Every Diva needs a Bib, Right?!?

With both boys gone to school I get tons of 'quality' time with my Bird

(please sleep, please sleep!)

Seriously, she is at my favorite age!

oh yeah, she does tricks too...like close your eyes!

So New!

It's a New School Year!

So to prepare, We got a ...

New backpack

New haircut

New shoes

New tooth...Almost!

AND...

A new splint and sling...cast comes on Friday!

Have a GREAT Year Tag!

Family!! Hug Your Kids!

Its funny, people romance the road. However, it happens more often than you think, you wake up in the middle of the night, and the quiet is just not just right.


Tonight, (and it is 2am) I just miss my kids, I miss my wife.

Things I saw out and about today

Makes you feel all warm inside doesn't it!

My Mom's got SKiiiiiLLS!

She sews like a pro! This was her summer project!

and how appropriate because these girls are quite the cheerleaders!

'Sew' nice Gramma Debbie!

Dave has a Snow White-ness about him

So my sweet husband has this thing for animals...namely birds.
He's carried ducks off the street and built little beds in boxes for abandoned sparrows in our back yard.



Today he was out back and heard some troubled birds with his sixth sense. After hunting a bit he found two baby quails stuck in my neighbors deep window well. Their mother was frantically pasing on top of our roof.







Snow White...I mean Dave put on rubber gloves and got a baseball glove. Then carefully rescued the birds from their pit.
We watched from inside as they were reunited with their worried mother.


My husband has such a big heart!

CAN'T WAIT...

To see if Katee is that tiny in person...Gev too! and I'm gonna cuz I got me some tickets!

Goin' with my lovely sister Shauna (who does the best Cat Deely imitation!)

Hopefully with my other lovely sister and her hubby (What a secure MAN!)

I'll let ya all know how it goes!

Time is a FLYIN'!

Does anyone else feel like this summer has flown? We start school in 25 days! I haven't gotten a thing done on My list and as far as my kids go...we've done nothing but PLAY, PLAY, PLAY!

So...any tips on maximizing my last 3 weeks?

Today is the Birdie's Birthday!

My sweet little Bird turned one today. It wasn't your typical birthday, but a good day with her nonetheless!

My favorite hospital picture of her!

She has been so fun watch grow and I can't wait to see what the next 50 years bring!

I love you Birdie!

Whoa...We're back!

Email...59
Google Reader... 274

So with a vow to be a better blogger, I'm going to do the post a day thing.
(Seriously, Don't hold your breath!)

I had good intentions to get a good post up today then decided that Thatcher's head really did need stitches. I know, I know... my priorities are screwed! Blogs before Kids...isn't that why we had kids anyway... to blog them?!?!?!

So, spent the day in the Dr. office!

Grundles of pictures and deep thoughts tomorrow!
Love you all!

ps, just googled 'stitches' for a good picture...NEVER, NEVER do that!

See you all soon...and again after Monday!

So, with no husband in sight...and a 14 hour road trip with my 3 kids...I, needless to say, have 1,000,000 (spoken like Dr. Evil) things to do.

Google reader has 1,000,000 (same accent) things for me to read but I'm pretty sure the tiny town we're headed to doesn't have the internet.

I have 1,000,000 (L.O.V.E Mike Meyers) things to blog about but alas they wait until next week!

Can't wait to see you all on Monday and then it's off in the the wild blue yonder!

Catch you all next week! Hope it's a great one for you!

This is my LIFE!

The Bird's a bitter!

pay attention to Charlie's face!

Carl's Jr. ...Junior

CornDog

Fries

And a Shake

Don't bother me...I'm eating!

It's here again! And I can't wait

I find myself looking so forward to Wednesdays and Thursdays this summer. I sleep deprive my kids to they'll go to bed around 7 so I can vote! I neglect all things that can't be done in front of the tube! And we're down to the top 12!

I'd like to make my top three couple predictions

In no particular order...

my final six people are...

Chelsie and Mark

Kherington and Twitch

Katee and Josh

I also can't wait to see what Mia Michaels comes up with tonight!

So...what do you think?

We have a new little MONSTER!

So Saturday night we were sitting around doing nothing and talking about Sprout...

next thing we knew...

Here we were!

And He was looking up at us with These eyes...

Now...Meet MONSTER!

He likes the neighbors (when they are on their side of the fence)

He's our third dog from the pound. Not surprisingly he looks like a combo of the other two and he's equally as good. Really he's been too good to be true! House broken and all! I'm so glad to have a dog around again!

AND, He likes Legos!

The Fourth!

I love the traditions of the Fourth! Hope yours was as good as ours!

Have a good weekend!

Memories...From the corners of your mind!

Salvador Dali, "The Persistence of Memory," 1931

I've seen this one out there all over the place. It's been so fun to read and to think fondly about those that are playing!!

What you do is...

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments!

Please let those Star Wars...Staaaayyyy!

The party...We had a great time!

We wore Padawan costumes, got light sabers and met Darth.

We ate light saber cupcakes, sipped on sludge from the swamps of Dagobah (sherbet in Sprite) and used the force to put out 'trick' candles!

We ran, jumped and smashed!

They went home sticky, tired and smiling...Mission Accomplished!

Some names we came up with for Poor Dave in the Black costume on a 96 degree day...

Darth Daver

Summer Darth (short sleeves)

Sweaty Vader

Darth Sweaty

He did a great job and lost 4 pounds of water weight in about 20 minutes!

Today's Funnies

Two funny things happened today...well maybe just to me!

My sweet husband did SO much today...really - he was a HUGE help! It all ended with him doing dinner! (Which he NEVER does! Really so nice!)
He ran to the grocery store and then, when it was ready, he called us all to the table. He had fixed steaks, hot dogs and tilapia. So we had steak with a side of hot dog and fish...or Surf, Turf and Turf as we called it! Such a masculine meal!

Then after tubs, Thatcher had had too much birthday and was bouncing off the walls. I pulled him aside and said "You're starting to get on my nerves" to which he replied "Nerds...Yum!" We laughed all the way to bed. I'm so glad that he has the patience with me to remind me of his age.

All in all...A Great, carnivorous day!

Awwww, the party's over

So, I've been busy for the last couple of weeks planning a Star Wars party for both my boys and it's over...Aaaawwwww!
This is what I envisioned for the party...

But

It turned out more like this!

Fortunately 4 and 6 year olds enjoy a good cupcake enough to forget the rest!
Thanks Mom and Dad for all your help!
I'll post some pictures later

Tag? Wait, that's my son's name!

I wrote Tag's name inside his jacket for kindergarten and one of his classmates asked the teacher why she labeled the tag? We had a good chuckle...just one of many jokes - with that name, I'm sure! Good thing he's tough (and so's his brother...two against one! HE HE)


So, the Tag (thanks Arianne!) The rules are... Post these rules on your blog: List 3 Joys, 3 Fears, 3 Goals, 3 Current Obsessions/Collections, and 3 Random surprises about yourself. Tag five people at the end of your post by leaving their names.


Joys
1-Night time
2-silence
3-Good Music!


Fears
1- Never feeling comfortable in my own skin
2- my children's safety
3- disappointing my children


Goals
1- To raise courteous, aware Men
2- to raise a Strong, independent Daughter
3- to one day have my pre-baby body back


Current Collections/obsessions
1- Kaleidoscopes, kaleidoscopes and more kaleidoscopes
2- Trying to slow down my life...time is a flyin'!
3- So You Think You Can Dance -- -- --LOVE IT!!!


Random Surprises
1- I am completely average...height, weight, level of school finished, amount of kids, years married, hair color, average, average, average - SURPRISE!?!?!?!
2- I still wear my retainer at nights.
3- I've had nearly EVERY job under the sun!


There you go...More than you ever wanted to know about me. Now, I'd like to hear from Lisa, Andrea, Anne, Debbie (Mom) and Shauna.

The Cutest Baby EVER!

So you've heard by now that He's Here!!! And Well, we

Can't. Take. Our. Eyes. Off. Him.

I'm sure you can all see why! Welcome Aiden...to the world!

They love him so much because he loves them so much!

Here's Dave and his 4...oops, I mean 3 babies!

We Love you so much!

Happy Father's Day!

There's no one like him in the world!

Happy Father's Day Bapa-Tee!

Flips and Flops for Friday

Friday again...Argh, the first week of summer has FLOWN!

Flips...

This week was Tag's birthday! He's such a sweet kid, I'm lucky everyday that he's mine! He is the greatest oldest brother!

We played our heads off this week!

It was our first cousin's activity and it was so nice! Great weather, great food and the BEST company around!

We just saw Kung Fu Panda and LOVED IT! Such a cute movie!

Mia Michaels routine on SoYouThinkYouCanDance! It lingered! It was amazing, as was the whole show! Couldn't find a link to this routine...but It'll go up just as soon as I do!

Me and my boys are starting to read the Chronicles of Narnia on Monday! (there are so many great summer reading programs out there this year!)

It's Father's Day weekend! I'm so lucky to have my dad and to watch Dave grow as a Dad! He's a great Dad and he'll BE IN TOWN for it this year...WAHOO!

Flops...

Due to the birthday...my house has been SHOWERED in Lego's! WHOA!

I have to wait a WHOLE week until SoYouThinkYouCanDance is on again!

There is a Mountain of laundry sittin' here next to me just screaming my name!

Awww, Summer! My favorite time to... learn?!

It's officially time to put school behind us and focus on what our kids really need to learn. I don't mean the stuff we have to teach them...
when to use 911
about strangers
how to treat people of all ages
how to treat our planet
or sharing

I mean the GOOD STUFF...the things every kid should know.

Like...

How to whistle
How to make a paper airplane (Great Link on my sidebar!)
Skipping a rock
how to use a pocket knife
tree climbing
a proper cannon ball!
how to arm wrestle
how to identify poison ivy (by getting it, of course)
How to build the perfect couch cushion fort
spit wads, or not- on that one
how to tell good ghost stories


So let's get out there and 'educate' our kids!

Do you believe in Karma?

I'm a fair-weather of Karma, she doesn't always deliver when I think she should. (I'm also not very good at looking at the big picture.) Anyway, I found this great article and it made me smile, so I thought I'd share!

I sure hope you all get what's coming to you...after all, I know that you all have 'Somebody' for a middle name!

Flip and Flops for Friday

So, I'm totally stealing this great post idea! (I did ask prolly my Awesomest {-k- just stole that too} cousin permission)

Anyway, here we go for this week...

Flips...

Yesterday was our last day of school!!!

It's SUMMER!

I'm stayin' in my jammies ALL day today!

Lost two pounds to stress

Finished Taggy's birthday shoppin'

Workin' on a killer Star Wars party for the boys

House is totally cleaned, sanitized and aired out!

Have loved all the Rain this week!

It's almost time to meet HIM! WAHOO!

Flops...

Tag puked his brains out all week and missed the last day of kindergarten

4 seizures (So thought we were over this!!!)

$60 in co-pays

Both boys got blood drawn...NOT FUN! They kept calling it a blood-shot.

We're Tired...but the flips will take care of that!!!

Hope you all had more flips than flops this past week! Thanks, Ann, for the great idea!