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I had to buy it. Honest.
When you get your brows done and find this at the checkout… I mean, I had to buy it, right?!
More jumping with friends!
Getting their jump on with good friends on a day off of school! Bonus points for matching Pokémon shirts.
Katie being a monkey.
How do you even choose?!
The funny thing is both these cards have come up at the same time before with the same players.
Earlier this year:
I come from a family of hoarders.
This was from 1977. 😂
Her six weeks were up!
Katie got to switch out her earrings today because her six weeks were up. She chose these dangle hearts.
Garbage fail.
When you hand your son the garbage basket and ask him to take it out and he dumps it straight into the big garbage bin instead of taking the bag out and tying it.
Sometimes they really make me smile.
I walked in to see this.
She’s growing up…
The kitchen and all the play food are going away… I’m kinda sad because I loved to play with that stuff for a long time but she decided it was time to let it go. And we can now reclaim a big section of space in the basement.
Last-minute jumping afternoon
Once the kids finished cleaning the basement I was going to put on a movie for them and make lunch. Then a friend texted to invite us to Jump America—they had an all-day special and NO ONE WAS THERE. So I made quick sandwiches and we were off! Owen made me happy by wearing the shirt I made. Katie refused.
Katie and her friend apparently got tired of jumping and did this.
Our basement window visitor.
He’s been there for quite a while…
Owen learned how to vacuum.
The kids had the day off school so they were cleaning the basement and I was supervising and organizing my own stuff but I had to have him do it since my back really hurt (for no good reason). I swear he’s done it before but he said he hadn’t. He had so much fun—and was gobsmacked when I pulled the extender handle out (and then he instantly turned it into a gun).
This definitely stops your Facebook scroll!
Ha! There we are!!
PUT THAT DOWN!!!
I got to snuggle this precious little thing at MOPs today and sent these pics to Tom.
His response? PUT THAT DOWN!!! 😂
We haven’t had a cute Katie outfit in awhile.
It’s a good night for a fire.
I might be sitting in front of a fire under a blanket because it is nice out…but still a bit chilly. Tom loves me. 🥰
Two old girls sitting in the sun.
All around Halloween costume fail.
When you know you have a costume for your kid in the closet (that you bought at a resale shop last year) so you don’t worry about a costume this year and then you get it out and realize it’s a kid’s medium and you thought it was a men’s medium (because the picture on the package showed an adult plus the cardboard insert was folded so you couldn’t see the checked size box) and the tag just says Medium so now you have to buy or find a costume at the last minute (yes, this is last minute for me).
So you search Amazon and there really are no good kids costumes in the size he needs and men’s costumes are hella expensive so you end up spending $30 on a costume for him that is passable. Stay tuned.
Owen and his Nerf guns.
We were headed to the park to meet a friend of Owen’s so he had to bring enough guns.
Being silly…
And then more normal…
Unripe tomatoes? No problem.
These were all from a tomato plant we didn’t plant but that came up on their own from seeds the Chipmunks dispersed last year…so they got a late start and will never fully ripen. I hated to waste them so tried roasting them. DELISH. They turned out sooooo good. I ate a bunch straight from the pan and froze the rest.
All the beds and she lays here.
Owen wanted to wear his baseball shirt today to celebrate!
He also agreed to go on a walk with me before school this morning. 🥰
Red Hots win! Congrats to the GYB fall champs!
Owen’s team won the fall championship in a 19-17 nail biter today! They were up a few and then down by 10 (and we thought the game might get called by the slaughter rule), then we caught up, then they caught up, and then we were ahead by two and held them off!! Owen did his thing on 1st and caught the ball for the final out of the game! We are so proud of all the boys!!
Here’s a few pics from the game. Owen on second.
A typical sight: tying shoelaces.
Attempting to steal home. I can’t remember if he did or not.
Katie was being punished for earlier transgressions at home and had to sit by me the entire game, so I got these.
The game was stressful to watch because the score was so back-and-forth. But once we came back from being 10 runs down, the entire mood changed and it was a real game!! We were ahead by two going into the top of the seventh inning so we expected they’d score and we’d have to rally in the bottom of the seventh (and last) inning but the boys held them off!
I was taking pics of the last plays and got these. They aren’t great because the fence was in the way, but I love the progression of the excitement, then the boys coming in from the field, then throwing hats in the air! I wished I had gotten a shot of Owen actually catching the ball but it is what it is.
Award ceremony!
TEAM PHOTO!
Funny team photo!
Running the bases (Owen led the way)!
Friends. 💕
Coaches Tom, Ken, Jamie (Head Coach), Mark
Happy boy!
Happy daddy!
Fun with Coach Jamie!
And then it was off to Culver’s to celebrate!
My ME weekend while my family was off camping.
So we’re all friends here. Which means I can safely admit that while we love our family with every ounce of our soul, we all wish for a break now and again, right? Since we don’t have family close by, we rarely get those breaks (other than a date night) so when I lucked into one this past weekend while my husband took both kids on a boy scout camping weekend…I took advantage.
So what did my weekend look like?
- Friday night? Chatting, eating, and drinking margaritas with a new friend Jessica for five hours (we hadn’t realized how late it was because we literally did not stop talking the entire time).
- Saturday morning? Donuts, crafty Cricut tee-shirt projects, and SeneGence facials with Ellyn. She has the machine and she helped me do a test run of simple text shirts before attempting six matching cruise shirts with a more difficult pattern.
- Saturday afternoon? Nachos and a margarita on the couch while watching A Star is Born (which I TOTALLY loved and am strongly considering buying the soundtrack). Then binging every YouTube video performance I could find of Shallows by Lady Gaga and Bradly Cooper.
- Saturday night? Margaritas with Anna and David.
- Sunday morning? Sleeping in in perfect silence until 8:47!
Was I glad to have them home? Well, I enjoyed seeing their faces, but I missed the silence and clean house immediately. 😂
Scout camping weekend
So long story short… Owen has kind of joined scouts. A few of his baseball friends (and dads) are involved and of course they talk about how fun it is and of course Owen wants to do fun things with them…so Tom and I talked and I basically told him I don’t want to be involved so if HE wants to do it with Owen, be my guest. 😄 So they went to a few meetings and then it was time for the big weekend camping trip to Starved Rock, a local State Park campground. The whole family was invited but I opted to stay home for some alone time and Tom was looking forward to taking both kids.
DAY 1
So come Friday afternoon they were all packed and ready to go! I even got Owen out of school a bit early since they had a 2.5-hour drive to get there.
I’m not sure they have enough stuff for 1.5 days (Friday night, Saturday, leaving really early Sunday). We borrowed a tent and then had to take sleeping bags, air mattresses (because how can they sleep on the ground like animals), pillows, backpacks, rain gear, etc.
Fast forward to later that evening when I asked for proof of life and got a text that they (and some friends) were at a local bar because by the time they got there and got set up the camp kitchen was closed. But as it would happen, a marine was having his retirement party so they all got invited to a free buffet!
And then later they did actually sit around a fire for a bit.
DAY 2
Tom taught the boys how to fold flags.
Getting ready to go on a hike by themselves! (The parents followed behind enough to be unseen but still keep an eye on them.) They also took pack lunches.
And then I got this from Tom about noon…and he said he was contemplating packing up and coming home.
I told him to suck it up—he wanted to go camping. 😜
So this is what things looked like later when everyone was gathered under our awning while it rained cats and dogs.
And everyone ended up back at the bar again for dinner—and to get out of the storm. I may have gotten a few THIS REALLY SUCKS texts.
DAY 3
They were up and on the road by 7 Sunday morning so they could get home in time for the last baseball playoffs game. (Our team was so awesome that they won the first game of the playoffs without the coach, two assistant coaches, and three players who were all camping!!) They pulled in shortly before 9:30 and I immediately proceeded to do laundry because everything was wet and muddy.
Tom’s overall feeling on the weekend was it totally sucked because of the bad weather but the kids had fun and he wants to do it again…though maybe in a pop-up or something bigger. The kids did have a blast and can’t wait to go again.
Attack of the fruit flies.
We have been inundated with fruit flies so I tried a bunch of stuff today. I put four bowls out and the only one that got any was the one on the counter.
I probably had 8-10 of these bowls of bugs over two days.
Owen’s 5th grade school picture day outfit!
Another school picture day, another blue shirt. It started accidentally so now it’s tradition.
Mom it’s too bright out here!
Long-haired ladies, you know the struggle.
Long-haired ladies, you know the struggle of going for a walk when it’s windy outside. I don’t do messy buns but I do crazy clip updos.
The things you buy for love.
Neither of these are appealing to me but I know Tom would want to try them.
No, white eyelashes are not my normal.
In my rush to get out of the house early this morning to take Owen to his Lego robotics class at school, my normal makeup routine was rushed. So if you see me within the next hour or so, I don’t have weird white eyelashes for any reason other than I only got primer on before it was time to leave and I forgot my mascara on the steps where I sat down to put my shoes on. 😂
P.S. It was another retail shopping day as I was meeting a friend in the Target parking lot to borrow her tent…and ended up going in with her.