Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Max and Ellie's first Starbucks hot chocolate. Watch Ellie.....

Ellie and Max: "Mmmmmm... this hot chocolate is wonderful, mom. Thank you."



Ellie: "Wait a minute... he still has some?"


(Max proceeds to walk away leaving his unguarded) Ellie: "I think I'll just take that, thank you."

"Right about there as far away from Max would be juuuuuuust right." Sneaky little devil.



The two little houligans hyped up on sugar....

















Saturday, January 3, 2009

We drove to my parents' in North Carolina for Christmas this year. The weather was freakishly warm the day after Christmas so we went straight to the beach. Here's some pics from that, but unfortunately when I cleared my camera of the Christmas day pics, the website I uploaded them to won't allow me to access the raw file from my home computer so crap about that. But, this was probably the highlight anyway. Well, it's between this and the movie theater with a snoring man to our right, two stoned with the munchies and food they couldn't keep quiet to our left and the lady in front of us asking her husband questions in an insanely loud voice. Hmmmm.




Cold water and street clothes didn't stop him - he was wet from waist down by the time we went home.


We had a fan blowing on her for this shot. She's got the far-off pensive look down - we're now working on her "you're a tiger" shot.


This would make you think they were working cooperatively on the sandcastle - not so much.


She loves her daddy!




Grandpa's kite flying skills. Ellie managed to hold it without letting it go for a really long time - I was shocked!


The lovely birds that don't leave you alone if you feed them. The kids practically had them eathing out of their hands just as we ran out of our food. We went home hungry, but Ellie talked about that the whole way home. My rough and tough husband has a secret fear of things flying around his head. Wish I had gotten a picture of him with the birds swarming. He can girly scream wayyyyyy better than me.





Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Pantless Wonder wants to play in the rain....











Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Halloween....a very belated one.







Why Buy Toys???

She entertains herself with these for hours.





Wednesday, November 12, 2008

THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.

Each kid will play two sports and either take music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, and complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget in money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time--no emailing. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment.
He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the A & E. He must also make biscuits or cakes for a social function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside and keeping it presentable at all times. The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn himself with jewellery, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished and eyebrows groomed.
During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, back aches, and have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties. They must attend weekly school meetings, church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting. They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 8:00 am.
A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight,shoe size, clothes size and doctor's name. Also the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favourite colour, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear and what they want to be when they grow up. The kids vote them off the island based on performance.
The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice. If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years eventually earning the right To be called Mom!

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Last weekend I met up with my BFFs from 8th and 9th grade in Indiana. Meg lives walking distance to Capitol Hill so we shacked with her, saw the sites, laughed at old pics and ate a lot of great food. I took the 2nd and 3rd ever cab ride of my life and saw the real Constitution (There really is something on the back of it). Need I say more? I have the best friends I could ask for. They put up with me so gracefully. I also have the best husband ever. He had no problem letting this be the year of me. Life rocks.

The White House - tourists get a terrible view, Washington and WW II monuments and..."I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill."



Washington Monument - Steph's professional psychological opinion...totally phallic.


Wise old Abe...
DC World War II Memorial

World War I Memorial





Dinner in old town Alexandria, VA on the water at Chart House - soooooo good. Overlooked the Potomac which Meg informed me has the 2nd highest body count per capita. That's why the water tasted so good.

Dinner and dancing at Marvin - restaurant tributing Marvin Gae. Everything was to die for delicious!


Sunday morning Steph ran a 10K while Meg and I trotted around and burned a whopping 10 calories.

Hi-five action shot - what a photographer!
BFFs forever in front of the Potomac and Jefferson Memorial

AND THAT'S HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW!
70's Party for Shane's sister Brittany's birthday

Detective Shera Broadchest and Harry Baughtum


He's got moves you've never seen!



Birthday Girl and her Bro - I think this finally made up for all the teasing and dumping her out of trucks.
The Girls and Guys
Three Travoltas graced our presence
The Birthday Girl and Hubby Houdini

Now I'm scared of the law - how 'bout you?
This guy was the biggest crack up of the night