Sunriver, chickmunks, and Natelin (oh my!)

Had a lovely 4 day weekend at Sunriver with the fam and Natelin. Nic had an AGC convention to attend, so to entertain ourselves in Nic's absence, the girls and I went to Walmart in Bend to watch the carni's. I overheard a teenage boy and his mother talking in the menswear section, "But Mom, it don't match." and mom says, "Oh, son, camoflauge matches everything". Priceless!
Then to the Old Mill shopping center to get CC some new school clothes. The rest of the time was spent at playgrounds or trying to get them into the car. Seriously, when did it get so hard to corral them into the vehicle? It was easier when the twins couldn't walk and before CC learned to explain (I need to spend an entire post on CC and her propensity for explaining - I think it's the lawyer blood in her, she just needs to get her point across).

A big thanks for Auntie C and Uncle N for putting up with ALL of us. I'm sure they get just as sick of Nic and I as they do of the screeching howler monkeys they have for nieces.

On a lighter note, we were entertained by the chipmunks at our house, and I've got some cute pix of the monsters yelling at the chipmunks to come and eat the Nilla cookies from their hands. It sounded something like this, "Hey chipmunk, I's gots some cuuky for you! Come back, you, I give it to you! I nice (insert cheesy grin).....Chipmunk!!! Come baaaacckkkk!" Then a cute sulk when the chipmunk didn't understand that they came in peace and bearing gifts of delicious vanilla wafery goodness. Lost in translation, I guess.

On the way home we stopped at a park in Wilsonville that my husband built. I'm a little proud of him. It's been a year and the place is still standing (ha ha). It's actually quite beautiful, and the girls had fun at the playground/water fountain.

So, now my house is a wreck, I got Portland to Coast next weekend (AHHHHH!!! So out of shape, going to fail....ahhh...), and so much back burner Primary stuff left undone...and.....and....yeah. I just need to go to sleep. Peace out!


















Here chipmunk, chipmunk....come to CC!

ha ha ha

I was looking at a friends blog, and he had these funny shirts from bustedtees.com in a post.
So, here's my favorites, after his fantasy football one.
(Do you love how vague I'm being, sorry, I was just being lazy and didn't want to make a link to his site, but now that I've committed to explaining I feel I have to point you to his blog, it's bonnevillemariner, there, conscience averted.)

Children's museum or Mom needs a nap

We love the Portland Children Museum. It has everything. I took the triplets (people still ask if they are, so I'll just refer to them as that for sillyness sake). Here's some of the fun. After 3+ hours of clay, toys, dancing, playing, and just down right being overstimulated, I was the one who took a nap when we came home.


(Side note: Bree told me to go upstairs and change my shirt, she doesn't like it.)

Slip-n-Die

Our friends James (Nic's best man at our wedding) and Jen have a redneck paradise out in Banks Oregon. It's half way between Portland and the coast, aka The middle of nowhere. So where better to set up a 150 foot Slip-n-Die. It's a dug out trench filled with layers of carpet, black plastic, and then a mixture of water, dish soap (for lub) and bleach to keep it clean.
They also have goats, dogs, cats, a gorgeous garden, a sweet firepit with carved log seats, and 5 more acres of forest filled with motorcycle trails. Very sweet if you are into everything backwoodzy. I am one of those. I have an appreciation for the American Redneck art movement. Here's some pix of the slip-n-die, and my favorite redneck pix.