crazy kind of week.

again, i've had much to post about but have been waiting until i had the pictures that coincide. i thought i had my memory card with me today, i tried to make a point to remember it, but alas i didn't. so as not to disgruntle my readers, i'll go ahead and update ... and once again add the pictures later.

this weekend travis's "nephews" tyler, ryan, hunter, and kayden came for a visit with aunt sue. this is the third time we've seen sue in about a month's time. quite unusual and a welcome change. and even more unusual, two of the times were at the lears'. if you remember, she came down the week that steve was in the hospital, and then again this weekend.

i made sure to get several pictures of the boys playing with connor and travis {but some how i didn't end up in any of them}. oh well. at least we're taking pictures again.

travis's cousin eric's ex-wife amber also came into town. it was the first time we had seen her in about 7 or 8 months. she was really glad to see the family again and really misses everyone. she left on sunday to head back to mississippi.

monday was pretty uneventful. travis, justin, and danny had league. it was a pretty important round as the season is winding up, and they were tied for first place. unfortunately they all shot well below their usual scores. it was a bit of a rough night. after league travis and i headed over to hastings {we've been spending a lot of time at the bookstore lately}. we were going to splurge on a couple of magazines, but in the end we decided that we would go home and watch a movie instead. we ended up watching two movies. the first one was called wargames, and it starred matthew broderick. it was his second movie to star in. while it was a bit of a cheezy '80s movie, i still really enjoyed it.

travis told me before we watched it that matthew b. was really young in it; i didn't realize how young until we saw the movie. i thought the girl in the movie was really cute, too. {she was also in the breakfast club}. apparently the movie was really popular, but like i said, i had never heard of it. it was right up travis's alley, though, since it was all about computers, codes, and things of that sort. after watching wargames, we moved onto it's sequel wargames: the dead code {released in 2008}. travis thought this one was pretty cheezy, but i still thought it was cute. the story includes the original movie's plot line. again it was about hacking into systems, and i think travis enjoyed that part of it. because we stayed up watching the movies, we got to bed a little late. poor connor was so tired. i laid him in the bed and went to brush my teeth {which upset him apparently}, then got into bed. i had barely turned the light off and snuggled in, when travis came in to tell me he was going to get amanda. she was going through a rough time, so he went to check on her. i was a little worried because i had just been lying in bed thinking that i never heard back from her earlier in the day. after he left, i closed my eyes and decided to try to get a little sleep. i knew he would call me if anything was wrong. it had barely been five minutes since the car pulled away when there was a loud bang outside ... and the electricity went out. connor and i got up to look around {poor baby just wasn't going to get any sleep}. we walked around the house, i heard someone in the front lawn {turns out they were just passing through} but i tried to wake my parents. they didn't wake when i knocked, but a few minutes later my mom came in my room with a light, looking for the electric bill so she could report the outage. a few minutes later my dad came in. then travis called to tell me everything was okay. apparently it wasn't just little connor who wasn't going to get any sleep. after about 45 minutes or so my parents went back to bed. connor and i got into bed {again} and i had just drifted off when travis called to tell me he was bringing amanda back to the house. connor and i got up {yet again} to let them in, and she crawled in to bed with connor and me. we were up for hours talking; my heart went out to her. i think we finally drifted in and out of sleep around 5 in the morning. travis overslept his alarm for work and didn't even get up until 8:30! i stayed home with amanda and we slept until 11 or so. i got up and let her sleep for about another hour and then took her home to her apartment. we sat at her apartment for a few hours and then i headed back home for a nap. what a way to start a week, right?