Saturday, May 29, 2010

We spent the day at Kepler Lake and just hung out, roasted hot dogs and rented a boat to cruise the lake. It was a good time. The kids tried fishing, but we had no luck with that. Both kid poles got tangled more than once....the big poles just didn't have the right bait or the right operator, I guess.

Row, row, row your boat...gently down the stream.

Dave, Autumn, Logan, Brandon, Austin.

Dave chillaxin' after rowing the boat around the little lake.

Kristen getting sorta mad that someone (Dave & Autumn) keeps
pushing her boat back out when she is trying to get to shore.

Brandon decided he wanted to jump off the boat (got a little help from Autumn)

out in the middle, but then decided the water was too cold and couldn't get back in.

So he just clung to the side while Autumn rowed the boat back to shore.

Our Mary Kay Party!

My Mary Kay lady came over to do a foot spa/mud mask thing. It was just the kids and I at home. Autumn decided she would join me and soak her feet. Brandon was hanging around but didn't say anything except for ask a few questions. Once Quinell (Mary Kay lady) asked him if he wanted to join us and soak his feet too, he jumped at the chance. And of course Austin wants to do whatever it is that everybody else is doing. Logan was outside playing in the dirt to begin with.

Here is Logan with his dirt face soaking his feet.

Autumn with her mask on...super thrilled that I caught it on camera.

Brandon and Austin with their feet soaking and their masks on. Notice the nice head band they both have on to hold their hair back. My little princesses!


Austin, thrilled to do whatever we are doing. He even put on some makeup and mascara.
Daddy was NOT thrilled with that.

Baseball

Brandon...pitching for his team. His team is doing pretty good this year. They are currently tied for 1st place with 2 other teams. The tournament coming up should be interesting.

Kids say the funniest things!

At the Musk Ox Farm on Mothers Day.

Logan is the one smack dab in the middle of this picture.

Me: "Logan, you look so much like your daddy!"

Logan: "well, you look like a boot. An old lumpy boot."



Me: "gee, thanks."



I sure do love that kid! Even if he says I look like an old lumpy boot.

Easter Eggs

We colored Easter Eggs for the 2nd time this week.

All the eggs from the first batch got eaten up.

Here is Logan with the bowl of freshly colored eggs.

And Austin, our main egg eater.

And Brandon, getting creative with crayons.

Poop scooper

I scoop dog poop, Austin scoops the snow man poop.

I think he got the better job!

Musical mattresses

Toddler beds: Pros - lightweight, cheap, convenient. Cons - lightweight, don't last til they are 18, easily movable by even the wimpiest of toddlers.

Logan does not like sleeping in his own room by himself, so he often will drag his mattress over to our room and sleep there. Well, Austin is in that "monkey see, monkey do" phase and decided he wanted to drag his mattress over too. He sleeps with us everynight still but he still has his own toddler bed in their shared room. Once they got their mattresses all set up next to our bed, they weren't exactly in the mood to close their eyes and go to sleep, so I had to keep telling them to go to sleep. They didn't, so I kicked them out of my room. I told them to take their mattresses and go sleep in their own room.

Logan: "I AM NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER SLEEPING IN YOUR ROOM AGAIN!" (There might have been a few more "evers" but you get the picture.)

Austin: "ever, ever in your room." (The monkey hear, monkey do syndrome.)

Dave: "wow, that was easy! Think they will keep their word?"

They grab their respective mattresses and proceed to attempt to stomp out of our room in a huff, well Austin can't wrangle his fast enough, so.....

Logan: "Austin, move OUT of the way!"

Austin: "YOU ELP ME!"

Logan: "I think we can fit a tow truck in here."

They finally get their mattresses back into their own room and they don't want to sleep on top of them, they want to sleep under them. Dave and I were laughing hysterically by this point, so I had to get up and get a few pictures.

Austin attempting to get his mattress set up to sleep under it.

Logan underneath his mattress.

This was all good and fine, until Austin thought it would be much funner to jump on top of Logans mattress. Logan was not happy when he got pinned underneath. I went back to bed...Austin followed asking for "ma-nahs" and then Logan came back, with his mattress in tow, to our room.

10 minutes later, all was quiet.

Cookie Time!

YAY! Its time to decorate cookies!! (I fully expect a huge mess.)

Lots of yummy, sticky frosting!

LOTS of yummy sprinkles, too!


And last, but not least, you have to lick the knife!!
Makes me wonder who licks the knife in the bakery?

Austin and Logan had a blast decorating cookies. They both decided that daddy needed more than a couple nicely decorated cookies too. Logan served his up to daddy, daddy ate them willingly. Then Austin got off his chair with plate in hand and promptly fell, 1 cookie landed on the floor. Upside down. I helped him pick it up and said it would be just fine. (I am the only one who saw!) He then tripped again and 2 cookies landed on the floor. I helped him pick them up again and said, "they will be just fine" and then Austin headed straight for daddy with his fine confections and said they were all for daddy. I laughed! Hard!

Star Wars Exhibit

I actually didn't take very many pictures and this is the only one I will post. They specifically requested no "flash" photography so even though I lugged my damn nice camera around, I mostly obeyed the rules...mostly.

This was at the Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) transportation station. It was interesting building our little cars with the magnets and then having them levitate through the thing. As you can see from Autumns expression, she is totally thrilled beyond thrilled.

The whole thing was pretty cool though. Just seeing all the things they used in the movie, the ginormous Chewbacca dudes are really ginormous. We had a fun day!

A gift

For christmas, my brother Pat and his wife Lindsey sent me a bulb to plant. They must not know that I am terrible at growing things and also keeping them alive. I thought I would give it a shot though and miraculously I have had LOTS of these blooms and this time 2 popped up and they happen to be in my wedding colors. Does anyone know if it will just keep on keeping on or do I have to spot it one of these days? I know NOTHING. I get a bloom, it starts to fall, I cut it off and put it in a vase and then another one grows and I repeat all over again.

Safety first!

For some reason, whenever daddy drives, both boys INSIST on wearing some form of head protection. :o)