Again!

Man I am getting good at this blogging. I was thinking today that we have been enjoying wonderful weather. Mostly because we have cold weeks still and days of PERFECT weather. I know it will all end soon and my life will be a sticky hell. Seriously sticky - who likes humidity anyways? I will enjoy the perfection until it ends.

J has some SERIOUS lip issues. He gets cold sores like mad. He just had one last week on his lower lip - then this MONSTER busted out. This is the biggest one I have ever seen on J. It actually got bigger than in the pic and then while he was playing out back it got so big it had to pop. His lip is on the mend but he will have these beasts for life.

Weekends are always good - we got our little pathetic garden in thanks to K. I am a total slacker without Julie here to help me be motivated. He weeded and got it all ready while I mowed the lawn. A good deal any day. While the clearing was being done with 5 willing kids to help - they found 3 baby rabbits. We had to move them and they are probably going to die. We did dig a hole and put all the fur and junk in the hole with them so hopefully the mom can smell them out. I am doubting she will want anything to do with them after we handled them. Last year when pruning/hacking to death a bush we moved a Robin's nest with those beautiful eggs. The boys just couldn't keep their curiosity down and eventually knocked the nest down - I am wondering if that will happen with the rabbits.

Here is a pic of the - word to your mother - chair I reupholstered. Of course I didn't think of this on my own. Miss ever rockin DeAnn got the idea. I found 3 chairs at a thrift store upholstered in yellow vinyl or something hideous. DeAnn of course picked my fabric and hers and we went to work. Hers looks amazing too - it is a black and white fabric - she will post it one day. It makes me want to do another one.

New York

I got called a SLACKER again - this time by Jen who blogs less than me!! LAME-O, she may use the excuse of pregnancy or working 60 hour weeks - I don't want to hear ANY OF IT!! I will forgive since I got to chill with her a bit last Friday night.


I got to spend the last two weekends in New York - it was AMAZING!! The first weekend was without the kids - enough said. I got to just chill with an old friend Olivia. She is the queen of knowing the best, I mean the BEST, little bakery's in NY. I ate two chocolate chocolate cookies that were each over an inch thick and four inches in diameter. In my defense it took me a whole day to eat the first one. The second one I ate on the train ride home - it was delayed 3.5 hours because the train in front of us hit someone. So I didn't mean to eat the whole thing - it was due to unforeseen circumstances!! She did make me walk like 40 miles in the 2.5 days I was there - so the cookies couldn't have been that bad. My favorite part was walking over the Brooklyn Bridge - awesome!! Weird to say about a bridge but true..



Before the NY trips there was crazy hair day at J's school.. His hair was really long so it could be really crazy - he loves to have it spiked. I told K to make sure they had a bath at least before church. I got home to dirty kids - which who really cares - but the red hair. J still had pink tinted hair and a red scalp. Someone at church noticed it and thought maybe J's head was bleeding - nope just left over paint.




The next weekend was a family trip. It was excellent family time. You know it was a good vacation when at the end of every night, the boys were complaining that their legs were hurting. We did Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty first. J said that was his favorite part - I wish we could have done the audio tour - but kids can only handle so much. We hit the Empire State Building after that - at J's request. Of course we didn't pay to go up to the top. On the way home S was obsessed with finding a SpongeBob Popsicle that we saw earlier in the day. He informed me that if I didn't find one he was going to whine all night. TURD!! He settled for tic tacs - who knows. We spent the next day in Central Park - the zoo and then the park. The park is beautiful and K loved it. Those huge rocks provided ample climbing time and I took a NAP!! That is right - it is totally normal - i mean if people can hang around shirtless or snuggling or making out - I can take a nap. There were two ladies next to me who had the same idea. We finished the day playing soccer - for like 3 hours. In the end J and I figured out how to shut out K, and we perfected our celebratory hand slap, complete with sound effects.

SpongeBob Popsicles - FINALLY!!

We came home the next day in time for swimming, more soccer, and a BBQ at the neighbors. All in all a rockin weekend. I almost forgot about the fireworks - in CA we watch fireworks on the 4th - maybe. Here we do fireworks on every occasion possible and there are no such things as fire hazards - as long as you don't do them in your house you are safe.

Happy Mother's Day Week

Well I would probably not be posting... but a good friend (Jenea) was visiting another good friend (Julie) in Utah this past weekend. Julie told Jenea I was a blogging "SLACKER" - what the heck woman. Now I am going to blog to be labeled "UNSLACKER" for a day.

I have to blog about junk that happened in my life so I will blog about the awesome Mother's Day Week I had. My own amazingly cool mom was here the whole week before Mother's Day - that is why it was a freakinfantabulousweek. We ate out - way too much - we saw movies - and we read books. We did absolutely nothing productive - I really mean absolutely NOTHING she even gave me dirty looks when I told her she had to make her bed.

We did go to Mother's Day Tea at J's school. It was nice - J was crazy to really show that he can act up when mom and grandma are around. His poem did say I was cool - but it also said I like TV.. DANG YOU J - I don't even have bunny ears to get lame channels like PBS. I will admit that I like to watch movies at night - but couldn't he have said my mom likes to READ - honestly!! At least he didn't say I was fat or something (totally not TRUE)!

Then on Friday K took piddle and diddle (J&S) to fathers and sons. Actually he and two other dads made their own fathers and sons because they didn't want to drive 3.5 hrs to get to the real one. 6 boys, 7 and under made for good times. They did s'mores, played soccer, went on a hike, and did this GPS find the treasure thing. The box they found was full of girly treasure - needless to say they didn't feel the need to take anything and replace it with something of their own.

The boys swinging on a vine..

The sad ladies left at home had to find something to do - so we ate out, watched a movie, came home to watch a movie, and woke up to eat breakfast at the Hershey Pantry (sooo good). Are you detecting a pattern? Then I put the old lady back on a plane for CA and I had a couple of hours till the boys got home. In those hours Sandra came over and we went for HUGE sodas at Turkey Hill - NICE!!

The real Mother's Day was the day to end the week of slothfulness - and as always K delivered. I came home from church to the boys giving me a catalogue (a card showing what I could buy at K's Secret Store) and money with their faces on it. K's Secret Store had 2 chocolate roses and a pack of SNOWBALLS that I could buy. (SNOWBALLS ROCK - hostess cakes covered in marshmallows and coconut) He even threw in some flowers. After that exciting shopping my day was filled with napping and reading. Serious - I read the whole latest Fablehaven book - it was so CRAZY GOOD!! I did take a break to eat the amazing meal K prepared. The amazing thing about it was that he prepared it using the 3 ingredients that were in my refrigerator - I REALLY needed to go to the store!!

The day ended with stuffed bellies attacking. The boys were leading but I know it was the big K mans idea. They came and found me with their large bellies and squished me - then they began to kiss me like crazy. It was quite comical when the littlest belly stuffer of all, couldn't really get his belly in the action; so he was content with kissing my hand that was outside of all the commotion.