Swimming!!

It has been warm all week and we have been enjoying the pool.





We are very glad that Craig is coming home today also. Hope you all have a great weekend and are able to stay cool.

Last Airbender

For our outing this week we went and saw The Last Airbender. It was actually good. I wasn't really expecting much but Jacob loves the cartoon and has been trying to convince all of us that we needed to see the movie. So off we went to see it but I did miss the last three minutes of it cause someone insisted he didn't need to use the facilities before the movie started and then couldn't wait another minute to go at the end. Oh well. I guess I can watch the last couple of minutes when it comes out on video.



Craig is jeaous that we saw this without him and we missed and thought of him while we were seeing it. He is in Vegas this week and we miss him and can't wait for him to get back home.

Cupcakes

Our favorite magazine around here is the Disney Family Fun. They had the cutest cupcakes in the July issue so we decided to try and make them.





Here is the magazine showing what they look like. And the cupcake was the first one that Zach did and we should have squeezed a little frosting out on something else first. The first amount came out in a big glop and made a bit of a mess. The boys did think that it was hilarious though and this was the favorite cupcake.



This is a final shot of all of their little cupcakes. The boys are being a claw and don't the cupcakes look awe inspired or terrified I can't decide which one.

Time out

This is how Jacob puts his webkinz in timeout!



I am very glad he doesn't get to send me to timeout.

Boys Bathroom

Well Craig has been busy at work all week and it is finally done. Everyone is so excited and it is nice to not have to share a bathroom with the boys anymore. Craig took the old toilet out over the weekend and we have had to just share our bathroom all week.



He painted, retiled, replaced the old toilet, replaced the old showerhead and faucets. It looks great. We love it. The boys are excited about the new toilet cause it has a number one flusher and a number two flusher now if they can just remember which is which:)



I just have a few finishing touches a new hamper a shelf to hold some more sponge bob stuff that we want in there and I think I will make some bikini bottom flowers out of vinylf for the top of the walls. We missed our outing this week since we stayed home with Craig and helped him out when he needed it but it was well worth it.

Nickelmania

I have to admit that today was the day that I have been dreading. The arcade is my least favorite place to be. I don't really care to play the games and it is always noisy. But this is one of the boys favorite places to go so we have to have an adventure there occasionally and an adventure is always had for all involved.








Of course this is one of the boys favorite places to go so they had a blast and at the end of the day that is what was important. Hope you have a great week.

Toy story 3

Hope that everyone had a great fourth of July weekend. We saw Toy Story 3 this weekend and it was a great movie for those of you who haven't seen it we all loved it. Saw it in 3d not sure if that really added that much but it was still fun. Although Craig would tell you that it made a huge difference. Jacob couldn't wait to pose with the posters and we weren't the only ones there this time taking these pictures there was another family doing this also. Zach however still didn't want to. Think he has reached the age of misbelieving.

Setting up the pool.

The boys were so excited to set the pool up today. Of course it is easy to forget how long it actually takes to have it up and running. They are always dissapointed to see how long it takes to fill with water. Here they are helping Craig set it up.



Then they each wanted to take a picture. This is the picture that Zach took.



And then the picture that Jacob took.



Several hours after they started filling it with water Jacob wanted to take a picture of how full it was getting. He took this picture and you really can't see much but the leaves but there was about 3 to 5 inches of water in the bottom.



On the way back in the house Jacob wanted to take a couple of pictures of things that he said he wouldn't want to forget when he was older. A rocket that they were firing off with Craig.



And the Jack head on the back end of my car. I think he likes to take pictures.



Of course he also loves to be in them so he ask me to take one of him also. I also asked Zach to be in this picture but he just did his usual and rolled his eyes and walked away.



Have a happy 4th everyone.

Part one this weeks adventure

We decided to take the kids out for a movie and dinner tonight for this weeks adventure. We were very dissapointed to find out that eclipse is now on the imax screen so we weren't able to see toy story 3 on it. And couldn't find a good time to watch the movie so we went to dinner and will continue the movie portion of our adventure to the weekend. Of course we can't have an adventure without some pictures. Jacob is always eager to pose for a picture.



And Zach not so much.



It was nice to have Craig along and we decided that as much fun as we have been having on our own it is always more fun when Dad is able to join us.

This week is mom's adventure.

Well this week I got sick of listening to the boys argue about where they wanted to go for their adventure and kept threatening them that if they couldn't agree and quit argueing I would go without them. They didn't believe me....

So guess what I did?



I went for a pedicure. It was long overdue it had been at least a month since my last one maybe even a couple of weeks longer. A warm bubbly bath and foot massage beats whining kids just about any day of the week. Of course I did feel guilty for blowing them off to spend the day with a friend so I had to bring home the new Percy Jackson dvd and a promise to make up the adventure over the weekend with Craig coming along. So now everybody is happy again and they also learned a lesson. I do have my limit as to how much whining I can listen to and then I'm going to the salon. Hopefully they will keep that in mind the next time they decide to fight but probably not. And I did offer to take both of them Zach was very offended that I would even suggest it. I explained that they would just massage and soak their feet but he said no. Jacob decided he wanted one and went but when we sat down for ours he changed his mind and sat and played games on the phone instead.