Weekend Update

We spent a low key evening at home on Friday, anticipating a jam-packed Saturday of events. Well, Saturday morning I woke up at 6am - sicker than a dog. Stomach pain, diarrhea (or my butt pee-peed as Silas says - sorry to be gross!) and I was miserable. I laid in bed as long as I could but then had to take the kids to get their pictures taken for Melissa's Fresh Face contest. (To see the contestants and vote, click here )
We were there for only about 20-25 minutes but I barely made it home alive...
Here is one of Melissa's pictures of Silas - man, he looks like such a big boy here!

The real bummer from Saturday is that we had plans to go out with all our friends for Jodi's 40th (I mean 30th) birthday celebration - we were going to dinner and a little bar hopping out at Easton and then we had rooms at the Hilton for the night. Well...I tried to be a trooper - I showered - crawled back in bed - got up and put make-up on...crawled back into bed. We never made it and I'm so sorry that we missed all the fun :(

While I was sick in bed, Justin was bored (or trying to make me feel guilty) and cleaned out the atrocious mess of a toy box in the living room, and did some decluttering of the house - it was almost worth being sick just for that. He also took one of the crib sides off of Si's bed and put the rail up - so now Si has a "big boy bed" that he is very proud of.

Today I woke up feeling better, but didn't feel "normal" until about mid-afternoon. It was a gorgeous day out so we took the kids to the school to play and then played outside for awhile. Here are a few pictures from the day.

Mason and Ella - this is Ella's rock star face. She makes this face when she plays air guitar too.


Zoe enjoyed laying around in the grass while the kids weren't tormenting her. And Ella again - she decided she didn't need a shirt since Silas didn't have one on...or it could have been the other way around.


This tree is in our backyard. It's a Canadian Cherry and I love it. It gets beautiful, fragrant flowers in the spring and then the leaves turn this deep red by summer. Here is Miss Boo going down the slide backwards.


We had our own little Fresh Face contest...Fresh Full of Mosquito Bites - Ella got eaten up AGAIN! This picture is the epitome of summer - bug bites, dirty face, rosy cheeks, mangy hair




Siley J. being his rotten little self...with the smile that typically gets him his way.


We checked out the garden while we were out. The snap peas are climbing like crazy and we've got a million flowers on the cucumber vines. We picked some of the cherry tomatoes- they are juicy and sweet!

Here's a snap pea shooting up

And Ella inspecting the tomato plants

This is a random picture of Ella and Silas in their new flip flops. Silas is completely obsessed with flip flops so I went to the dollar store and this is all I could find. At least his are the blue ones...

And that wraps up the Weekend Update...have a great week!

Blizzard and bowling pics

Courtesy of Jodi

Allysa, Ashlee, Ella and Mason

And a bowling picture from Beth

Mason, Allysa, Abs, Ashlee, Alison, Ella

TGIF!! And Happy Leap Year!!

I am really happy that it's Friday but unfortunately I have a lot of work to do over the weekend. I have gotten really, really behind (so why am I blogging you ask?) plus - I am in SO much pain - my teeth are killing me and the inside of my mouth is all chewed up - I went and got a 2nd batch of wax and DentaPaine medicine (like Oragel for babies only stronger!!) from Drug Mart tonight (and a bottle of wine to ease some of the pain...). It may not be all bad...I've lost 2 pounds in 2 days so maybe I'll just turn this into a diet plan...

We had a snowy week - the kids had a late start day on Weds. so Ella didn't have preschool and it was beach day. They will do a make-up day on Monday. They pull out the sandboxes, pools and beach gear. Would it be bad if I showed up with Margarita mix and hung out?

Ella got her school pictures today -is she saying
"I'm only smiling because my mom threatened to take away my birthday AND Christmas if I don't" ??

When I picked her up that day she had one braid in and one completely out so I had no clue if they were like that for the picture as well.

And here is the little guy - how many years of braces do you think he'll need?

And little Miss finishing up some dinner
Any guesses as to what this is?? Clue: I took it last week at night outside (Turn around Bright Eyes...)

I have to keep you hanging awhile longer on the braces picture. Justin took a couple of the sores in my mouth but that isn't really blog-pretty.

With any luck, you'll hear from me again over the weekend (as I avoid more work)...

A few more pictures

I took my new lens to the park today and ended up with about 120 pictures from less than an hour of play. Here are a few of my favorites.

She is such a banshee!

Notice how high she is and how Justin has to JUMP to push her??

Happy with himself for climbing up something else

She can turn it on, can't she?