5/27 - Happy Memorial Day!

We set up a tent in the living room and had some friends over.  What did you do?

11/23 - Mr. Waternoose calls for his Mommy

I worked from home on Friday, and Mr. Waternoose kept me company.  Here, he models Lil' Gal's placesetting for me.

After I signed off, it was time for the twins' first slumber party.  We had pizza and corn dogs picnic style in front of the fire, played Candyland, and had pie and cocoa.

Oh, no!  Chipmunks in jail!

Then we read stories and got tucked into our sleeping bags.  (Lil' Guy loves his, so no teasing, please.)  It took a while, but slumber did come.  And it stayed!  Those kids stayed on the living room floor all night and slept in for a record time the next morning!  Woooo!

In the morning, we had pumpkin pancakes and attempted potato sack races in our sleeping bags.  Um, Lil' Gal, you're doing it wrong...

9/23 - Weekend fun: Derby championship edition

We had a pretty lazy Saturday last weekend, recovering from a big week in first grade and a lot of meetings at work for Mommy.  Here, the Mario gang goes camping on the moon.  (Dunno -- that's what they told me we were doing.)

It was the West Regional Playoffs, and while the twins have come with me to many a practice, they had yet to see a real bout.  It was time to do something a-bout that.  (heh)

We always like hanging out with Bit O' Honey.

 "Can we go look at the girls?"  Who could say no to that??

David looked very dapper, sporting his black and shiny blingy gold.

In the end, the twins' favorite thing about the bout was the cupcakes.  Oh, well.  What's not to like about  rainbow colored cupcake with glittery frosting?

We did not get to see the Half of Besterns Flash Mob, where refs and friends put the ref hand signals to music, but it was a thing of beauty.

8/21 - Mini McQueen says his future is so bright, he needs two pairs of shades

I’m mailing the stuff Ry left behind from our camping adventure back to him today.  Mini McQueen tried to jump in the box, but I got him out just in time.

Mini McQueen is a hit with the ladies...  Dana and I ran into Liz at lunch today, and Mini McQueen wanted his picture taken with both of them.  (Actually, they asked me to take their picture with him.  They want to see their picture on my little blog.  Sillies.)

8/17 - Summer vacation: Camping edition

Um, hi.  I'm back.  I meant to announce that I'd be off for a bit, but things got super busy and then I was in the woods.  Let me explain...

So my friend and I had been talking about camping and thinking it would be great to take our collective kids on a camping adventure, and then we put our planning heads together and just like that, a camping trip was born.

First, we took a ferry ride into the city to have lunch with our friends.

Then, we packed up everything but the kitchen sink, and went off to the redwoods.

We met banana slugs, deer, raccoons, huge crows, and lots of mosquitoes.

The kids frolicked on fallen trees and made "dirt angels" in the dust.  (In their pajamas. Sigh.)

We played pirates, finding that fallen trees make excellent planks and pirate ships.  We found nuts and called them gold dubloons.

We went to the beach and ran wild with friendly dogs.

We ate camp stove nachos and made s'mores.

We camped with twin 6-year olds and a 3-year old and not only survived, but thrived.  Best vacation ever.

8/05 - Weekend edition: Sleeping Bag edition

Next week, we are going camping with friends.  This will be the twins' first camping trip, and my first camping trip with kids.  This weekend was all about getting our supplies together.

Finding budget sleeping bags ended up being quite the adventure -- 4 stores in a day! -- but we found them. Here we are "practicing" in an adult sleeping bag.

And here, the matching "Miss Kitty" sleeping bags we picked.  So cute...

We also went to Bit O' Honey's birthday party and jumped jumped jumped jumped.

I went to see the B.A.D. Girls championship bout and got to meet Demanda Riot.  How awesome is she?

6/12 - Skeletons love camping

Skeleton tried to climb into this tent, but the people it belonged to screamed and ran away. Poor Skelly.  He’d be so good at telling spooky stories around the campfire.

Skeleton rates that burger a "10." He pretended he had ketchup in his eyes.  I pretended I did not get ketchup on my white shirt.

How was Field Day today?