Un-Plugged Summer

So Summer Break is here!

I challenged my family to Un-Plug this summer.
Meaning, no tv
no xbox
no movies
no video games
no computer games
no games on our phones

So I put up a poster with a $50 dollar bill . The person who goes the longest "un-plugged" wins the $50!

now.... there are exceptions... my husband works on the computer, and so do I. But I have drastically reduced my hours on the computer... doing much of the leg work... the old fashion hand & paper method.. instead of writing with the computer key board.

I check my email every three days or so.. and I only get an hour. So... blogging is going to be sparce... but will be well worth it!

Other exceptions are... if we want to watch a movie as a family... that is legal.

okay

gotsta run!

Happy birthday

We had a fun weekend- celebrating a birthday-

Go Go Diego style.

My oldest son- was very helpful... he created an obstical course...

where rescue hero's had to go around under- in and out... to rescue a stuffed animal at the top of the slide...

then slide down

and the next Rescue Hero starts the course.

We're BACK!

Since the kids were gone Christmas vacation- and since
hockey hasn't started yet..
they wanted to invite a few friends over.

(well- actually I don't know if they invited them over or not... )

I just woke up Saturday morning with a house FULL of kids!

We had a XBOX kinect- Sports challenge/Pancake morning...



and then...
as quickly as they came...
I looked up
while washing dishes
and
they were GONE!

Onto another house no doubt....
probably
trying to score another breakfast-- from a different mom.

It's never too late

Here is my adorable IRON MAN- Today he was saying he wanted to go Trick or Treating again.
I tried to explain- it was a ONCE a YEAR kind of treat.

Well- he and his friends went out to prove me wrong.
They came running back 10 min later... with candy...
"Mom we trick or treat again!"

Looks like-- if you are 4 you can trick or treat even into Nov!



I took this picture and then - noticed my living room floor.

I know- Last post I said I was a flybaby... and look
at this conflicting photographic evidence!






But this is the culprit-
why my floor is never clean.


I pick them up- and then he just dumps them back out.

They need to be out and about- you never know when you are going to want to make ships and such.


It's funny because after I clean them up...
he comes back in ...
and sighs a big frustration....
as if to say...
"who keeps putting these away! I always have to dump them out!"





Here is our pumpkin..
and his pumpkin face....

Play of the Dawn Treader highlights

I've got to run---
but I wanted to post some pictures of our
AMAZING
Play in a Week
Production of
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
(a Narnia story)


My youngest was a "Sea Warrior"
(My husband was opposed to the term mermen.)







Second son-- one of Caspian's sailors

the only Sailor who didn't wear the right color pants.
(what a flaky mom! How did I NOT read the email I wrote and sent out... about costumes!?!?)


















Another one of my youngest...
he practiced
all week-
and then
when it came down to performing... he had no interest!
(dang- stubborn 4 year olds!)

But he was the cutest Sea Warrior of all...




and then the last picture is of a friend of ours...

actually
Anjeny's son..
He was Aslan.



He helped create his costume... that is just cut brown butcher paper/ brown paper bag.. type stuff..

more details to come..
like I said..
I gotsta run!


Oh- Oldest son was the head of a Sea Monster
and third son was a slave...

It was a fun- exhausting week.

We had a birthday this month!

All my son wanted for his birthday was this skateboard.so... we ordered it a few weeks before his birthday - so he could have it in time.
Then a few days before his birthday-
he was playing soccer... and goofed up his foot.

On crutches for a week...
Just so happens-- the week of his birthday! Here he is going off to school ... poor, poor birthday boy.

Poor guy has waited months for his skateboard...and had to wait a few more days before he could use it. Isn't that how life always happens?

Family Tradition:

Birthday boys always get to pick dinner and dessert.

It was a fun- low/key/family birthday of board games and pizza with chocolate chip cookies.

Happy Birthday Honey!

Long Awaited Puppy Pictures!

We've had Bauer for 3 weeks now.

Here is my son... exhausted from me trying to get a cute photo of Bauer...

I was not exaggerating.

This is a non-photogenic pup.

Here my son is-- waking up early to walk the dog.

What a good son.

Over- all... Bauer is adorable.

He can sit and lay down... (if we have a treat)

He is great on walks...

he is a hesitant running companion...

(he's still young)

He is friendly and good with other dogs and kids...

He'll fetch for two throws.. and then he wises up and wont chase the ball.

(He just lays down and rolls over... and gives me a look like, "I know all you are going to do is throw it again- once I get it. So what's the point?")

He's so cute.

So far... so good.