Dear Cody,
Please don't keep red crayons in your pocket for me to discover AFTER they melt/explode in the dryer. Daddy doesn't like the tie dye look on his clothes...

Note to self: check the boys' pockets for small crayons from Red Robin...

The Candy Man Strikes Again!

Cody and Tanner got new beds! We needed to move Tanner's bed to the other side of the room and slide their dresser over, so Cody could open the drawer on the bottom of his bed...here's what Russell found behind the dresser (besides dust and hair!)
...CANDY WRAPPERS!!!

Of course, they are only on Tanner's side! I have never caught him with candy, so I am hoping he hasn't been sneaking it after we put him to bed!

Skee Ball with Flair!

I've never seen so much flair...for zero points!!!

Missing Item of the Day

Why is it so hard to find things in our house? It's not a big house. Messy... yes, but it still shouldn't take so long to find certain items that were recently seen or are used often in the household. I've decided to add a section to my blog called "Missing Item of the Day" because we seriously have one at least every few days, most of them one of the boys' toys. So let today be the start of it all and here are the items:

1. phone charger

2. stuffed Peas in a Pod (from Toy Story 3). These have not been seen since shortly after Christmas.

Delish Fish!

This place has the best fish and chips!

They are HUGE and served blazing hot! YUM!!!

Some quickly disappearing calamari rings...

From the parking lot of the restaurant, there's a little path that leads under the Pacific Coast Highway...

...and right on to the beach!

I could swear that was Napoleon Dynamite walking by. He was on to me, because he looked the other way right when I snapped the pic! Gah!

Tanner was unimpressed by Russell's ability to lift up the highway!

Little Mamas

Here is newborn Cody (in 2004) surrounded by my sister and her daughters. Her son is also there, but steered clear of the chaos taking place! My sister is trying to referee who gets to hold Cody. They would hang around whoever's turn it was, while the "holder" would get mad and say their time wasn't up yet. Those girls just love babies! They have always been very good to my crazy boys, and it melts my heart when I think about it.

Sydney is only 4-1/2 here. She was so excited to feed Cody!


Maddie feeding Cody in Nov. 2004


Camping in July 2006.
Note the "nannies" (Kylie & Maddie) tending to Tanner, who was 8 months old at the time.

Kylie is the only person who has braved taking Tanner to the movies. I warned her, and she STILL took him. And yes, she spent 3/4 of the movie in the lobby playing with him because he refused to sit and watch the movie!

And they love Trent too, whether he likes it or not! haha!
July 2006

Halloween!

I figured I'd better hurry up and post Halloween before Thanksgiving!

Here is what Russell took pics of at my parents' house before he rushed home to pass out candy at our house.
Eve is a doctor, and that is an IV bag of blood (sugar) around her neck!

Super Mario and James (the train from Thomas the Tank Engine series.).

Tanner has perfected his "forced downward smile" that most kids do when told to smile for the camera. Or maybe he's trying to look like his bag he's wearing.

Mummy cookies by Elle.

Eyeball jello. We had an eyeball theme going. There were also eyeball deviled eggs, but the photographer left before it arrived.

It's watching you.

The red velvet eyeball cupcakes that didn't look like I had envisioned...

Halloween parade at school.
Yes, the other asian boy in class was Mario too!