Day 183

Today I wanted to take the kids to the splash pad, but once we got there, we saw that there was a huge fair going on. The kids were disappointed, so I decided to turn around and drive an hour in the other direction to another splash pad. Once we got to that park, it was also packed with some kind of "family day" activities. I decided that we would go in anyways since I had just used about a quarter tank of gas and drove all that way. Well the kids weren't having it. I guess the drive made them cranky or something, all they wanted to do was go down some little baby slide. After getting into it with them and putting up with screaming and yelling, and dealing with an oncoming headache, I had had enough, packed them up and dragged them home kicking and screaming. I could have kept them home where we have a slide for free.

At home I told them, that after taking them out for fun and fresh air, they were not going to sit and veg in front of the TV all day. They could do anything else, but no TV. So this is what they chose to do:

  I had some left over cake in the freezer and decided to see if I could make some petit fours and fondant roses and leaves. It turned out really messy, but they still tasted good :)

 

Day 167

Today I brought the boys in to get hair cuts. Ryan has his graduation on Monday, and Alex is just getting shaggy and poofy. Alex screamed his way through the whole thing. You would think he was being tortured or something. He was crying, screaming, and snotting all over himself and me. I had to sit in the chair with him on my lap in order for the hair dresser to be able to do anything. I had to really restrain him as he scraped his running shoes down my bare legs. Can't wait to see the bruises. The kid gave me a real workout!

Mr. Kitty also stopped by for a visit, I haven't seen him in a few weeks, he's looking a bit skinny.

Day 164

Ryan has been asking me to make his hair into a mohawk every time it's wet, usually I just brush it up after his bath and eventually it falls down on his own. This time I got out all my hair goop, the blow dryer, and froze his hair into place.

The boys were playing upstairs with Wally while he puttered around tidying up, when he decided to shed some papers. He came downstairs for a few minutes to put things away leaving the boys alone with the shredder (it was unplugged) Can you see where this is going? He went back up and all I heard was "Oh my God! What are you guys doing?" This is what they were doing:

Day 156

The forecast called for more rain all day today, so we decided to pack up the kids and do our weekly groceries and shopping. The boys love train tracks, and we knew of some near the shopping mall. We decided to turn right to take the train track road, looping around instead of going straight to the mall.

As we drove over to the right to turn, we saw a guy in a truck with a trailer coming from the right trying to sneak up slowly and cross over to turn left. Unfortunately, he was on his cell phone, and even though we saw him looking both ways, he was too distracted and didn't notice the car coming up from his left, behind us. He went across anyways, and she ended up smashing right into his front end. We saw it happen right in front of us as we were turning. I told Wally to turn around, and I scribbled our phone number on a piece of paper. By the time we looped around, a few other people had stopped and made sure she was ok. Wally took the paper over to her, and told her that if she needed a witness, to call us because we saw everything and thatwe saw him on his cell phone.

Here is my drawing of the crime scene (ignore the fact that it is horribly out of scale). We are the black square turning right

This is the scene after we looped around. I took a pic of the guys truck/ licence plate just in case he decided to take off. If the boys didn't have that love of train tracks, we never would have turned, and we would have probably been the ones to end up smashed into his front bumper.

Day 155

The kids and I went garage sailing again today. We hit a village where they were holing a town wide garage sale. We were lucky in that we were just finishing up when it started to pour rain. When we got home I had a weather warning flashing on my computer, and sure enough, we ended up having a vivacious thunder storm blow through.

We were watching the action outside when I noticed that the patio umbrella was still up. I wanted to close it incase the crazy wind got a hold of it. I didn't want the glass tabletop to get knocked over and/or smashed. It's only about 5 steps from the back door, but in the few seconds it took me to run over, close it, and run back, I ended up completely soaked as if I had just stepped out of the shower. This is how my t-shirt looked:

Suddenly we got a crazy amount of wind and we watched the blankets fly off of our clothes line across the yard. One of our sheets ended up on top of the camper and the wind managed to rip our laundry line pole out by the screw. Shortly after that we lost power.

I checked around the property and 2 of our trees came down in the front yard. Once Wally got home from work, I took Ryan to go pick up some McDonalds. I only got about half way down our road when I saw a bunch of flashing lights and saw the source of the power failure. A huge tree had come down across the road and fell right on the power lines. I had to turn around and take the long way to McDonalds.

Power didn't come back on until 11:05 pm, but then went off again 15 minutes later until 3am. Ryan slept through it for a bit, but ended up waking up. He was scared and somehow ended up in the hall closet totally disoriented, crying and banging on the wall for us. We put him in our bed for the night, but he is a very restless sleeper. He tossed and turned all over the place, and ended up shoving his knees, elbows, and feet into me every few seconds. I barely ended up sleeping at all.

Day 141

Today was the big garage sale day, and it was a bust :(  The minute 9am rolled around, the skies opened up and started raining on us. We had to scramble to cover up all our stuff, all my tags got smudged, and of course it kept the people away. At one point my parents came by and they let me know that our big sign by the main highway road was down. This was the sign I was counting on bringing in most of the people, so I had to hop in the car and try to pound it back into the ground. By the time my parents left and got back home, they had let me know that the sign was back down again. I had to make up a huge contraption held down by a big patio slab. Another highlight was seeing a skunk run across the yard, and ending up sun burnt again even though I was under an umbrella almost the whole time.

Look at all this crap we're trying to get rid of! LOL

Day 129

Today I car pooled for Ryan's school. Every Monday they go to the local pool for swimming which is part of their fitness program. They do half an hour of water aerobics and then they get half an hour of free play time in the water.

When we got home he was running around the house giving everyone wedgies. I caught this picture as he nailed Wally.

Day 51

This is how the boys wound down tonight...

 

Buried in diapers

A spin around the kitchen in the stroller, and then it's bedtime.

and I made Dad clean it all up :P