thinkin' about it thursday.

it starts with a "base-" and ends with a "-ball."

*photo from google images

if you know me, you didn't even have to log on today, 'cause you already know what i'm thinkin' about.  it's opening day.  'bout time.  'nough said.

thinkin' about it thursday.

ketchup.

so, there was a daddy tomato, a mommy tomato and a baby tomato walking along.  the baby tomato starts falling behind, so the daddy tomato walks back to the baby tomato and squishes him and says, "ketchup!" {get it, catch up?}

ok, so i'm not thinkin' about the 'ketchup' you dip your fries into today.  i'm thinkin' about the one that means i'm behind on my blogging.  so, here it goes:

first up, is camron.  i think i'm the last one to be posting about his graduation last week.  cam is a state patrolman!  woo-hoo.  we went over to olympia to the academy and watched the diploma ceremony followed by a tour of the facilities and a drive course ride.  so cool.  we spent the night and then went to the capital the next day for the commission ceremony.  so cool.  here are some pics of the academy, hotel, dinner, capitol building, children's museum, the rain.........whoops, sorry, i forgot i didn't take pics of any of that.  that's a bummer, cause it would've been fun to look at.  oh well, these will have to do:

cam just happened to be the front guy in the car line up.  how cool is that?  very.  i didn't get to see that part 'cause you know how in seattle most of the time there's a nice little drizzle just to make the temperature cool and everything smelling good?  well, this day was NOT like that.  it was pouring and very cold and i was inside with 2 sleeping 1-yr-olds.  (but, i was warm, so i really didn't mind.  shhhhhhh.)  i heard it was awesome..........and just look at those pics.  congrats, cam, we are proud of you......and all that other mushy stuff.

moving on.  lane.  he turned one.  we had a party a big green st. patty's day party.  i had fun.  look:

*i had all of lane's extended family, instead of getting him a birthday present, take a pic of themselves wearing green or holding a green birthday sign or have green in the picture and then i printed them off and put a collage on the wall.  (it's behind the 3 kids on the second row of pics.)  my plan is to put the pics in a book for lane to have.  i LOVED this.  it was so so fun to see how creative everyone was and lane had a blast tearing the pics off the wall every time i wasn't looking.  *i've been taking monthly pics, so i printed those off and stuck them on the wall.  *we had tacos with green tortillas, green lettuce, and green guacamole.  *we had a fruit rainbow (which was super fun to put together) and water and sprite to drink.  *cy was not fun on his 1st birthday cause he wouldn't tear into the cake, so i've been "training" lane.  when it came right down to it, he choked.  no fun.  someone dipped his hand into the frosting and he freaked out cause it was on his hand.  oh well, what're you gonna do?  *we also had maddax's birthday the same night and ashley made a super cute volcano cake.  she is so creative.  


phew, i'm tired.

and lastly, this:

so, the party cleared out and will was putting stuff away and he noticed the milk was GREEN.  it scared us a little at first cause we didn't know what would turn the milk green, and then we figured out that we had invited the leprechaun fairy to the party and didn't even know it.  i was afraid my kiddos wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole, but alas i was proven wrong once again.  they loved it.  the next morning we had green eggs (we put a little milk into our eggs when we scramble them, are we the only ones that do that?!?!?!?!?) the baby had a green bottle and cy couldn't get enough of the green milk.  it was so fun and cute and we loved it!  what a good trick.  {cough, ahem, ASHLEY, cough, cough}

and that was our busy, fun week.  i'm good on blogging for awhile, right!?!?!?!?  i need a break.  :)

thinkin' about it thursday.

didn't have time to think today, too busy running around the house getting ready for the big first birthday.  good times, good times.  happy lucky, green, birthday, lane.

there may or may not be a 1st birthday post of all the fun.  it depends on if i ever get un-tired.  don't get your hopes up.

thinkin' about it thursday.

today, i'm thinkin' about....
{my mom.}
i like her.
i like her a lot.
she makes me happy.
hi, mom.

thinkin' about it thursday.

just some things that have been buggin' me this week:
[caution: whining to follow]

• on the top of the fridge this week i found a box of triscuits with 3 half triscuits inside.
• i also found a large box of cheerios with literally 10 o's left in it.  next time you have cheerios, count out 10 and you will see how little that is.
• i ran out of m&m's this week.  totally out.  i cannot remember the last time i didn't have a bag of m&m's.  the good news is in my desperate tearing apart search of the kitchen i found a bag of reese's peanut butter bells from christmas (the whole bag had 2 bells left.)  {hey, there's a pattern going on here.}  so after i finished off the christmas candy, i still needed m&m's.  i then remembered i bought green m&m's for lane's birthday.  yes, i have no shame.  ***hehehe and then will brought home m&m's after work without me even telling him the story!!  same day.  haha that still cracks me up.
• and while we're on the subject of chocolate, i've had to restart my diet every morning this week.  ugh.  it's so annoying.  where'd my willpower go?
• right now i have 3 craft projects going in my kitchen.  i would love to finish them and clean up the mess, but i have 2 kids, and i'm playing on the computer instead.
• i never tie my shoelaces.  on any of my shoes.  except for the first time after i buy them.  well, i got new running shoes, and i haven't broken them in enough to be able to slip them on and off, so every time i exercise i have to bend over and tie my shoelaces.  i know it's the epitome of laziness, but it has been driving me crazy.  i'm considering stopping exercise.
• i asked my sister for her address and instead of just giving it to me she had to ask why first.  why? why!?!?!?  ummmmmmm........so i can mail you stuff, why do people normally want your address?!?!?!?  so they can sleep?  so they can watch tv?  so they can breathe?  sheesh.
• by the end of this month i will no longer have a baby {sad sigh}..........i will have 2 toddlers - which is awesome - but there is something inside of me that is so sad about not having a baby anymore........oh wait, i've been sleeping through the night.  ok, i feel a little better.