the one with the demaracats

ugh...i don't know why it is so hard for me to be consistent with this whole bloggin thing.  it should be easy considering i get all inspired after i read the daily rachael first thing every monrning.  and it's really not that hard once i actually sit down and do it.  it's like taking a daily vitamin...i know it's good for me, strong bones, healthy immune system, yadda yadda...but for some blasted reason, i can't seem to make a habit of it.  

i found an unopened package of pretzel m+m's today.  finding chocolate is equivalent to finding money.  a few months ago i found 67 dollars that i forgot i had...finding chocolate today made me just as excited.  pathetic, i know. 

last weekend we went to portland...i love portland.  portland=NIKE. 

we stayed with my sister at her new place.  it was so much fun just to get to hang out with her.  it's been so long since we've just got to be around each other.  she's self-proclaimed herself as the "fun" aunt.  she doesn't have kids, so she has all these grand ideas of fun things to do and eventually have at her place to spoil her nieces and nephews.  i completely support and encourage this idea.  and yes, my kids love disney cruises, new trucks, and prada...just sayin.  she took us to this place called sky high.  pretty much a giant warehouse made of trampolines...the kids LOVED it!  this is a video of graycie doing a classic, "hey, hey...watch this." (insert attempted flip/trick/whatever) "wait...that wasn't it."  

erin called and left me a message yesterday to ask if my kids could come and play.  i mean, who calls and wants to take all of your kids...without pay, just because. why don't we live closer, WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????!!!!!!! 

a few things easton:

him and i were standing in the kitchen, and he asks; "mom, are we republicans or de-mar-a-cats???" as if that weren't entertaining enough, graycie pipes in from the other room, "WE'RE CHRISTIAN!!!"  


yesterday he was eating some of my all time favorite potato chips (hawaiin sweet maui onion) that made my mouth water just typing that.  easton says, "if these are really made by hawaiins, then i LOVE hawaiins.  and that's the good kind of prejudice."  obviously not fully grasping that concept.  although, i love how sensitive he is to the matter.  anytime steve is talking about an athlete or someone, and describes them as black, easton always gets after him saying, "dad, don't be prejudice." 

a few things tyson:


aubs and addy were here the other day, and tyson got them all a cheesestick for a snack.  trenton, being trenton, tells him, "that's made from horse poop, you know." tyson fires back, "who caews...it still tastes good."  yeah, save it for sophie, trenton!

tyson thinks he's pretty amazing with his "karate moves."  but who can argue?  the kids a phenom.  he had to point out to me though that when sophie folds her arms and kicks her leg out to the side that that is NOT a karate move.  so the next time he was at sophies he had to let her know.  he demonstrated her move and told her, "that is not a karate move...it's just a batgirl move."


thought it was pretty cute yesterday to see tyson seeking help from his older cousin spencer on tying his shoes.  thought it was even cuter to see how patient and caring spencer was in trying to teach him.  

 

so pretty much all these pictures suck...cause i took em on my iphone, and not my super awesome super legit camera.  sad face