Happy Birthday Papa Coach (aka Dad)

Today is Papa Coach's birthday! Here's a couple of my favorite pictures of him enjoying my kids! Sadly I don't have any of him with K on my available disks (trust me there are pictures, just not on the disks).
For those of you who don't know, his name was coined when B was little and would want us to tell him which Grandpa he was going to go see and we'd tell him the one with the coach - soon Dad was forever more known as "Papa Coach."

B fishing with Papa Coach at Roaring River.

Z snapping green beans with Papa Coach.

A working on wrapping this guy around her little finger.

I love you Dad! Happy Birthday!!

Post 300?!

Man I gotta make this one good - I didn't realize it was post 300!

We picked out our pumpkin today, we went to do it yesterday but the pumpkin patch in the neighborhood had already closed so we just took pictures and then went out today to get THE pumpkin. This is the time of year that I really miss Missouri - we loved going on the great pumpkin hunt every year and the great tree hunt, sometimes we even hunted apples in an orchard. I suppose when you don't do guns then you have to hunt inanimate objects. hee hee
Here's the pictures:

Wednesday I had two little pumpkins - they were so cute!

I love this second picture - A is tired of this cute, huggy stuff!

Go FAST!

Spaghetti face

One of the pumpkin patch pictures,
the sun was in their eyes so they had a hard time...

Ready for pumpkin hunting. I love the profile and the shadow.

Now that's just a sweet face.

Find the pumpkin...

Happy Birthday Joseph

Today is our sweet nephew, Joseph's birthday. A year ago he was welcomed into this family and he has grown so much. Can't wait to see him at Christmas!!

So much to share

First a Z funny for G'pa John.
Tonight I was reading The Three Sillies by Steven Kellogg - very silly book. At one point in the book the cat calls the gentleman a "real bozo" and Z says, "hey I'm bozo." Now that is silly!

I've put together a completely non-sense montage because there is no rhyme or reason to these pictures, just a normal day with Jason's Clan.

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Update on Kyle-o-meter

Check out these results:
Adrien - 1st place
Dayna - 2nd place
Cynthia - 3rd place

couple of other ladies - who obviously had a stronger turbo booster in 4th and 5th

Sherry (ME) - 6th place

then 4 more ladies....

And there I was racing for last place.

Kyle-o-Meter

Some of my tri-club friends, Adrien, Dayna, & Cynthia decided that it would be fun to do the Kyle-o-Meter 5K this morning. I was not one of gung-ho organizers that thought it was a good idea I was just the flunky standing close by that got dragged into it... ha ha! Actually I think I was egging people on to do it too - sadly I haven't been feeling well. I have had a cold for about two weeks and last week it got worse with a sore throat and cough, so when I woke up this morning I was miserable and worried about how I would preform - I have really high expectations. hee hee
Needless to say it wasn't my best race but it was so much fun. I never knew that these things could be so fun but even this morning coughing, hacking, blowing my nose and sitting in the dark waiting for my friends to come pick me up I was excited and anxious.

Here's my cheering crew:


This is me after crossing the finish line preparing to hug that cheering crew - they were yelling so loud!!


Lastly here my story:
I am working toward running a 5K without walking. Today was not my goal day, today was just fun. I was running/walking with a couple of ladies and we just kept taking turns passing each other. That is until I kicked in my turbo booster (ha) and blew them out of the water. Okay so it wasn't that dramatic but I have to have a good story like that when my chief supporter, Jason, informs me first thing that not only did the speed walker beat me but so did a lady with a stroller. I'll have you know that lady with the stroller only had it the last 1/4 of the race, I saw her switch off with another woman (who I beat)! Hee hee - anything to make myself feel better. Finally there was an 8ish year old that didn't want me to pass her either, I was beginning to think that she thought I was chasing her, because every time I sped up she'd look over her shoulder and run - I guess I'm pretty scary when I'm out there running. Just in case you were wondering I snaked past her too! Suffice to say it was a fun Sunday morning.

Z funnies

Today when we got home from childcare Z had a little accident. I cleaned it up with the towels on hand, one of which was his Woody & Buzz towel. When we came out from cleaning up the mess he said to me:
"Mommy, in the future, will you please not use my Toy Story towel?" He said it JUST like that, ... in the future... wonder if I ever say that? My response (sadly) was the smarty pants one, "I won't use it if you don't pee on the floor." *sheepish grin*

Then a little while ago, Z came up to me with a tissue and a dead ant. He said, "look Mommy a dead ant God and Jesus saved us." I'm guessing that his Sunday school lessons are making an impact but need a little fine tuning.

Lastly, we are working on keeping Z from standing on the couch -why he started doing this I don't know. But the last two days he's been "grounded" from the couch - he couldn't sit on it. Today whenever he stands up on the couch he quickly sits down and says, "oh sorry Mommy."

This kid CRACKS me up!!

Cotton Pickin' Cute

One of my friends, Amie blessed us with a bag FULL of cute clothes... and these adorable little slippers that A is in love with. It isn't a great picture but you can see how pleased she is with her new shoes - I have a feeling we'll never get them off of her.

A fun day

Today we had a family day. It started early with a parent teacher conference and a meeting with my children's church collaborator but quickly turned into a family day around 9:30 this morning.
We had intentions of going to a Dino Park but they close if it rains and we had some mist this morning and the radar indicated that it could rain around noon. So we hung those plans up and went for lunch at our favorite family restuarant - Red Robin and then went to the Austin Children's Museum. It was a lot of fun - the kids just ran, explored and played. I couldn't have asked for a better kids day - or at least I didn't think I could. We headed out around 2pm and A fell asleep on the way home and stayed asleep. For the first time in months I took a nap, so did Jason. It was so nice! B&K kept an eye on Z and I got to relax for a little while. When I woke up the kids and I made ghosts for the front yard. It was a great day!
Here's our pictorial proof - hey a montage, how long has it been?

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If...

I had a super power I would be able to make myself flat. That way I could slide under the bathroom door and unlock it when my 3 year old locks it and then shuts it, with all of us outside in the hall! Oh me oh my....

New names

Jason & I have decided to rename Z&A. From now on they will be known as Headwound Harry and Headwound Henrietta - ugh! Headwound Harry took a running charge into the kitchen counter yesterday giving himself a nasty little gash on his head. Thankfully it is in the hair so any scar will be covered.... until he joins the military and becomes a parachutist (oh help me Lord!). He was not at all worried about the blood (which it didn't bleed as much as I thought it would being a head wound), he was very intrigued by it. "Look Mommy I can see my boo boo."
Headwound Henrietta has been working on getting this name for awhile. Today was the worst for me, she fell off her chair as she was trying to climb into it - she's my climber. Fell back on her head - ouch! I became concerned when she wanted to take a nap at 9am but I have attributed that to her cold and waking her up early this morning. As I said this wasn't her first head wound, the other day while in Daddy's care she took a header into the table leg and gave her self a big purple goose egg, smack dab in the middle of her forehead.
What am I going to do with these two?

OUCH!


"Is that a chunk of my hair?!"

"Bad counter!"

Completely unrelated but funny too:
Tonight my friend Lori watched the kids while I had a staff meeting. Apparently Headwound Henrietta was stinky and Lori said, "I don't know how I'm going to change you" (thinking that I didn't provide a diaper bag) to which Headwound Harry said, "you need to get some wet wipes and a diaper." He's so helpful when he's coherent and concious - ha!

Lastly, here are a couple of pictures of what a little card A is (yea yea Headwound Henrietta takes too long to type out!):
She loves to get a hold of B's googles and his swim caps, but never leaves them on in good light long enough to get a picture (so I apologize for the quality of this photo).


Another thing that she now does that I can't get a picture of (because I don't keep my camera in the bathroom) is she sits on Z's potty chair and "puts on" deodarant - now that is a sight!

B,K&A all thought I was doing kid pictures when I took Z's headwound picture so they posed too, enjoy.

Because my MIL insists

My favorite MIL (mother-in-law) has reminded me that I have neglected you, my loyal reader. So here's the cliff notes of life in Hippy Dippy Land.
BKZ all got flu shots today.
Jason, Z, A & I all have colds - miserable.
A likes ketchup on her crayons, scissor cap and colored pencils (note to self: never leave coloring supplies on the table with A while she's eating. Thankfully I think she was just double dipping and sucking the ketchup off the items but yuck just the same!
I'm now CPR certified (again) and also first aid certified - thanks to Girl Scouts. That's also why I was out of my house ALL weekend (Saturday 9-4).
K and I get to go to GS camp in November - cabin camping, do I hear a YES!
B had a swim meet Friday & Saturday - yep I double booked on Saturday. Thank God for good friends.
Z thinks Thomas the Tank Engine video games are the "old" ones that Daddy used to play on his computer.


Here's some pictures, do cliff notes usually have pictures?

My little Z man can really put together an outfit!

A really gets INTO playing.
Poor girl her Mommy was just laughed and took pictures even though she was stuck.


Z&A's buddy Emma came over to play and mess with the caterpillars.

Friday night K&Z went to watch big brother B swim.

Of course there's a picture of B swimming - the best picture I could get - notice he's underwater!


Finally my favorite picture (this week)!

After the swim meet Z decided to have a "sleepover" in B's room.
Apparently Max wasn't too pleased that his nice comfortable bed was replaced with this squirmy, lumpy blanket/kid.