Vin and mom's jog

Mile 1:  so now i know not to point out the color green, unless i want to see green grass pointed out every 5 feet, along with every green spruce tree and leaf a long the way

good, that's over with (i'm thinking)

Mile 2:  so now i know around not to show vincent worms, or he'll ask where?where?where? where? where? like a broken record

okay, that's hopefully done (again, thats running through the brain)

Mile 2.7:  crap, i showed him sluggs........ where? where? where?

Mile 3:  so now i know that i can't run and keep up with a two 1/2 year olds conversation with out completly just dying. It's not the running its the talking.  who knew?

The Lesson: sorry vin, looks like vera's going to be taking your place

vin's new friend

so vins been playing a lot at our neighbors house, the Jacksons.  His friends name is Jarrett and he is a few months older than vin so it works well.  This was what happened when the women folk left the boys and the dads home alone on a saturday.  They got pretty creative with the slide.  thought it was funny.....


vin on his ride (the trike) and Jarrett on his (the jeep).   so some are born a little higher class i guess:)  and if your wondering i have no idea who the other kid is, perhaps steve had to watch one of his illegitimate kids that saturday

duplicate

sorry on the last post for adding the same picture twice, i'm not on here long enough to know what i['m doing!  

more photos for grandma

Just thought i'd throw in more photos while i had some "free time", actually i just hear my moms voice in my head telling me MORE PHOTOS!  so here they are mom, love ya

the candy man can

This happened a couple weeks ago:  I walked into my room where vincent had been sitting watching tv when i found this.......apparently somewhere, who knows where ( i know , pretty sick) vincent had discovered some M&Ms and doesn't quite get the concept of how to eat them.  and screw the "melt in your mouth, not in your hand", try melt all over your face if your 2.  I asked if he found some candy and acted like i didn't know what i was talking about.  Hmm.... let me take your picture them and this is the sneaky look i got.  Pretty funny

then it was AHHHH!! don't touch sister!

we're back in action

okay, so i can't believe i'm finally getting time to blog but the good lord has blessed me with a quite house despite the fact i have double the kids: 2 two year olds and 2 babies.  If you saw me yesturday i was about to pull my hair out.  today is pretty good.  anyways, i just wanted to update with some pictures:

I'm so excited that she can actually sit in her exersaucer these days, she's so much happier, and so is mom....
Here is vin's sock puppet he named "hello".  I think it's because when i showed them how it worked i would make it say hello.  So thats about all he says it can say and so there it's name is "hello".  The picture doesn't show it though but this puppets got a rat tail.  pretty awesome.

so i have to apologize to those that are faithful readers to my blog, (the 3 of you) for i have been truly busy for this next weekend.  The annual Girdwood forest fair is alive and well this year and this is my first time having a booth there.  Unless you count last year where i got a booth, but then it got canceled.  so really this is my second booth, first time selling. anyways, needless to say i won't be blogging much till after it's all said and done.  However I will update on what we've been up too:  I (mel) took the kids out to Sterling AK this weekend where the Darlings had rented 2 very nice cabins.  We enjoyed a night of food and relaxing by the fire (well, however much you can relax with 9 extremly overly tired and sugered up kids at 11pm) and swimming at a lake the next day.  I have to saw i was very impressed by the lake!  While some of you know the lakes up are are glacier feed and EXTREMELY cold, this one was not and it was so warm!  the shallow area was great for little kids and they all had a blast.  we had 2 rafts and 1 canoe.  VIncent refused to get in any till mom did and then he loved it.  we floated in a raft or played in the water the entire 3 hours we were there.  it was up at the Captian Cook State park if you know the area.  (alittle before Homer).  anyways, i also had a sale at bella boutique a week ago on the 20 for summer soltace.  it was okay till we almost blew away, which kind of blew, hee hee get it?  sorry.  oh and one more thing i wanted to mention which i thought was funny.  About a week ago i received my 10 highschool reunion flyer.  And when i say flyer i mean flyer.  81/2 x 11 sheet folded into 3rds, taped and a stamp slapped on the back.  When you open it up there was a obviously dowloaded, pixelated logo of the "south sevier high rams"  and the rest said, and I quote"  you are invited to the class of 1999 10 year reunion....date.....place....cost and rsvp.    It was all in the same font and the entire text covered about 1/4 of the page.  I don't know about you but i thought these things were supposed to be alittle fancier than that?  Like say a whole weekend at a nice place rented out and catered.  No, it's a a park for a few hours and catered by probably some local family.  I mean, yeah, i have to give credit to those putting it together, i don't mean to be mean or bash their efforts, i just had to laugh when i saw the invites, brought me back to small town utah.  gotta love it.