Sunday, That's My Funday

Not really fun! The girls and I have been working hard all day long when I finally called it quits to come in and eat lunch. We also ended up making cupcakes and then I took pics and then figured I would blog the pics and so here we are! The girls cut some beautiful flowers to put in the kitchen for us. Salvia are the long purple flowers and lantana is the pink/yellow flower. In Florida, some types of Salvia were just outlawed because apparently you can use it as a drug! I hope I don't have that kind because it is so beautiful, I would hate to tear it up!



We had delicious leftover pizza for lunch. (Soph and Finster are at grandmas). Then I thought it would be nice to whip up some cupcakes so we did that and the girls licked the bowl so clean I barely had to wash it! We are so tired from our yardwork and washing the cars. It is super hot right out in the sun where we were, but not so bad in the shade. I am dreading going back out to wash my car but it is really disgusting so I will just get it over with...



Jen's fav...another Fl snake! This cute little guy was wondering around our garage. When Mike called me out I wasn't afraid that he had found a snake...I said "Please don't tell me you found another kitten?!" You know I can't turn away a stray. I really wanted to keep this little guy but we had no cage for him. He was beautiful with his gray and copper body. Mike thinks it was a little rat snake. *** UPDATE: I looked it up and it seems to be a Miami-phase corn snake morph. That is all.*** I begged the little guy to stay in our garage and keep all the bugs and small rodents away from me. Let's hope he listens!



Here is where Mike found him. He was pretty slow for a snake, Mike caught him with some tongs.


Ready to strike! Easy there tiger!


Soph was the first brave one to pet it after Mike charmed it. Paige was still unsure.


Then Dr. Dolittle came out with her Farrah Fawcet hair!


You're free! But please, go back to my garage!

Beach Day

It was a pretty nice day today so we went to the beach this morning. I got to use my waterproof case again so here are some pictures of the girls. After the beach we got some lunch and then the girls went and swam in the pool for about 3 hours at Bobbie's. Now they're totally wiped out! They ate dinner early tonight and I'm predicting they'll be asleep by 7:00 a the latest.

Sophie catching some tasty waves


Em hamming it up


Rinsing off before we leave


Wrapping up a nice ride in


Paige is catching some too

Finally got my camera out again

It's been almost 4 months since I took any pictures with my good camera. What's up with that??? Anyway, Ethan had his first game of the new soccer season today and I went and took a few pictures of that. He's on a select team this year, so that's pretty sweet. Em is supposed to be on one later this fall, but we'll see how that goes. If things had been more organized on try-out day she might have made it onto the team Ethan is on, but for some reason she was sent to the tryouts for 6 year olds.

All the kids went over the the bathrooms and water fountain at the same time and here they are walking back.


Sophia always drags her feet and is the one trailing the pack, but here is Will being a gentleman and staying back with her while everyone else is already playing.


Em saw me about to take a picture so she struck a pose


Soph tackling Em


Pretty hot out today! Here is sweaty Paige


And sweaty Sophia


Paige trying to hit 88 mph as she runs Back from the Trashcan!

Underwater

A month or so ago I saw a good deal on an underwater housing that would work with one of our older digital cameras. I ordered it right away since it was about 75% off. When it got here I went to put the camera in there and try it out and the stupid camera wasn't working! So I looked online to see if anyone else was having the same problem with the camera and we got lucky... Canon had already issued a recall. As a matter of fact, the recall covered 2 of our old cameras. The other one I had known was broken but it was another older camera we had turned over to the girls so I figured it had just seen a little too much abuse. Melissa called Canon and they e-mailed her a shipping label for each camera and said to send them in and the parts would be replaced for free even though they've been out of warranty for probably 3 years. They actually just sent us a refurbished camera, because I know the one we got back isn't the one we sent in. Anyway, the first camera got here the other day and after soccer practice last night Melissa took the girls to jump in the pool. Here are the first pictures with our underwater setup...

For some reason Em was making doofus faces for almost all of the pictures.


You can see that Melissa needs a bit of practice with the camera


But when Em is taking pictures they turn out pretty well considering the subject


One of the few pictures of the nudie that were safe for the blog


Crocodile Dorkee with some nose bubbles

One of Those Days...And Yes, We're Still in Florida

This morning my alarm clock sounded a little different. It sounded more like a cat gagging and less like a buzzer. So as I bolted out of bed to herd everyone onto a surface that wasn't my bedroom floor I realized it was too late for my poor carpet. The smell was very strong so at 5am I had to pull out the carpet cleaner and get to work. Someone, I'm thinking it was a cat, although it was a huge amount of throw-up, had projectile vomiting that went so far under my bed that I had to squeeze some of my body under the bed in order to clean it up. It was pretty nice of them to wake me up that way. I'm like hey, maybe you could just drag your sharp nails across my sleeping face. Mike was barely bothered by the vacuum buzzing by his feet. After that I decided to go ahead and take my morning walk since I was wide awake anyway.
After that the girls and I got ready for school. I was going in to volunteer in Paige's class to help her teacher get some things done. We had a nice morning, Paige was a little clingy and kept tackling my leg with hugs so forceful I was almost knocked off my feet. She has a pretty good class, one weird girl and no other crazies. The school also had a pep rally today so it was nice that I got to experience that for the first time with the girls. I ate lunch with both the girls, well mostly Paige. Em was sitting with her cool friends and didn't really make room for me when I came over to say hi. I took that as a hint to just say hi and go back to sit with Paige. I left lunch to pick up Sophi and then we both drove home. I was greeted at the door by Jazz and Bo and the worst smelling house ever. Someone, Jazz I believe, had thrown up 6 times throughout the house and Finley had loose stool in his kennel. I guess they got sick or ate something bad. It took all afternoon to clean up. The girls helped by picking up the house so I could vacuum.
So that was my day. It is really nice outside this evening with some light winds. Looks like we are going to miss the Hanna storm but might get some Ike next week. Like I said last time, don't believe the news reports and don't panic unti I show up on your doorstep....Peace Out

Who doesn't love the Daily Show?

I love Chick-Fil-A!!!

Did everyone go get their free strips today from Chick-Fil-A?? I did, TWICE!!! The girls all got in on the action too by wearing their soccer jerseys and getting their own strips. They only ate one strip each! HA! Their loss! Today was all about the food. Bad news for my butt! We started off with Krispy Kreme donuts that I bought in Daytona yesterday. Then Em remembered it was a holiday and asked if we could go to Pizza Hut buffet for lunch. We like to go there on holidays since Dad is at home. Then we hit Chick-Fil-A for a (mostly) free dinner. We topped the night off by going to Ritters for ice cream since Monday is kids night. It was also doggie night so we took Jazz. Fin went last time so the girls only thought it was fair to take another dog. Jazz loved his biscuit sundae! Soph got worms and dirt, but the dirt melted. Paige and Mike both got the lemon italian ice and Em stuck with vanilla. I got a kids scoop of Turtle Somethin'. That is a good flavor! That concludes our day in food. A lot of calories!! But we swam a lot of it off in grandma's pool so I figured it was all good!

Yesterday we took the kids to the beach while the men played pick-up soccer. We were getting a little bit of Gustav's tail so it wasn't the greatest weather if you were looking for a suntan. It was super windy and the waves were too big for the kids to go in much past their knees. But we all had a great time as usual...


Soph striking a pose.


In her usual style...bottoms are on backwards! Kris Kross will make ya...jump jump!


Cousin It.