baby love~

i love her chub!

pickles & suffering~

so in our house cullan tends to be an early riser. this morning garran decided to get up with him and i slept for a little longer. when i woke up garran relayed the following story to me.

he said that when they came out into the living room cullan kept asking for what sounded like "a hickey". garran would ask him a few more times before he realized cullan meant a pickle. (sometimes my kids make up weird names for things) anyways garran granted his wish. then garran said he must have dozed off for a minute because he said before he knew it he was waking up to something cold being shoved in his mouth and cullan laughing saying

"DADDY, PICKLE SURPRISE-PICKLE SURPRISE!"

i laughed out loud at the vision of garran getting a half eaten pickle shoved in his mouth.

while he was telling me this story, kael was in time out. he heard me laughing and yelled..

"NO HAPPY MOMMY....NO HAPPY MOMMY!!!!"

garran jokingly said. "meghan no one can be happy while kael is in time out. we all have to suffer" then from the time out stool we hear.

"YOU SUFFER....YOU SUFFER....YOU SUFFER!!!!"

hello~

in general!

i have noticed lately how kids tend to generalize things. lump everything into a category that they feel is appropriate.

we went to look at a house the other day and there was an Amish man there who was doing some repairs.

cullan walked right up to him and said "HELLO FARMER!"

i guess cullan thought that was what group he fell into.

then very loudly as most children seem to whisper he says

"mom you see that FARMER"

i looked back at the nice Amish man who was smiling and said yes i do.

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one more example.

today at the grocery store i had all three kids with me doing some shopping.

i think every elderly person in our town was there.

it was pretty busy. all of a sudden from the front of my cart. (it was one of the carts that has a car that the kids can drive hooked on the front.)

anyways like i said from the front of my cart all of a sudden i hear...

"excuse me grandma....honk honk...excuse me grandmas!!!!!

so funny~

my friend rebecca posted this.
i died laughing.
so funny.
you have to watch!!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/video/video.php?v=1157595773724&ref=nf

(hope you dont mind rebecca=)

isn't she lovely~

isn't she wonderful!

opps~

briea was outside too.

she was just hanging out being cute.

i forgot to add her in our pictures.

she was there and so dang cute.

look at those lashes!

i just love her smile!

sparklers~

last night i got some sparklers because i knew that the kids had never tried them before and i thought they would be. they were a HIT!they thought they were so much fun. i wish we would have waited till later so it would have been darker. oh well. the kids still had fun.kael was very fascinated and tried to touch the sparkly part more than once. that kid is definitely one that learns through trial and error!
next we moved on to side walk chalk. typical cullan to line stuff up like a train. =)
kael loved to color outside. he was having a blast. one of our little neighbor girls came out to play too.kael-bael helping daddy.garran decided to get down and play with the kids. usually when the kids do side walk chalk, garran does it too. in the past our neighbors will always comment on how one drawing is really awesome. garran usually blames it on the kids=)

its finished~

im done.

that is where i have been.

that is why i have not been blogging.

here ya go Koari !

this is everything.

hope ya like it.

http://picasaweb.google.com/meghangillespie/FinishedShawAlbum?feat=directlink

ps. thanks so much to erica for coming with me and getting all those great shots. it was so much fun having you there!!

to see some of ericas pics click here.

a first~

i took pictures for a friend and her wedding.

im in the middle of editing. i have a TON of pictures.

these are the first few.

i would love to know what anyone things.

here is the link.

http://picasaweb.google.com/meghangillespie/ShawWedding?feat=directlink

like i said this is not even half. just the first few i have started playing with.

booo~

i hate days like today.

i hate customer service people that don't know anything.

that ask your opinion on how to fix a problem, when you don't work for the company.

i hate when you take your car in for an oil change and again the find a million things wrong.

i hate when your land lord does not do what they are supposed to do - fix what they are supposed to fix.

i hate when big decisions need to be made, when it seems like there is no real way to make it.

today is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

did i mention...

i hate days like today.

that's it. i'm done now.

flying kites~

*VACATION PICTURES ARE OVER*

today we decided to do something fun and just relax after our busy week of traveling and such.

we found a new park that we had heard good things about and decided to go play and fly kites.

we had a great day and ran into some people that we knew. it was great!

kael-bael loves the swing...it is his favorite.*slide*i love that kael pretends like he is flying when he comes down the slides.he is so cute!sometimes i think he is so used to me saying "say cheese" that he naturally poses. that or he is just naturally photogenic! either way he is dang cute.k-man was so brave climbing all the way to the top all by himself. he is getting so big. i don't know when i said it was ok for them to get BIG!cullan mastered the rock wall. with that funny little tongue hanging out like always. they are best buds..i hope they are always this close.

finally it was time to break out the kites. daddy and i had to help at first. once we showed them how, it was all over. they ran with it. literally. they thought it was so much fun. we are totally going to have to do that again.

daddy getting them started.

there it goes. cullan was ready to take over.

kael loved his kite so much!!! some times it is hard to share when you are having so much fun.

he did share though. after he got it back he was happy and off to fly buzz again.

cullan got his up really high. he was so proud of himself.

as we were leaving the farm across the street had a bunch of beautiful horses. so we stopped to show the boys. they love animals so that was a hit. by the time we got home both the boys were out cold. it was a great afternoon!!!

day 6~

day 6 = PARTY DAY

my sister turned 21 on sunday but we celebrated on saturday.

we had a family BBQ and did cake and presents.

pretty typical birthday party.

here is the birthday princess with her 21 crown!

we all sat around and talked and had some yummy ribs and other good stuff. then it was time for cake. well cup cakes i guess.

the one looks really weird to me for some reason. oh well. chocolate and vanilla cupcakes with a green 21 on each. green is my sister favorite color from what i understand.

her comes mom. we were all singing happy birthday at this point.

cullan and the little neighbor girl waiting to help sara blow out her candles.

sara and her 21 cupcake!

cullan decided to try one....OF COURSE!

"OHHH MAN...THOSE ARE GOOD!"

my cousin katie thought they were pretty yummy too! she is so funny sometimes. she made a new best friend in briea. i was holding briea and katie came over to talk to her. i wish i had a picture it was so sweet. briea was cooing like crazy and smiling at katie. it went on for probably 10 minutes. it was so sweet.

this picture cracks me up every time i look at it. i was going around getting pictures of everyone at the party. when katie saw me she asked me to take her picture. when i got around to the front of the couch, she slid right over to garran and had him put his arm around her. he is so funny laughing at her smooth moves. =)

then it was over. the next day we headed home. vacation over. however after we got home, we unloaded the van, got the kids settled, dinner and eventually to bed. the next morning both boys woke up and came out to the living room. cullan looked at us and the first thing out of his mouth was "mom, we go on vacation some more please!!!".

I hope that means they had fun!

day 5~

day five was a very busy day. my mom and i got up that morning and began running errands for my sisters birthday party. we were gone most of the morning. when we got back we were all standing around talking and thought it would be fun for the boys to play in the sprinkler. i headed to kmart to find one of those fun sprinkler things but came up empty handed. instead we found a super cool slip-n-slide on sale for $7.00. =)

the boys were not sure at first. but after a little explanation, they were ready to give it a try.

cullan went down first with a little help from daddy running along side.

then he was ready to try it on his own.

i might add that the water was freezing. it did not help that the only place to put it was in the shade. it really was the only place. i think it would have lasted longer had it been warmer!

kael went down once and that was it for him. it was to cold!!! he was a good encourager though. (im not even sure that is a word?) anyways he clapped and yelled for everyone else to go down!

cullan went down a few more times and then decided it was too cold for him as well. you know that where there is fun to be had, that daddy is going to get in on it. i have two videos of him. the first one is really long and it just would not upload. so you get the short version!

afterwards it was so cold daddy and cullan decided to sit in the "HOT TUB"..

it really did feel like a "HOT TUB" after going down that slip-n-slide. the pool had been sitting out in the sun for about an hour. so it was warmer. cullan thought it was great that garran got in too!

five days down one to go.

the last day of our vacation was the big 21st party!!

day 4 ends~

day four ended with some rest.

we got to my moms and sat still. we sat out in the backyard and chatted and the kids played.

briea enjoyed hanging out with daddy.cullan instantly hops on his bike. he loves it. looks like we will have to invest in one for him at home too. he is getting really good at riding it.
kael is always happy to be at my parents house. he loves going to visit and to see their dogs. he chases them all over the yard!here is kael following george up the hill to play with one of their new puppies.

it was nice to be able to sit for a bit and relax!

however that did not last to long. we had a party to plan.