for the love of chicken

rewind is the most expressive eater i have ever met. when he loves something he shows it. dinner time is always very entertaining. anyways today for lunch the boys had chicken. rewind loves chicken. hopefully these pictures will show you what i am talking about... oh yeah and he loves his new pig too!

super excited for chicken

this might look like a sad face, but it was not.. he was holding the chicken up to his face and laughing making these weird faces... i was having trouble holding still from laughing so hard!

sharing with mr. pig

mmm...mmm...mmm.. delicious

hooray for chicken

taa daa!

good to the very last bite!

trying pink?

well my friend rebecca has this great blog that i check almost daily. she is super creative and always finds great stuff. so i have to give her the credit for this one. i remember her talking about it last year, and i believe she even posted pictures either of what she made or what she got. anyways i am thinking of doing it this year. such a good cause. if you are interested click here to find out more of what i am talking about.

this is for sargento

he is always teasing me because i am not a hugh star wars fan. i try to watch them with him, but i have a hard time following them and really am just not that interested. i am sure most of you love them, i know that i am in a small group of people that are not big fans of star wars. anyways i saw this and thought of him. maybe this could be our little girl someday, explaining how much she loves star wars! Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0

breakin - it - down

i did not get all of it, he was doing this funny one legged thing. oh well this is still pretty cute!

enjoy rewind dancing!

4th of july ....round one

well you may be curious about the title but our town decided to do their fireworks on the 5th.. i know weird, so we had fun today and will go to fireworks tomorrow night. anyways, today we went and cooked out at my in laws. they had a party they were going to in the evening so we went out for a bbq lunch you could say. anyways it was pretty laid back, the kids played in the sprinkler, ate some yummy food and then feel asleep while the adults watched a movie or sat outside and chatted. all in all a fun day.

here are some pics...you know there are more here.. i know i take a million!

daddy and curls sittin on a tank! rewind waiting patiently for his burger.rewind loved the sprinkler!still young at heart....thats right those are sargentos feet.. he jumped over the sprinkler!and you can imagine curls wanted him to do it again and again and again...rewind thought it was great too.. what a cool dad they have!yippeee!he had a blast... the sprinkler has become a family favorite!ready - set- 1 - 2 - 3 ---- gooooo, that was what they were yelling together!sargento was spraying them, rewind loved it, curls not so much.then the tables turned........curls enjoyed this part! what a fun daddy you guys have... lucky boys!

happy 4th to everyone... fireworks pictures to come.. i am so excited. that is my favorite part!

just some quick thoughts

ok first off i have to say that there is something different about the place that we live..something that i have to admit i am enjoying. so the city that we lived in placed a ban on smoking in all public areas that went into effect last night at 12:00. (Sorry smokers, you might not like me to much after this) But i have to admit that i love that i can walk into a grocery store or restaurant with out passing through a cloud of smoke. everyone on the radio has been talking about it. i told sargento today when i came home from the store, i think the whole city smells better =)

now this is my random thought. today i had to go to the eye doctor to get some new glasses. which i love by the way. but that is besides the point. anyways i was sitting in the waiting area with a women who i would guess was in her early 60's. ok so i could tell that she was annoyed. i am pretty sure that she felt she should have been waited on long before now. so i heard her let out two or three very loud sighs. i finally looked at her over the magazine i was reading to which she rolled her eyes, stood up, and passed gas very loudly and walked away. guess i learned my lesson. next time i will just mind my own business and not look up from my magazine!

no lie

this is how he fell asleep tonight. I was checking my email, turned around, and this is what I saw. just wanted to post it for the cuteness factor and the fact that for some reason i am still awake at 11:58 pm.. Argg I really didn't want to be, but I am. I tend to be a night owl but one that really enjoys sleep... go figure!

the right stuff

i got this from my friend naomi...

ok i think it is hilarious.. but i don't know if i would have the guts to pull it off!

enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q24RmoMM-eU

Just Two...

Two names you go by:
1. Mom
2. meggers

Two things you're wearing now:
1. pink shirt
2. comfy gray pants

Two things you would want [or have] in a relationship:
1. honesty
2. laughter

Two of your favorite things to do:
1. take pictures
2. do fun things with my my family

Two things you want very badly at the moment:
1. anything outside
2. take a vacation...perferably to a beach area

Two things you did yesterday:
1. went to church
2. edited pictures

Two things you ate yesterday:
1. grapes
2. chicken

Two people you last talked to:
1. Sargento
2. stacy

Two things you're doing tomorrow
1.make copies
2. go shopping

Two favorite holidays:(this was hard, i have a few more than two=)
1. christmas
2. fourth of july

Two favorite beverages:
1. ice cold water
2. c-f mt dew

Two people no longer alive that you'd like to talk to:
1. mac
2.Papa

If you read all of the above, please consider yourself tagged and leave me a note. (No cheating -- if you read, please play along by posting your own.)

weekend with the folks

this weekend we went to see my parents. we had a great time. we went to an art festival and just hung out and played games. here is a slide show of some of the stuff we did. plus you can click here to see more.

my very first....

today my friend let me come and do my very first newborn shoot. it was so much fun and she was very patient let me experiment with her sweet little boy. i think that i got some pretty good ones but there we some duds in there too. as always, i take a ton just to make sure I have a lot to choose from. if you want to see more from our day you can click here.

Thanks J & L

these are some of my favorites!

did i mention.....

CURLS LOVES THOMAS!

today a friend called and said that there was a ton of thomas stuff at this garage sale her friend was having, so of course i ran over. oh my curls could see it from the road. we pulled up and he said woo~hoo. that is his new thing. he says it all the time when he is excited. anyways i found a few things and we headed home. as we were pulling up so was sargento. we all came in together and pulled out the new toys. i think everyone in our little family had fun. (well minus rewind who was asleep on the couch) one of the thomas trains that we got actual shoots steam out of the top and blows a train whistle.

very cool!

here we are enjoying the train.

catch of the day

i came back from outside to find that sargento had found a new way to entertain the boys..

(if your wondering what he is holding them up with, it is the cord to my robe.)

oh the things they come up with!

out in the fields....

today for playgroup we went to a local farm and decided to pick some strawberries! i thought this would be fun and relaxing.. well not so much for me. it was still a lot of fun though. my kids ran all over and would not stay in the three rows we were assigned. (i have decided no matter where we end up, we have to live on a lot of land. my kids love farms) so luckily i have patient friends who would watch one while i chased after the other. but in the end... after about an hour of being there i walked away with one little pint. needless to say i was the picker, curls the taste tester and rewind the explorer!!!

curls holding our strawberry box and you can't see but sampling as well!

rewind wandering with the row marker

H~N with her little green bucket of yummy strawberries

S~N busy picking some too..

T~N was also a taste tester .... he was so good just staying by his mommy

I~W .. well who can blame them for wanting to sample.. they are pretty good.

our very nice modern day farmer with his cell phone and ipod

all the pickers when we were done... woo hoo for strawberries!

ok time to go!!

see ya next summer strawberry fields!

as always you can click here to see more.

you may not know this....

but i think i have discovered the new enemy.. or maybe that might be what sargento will be thinking in the near future. can you tell what it is.. thats right it is a target bag. i went there tonight to get dinner and ended up walking around for an hour looking at some picture frames i needed to get, some diapers and wipes, all of there summer clothes for me and the boys....i guess i just forgot how cute all of there stuff is. when i used to go before it was always just a quick in and out trip due to time or kids or whatever..hmm i could go on and on. it is even worse that now it is not far at all. i smell t-r-o-u-b-l-e ! oh well i will have to limit my trips to target i think.

i ended up leaving with a few things that were not on my list...

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just for fun i found this old picture of us.. this was us last summer... i can not believe the difference in the boys. this was pre back suregery and gall bladder surgery. pre a lot of stuff. the end of last year was a little rough. i am hoping this year ends better. however, it does remind me though that i want to get a family picture this summer sometime.. ahh probably won't happen...(im always the one taking the pictures=)

my favorite time of day

so not always but some days this is my favorite time of day!

(im trying a new style of playing with my pictures.. i am not sure if i like it or not)

no matter what color i have some sweet boys!

somedays i think...

some days i think we should have named him thomas. my little curls loves anything that has to do with thomas the train. so today we went to target. we have not been there in a long time because before it was so far from our house. now since the move we have one right by our house. anyways so we had probably been to a target like twice in the last six months. anyways today curls and i rode to target to get rewinds float and as soon as we pulled up curls goes "woo-hoo ~ thomas"~ I could not believe it. what a memory this kid has. anyways we get inside and curls runs straight to the toy section, which luckily is by the pool stuff and just stood in awe of the thomas isle. (target has the best selection of thomas stuff in my opinon) anyways he has been playing with his new train all day, while wearing his thomas hat. yes i caved and bought him the train. he was just being so stinkin cute!