Featuring a Built In Swimming pool

This morning I got a big pile of laundry ready to take to the basement to wash. Unfortunatley it got stuck on the landing upstairs for a while. Where the kids decided it made a great swimming pool. You know you have too much laundry when your kids can jump down 5 stairs into it and not get hurt.

Well eventually the laundry made its way off the stairs. (ok now it is sitting on the landing in the basement but we will not talk about that) apparently the kids decided the swimming pool was so much fun the first time that they have recreated it again. with a laundry pile of their own creation. I am afraid to find out where it came from.

Bug vs Fry

My two older children are so different in some ways but compliment each other at the same time. Here are some examples.

Computer Games

Breanna: Loves to play
Ryan: Happy to watch.
(ok fine this one has started to change but I loved the way it used to be)

Ham and pineapple pizza:

Ryan: picks all the pineapple off and does not eat it.
Breanna: Eats her pinapple first and happilly takes care of Ryan's as well.

Toilet Flushing.

Breanna: Never remembers to flush.
Ryan: Happy to flush for her and anyone else. Will even stand outside the bathroom door and ask to flush.

Hamburger Helper

Ryan: Eats all the meat
Breanna: Eats all the pasta.
SWITCH PLATES!

• I need to go potty!
• Im a bird that has escaped from its cage
• Super girl is trapped! Someone save me.

Breanna's attempts at rescue after being sent to time out. And why might she be in time outyou ask? Well she bonked Ryan in the head with a little wooden box. Which Im not sure was intentional. You might wonder why I sent her to time out if I dont think she meant to hit him in the head. Well It is because it hit him in the head while it was being used to pour melted ice cream all over him.

My children have this ability to be so creatively mischevous.

Update: on party

Officall day: Tuesday the 15th If you dont know how to get my number please leave a comment and I will contact you. I hope to see you all there!

Girls Night Blog party.

I love that there are so many people I know that blog and that visit my blog. So anyway I think it is time we had a party! So if you are a girl and I know you and you are reading this give me a call or leave a comment and I will contact you!

Oh I hope I am not making any male readers feel left out I promise we will get you next time.

(oh and I know I have not posted in forever! so I hope I get credit for posting this)

Pictures from Sasketchewan

Looking Up

Happy baby

Harumph

Luvin the new couch

Old and busted:

New Hottness:

A little story

So we are on the way home and I stop at the grocery store with my sister and kids in the van. I hop out and run in while they wait.

After I finish my quick shop I walk back to the van and see the front seat is empty and think: hmm the kids are probably grumpy and Naomi had to go into the back to help them. Then as I get closer to the van I realize that the babies seat is not where it usually is and I begin to panic. I start to hyperventilate as the unthinkable has actually happened, one of my worst fears. I slap my hands on the window and press my face into the glass as I realize that I HAVE FORGOTTEN MY BABY.

With my face pressed into the window I look at the other seats in the van and notice something peculiar, they are empty as well. I then notice a brown leather purse. I don't own a brown leather purse. There are no car seats in this car. I pull away from the window and look to the other side of the parking lot where my van is actually parked and I walk toward it.

"cookie monster has HAS COOKIES!"

-Ryan

When Ryan wants something now he always seems to need it and he will repeat that word. For example:

I need need juice.

or:

I need need need COOKIE!

I love that his language seems to be coming along more now. We have been somewhat concerned that he is behind for a while and I actually have an appointment with a Speach Language person for him. He does seem to be blossiming in his language though. He often comes up to me and smiles his little grin and just says "Hello Mommy" It makes me melt.

Unfourtunatley the more he talks the more he seems to have to argue with Breanna about. Fun times. Sometimes they play so great sometimes they just fight. Oddly enought I think they enjoy having a sparing partner.

Im feeling like I should blog.

Ok so Jon had surgery this week. He got out of the hospital today he is tired and sore but otherwise recovering well. He expects to go back to work after the Easter weekend in April. It has been a very busy week for me and the kids involving babysitters and driving back and forth from the hospital to see dad. I have hardly been home so I have not been blogging or checking blogs till today. A big thank you to everyone who watched my kids or helped with meals and everything that people have done to make this week a little easier.

Pirate Boy

Reminiscing

I just was looking back through the archives. (did I mention my blog is 2 years old hee hee) and I found this post lol how fitting. http://therslife.blogspot.com/2005/04/my-minivan.html#comments

Belated Anniversary

I Just realized that a couple of weeks ago I hit my two year bloggiversary! Yay for me!

Out with the old. In with the new.

Well on friday our old mini van died in a flaming blaze of glory. Well actually a steaming sputtering mess. Jon got it to a shop where they told him not to bother fixing it. Anyway we went shopping saturday and now the newest memeber of our family is this:

She is a 2003 Dodge Grand Caravan Sport. It is pretty loaded with power doors. Dual sliding doors. Power drivers seat. It has quad seating and a split back seat so you can take out only half of the back seat if you want to. A couple of the big things I notice is the suspension is so much nicer then our old one and the ride is so much quiter inside as all the seals are so much better and the molding is not coming off the passenger side.

Anyway we are so excited and we love the new vehicle.

Oh one last thing. We went to Great West Chrysler Dodge Jeep. They treated us wonderful and really put effort into making the vehicle what we want it to be. If you are looking for a vehicle I suggest going to them.

Breanna is hovering over about 4 yougurts

"eenie meenie miney moe...."

She brings one to me

"sometiemes I pick meenie. sometimes I pick miney, sometimes I pick moe, this one is moe"

Ok kid thats good to know.

Happy Anniversary to us.

I'm not too good with surprises. When I am excited about something I have a hard time keeping it in. Well I have tested myself this year and managed to pull it off. Pretty much everyone knew about it but the one person who I needed to keep it from didn't: Jon. And as long as he was surprised that was all that matters.

Mid January I booked a room at the Fantasy land hotel for our anniversary (OK about a week after our anniversary). I had never been away from the kids over night except when I was in the hospital having a baby. Jon even suggested a couple of weeks later that we do something like that and I had to clench my fists grit my teeth and tell him I was not ready to leave Skyler over night yet. I lied to him when I told him his sister was coming into town and he needed to get the day off. I lied to when I told him I would call her the day before and see when they were getting in. I lied to him when I told him she was not feeling well and might not be able to come ( I was trying to keep him from getting Breanna excited about them coming). I lied to him when he called to see how long it would be before we picked him up from work. I told him we were just leaving my sisters work when I was really at home dropping my kids and sister off.

I actually feel kind of guilty reading that. I'm really not a pathological liar!

The look of confusion on his face when he got in the car was priceless. I told him that my sister had said she would watch the kids for the evening and we could do whatever we wanted. When we got to the parking lot at the mall I accidentally took the wrong ramp. I said I should have gone down and he asked why. "because that is where the front desk sign says" he was so confused. Then he was like "you don't have a hotel room booked!" Why yes I do. It was great I totally surprised him twice in one day.

We had the greatest time. We went to dinner, went window shopping, hung out in the hot tub, went on a midnight walk through the mall and across the street with no jackets for chicken nuggets only to discover that McDonalds was closed, had nachos from room service at 1 in the morning, slept without kids to wake us up and had a nice breakfast before we went home the next morning. I cant wait to do it again.