a yummy Black Forest cake.


As you can see from the first pic that Alex has naturally curly hair. He was wondering what it would look like straight so he let me flat iron it last night lol.



A pic of me, sometime during Christmas I believe. Oh, and I am trying to grow my bangs out. Not sure why, never worked the last 1000 times I have tried.

That is, I'll be heading to AZ tomorrow. Alex has been at his dad's in Florida since late May and he flys back Saturday. Of course when I scheduled the flight we were still living in AZ. It will give Alex and the boys a chance to spend a week with Grandma and Grandpa before we head back here so that is good.

I am not looking forward to the drive however. As of right now the blower fan on my van is broken so I have no A/C. Ok, it is 105 here today and 103 in AZ. I don't anticipate the temp will drastically drop by tomorrow, grrrr. That means I need to leave very, very early in the morning so I can beat the heat. Dh is going to look at the blower tonight though to see if he can get it to work or if it is totally shot. Honestly I am not holding my breath. Also dh has to put antifreeze in my radiator. Right now it only has water in it and driving here the van kept "almost" over heating going up the mountains. My van has other issues too and the last thing I want to happen is to have it beak down in the middle of God knows where with the kids with me. Tell ya what, I am taking plenty of ice and drinks just to be sure.

This may be a tough trip for all of us. I know my mom are going to be at odds during this visit. She thinks Alex should stay at my sister's house and go to school there and not come to Vegas. I think, he is my son and should be where I am at. So she is going to put on the big guilt trip and make me feel like shit for my decisions. Alex is going to fight me all the way too since he would rather stay at my sister's place then come here and live in an "RV".

I know, I am 40 and this is my family but I still care about what my parents think. I just need to stand by mine and dh's decision to live this life the way we want and hope for the best after that. I will be sure to blog all my family adventures while I am there. Hopefull my sanity will stay somewhat intact.

I have 3 kids, boys no less. They couldn't be more different from one another if they tried.

First is Alexander (Alex), he is 13 and well in to the teen attitude. He is smart, funny, creative and his own person. He is really good at video games. I can buy him one and in a few days he has already beat it and wants to move on to another. He also loves to invent and make videos, which he is very good at. He does these amazing stop motion videos. He is very shy, however at home he is as loud as can be. He is always making some sort of noise and honestly it just drives me insane. He has been to many schools cause we move so much so he has a hard time making friends. He absolutely does not want to come to Vegas and live in an RV (he is FL visiting his dad right now, home in 3 days Yay!!). We have lived here before but he was about 3yrs old at the time so he doesn't remember it. I am trying so hard to help him grow in to a good man but he likes to resist anything I say, as all teenagers do.