Taco graduated from ARMY boot-camp last week and my sister invited Trent to tag along with them for the drive to South Carolina so they could see him before he headed off for AIT training in Virginia. Trent was gone a whopping 4 days but that’s another story for another time. I’m just proud and still patting myself on the shoulder for allowing him to go and be away from me for that long. Taco kept writing and begging me so I caved and let him go.  Trent and I texted back and forth a bit Tuesday night while everyone else was asleep in the hotel room. I asked him how the trip was and cracked up with he texted back, “"Actually very relaxing! No one thought to slam on the brakes and scream to simulate a car accident while I was sleeping. It was a nice change!” which had me laughing hysterically because Bur and I do that whenever someone falls asleep in our vehicle because we are complete asshole’s like that!

Anyway, they left Tuesday morning and were able to spend time with him from Wednesday til Friday morning. Here are a few of the photos that Trent came back with from the trip.

Taco doesn’t look too happy about heading to Virginia and saying goodbye but we will hopefully be able to see him during the holiday’s. Fingers crossed!

For the past week, the kids have each been dealing with some type of cold symptom. Trent had it first, then Trey and Faith. Of course, I was the lucky one and have full blown flu symptoms. I feel (and look) like death right now. My head feels like someone beat the hell out of me with a baseball bat, my eyes and neck ache, my chest feels like it’s on fire, and well I’m just really sick.

Even though Faith has a little cold and nothing has slowed her down, she has somehow convinced herself that she too, has the flu. Hypochondriac kids are comical. 

Trent has wanted a crazy color in his hair for as long as I can remember. The school he attends is very strict so I was able to use that as an excuse to hold him off for a little while. I didn’t have that excuse this summer, unfortunately. At first we bleached all of the color out of his hair and did a red mohawk with purple all around. I didn’t like it much because the purple didn’t work out as good and I hated his hair being so light. He leaves Tuesday morning to head to South Carolina to see Taco graduate so I told him that we need to get his hair back looking as normal as possible so I put the brown back and touched up the raspberry color on top. It looks SO MUCH BETTER! I actually like it.

If you are lucky enough to really know Trent, you will know that he has a very crude sense of humor. Like his Mom. Nothing is off limits for laughter around here which can sometimes be a very dangerous thing. Lately, Trent has been watching a lot of Tosh.O and sometimes shows me segments from the show that he thinks are funny. Today, he simulated these exact dance moves on the pool deck while I was trying to swim.

Sadly, the video keeps getting pulled but click HERE to view it.

I literally almost pissed myself. I won’t rest until I sneak and get him on tape doing it.

Trent received a stripe on his purple belt this past weekend at The Jungle. I wasn’t able to attend this promotion because I was getting the house ready for Manda to have Ryley’s 2nd birthday pool party.

Here he is showcasing some of his skills during testing.

Here he is accepting his stripe from his coaches and getting the shit beat out of him by his teammates. Yay!