My Kind of Day!

There sure was a lot of activity going on in the kitchen this afternoon (I.E. lots of cooking type things). And I had such a good time...I wasn't involved in any of it!

Back Up a Minute

What was that about Global Warming?

And, Global Warming, if you do exist....El Nino has totally kicked your hiney this year!

As you can see Granny Sherry just happens to be visiting the same time she was here last year. Thankfully I can do a great stand in for my mom!

*Disclaimer: Please do not call CPS that my children are barefoot. We were about to get in the car and we put shoes and socks on them after we have arrived at our destination because they pull all footwear off as we are driving.

Kate Gosselin Would Have a Heart Attack

As we were eating lunch at one of the restaurants in town today I couldn't help but think...What would Kate Gosselin do? If you ever saw the episode where they went to the Crayola factory then you know. She would freak out, jerk the markers away from the kids, and not let them color in fear *gasp* stains might get on their clothes.

And as much as I

A. couldn't believe a restaurant would give 2 year olds (or any kids for that matter) markers

and

B. worried that with the slightest turn of my head the restaurant would have a new mural on their wall,

really enjoyed seeing how much fun Kyle and Reed had coloring. Sure their hands, face, and eventually their hamburger buns were covered in green and blue, but it says "washable" and "nontoxic" right on the markers. The way I see it, we're not at home for me to clean it up...Go to town, Boys!

And Kate, Sweetheart, you really should stay away from Olde Tymers on Main Street in Durango. Just a warning.

His First Impression

I was sitting checking email when I felt a pat on my leg. I looked down and saw this.

Which I'm sure most of you are thinking, "So what? There's a picture of a kid with a pacifier in his mouth almost everyday." Ahh, yes. But this kid doesn't take a pacifier. Seeing the pacifier I actually thought it was Kyle, then did a double take and laughed when I saw Reed standing there smiling. Kyle didn't think it was near as funny as I (or Reed) did. The next 10 minutes were spent with Kyle pulling pacifiers out of Reed's mouth and Reed running off to find another one to put in as fast as he could.

10 Apples Up on Top

It was Read Across America Day yesterday and JR was supposed to dress up like a Dr. Seuss character. And with the only Hobby Lobby an hour drive from my house, I knew I needed to come up with something fairly easy. Easy, but original and, of course, funny.
Though you can't tell from this picture, JR did think 10 Apples Up on Top* was a funny idea. (You know how he is about having his picture taken in sunlight. Ugh!) And I will say this was one of the easiest projects I've ever done...except for the 3rd degree hot glue gun burn I inflicted on myself.

Since I had to make this Hobby Lobbyless, I found myself loading up my cart at Wallyworld with Styrofoam balls, red paint, glitter, and green pipe cleaners. My idea was to make the apples myself...when lo and behold, I happened upon decorative apples! And since buying premade apples was half the cost of making my own, I threw those apples in the basket as fast as I could. I was raised under my mother's motto, "Make it easy on yourself", and when it comes to crafting I have a motto of my own: Easier, cheaper, and non labor intensive beats messy, costly, and time consuming any day!

As for the only snafu in the process, here's my 3rd degree hot glue gun burn.

That would be the top of my leg. (No more crafting in shorts for me.) I thought the hot glue gun was out of glue so I was loading a new stick. Guess what? It wasn't out of glue. And as I loaded the new stick in, it pushed out the rest of the glue...right on my leg. On the bright side, I'm pretty sure I'm permanently waxed in that location for the rest of my life.

I never expected the costume to make it through the whole day. (JR is a boy, after all.) But the apples did stay all glued together, they just came apart from the headband. It might have even broken apart in his backpack. He said the headband started hurting his head around lunchtime, so he traded it in for this little number.

Just like me. Always up for multiple costumes...especially when they're hats!

*10 Apples Up on Top Costume Tutorial:

• supplies needed: headband, premade apples, hot glue gun
• step-by step instructions: Glue apples to headband.

Texas Texas, Yee-Haw!

Happy Texas Independence Day!

While Kyle's busy doing his best Davy Crockett impersonation (Yes, that's a coonskin cap on his head), Reed is giving a tip 0f the hat to you, Texas, on this, your 174th anniversary of the signing of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

My friend, JD, was a little PG-13 rated in his Facebook status about Santa Anna (The President of Mexico who was captured at the Battle of San Jacinto) so I'll clean it up a bit for this family friendly blog and just say...Texas Independence Day! Take That, Santa Anna!

And for you non Texans, I only had to look up how many years ago Texas won its independence. (And if I was better/quicker in math I wouldn't have even had to look that up because I remember we had our sesquicentennial in 1986.) Not only do we Texans take Texas History in the 7th grade, but if your parents (and their parents, and so on) are native Texans, then you hear Texas history your entire life. Which reminds me I'm doing a terrible job passing all this history onto JR...his main knowledge of Texas is Schlitterbahn.

Yes. You May Ooooh and Aaaaah.

I know.

Adorable.

Pretty sure these are the cutest purchases I've ever made.

And if you know me, you know I tried these hats on myself.

Of course I did.

Unfortuately, they just don't have the same effect (which was really disappointing, because I love hats!)

The resident Ingy fashionista says the way to wear sock monkey hats this season is to rock the pacy, but nix the shirt.