We're still here!

We made it through the 4th.
There was only one fire... and guess who set it?
Not Melissa and her friend... It was careful, over protective ME!
It was a small grass fire that we put out in a few seconds, but jeez was it dry. Oopsy;-)

Happy 4th!!

We've got the potato salad, chips and sodas in the cooler to head out to Grandma and Papa's!

Out on the reservation you are allowed to light off the "good" fireworks. Only problem is Melissa and her friends are old enough to light some off too... They are nice girls but inexperienced.


Wish us luck!

Riley's Birthday

We had an old school backyard birthdy party for Riley's 6th birthday. We had pin the tail on the donkey, a pinata, a craft, pizza, cake presents and a REALLY fun game of musical chairs. I guess a lot of kids haven't ever played musical chiars and they were all singing and dancing even after they were out!

It was almost called off because Luke had a high fever on Friday. I took him to the doctor and he said it could be the flu or some other virus, but they don't do the 'flu test' anymore and to just treat it like anything else. So I asked if it would be responsible to have a 6-year-old's party if we kept the little kids out back and kept poor Luke upstairs AND sprayed all the hard surfaces with bleach. The doctor said "That sounds reasonable" and reasonable is good enough for us!

The most memorable part was later that night. Riley has had his first loose tooth for awhile now, but he's been wiggling it a lot trying to get it out by his birthday. Well, while we were getting jammies on at like 9:00 he says "look at my tooth!" and it was just hangin' there. I told him to just pull it out but it had one spot that wouldn't let go... So I went for the floss, you know, to tie to the door knob. He pretended to be scared, but he let me tie the floss to his tooth so he couldn't have been too afraid;-) The darnedest thing happened though... it fell into my hand while I was trying to tie it up! So Riley lost his first tooth on his 6th birthday, how cool!

Been a while!!

Well, I wasn't going to let a whole month go by... but I did.
There's lots to catch up on but if I thought I had to do it all now I wouldn't have sat down at the computer.


So I will only tell the story of the day. I just had one of those 'Mom' moments...
You know the one where your heart stops when you open the washing machine and realize something is very, very wrong--
Sure I've seen markers and lip gloss and even a crayon or two in the dryer, but this was totally new.
20 TEMPORARY TATTOOS!
Thankfully they didn't really stick to the clothes, but they do in fact stick to the inside of the washing machine.
Rubbing alcohol takes them off of skin so hopefully it works on metal too!

ugh...

I am saying this publicly so that I actually have to do it.

I HAVE to lose 10 pounds by June 20. (Note: specific goal, setting of time frame... Yes, I've read all the articles;-))

I weighed myself this morning--

After a week that I made zucchini bread. Dad gave me a bunch of zucchini from his garden stash... and the recipe makes 2 loaves... and I planned on bringing one to Easter... but that left one on my counter... what did you think would happen??

AND we made chocolate chip cookies. Riley had a playdate, which was actually a favor for a Mom friend that went back to work (yey Cathy). So we had a friend over all day and needed to find lots of activities. But one bag of chocolate chips make a heck of a lot of cookies!! And I've had AT LEAST a dozen.

Apparently I need to stay away from baked goods.



So that's it- June 20th- one pound a week- 10 pounds- should be easy (heh, heh)!

9 years

Its official... We're married!

In someways it seems like yesterday and in someways it seems like forever ago.

But our life has definitely become all about being a team and doing what we can to make the best life for our little family.

Our actual anniversary was April 1st but we laid in bed together ALL day and night so I wasn't able to blog... No not in a romantic way, we both caught Riley's stomach bug and were throwing up with the chills.

Ahhh, for better or for worse!

Tent Night

This is something Dad does with the boys for a special treat. They rent a movie (Bolt this time) eat popcorn, licorice, yogurt pretzels, etc. The kids sleep in the tent, Dad gets the couch, and Mom gets the bedroom all to herself.

They don't get enough sleep which probably wasn't the best thing for Riley's health, but they think its pretty fun!!