May 6, 2011

The scene frequently outside my house.  Just hanging out.  :)

May 7, 2011

Oops.  I may have forgotten to take a picture today.  :/  I have one more camera to check.  :/

May 5, 2011

Shane thinks he's a Wiccan.  Again.  :/

May 4, 2011

Shane's rocking his new band sweatshirt.  And a new haircut.  :)

May 3, 2011

Owen started a side business and one of the services that he offers is painting nails for $3.  Well worth it!  <3

May 2, 2011

I didn't expect to see this headline in the newspaper when I woke up today.  Wow.

May 1, 2011

Owen, aka little Nadal aparently, decided he wanted to run the Great Train Race this year in downtown Fredericksburg.  He did a great job!

April 30, 2011

You know summer is coming when you see the ice cream truck.  Coolest one I've seen yet.  :)

April 29, 2011

The wedding of "this" century - Prince William and his new bride Princess Katherine of Great Britain.  Or something like that.  ;)  Very reminicent of his parents wedding back in the early 1980's (Prince Charles and Princess Diana.)

April 28, 2011

Take Your Kids to Work Day coincided with the boys Spring Break so off they went on the VRE to the big city to spend the day with Ken.

April 27, 2011

New is not always better.  Out with the new, back in with the old.  :/

April 26, 2011

Owen asked if he could try a new fruit.  He picked out a star fruit.  Yum.  It would be great in a salad.  :up:

April 25, 2011

Is there anything better than hard boiled eggs?  I don't think so!  :)

April 24, 2011

How much longer do you think that Shane will be able to punk his brother into helping him do his chores before Owen catches on?  Shane is so lazy.  But at least he's smart.  lol

April 23, 2011

The Easter Bunny has a sense of humor.  :)  He somehow knew that the kids were being twits when he put their baskets together so he made sure that he reminded them how awesome their mom is!

April 22, 2011

FFES celebrated Earth Day by having the kids help spruce up the grounds.  They did such a great job cleaning out the beds and planting new flowers.

I think it was free labor tho.  I'm pretty sure that there are laws against that.  ;)

April 21, 2011

Owen's time on running the mile in preparation for the Great Train Race.

April 20, 2011

Owen can't have just any old plastic eggs to bring in for the classroom egg hunt.

April 19, 2011

I'm pretty sure that Owen loves his teacher.  <3

April 18, 2011

Washington DC has the National Zoo.

They have nothing on our very own Fredneck Zoo.

April 17, 2011

Best snack evar!

April 16, 2011

Owen's flag football season has been so much fun.  Of course, it's always more fun to win than to lose but still.  :)

April 15, 2011

Just so you know, Shane wasn't the only one to get a bad report from school this week.

His brother apparently is trying to keep up with him.  Meh

April 14, 2011

Owen enjoys going against the grain.  He's very hard headed and stubborn.  Once he gets something in his mind, and someone challenges him on it, it's on like donkey kong.

Therefore, I give you pretty pink pirate bandana. 

So take that, stereotypes!

April 13, 2011

Ken leaves at 7:00 am for work.  He and Owen's inside joke goes like this:

Ken:  Good night, Owen.  See you in the morning.

Owen:  "Maaayyyybbeee"

So Owen left this note for him in the bathroom one night when Ken got home late from a meeting.

Teehee.  So cute.  :)

April 12, 2011

Not really the letter that you want to receive from your child's school.  :/

April 11, 2011

Any bets on how many times over the next couple of years I "get to" take a picture similar to this?  :/

April 10, 2011

Like our cool rental car?  It's a little boxy.  Just a "little"!

April 9th, 2011

Space Held for picture.  I think it's on my big camera.  :/

April 8, 2011

Second best part of the Asheville trip was catching up with one of my best friends from college Rhonda.  :)

April 7, 2011

View from the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC.  :)

April 6, 2011

Best part of our trip to Asheville was scooting down to Anderson to see my folks.  It was great catching up with them even for an hour!

April 5, 2011

Picture of the day.

A prop plane's propellers slowed down by my camera phone: cool!

Meeting up with friends in Asheville, NC: even cooler!

Actual prop plane trip:  yeah...not so much!

April 4, 2011

The typical to-do list.  Write it down, check it off the list.  Rinse.  Repeat. 

April 3, 2011

A child's imagination.  I wish I had it.  And I hope that they only ever imagine living in cardboard boxes.  ;)

May 3, 2011

Owen has a business where one of the services that he offers is to paint people's nails.  The paint was a little crooked but that's okay.  <3

April 2, 2011

There's a new address in the neighborhood.  21 1/2 Pebble Place.  teehee

April 1, 2011

The epitomy of laziness.  And yes, before you ask, I did buy them.  :/  And no, it's not an April Fools joke. ;)

March 31, 2011

Tennis practice lasted 15 minutes.  Tops.  Maybe 10.   Bummer.

March 30, 2011

Homework.  Homework.  Homework.  Life is so hard for Shane. 

March 29, 2011

Second time I've scraped my bsf Donna off the tennis court because of an injury. Wasn't the way I envisioned spending the afternoon.  :(

March 28, 2011

How embarrassing.  My MOM is picking me up from school.  AND she's taking my picture.  Ugh.  I'm so embarrassed!

Teehee.  Clicky, click, click!

May 27, 2011

Shane is such a bright child.  If he applied himself, and actually turned in his work on time (or at all), he would be a straight A student with no effort whatsoever.  Ugh.  He drives me crazy.

March 26, 2011

How our Saturday afternoons are spent right now.  Flag football games for Owen at the Field House.

March 25, 2011

Spring has sprung.  Yay!

March 24, 2011

I love this coffee maker.  Now I can drink my decaf cawfee and Ken can have his regular cawfee.  Best invention ever.  :up:

March 23, 2011

How I deal with my children. 

March 22, 2011

Flag football has started!  Owen's playing for the Little Dolphins and loving it. 

March 21, 2011

I love preteen attitudes and the go-to-h-e-double-hockey-sticks look is just the icing on the cake.  :/

March 20, 2011

Not too old yet to like going down the slide at Kenmore Park!  <3

March 19, 2011

Out with the old.  In with the new.

While I was gone, Ken decided to go over and tell our neighbors Mike and Mary goodbye because they were moving out.

So being such great friends with them, he would naturally walk through the garage and right into the house to see them. 

The problem is that he didn't realize that Mike and Mary had already moved out and this was the new neighbor's moving their stuff in and he walked right into the wife. And then proceeded to ask where Mike and Mary were.

He's awesome. And on top of things. :p

It didn't occur to him that it wasn't our friends' stuff even when he walked by the girls outside barbie bikes and electric cars. Or all of the cars and the motorcycle that are completely different from their cars. lol

I'm glad that I'm not the only blond in the family.  :p

March 18, 2011

What I do.  Go, go, go, go!