Bring on Saturday

Where has the week gone? So far this week I have had posts titled, 'Almost Wednesday', 'It's Wednesday Already' and 'Friday Already'. Obviously none of them made it very far. We have had a lot going on this week and getting much extra done (projects, blogging etc.) has been next to impossible. We've also been battling allergies, colds and teething to top it all off.

Thursday night was pretty exciting at our house, a loud thunderstorm rolled through with a lot of lightning displayed and lots and lots of hail! It was so loud that we had a hard time hearing each other while we were in the same room! The kids got a kick out of it and had a little bit of a delay in bedtime because of it. It's hard to tell in the picture but a lot of the hail was quarter sized and some ping pong ball sized.

(sorry about the blurry water photo but I was too afraid of being beat to a pulp if I opened the door)

As soon as we thought it was about over another round of hail would roll through. It was still a little noisy when the kids went to bed but I told Elee that the thunder was singing her to sleep and I didn't hear another peep out of her. Ardon came out of his room once after a pretty big crash but went back to bed after that. Ah Spring! I remember when Bronze and I use to look forward to big thunderstorms to sleep through, funny how things change ; - )

We have great plans of what we'd like to accomplish, or at least get started on, today but since there's also a family gathering this afternoon so we'll see how far we get!

Just Because

Just because the boys have been ruling the blog posts.
Just because she's my girl.
Just because I found this picture on my phone.

and Just because seeing this picture made me want to pull her out of bed for some snuggle time.

But I wont, I'll let her sleep, and I'll make sure to get some snuggle time in tomorrow!

It Is Still...

Rainy, wet and very dismal outside.

It's driving the kids crazy, they really enjoyed the nicer weather before the rain hit and spent a lot of time out doors.

So this is one of the things we've been doing to pass the time today. Besides dreaming of more pleasant weather, we've been decorating the back door with wipe off marker!

Conversation vs Communication

They are two very different things. Bronze and I are great at one of them, can you guess which one?

We were shopping earlier and as we were leaving the store Bronze made a comment about it being very difficult for one of the checkers to work there because they were a Klingon. Now, I know we've had our 'trekkie' moments (Star Trek for those of you unfamiliar with the terminology) but I was wondering what made this person a Klingon, could they possibly have a large protruding forehead with deep set wrinkles and ridges? Or maybe it was something else, maybe he heard them speak the Klingon language and noticed they had native Klingon cloths on. As I'm pondering the possibilities I hear Bronze's next comment, "it would be so hard to do everything with one arm!" "One arm!" I exclaim and he confirms what he just said. "Wow!" I think " this Klingon must have had some serious battle wounds!" I try to turn my head and see this creature he's talking about as we make our exit. As I look around I don't see anything that fits this description. I look at him questioningly and say "A Klingon?" I can tell he's having one of those 'oh, don't mind my crazy wife moments.' and he looks at me and says, "A SLING on. Yes honey, there's a Klingon working in Target and they lost an arm the last time they were in a fight!" "Oh," I reply, only slightly disappointed that my hopes for seeing a real life Klingon have been dashed to the ground.

I'm sure our fellow shoppers wondered what was wrong with us but we got a great laugh out of it. We definitely have very different ways of communicating, sometimes it's frustrating but we've been married long enough now that most of it's just laughable!

Whale Tale

Eliad got a floppy, squishy whale recently.

The tail is so much fun to chew on!

It kind of feels funny in his mouth.

This must be what real fish makes Meme feel like. Gaggy!

How silly.

Maybe we should try the other end.

Nope, it's just as gross.

Well that was fun, what next?

Cruising, Crashing and Camo

Ardon got a new bike for his birthday this year and he wants to be outside riding it all the time. He comes out at the crack of dawn and the first thing he asks to do is go out to ride his bike. We have a large patio out back so it works well for his early morning riding.

This morning while he was out I kept hearing a lot of crashing sounds.

I looked out to see if Gabby was getting in his way or if it was something else.

It was something else ; - P He had the face on his hoodie zipped up! It does have mesh eye holes but obviously they weren't very easy to see through since they're hard to even see in the picture!

After I took his picture he told me that he thought it might be a good idea to unzip the hood so that he could see better and not crash into stuff!

All Buttered Up

A while back I thought it might be fun for the kids to try making their own butter.

I rarely have glass baby food jars but had saved a couple that I did use recently. We filled them with heavy whipping cream and started shaking away. As we were shaking Ardon stated that it should only take 10 seconds not 10 minutes because that's way too long.

After some sharing of shaking responsibilities we ended up with fresh, sweet butter and butter milk. The kids would have finished a loaf of bread just to eat more of the butter and they actually drank the butter milk!

Someone wandered over to see what all the excitement was about.

Mmm, bread and fresh butter is pretty good stuff!