Aaaaaarrrrrrrggghhhhh Pirates!

Pirate Adam

How safe is that? Give a 4 year old a stick, blindfold him and tell him to swing it!

The whole pirate crew

Pirate Dad

Megan thinks she is just as big as the big kids.

Adam & Grant on the Pirate Challenge!

We had a wonderful day for Adam's birthday. Its crazy that he has better weather (warmer) than Megan at her birthday. As if you can't tell our theme was Pirates! Scott and I were up the night before making swords out of cardboard and duct tape - and nobody killed anyone the next day! I also made bandannas with a skull & crossbones and red sashes for everyone. I even found eye patches and earrings. Some kids wore them - others didn't. Our first game was the Pirate Challenge. Scott set up an obstacle course in the backyard. They loved it. Even after we had served cake and ice cream they left that to play on the obstacle course some more. Then we went on a scavenger hunt. I took pictures of different things around our yard and used those as clues since 99% of these kids can't read yet. Our treasure was the pinata. Everyone had fun with that. Then we had cake and ice cream. I made a pirate ship cake. All Adam wanted on it was a skull & crossbones. I've never put so much frosting on a cake before! When we finally got to the presents Adam did real good. He is learning to get the card first so we know who its from. When he opened Grammy's present, which was some superhero walkie-talkies, there was also some batteries in the bag. Adam pulled out the batteries and was sooooo excited! The look on his face was hilarious! It was a great day. I can't believe my baby is 4!

Big Girl Megan

Yee Haw!!!

What? I'm not doing anything!

I just love to eat!

Megan is just growing so fast. She is doing everything brother does and she is on the go go go. She can almost run. She is just getting her 4th tooth. She doesn't want to be fed anymore, she has to do it herself. She is finally starting to look at books herself. She likes to dress up and talk on her cell phone. Her hair is finally growing too. I can actually put a clip in it now - not that she keeps it in. She also is getting her temper and starting to throw tantrums. What else would you expect from a daughter of mine?

Sooooo Excited!!!

I just had to write a quick blog and then get to work. I am sooooooo excited!!!!! I just got back from buying an outfit for our anniversary night out and I bought a size 7/8 jean!!!!!! I haven't worn that since pre-Adam! I had almost given up hope. That's all!

Cooking for a month?!

My friend Amanda and I have been doing once a month cooking for a couple of months now. For the past two months we have picked out around 7-10 meals and took one day to cook them. This brilliant idea came from a book she had. So this month we decided to go with this authors plan. Basically we ended up with 35+ meals. Oh - My - Gosh - was it a mess. I'm not joking when I say I think we dirtied every dish in her kitchen. This was last friday. I had to get up at 5:00 that morning because I didn't do all my "prep" work the night before because John McCain's speech was on at the RNC and I couldn't miss that. So at 5:15 I'm headed to good ol' Walmart. (Thank goodness they are open 24hrs a day.) Got home and started cooking just a little after 5:30. About 10am we took our kids to Mom's Day Out and I moved all my stuff over to Amanda's house. I felt like we were moving along pretty good - but then we had to pick up the kids. This is whats wrong with our plan. We don't want to pay for daycare (okay we're cheap - why do you think we are doing this to begin with) so we are trying to deal with kids, who we thought would take really long naps since they played so hard at Mom's Day Out. Yeah right. Adam never took a nap but he still did pretty good since he just likes to watch movies. So about 5:30 I am trying to get ahold of Scott to come get the kids. He makes it over and I send some food and the kids home with him. All the while we are still cooking. Amanda finds out her husband isn't going to be home till late so she takes her son over to my house for Scott to watch. Eventuall we break out the wine - it has been a really long day. So once we get done cleaning up her kitchen she helps me get all my food and supplies to my house and clean and put everything away. I finally set down at 11:30 PM! What this author says should take 6 hrs took me 18 1/2 hours..... I know I'm sounding like I'm complaining but I'm really not. I haven't had to cook yet and the meals have been pretty good. Once we get the hang of this I know we'll go faster. I'm sure it would go faster if we each cooked in our own kitchen but whats the fun of that?

Movie Time

So I've found out that my friend Arica is now related to me. We are something like 3rd cousins twice removed by marriage or something. Anyway we went to see Mama Mia last Sunday. IT WAS GREAT! We laughed so hard. I had seen it on the stage when we lived in Tucson and loved it then. I'm trying to figure out if I can see it again before its out of the theater here. I know whats on my Christmas list this year!

First Day of School

Today was Adam's first day of school. Once he got his backpack on he was pretty excited. This was the one day he actually slept past 7am and I had to go in and wake him up. Go figure. It was such a BEAUTIFUL morning we walked to school. As we walked we got stopped by the police. No we weren't speed walking, he just saw Adam with his backpack and we told him we were on our way to his first day of school. The policeman stopped and got out of his car to talk to Adam and give him a police badge sticker. Once we made it to school and in his room he found toys and kids to play with. I kind of hung around (I'm not sure why) but he was already busy so I eventually left. Neither one of us cried. I'm so proud of us! It was fun picking him up. He was talking about all he did. Of course they had a snack, played and sang Going on a Bear Hunt. I think we are all ready for him to take this step. Later today he had tumbling class. And in a little while he has a birthday party to go to. He is a busy little guy.

Mom & Dad

Scott and I have been playing golf like crazy this summer. Well, he always does but now I have the bug. I try to go out at least once a week. I think next summer I might join the ladies league. Not that I am good but I really enjoy it. It's nice to be outside. I think golf courses are pretty. Even the ones around here. The club we belong to is so neat. We can take the kids. Adam is pretty good at hitting the ball. Megan even knows what to do with a club and a ball and she tries to make contact. Its been nice too because Scott and I have found something we can do together without kids. He has been teaching me. And no - it hasn't led to the end of our marriage. He is a pretty good teacher. I guess our philosophy is to just have fun and relax. We will be playing in a couples tournament next weekend. That should be fun. So anyone who wants to play with us let us know. We are always up for a game!