bubble mania

as usual - beyond the loads of chocolate, marshmallows, jellybeans and egg-dye stained fingers. Easter also calls for bubbles. lots and lots of bubbles. so...procrastinator mommy extraordinaire missed out on the giant bubble jugs. along with a few other things. one of these days i will learn to stop saying, " oh i'll grab some next time" when they actually HAVE something on base. it is never there upon my return. even if i came right back in 5 minutes later, somehow there would have been a hoard of people standing in line having formed out of thin air with carts loaded with bubbles. at any rate, at a great expense, i bought 90 small bottles of bubbles and of course, 2 days past Easter there were the jugs again, so i grabbed several of those and the boys were none the wiser. this is probably my last year i can get away with stuff like that. hopefully within a YEAR i can get it together a little better. uh, i'd better start stocking up on them right now come to think of it.

this one cracked me up. it's not really in focus, but the sun ray, his feet. made me think of the OLD (betraying my age here) star trek shows. "Beam me up Scotty!"

It was a short game, but really, can YOU dribble a bubble???

i probably go through more bubbles than the kids to be totally honest...

weekend fun

This past weekend we met up with some friends and their kiddos at a nearby adventure park. What is an adventure park? Well good question. It's more than a playground and not an amusement park. All natural type surroundings, little stories to go along with each little area. Basically, a lot of big ass treehouses, slides, swings, cable swing thingies and some really overpriced food.


cody, the brave boy he is, completely kept up with the big kids, as usual. ranging from 7 years on down to his 2.5 years. he never winced, cried or hesitated to do anything, but this face cracks me the hell up just the same.

i think that this simply means. joy.

camo cody.

i don't really care what anyone says...

i think having peacocks around is kinda cool actually.
sure their poop is like tar and all over the place, they scare the crap out of me when they are peeking in the 2nd story bathroom window and...yeah, they are sorta loud if that bothers you. loud bothers me, but they don't. i love it. i mean, how often do YOU walk out your backdoor to find this? they come everyday to be fed, one in particular is our favorite and he will eat out of our hands (he's getting rather plump too i might add).
well. everyone else in the village seems to dislike them, but i like 'em! :)

how to entertain bored little boys

Lesson #342.
Thanks Granny.
It was too chilly still for them to be out shooting each other. So I threatened them within an inch of their lives if they squirted themselves or each other AND persuaded them to tattle on the other if someone did.
Then I said they had an important job to do with their water guns. Please go and shoot all the spiders they could find. It would really help Mommy out if there were not so many spiders outside.
If you've ever been in England, you'll know there is far from any shortage of spiders in this country.
I got at least an hour or two of peace from this stunt.
I love how clever I'm getting lately.
Thank goodness, I was beginning to worry about myself! ha!

Service with an ENORMOUS smile

Well, I think the greatest coolest gift I could've gotten beyond my kiddos and my husband is well more blackmail than I'd anticipated. For that, I've had to swear I'd get my rear up and post the amazing eyes.
Here is how, Kade will get away with just about anything for his entire life....

See? Just looking at this photo makes me want to run down and give him a soda and candy bar at suppertime!

I'm too speechless for more words at the moment and Mikey just drove up, so much chatter to have with him as there's SO much excitement in our house today!!!!!

LOOOOOVE~!

concentrate....

so NOW it wants to work...

for real. i need sleep.
addiction?
yeah.
i must stop now.
i love that the day AFTER i was taking pictures and playing around, that stupid glue thing fell off.
isn't he such a cool dude?

that's one way he gets away with so much... those eyes. oh but this is SO not THE look. nope. i've actually got THE look on a photo taken on THIS day. however, i'm withholding it. wonder what i can blackmail for for it? it's one that will melt the hearts of even the most hardened people i swear it. my beautiful beautiful boy. he just takes my breath away sometimes...

this giant kid. that's my BABY in case you did not recognize him. sometimes i don't and he's right across the room from me. i mean i REALLY got the shaft on this baby thing with him. *sigh*

perty darn cute if you ask me! (his shirt says, " could i be any cuter?").
oh you have NO idea. photos certainly don't do him enough justice. his words lately really make it almost unbearable!

k.
later peeps.
for real this time.
:)

enjoy!

reason # 49 i love him...

there's a LOT of reasons i love him, so this one actually ranks pretty high.

hey guess what???

i have easter photos to share.
it is midnight.
so this is all you get.
hahahaha
it's another one of those karma things. or damned if i do or damned if i don't.
cuz i was trying to do a slideshow so i could show a lot at once...but well, let's see. it is midnight, there's no slideshow and i'm tired.
so.
tomorrow. :)
hey i tried...that counts for some at least right???
love to all!

Play

Play, originally uploaded by off the*deep*end.

Happy Belated Easter to all. We missed everyone back home very much!
We tried to make due, and play 30 times as much to make up for all the fun we'd have had with our families, the boys slept hard, so we must've done alright. :)
More to come soon.

Love to all...

... and to all a Good NIGHT!
:)

Missed Calls

Just a quickie. Apparently some little boys unplugged our U.S. phone. I thought no one liked us, but apparently we were actually very popular, just ya know, didn't know anyone was calling.
Sorry! It's back on and charging now.
I doubt anyone wants us to return calls at this particular moment since it's 3 AM back home.

Love!!!

sorry tiger, your days are numbered...

just a quickie. that's turning out...to be not quite so quick. as always. seriously, someday i will figure out that ANY time i think something will be quick, it will in turn be about a 3 hour ordeal. it's my karma or something, i think...

wait! what's that???? i've had this epiphany just now. it's not that i simply CANNOT figure out how to work day to day stuff and still have a spotless house, happy kids, happy husband, well fed family, work done in a timely manner oh and that little thing i used to call ME time back when. i've spent all this time seriously causing smoke and sparks to shoot out my ears trying to figure this one out and i think i've just come to the conclusion that it's just my freakin karma. while generally, karma is something i love...and quite frankly i guess i won't even really complain b/c it could definitely be worse. it's just that. anyone else can sit down, load a video quickly, type a hello and go off to bed at a decent hour. me? noooo.... something goes wrong, then somethign else is wonky and then it takes forever to load but i have to wait, so while i'm waiting i do something else, which then turns into something else which has it's own damn issue which takes me that much longer.

uh. is it karma or just maybe i should work on not being so damn stubborn and give up easier (i.e. earlier)?????

hmmmm. the things i ponder at 1am (which these days is like 4am to me a year ago).

at any rate, hopefully this will load sometime this week, and i can hit publish, and you all can see a quick vid of kade. at which time (assuming it is not right now) i will load one of cody, so you can have proof we've still got him as well and did not sell him in the midst of one of those blood curdling tantrums he USED to (yep, i said that past tense baby!) USED to have.

so, at this time, i bid you farewell and maybe i will be able to hit "publish" when i swing back by in a moment on my way to BED. man it's gonna be tough to get up in the morning!

***5 minutes later:

that worked like a charm. or...perhaps i can just scrap everything i said above, and in reality waiting for a video to load online is the modern version of waiting for water to boil. either way, it's there and i'm taking my sleepy ass to bed.