Hello Friends.

I have been blogging. 

Well, back-blogging.
This darn blog has been in the back of my mind for soooo long. Guilt-tripping me.
Especially since a good friend of mine, and one of my favorite bloggers, recently posed the question do I keep on keeping on with the blog? Is it a dying art?
I admonished her to keep going because I love reading about her and her family. And then hypocritically didn't blog for, like, months. I am humbled and slightly embarrassed.
So, here I am. Blog Vomiting as I promised back in.. eh, March? :)
Sometimes I'm so awesome I can't stand it. Stop me, please.

If you are interested in anything we've done in the past, umm, year - here you go:

NEW!!
As of 9/22/13
 Beach Trip
Tims
Random Day
Adella
Playtime
Christmas 2012






Trunk or Treat 

Random Halloween Event

Summer 2012 Utah Trip

low on pictures and details. :) a double whammy. you're welcome. i even went so far as to admit i was blogging about it a year late. pathetic.

Grandma Ginny visits New York 

here here and here

I, of course, think I am witty in all of these posts. But I'm also suffering from a cold and loopy from some medication. my apologies if i'm not funny.

The Callisters visit New York

Good friends from the burgh come for a quick visit!

 Beaver Lake with Mari

The kids enjoy some fall foliage in the woods. And make some ruckus.

Beaver Lake Pumpkin Walk

Awesome event, less than awesome pictures.

I'll add to the list as I keep going. Wish me luck. I have a bunch to do.
P.S. How do you like that INCREDIBLE photo of my  family above? Yikes.
I have NEVER, in the history of this blog, been able to do a good header.
Good = one that is the right size, has something cutesy about it, and has a picture where we are all looking at the camera and not sucking our arms. Oh, Darce.

Help?

 

Last Ditch Effort

Summer was nearing the end and we hadn't gone to any beaches yet. 

Which is so silly. We live by a bunch of them. 

(Not real ocean beaches... man-made lake beaches, but my kids don't know the difference)

So, on a whim the Kjar's and us decided to head to the beach on a very hot day at the end of August.

We loaded up all our crap beach stuff plus the kids and met at the nearby free parking beach. 

Much to our chagrin, the beach was 'closed.'

Big yellow closed signs everywhere. 

Closed in August... before school is even in? And it's still 90-something degrees outside!!

WHAT?? WHY? 

But gosh darnit, we weren't going to let that stop us from going to the beach this summer! :)

We did try to keep the kids out of the water as much as possible, but it was just too tempting! 

They had a good time playing in the sand and chasing all the seagulls (through the masses of uncleaned bird poop) and of course, playing in the illegal water.

After a while we stopped trying to get them to stay away from all the bird poop. There was just too much of it to avoid it. 

Oh well. We're not dead.

It was a beautiful day and we had lots of new friends breaking the closed beach rules with us.

(This nice lady played ring around the rosie with all the kids)

Antique Week!!! The highlight of the end of my summer...

I have been waiting a year... A YEAR for Antique Week to roll around again. 

It did not disappoint. 

It was just as crazy and huge and overwhelming and AMAZING as last year. 

I scored a few treasures.

Yes I did. 

Another globe to add to the tradition. But not just any globe. A light up globe!

Just like the one on While You Were Sleeping. 

Love that show.

A giant metal, rusty, dangerous arrow. 

Needs a paint job. 

It's awesome.

And it's not like a bow and arrow, arrow. It's like those giant metal letters people buy. 

Only it's an arrow, not a letter. They were out of M's... for McBride, ya know? 

A vintage fan. 

And the lady I bought it from put it in a 'naked boy bag' as she called it. A Hollister bag! 

Ha ha. Still makes me giggle. 

Naked boy bag.

What's funny about that, is that silly bag got a little bit of attention as I walked around with it. 

Mostly middle aged ladies.

Adorable vintage aprons for the girlies.

Aaannnndddd... That's all I had room for on the double stroller.

My friend Mari came a long with me this year. She found some treasures as well. 

AND she managed not only to find a giant metal 'K' but it was on sale. That lucky lady.

We were nuts and lugged 4 crazies around with us. But they did pretty good considering. 

Apparently, antiquing isn't that fun for kids. They don't understand why they can't play with the toys on display. Because they're $100 dollars. That's why.

Count our many blessings though, the weather was fabulous. 

And we ate yummy greasy food. Bloomin' onions and scones. Yummmmmmy!

After much deliberation with Mari, here's our grand plan for next year:

We're gonna leave the kids home.

We'll get a trailer and camp there too.... all week long... lots of people do it.

OR if necessary we'll settle for a tent. They have showers there we can use.

Oh, and we'll need jobs to earn lots of money to spend. 

Because I could spend a million dollars at antique week.

Think we can become millionaires by next summer? 

One more thing, we would need a truck... No wait! A Uhaul to lug all our new-old stuff home.

And since I'll have all that stuff I'm gonna need a bigger house.

Our husbands will be so happy with that plan.

I HEART antique week!