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.  :)