Monday, October 13, 2014

Unbelievable

Not so long ago in the past we celebrated Dru's 8th birthday!  Eight you say?  Yes!
 
This year was Skylander themed, a video game he got for Christmas and really enjoys!

 Our resident 8 year old...heartbreaker this one!
 Happy Birthday son!
 Make a wish my love
Dru received a Sounders shirt as a gift.
 To go with his Sounders game birthday gift from mom and dad!
I hope he had a great day at his party and at the game and that all his wishes come true!

Escapades in Kilts

Early in July...well actually late in July Nikki and I went on an escapade to see Kilts...perhaps food too but really for kilts.  It all goes hand in hand...we need the food to sustain us to look at weapons and kilts. 
 
We were waiting for the Gathering of the Clans
 
 We went to the beer garden and it was so yummy...kilts and beer yummy.
 I don't remember what the beverage was called...but it had Angry Orchard and something in it. SO good!  Nikki do you remember? 
 
Thelma and Louise ride again and obviously can't look at the camera

 

 Honestly the array of kilts that we came across was simply amazing!  I really had no idea of the sheer amount of tartans out there. 
This one was very colorful!
 


 Do the Seahawks have an official tartan?  This poor guy figured out that his pictures was being taken.  He was a good sport...never said anything.

 And this guy...oh man this guy.  Where do we even start with this guy.  He was in the group Wicked Tinkers...and man was he wicked...wicked delicious!!
Outside of the eye candy the music was absolutely wonderful!
 
I have many...many pictures of this man...all in all the Highlander games was an absolute ton of fun! I wish my boys were old enough to go and seriously appreciate the affair what it is.  Someday maybe, but for now I go with girlfriends and we visit beer gardens and check out fellas in kilts!


Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Rebels With Out A Cause

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Candy cigarettes.....
 
 
 


......beer flavored jelly beans.
 
 
Yup...that's the kind of candy Auntie Anita and Uncle Frank get the kids while on a camping trip! 
 
 
You have to know how awesome we are!
 
Being an Auntie is some of the most fun I've had...ever!
 
Love these guys!

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Smokey Haze

 
I'm sure that line belongs in a song or something...or I've heard it sung somewhere.
 
 
A few weeks ago we celebrated Frank's birthday much to his horror.  He's like this for birthdays like I am about holidays.  All horror!
 
Anyway, hard to get away with not celebrating anything with kids so off we went!  I think he had a tolerable birthday.  Dru made Frank an appetizer he had at Vacation Bible School.  Ian made him some cheesy breadsticks to go with our dinner of pizza.  I made him the cake he likes. The boys took Frank out to see the movie Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...and I loosely mean they took him out.  Eli, Dru and Ian also used their own money and each bought him a beverage they knew he liked to drink.  Those boys will get you looking every time, right!?!
 
 
Here is the birthday boys cake
 Yes...all 38 candles are on that small cake!  I'm that kind of wife!
 38 candles all lit up...OH.MY.
 Making a wish and blowing the torch out!  So much smoke!
 Annual picture with the boys...still so much smoke...and serious faces too!
 Funny picture...at least this one is funny.
For as long as I have known Frank birthdays are not his thing...they are my thing however so the torture continues for this man.  OH well...
Happy 38th birthday Frank! 

Thursday, August 21, 2014

Ruadh

 
Back in January we said Lee he could dye his hair...we had to tone (bahahahahha...snicker snicker...pun intended!) down his wants for color and scheme and what ever other crazy concoctions he had swimming around in his head.  Well push came to shove and we had to pay up, and we finally did the last month of school.  Why not it's just hair right?
 
Right.  I just wasn't gonna pick this fight.
 
So we asked Grandma to help and Grandma willingly did, poor lady!  Some days her grandkids have that woman run ragged!
 
So off to Grandma and Grandpa's house we go!
 
 
 
Off to work and planning just how to accomplish this, thank goodness Grandma is a professional!
 
 Doing some before photos

 We all just thought this was funny...Lee in a bonnet
 No pain no glory right Lee?
 Ruadh aka red was picked
 Bright!
 Catching up on a little bow and arrow action while waiting for color to set.
 An expedition to hunt for frogs...found one!
 End result...not quite what he was looking for and not quite what the gals said would happen.  So now we plan another hair day to get the right effect...can you guess what that effect is or was rather?
 Shock effect!  That would be what he was going for.
 Value achieved Lee!
 Because boys will be boys..."Mom it looks like blloooodddd!" "Cool!"
 After photos.  This kid and his goofy head shots are seriously cracking me up!
 If I ever thought about what a rats nest looked like...this would be it.  So thankful for conditioner!
 He wanted a chunk of it up front and then all around his head.  He really liked it.  Sadly the color has all gone out and he's left with bleached hair which actually look like natural highlights.  I have had several people stop me and ask if that's natural and that he's so lucky to have that and great hair!
So there ya have it...the boy got his hair done did!  Now I'd like to get mine redone...loved my silver and not sure what color I would do or go with purple again!

Plate Licking

 
 
 
 
IT.WAS.THAT.GOOD.

 
(A game played at a birthday party with whip cream)

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Just Shameful!

 
 
Give it a try she said....

 For shame...for shame...for shame
 
 
Rather pitiful, really!

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