What we do on the weekends

Play with friends (with food in our mouth)

Made our first batch of cinnamon rolls ever! With flour everywhere, I am still surprised at how good they were... Beck hated waiting all day for them to get bigger and bigger...

Wash our bikes with daddy

and yet another project for me. Stephen hates coming home and the house smells like spray paint wafting in from the garage (is wafting a word?)But I do love how it turned out. :) (I promise there is pink in the fabric of the 2 chairs and surprisingly it matches just perfect!)

Today we went on a walk. Paisley was in a stroller with me pushing and Beck was riding Paisley's tricycle. He stopped.
Beck: "wait, let me think for a minute" with hand on chin, ponder look on his face
Beck: "I'm trying to think what my heart is wanting me to think."


awww, cute.....

Numbers and Prayer

Lately Beck has had this major obsession with numbers. Which frankly I am kind of excited about because I hate math, so I am hoping that he caught Stephen's side of that. He likes to count and wants to know what numbers come next and says things like "seven in more than 6..." The other day he says to me:
Beck: what is six zero five?
Me: (kind of hearing him, but not answering...)
Beck: mom, listen to my words, what is six zero five?
Me: six hundred and five
Beck: count to six zero five mom
Me: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10... I made it up to 236 and he gave up and walked away....

Tonight as Beck was saying family prayer, he was doing a really great job thanking HF for lots of stuff, like school, and friends, and break dancing. Stephen was telling him: to bless that we can sleep in our beds.
Beck: Bless that we sleep in our beds, for a second
Stephen: all night long
Beck: bless that we can sleep in our beds, all night long, with mommy...

LOL, what can I say, my kids love me. :)

Car Trouble

So the other day I had to take my little brother to the airport. We went to get in the car and it wouldn't start. I have forever had troubles with the Impala's battery and it always seems to happen right when I am headed to something that I HAVE to be at! (Thank you one time to Bekah Mardis years ago for hauling me and my kids to a Dr appt for Paisley when she was itty bitty!) and thanks Brandon for driving all the way to my house to give me a jump when really all I needed to do was put my car in park.... hehe.
Forward to today. Headed back from Othello taking my nephew home and picking up my baby Paisley. Rushing to make it home before 9, so that I don't miss Lost. Car starts losing power, uh-oh.... I move the cute little picture of Beck and Paisley and sure enough I had run out of gas. Dang it.
Call the heroine sister (hubby is gone) and over an hour later (she had to leave work, go buy a gas can and bring me a Mountain Dew to ease the stress and go get me gas) before she got there with her car full of kids and my kids who had begged for the DVD player to be on, so now my battery is dead, kids climbing all over the seats, and oh! I peed on my leg because I couldn't hold it anymore, then I got nervous because I saw a car coming.... But she made it and we jumped the car all by ourselves, with a few mishaps and sparks, and we spilled half the gas all over the car, road, Kortni's hands and shoes. But I made it home, kids in bed, in debt to a sister, and I got to watch Lost on the recorded TV, but now I can't sleep!!!! Argh!

It's DONE!

I finally finished it! Seriously, after 7 coats of red paint, then 3 coats of red spray paint, YES, I have finally done the spray paint thing on a big piece of furniture and I LOVE spray paint! I have only used it before on small pieces, but I was sick of painting coat after coat of brushing it on, so I did the spray paint and I finished it! Whoo hoo! So add glaze and a top coat, and it's DONE!!! I finally got my brother who was visiting and Stephen to haul it inside and I really like it. Stephen is not too much of a lover of it, but I really do like it. I store the board games in the big one. I need to stop putting stuff on top of all the furniture in my house, but I have so many picture frames and the holes in my wall are not getting any less. The pieces of wood in the black shadow frame are pieces of floorboard of the gymnasium that my Grandpa Beck was a janitor of while he attended college at Albion Normal School. We took a tour of the condemned building a few summers ago. It was fun to hear his stories. I'm glad that I picked up those pieces of wood, even if the rest of my family thought I was crazy for carrying around old pieces of wood.

I also finished an ivory colored table and Paisley's rocking chair that my Grandma picked up at an auction for her a few years back. Maybe if she ever gets her own room I can repaint it a fun color, but I had to have it match somewhere where she actually uses it now. Spray paint is so much faster, I gotta figure out the drips though, guess I should just brush it away, but sometimes I spray and walk away and then come back and it has drips, but I still love it and once you've spray painted, you may NEVER go back to painting with a brush!!! small table: craigslist, $15I now have an old rocker and a quilt rack sitting in my makeshift "painting area" of the garage. I can't stop searching craigslist for furniture with lots of detail even though I don't have anymore room...

AIM Parent Survival Night

APRIL 16, 2010

ALL PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE RELAY FOR LIFE

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!!!

My sister-in-law and I and hopefully hubbies will be at the AIM Gymnastics Center in Moses Lake to watch/play with/love your children as you take a night out on the town. Cost is $4/child and starts at 5:30. All proceeds and any donations go to cancer research. Please support!