We are alive and well. Well alive, some are not so well. It is now 10:30 Friday morning and the kids have not stirred yet. Tanner is not sleeping well cause he misses the dog and his house. I think he misses the inactivity he was allowed to have at home. As soon as I can get the girls moving, I will post pictures of our outings yesterday. I have decided that I was born in the wrong country. At heart, and hair, and personality and personal space, I am Italian. They are loud and crazy and don't care. Need I say more. I will have to back up because I didn't get a chance to finish the before we left information.... so here we go... maybe when I am done the kids will be up.
Friday, June 8, 9:00 p.m.  Houston - we have a problem is the text I sent to Todd at scout camp. All the other stuff I had ordered had arrived, except the raincoats and backpack. I checked my emails and couldn't find anything from Amazon on shipping even though the end delivery date was Saturday. Went to my Amazon account to find them still sitting in the inbox. I paniced and called Mr. Amazon and explained the situation and asked for the outrageous one day shipping so we could go ahead and get the items we needed. He informed me that one day on a Friday night really meant sometime Tuesday. I told him that Tuesday would be too late that was why I wanted one day really and not one day Friday that arrived on Tuesday. Ooh, if I had called earlier I could have gotten one day Friday and not one day Tuesday; sorry miss, you will just have to buy local. To which I replied, "Mr. Amazon, have you seen where I am calling you from? I am as likely to find a raincoat in Phoenix Arizona in the dead of summer as you would find a string bikini in your size in the dead of winter in North Dakota. And yes, I mean in your size Mr. Amazon." He told me good luck with search and had he helped me with blah blah blah. I headed upstairs to the back section of both our closets. Thank heavens there were no Barney or Hello Kitty jackets left, but the girls 10-12 and twenty year old warm up suit were not much better. The girls and I tried on the pink 10-12 from Target and found that it was fine as long as they kept their elbows in and crouched a little. Once they unfurled their gnome look, they resembled a stuffed sausage or Bologna more with excess spilling out at the elbow area since that is where the coat ended. At this point, beggars can't be choosers and Kylie went with her track warm up which wasn't water proof, Brittany took the twenty year old warm up jacket which could be found on Betty White and a rerun of the Golden Girls. It was stylish back then, not so much now. And I have the fashionable one that is completely useless for rain. I am better off with a garbage bag over my head. So added to the list of last minute things is a trip all over Phoenix to find raincoats and a theft-proof backpack Saturday morning. Todd doesn't believe that they don't exist.... we'll see whose right.... we already know who is right... but Todd will see who is right.