Rookie Mistake

I was not feeling well at all today and a friend came over that needed some computer work done. while she was here she noticed how bad off i was and offered to put the girls down for their nap. i totally forgot to tell her about the prison style bed check we have to do every time we put them to bed. so this is what greated me when i got them up.

Their pretty sheets.

Anna is trying to explain away out of this in picture one. Maria knows she is busted. Picture two Anna is telling me what Maria was going to do to her if she did not help out and Maria is showing me all the pretty colors she used on her legs. She called them her "racing pants" grrrrrrr.

The very rare and seldom seen "whitie-fro"

It was just too bizzarre to not photograph.

Sidewalk chalk and bubbles in the park, Must be spring!

Well we were finally able to take advantage of this beautiful weather. We had some friends over for dinner tonight and afterwards we walked up to the park to play. Bought some sidewalk chalk and bubbles because those are always a HUGE hit with the little ones. Of course we attracted little ones from all over too. A bit of a push from sister.

I am smiling mom!

My friend's little girl. She looked so pretty I had to post it.

Anna takes art ver seriously.

Three little girls blowing bubbles. It doesn't get much cuter than this.

The older boys entertained themselves playing "Fireball" which looked alot like dodge ball but everyone lined up along the wall the one person threw a ball at them. if you got hit you were the next one up to throw. seems simple enough.

getting creative and organized.

I have a chili pepper kitchen, i will post pics of that in another post, i took one of the cubbard fronts and used chalkboard paint to make a menu board. no more "What is for dinner tonight?" i post the whole weeks menu.


Of course i had to paint chili peppers on it!

ike's ode to his bike

It may not be shiny or new

the seat may sag and the rear tire wag

but it's nicer than yours so suck on that chumps.

he made this up all on his own. Ralph Waldo Emmerson better watch his back.

These boots were made for walkin'....

The girls found a pair of Papa's boots that he gave to Daniel. Well Daniel's huge feet quickly outgrew them and now Ike is next in line. Anna put them on and did a lovely dance for me then Maria not wanting to be out done had to show us her dance moves too. You will have to pardon the lack of pants in this video. The girls are not real big fans of clothing. Something we will have to deal with later but not a fight i am willing to face at the moment.

what to do when it snows during spring break

a common problem here in the great pacific northwest is snow during spring break. we got dumped on twice and in between that we were up to our waists in mud.

we caught a quick break where it was just a light drizzle of snow flakes and made a run for the Idaho border with my pal and her kids. Took the crew to courdelane ( have no idea how to spell it so i went phonetically) it was really cold right on the lake but the kids had fun and got to burn off lots of that pent up energy. we also went to the hotel there ( by the same name) and let the kids warm up a bit.
Waiting outside the hotel. Ha Ha Daniel.
Warming up

Chasing Canadian Geese on the beach

Aw ma, i just wanna swim a bit.

There is a HUGE revolving door at this hotel and Brinn and I thought i would be interesting to see how all 8 kids would do going through. Many of them never having been through a revolving door before. so of course i had to take a video of it. oops, i took it sideways, sorry.

Now that they were pros....