June 5th

What a day! Had a wonderful breakfast here at the hotel. Then we headed to the track to watch the ladies run. What a nervous wreck Coach K was.. so funny. But the girls made it to state, what an honor to be running at the State Track Meet in Austin in front of thousands of people!!! I told the girls I was jealous. The ran a great race and ended up getting 6th. Finished 6th in the top of Texas is not bad at all!!!!  Vicki ran a great race in the 200m, what a close race. Very proud of the Lady Cats, job well done. 

Sitting up in the stands, watching all these great athletes warm-up & run, makes me wonder if one of my kids will ever have that opportunity to run at the State Meet? I think some parents take that for granted of their kids running at State, some parents live their dreams through their kids, which is sad. As for me, I don't care if my kids do not participate in Athletics.. haha. But I don't think I am going to have a choice.. lol. I mean they already compete to the front door, who can get out of the car first, take a bath the quickest, eat their food the fastest, race to bed, going to sleep first... every where I turn they are competing. 

I miss my kids. I talked to them today twice on the phone and u know, I can barely tell them apart on the phone! Until Cora says I want Make-up Momma for my surprise and Jantz wants me to come home now... Cora also let me know that I only took her to 1 track meet this year, oops,, good memory. She loves to go go go!  Jantz on the other hand wants a  Monster Jam truck...  I am so ready to get home and get great big  hugs from them... their little arms squeeze your head off. ohhh i love it!  

Good night Cora, Jantz & Botos. I miss you too! I know the kiddos are probably driving you insane but your a great dad & hubby. I know that my kids are in great hands. I love you sbdwb!

Until next time... Mamabotos

June 4th

Well, we left for the State track meet today. Girls run on Friday at 6 and Donte jumps at 3. So exciting to have kids at the State Meet, for themselves & representing Childress.  We made it in, had track practice, & headed to the mall. Great kids to take in public. They are fun as well. 

All week I have been doing Lady Cats basketball camp. I had the young girls, 3rd-5th. So much fun, I love watching the younger girls get better and surprise themselves when they say "I can't" and then they end up doing it! Little faith and determination goes a long way. I love working camps and I have been fortunate to work some BIG camps in my days. In college, we had to stay the month of June, work 4 weeks of camp in a row w/about 100 kids each week. So many girls I have met and now that they are older & coaching now its crazy. Cause you know they don't care if you played or how many points you had. They remember the camps, the one on one relationship and fun times at camp. Then I was fortunate to work Baylor Lady Bears Camp for 3 years, also when they won the National Championship!!! Awesome!!! 

Things happening at the Botos house is that we have been planting flower beds, planting grass, & basically finishing up things around the house that was damaged from last summer's storm. I just pray that we don't have another storm like that. 

While planting our new flower bed, the kids were able to dig for worms, which Jantz has named wiggilies... haha. So darn cute. I have enjoyed my first week of summer w/the kiddos and my husband. I am looking forward to going camping and working a firework stand this summer. The Botos' will be at Hwy 83/FM 164 (prison road). Grand Opening on the 24th of June!! So come on out and buy some fireworks!!! 

Until next time... Mamaabotos

Psh... it Happens!

I got to thinking about the reason for this blog. It was for me to record daily events in my life. Cause after having kids, as a mom our brains don't work as well on how well we remember things. So instead of just special events or things we go and do I am going to do my very best to write daily whether it be a long or short story. I would like to thank those that do read my blog and you get a smile or a laugh out of it. I hear a comments from some very special people and you brighten my day when you mention that you read my blog. Thank You to all my Friends!

Here is the latest... hope u r Ready? Cause its Crappy...
I attended the CISD golf tournament yesterday and loved it! It was nice to get back out on the golf course and swing the club. Had a wonderful group and it was nice to relax and laugh. BUT I had to leave and attend Cora's pre-school Graduation from Tiny Texan Pre-school, Mrs. Carrol's. It was so sweet & short. Cora thinks she is coming to the BIG school next year, we shall see how well that goes over come September.

After the graduation, my kids went w/my parents to watch Aaron play t-ball. Well, I don't know how much watching the kids were doing, of course all they do is play. BUT... I get a phone call from my mom telling me Jantz pooped. I am thinking okay he pooped, he does do that daily, good for him. I get there and Mom said, "No he pooped on the grass over where they are playing!" OMG!!! What, r u kidding me? So then I hear people telling me, Casey your son! or thanks for the show or We saw your son's hiney. So I am shaking my head and I go over to get my kids and I look up and there goes Jantz running it in!!! CRAP... literally... who does that, my kid does apparently. Of course all the kids are laughing and Jantz thinks it is so funny running back and forth in it.... Holy Crap! So I pull him up and dragging him to the nearest water faucet, well none of the water faucet's aren't on, NO WATER! So the only solution is to take his stinky butt home and throw him in the tub. So we get in the car, all the windows rolled down, sunroof open. We make it home and he goes straight to the tub... this is gross folks. Its making me gag just writing about it... yuk!

Sooo.... we get him all cleaned up. I told him kids don't poop outside, he says, "momma I am a big kid, I can." hahaha And of course it wasn't just a little poop it was a massive pile (never heard of a boy/man taking a small poop, I think we all know its a good 20 minute ordeal).... I can just see all the other kids bending over and looking his butt going, oohhh what is that? OMG...

Everyone have a great day and stay away from the flies at the t-ball field! ; ).

Until next time...Mamabotos.

Quartz Mt Camping Trip #2

It has been over a week and half since we visited Quartz Mountain for our 2nd camping trip.We spent 3 days & 2 nights, took along my nephew Aaron w/us who was experiencing his first camping trip. 

We arrived Friday afternoon, found our perfect spot, Live Oak #54.  We had a great view toward the playground where the kids could go and play. After we set up camp, we decided to drive around the campground. Of course we found the good ol' water slides that have been there FOREVER! So of course, I didn't bring any swimsuits for anyone...but we still went or Botos & the kids did.  

   Not tall enough yet!!! Darn it. 
   Aaron driving the bumper car, by himself. He did some damage to the other little boy, poor other boy. AND the other little boy gave Aaron a ticket to ride, I bet he was wishing he hadn't done that... hahah.

After water slides & bumper cars we decided to go play putt-putt. Of course Botos wanted to compete and I simply said Ok. Now if didn't know, but the last time he & I played golf was our first year of dating. He had asked me to go along w/him and some baseball buddies. Bottom line: I won, beat him = First Fight!!! So... we r playing a long and of course it comes down to the 18th hole, hole-n-one shot... I MADE IT!!! BAM... won a free game and beat Botos by 2 strokes. No fight though. 

Then it was off to the paddle boats. Didn't last long, went down the river long enough to find a couple of fishing spots to take the kids. And we paddled back, lasted about 10 minutes. 

Saturday morning started off w/it raining till 2. So in the mean time, Botos taught the kids "Slap Jack", hands were flying every where, I was rolling... laughing so hard.  

So then we decided to go visit the "Nature Center." Very cool place, had lots of things for the kids to do. One thing in particular was a puzzle center. At this puzzle center were pictures of animals on half of the puzzle piece and on the other was the animals poop. Yes poop. It was to help them know when they saw poop on a trail or in a campground they were able to tell what animal it was.  lol. After the rain it was off to hiking... I will let the pictures tell the story. 

  

 

Yes I DID!!

I treated myself yesterday evening to a 3-hr day at the salon (I really hate staying there that long but man it was nice.) I think the last time I had nails was when I got married, which will be 6 years in June! I know it has been that long!!! I really just needed a pedicure, after being in the boot, (not longer in). It was like I went from station to station doing basketball camp but only I was getting pampered... pedicure... hands... & final stop my mother's chair... waxing!!! of the eyebrows... no NO Brazilian wax!

I got home and Cora was so jealous got she didn't get hers done... so maybe while we are camping this weekend I will do hers for her... she is all girl. It was such a nice evening that my family were sitting outside waiting on me

I go inside to start supper, Hamburger Helper, is my best friend!!! Then the door bell rang. I am thinking, Who rings our doorbell? Everyone I know just comes on in. Well, it was a woman representing the Kirby vacuum. Yeah yeah, you are all saying NO U DIDN'T CASEY! I did, but listen to how I did it!. I was cooking supper and told the lady that I wasn't going to watch the demonstration. She said that is fine, they were going to just vacuum the living room, which needed it really really bad. Why not, right? and I got a new vacuum belt for my old hand-me down Kirby vacuum... sweat deal... new belt & I got my floor vacuumed. Even though we are pulling up the carpet in a few weeks to do hard wood floors!!!! That poor guy said he wouldn't even have done it if he knew that!!!!! lol

Soooo Botos & I are just carrying on in the kitchen, cooking this wonderful meal. While some guy is in the living room, vacuuming away, answer questions from the kids. Botos & I were laughing so hard in the kitchen. I know that is wrong but I bet they don't come back... Kirby folks probably got irritated by the kids just like we get irritated w/them!!! Had a great day yesterday!

Also, we r going camping to Quartz Mountain this weekend! Look for pics coming soon & stories... No telling what all will take place!

Until next time... Mamabotos

Cora Lee Cora Lee

Weird day... not really just felt like saying that. Well, we attended Cora's gymnastics recital/program. Very cute... she, however, did not want to wear the bandana or the cowboy hat... she threw a fit, cried, cried UNTIL I took her outside and had a very close heart to heart talk. I did swat her leg and then afterwards I thought, dang it... now there is going to be a red hand print!! Don't call CPS on me... lets just say she finished the program. Of course acting like nothing happened... AND we recorded her crying cause I was not about to get her off the mat, I was just letting her cry (hard) finally my dad & Botos said go get her... ; ) She did receive a silver medal for attending gymnastics for 2 yrs!!! she has come along way. Very Proud of her... I love gymnastics myself but I got too tall.

Afterwards, Pappy & I took all 4 kids to DQ for ice cream. Its so funny to watch little ones to eat an ice cream cone... precious moments. I guess they are just like any other cousins. They want to see each other but once they get around each other they fight, scream, & scream, tattle ... well u all know.

We made it home and the kids wanted to ride bikes. So decided to fix up Jantz's bike. U see when we went camping, we took his bike. He hates his bike!!! b/c his wiggles, wobbles, and he does fall down. So we took Cora's training wheels off of her bike and put them on Jantz's bike. Well he still didn't like it.... can't please a man even when is 2!

Cora however wanted to learn to ride her little bike w/out training wheels. So we all gather in the front yard. She hops on her little bike and Botos starts to push her... well as soon as she takes off she turns her head to see if Botos still has his hand on, of course he doesn't. So she immediately slams on the brakes & the bike leans to the side... she falls. But her all of her falls have been graceful falls. However she did finally catch on but she still turned her head & everytime she did she would fall & & she didn't want to learn on the grass... only on the sidewalk... thank goodness for no major accidents. We ended the night by watching the storm, American Idol. We did manage to go to bed early, but while we were in bed we were watching GREASE 2. Its so corny... but I like it. Botos doesn't care for Musicals.

Until next time... Mamabotos

1st Camping Trip:Copper Breaks

Ok, we had the best weekend ever on our first Camping trip to Copper Breaks. We arrived at our campsite, lot 15... perfect little spot. Had the restrooms/showers & playground right next to us. So we get out, unhook the trailer, set everything up, get the beds made & chill. Of course the kids were running all over the campground, ran straight to the playground and decided to slide. Botos & I just sat on the grass and watched our kids be kids. Cora climbing all over the hanging bars (monkey bars). Couldn't believe how quiet it was, cool weather, cooler than we thought but it didn't rain.

2 o'clock rolled around we were getting ready to head up to the Head quarters to go visit the Longhorns but while we were eating lunch, or wrapping up lunch. The kids decided to play in front of the door... Daddy Botos just told them to STOP and BOOM... there goes Jantz flying down the step of the front door... Botos goes to pick him, Cora is in shock, we don't know 4 sure what happened either he leaned up and the door wasn't fully shut OR Cora gave him a slight little shove. But when Botos handed me Jantz I felt blood, two spots on the back of his head, blood running down quickly... We did manage to stop the bleeding and get little man settled down to go visit the Longhorns (Camping Accident #1). Here is a very sweet pic of Daddy holding little man after the fall!


Okay, we make it to the Longhorns!!! U actual can kiss certain ones, of course I was the only brave one and thank god it did it caught on camera. ; ) but the kids did get to feed them. Take a look....


So after the Longhorns, we decided to go fishing, drive around the park, and just relax. Got back and Botos cooked us some awesome supper: BBQ Chicken, Corn on the Cob (on the grill) & potatoes & onion wrapped in aluminum foil. Soooo goood! then for desert we had ... SMORES!!! Thanks babe! While unpacking we only found 1 pull-up!!! (camping accident #2). So I decided to go to town, I know it but yes we had to make a trip to town for pull-ups!!! But it was worth it, sure didn't want our trailer to smell like pee... gross. So I go to get in the truck and the key is on!!! yes Botos left the key & we have no juice... Battery is dead!!! (Camping accident # 3). So he calls up to head quarters and leaves a message to have someone come and jump us. Good grief!

So the kids and I finally made it to town and back. We saw a bunny rabbit on the way out of the campground so while at the store the kids wanted to get carrots to feed bunnies. To finish up the night we sat around the campfire and just talked while the kids were telling us stories about who knows what. Then off to bed right! wrong... we go take showers and clean up. I come back and Botos is killing bugs left and right w/a towel... he is going crazy w/that thing. So we are swatting bugs, mosquitoes, anything. So I suggested he spray OFF all inside the camper... well... bad idea... cause as soon as we were lying down, we hear an alarm going off!!! Have no clue where the awful noise is coming from, here it is late, old people all around us sleeping and we have an alarm going off... so Botos is trying to listen for it or find out exactly where its at... FOUND IT... the carbon monoxide alarm!!! hahaha the OFF set if off!!! After that we finally settled down and went to sleep.

Woke up the next morning to a wonderful breakfast for Mother's Day... pancakes, bacon, & eggs. then we decided to go on a hiking on a small trail... the kids really enjoyed this even though we did go on the trail backwards.


I had a great time and our next trip is to College Station next weekend!!! yeah, last week go short and now we are going long!!! I have a student/player graduating from A&M next Saturday and they are tailgating at an RV lot... but a super duper nice RV lot... unfortunately we will be staying over across the street.. cheaper!

Until next time... Mamabotos