Sibling Bribery!

What do you get when it's late and you have TWO bored kids?
Taya thought it would be fun to trade p.j.'s one night, Jett wasn't too thrilled about the idea but those of you who know him, know, a bribe for some candy can go a long way with the kid. It took Taya forever to talk him into the flower in his hair, she had to add a couple more pieces of candy (that she stores in her room, for forever, seriously she has probably got some stuff from halloween down there) Taya even told Jett exactly how to pose like a girl, I guess her pose would be her impression of a guy. I love the look on Jett's face it pretty much says what he was thinking about the whole thing! I just had to laugh this night it brought back so many memories of me getting my little brothers to do stuff like this. I have a pic. of me and my little brother in MY dance costumes, and others of my younger siblings dressed up as a bride and groom. At least there are some advantages of being the oldest!

Moms Night Out!

Traci, Nikki, Camille, Me, Amber

These girls keep me sane! Seriously, sometimes I think they keep me off medication. Rather we get together to complain, laugh, or just flap our jaws (to someone other than our kids anyway) we love to go out to dinner, a movie, or just sit in the car in one of our driveways and talk for hours. (and a HUGE shout out to our hubbies who understand we NEED this occasionally!) We've made some really great friendships, and I'm so glad we finally all got a pic together, it's not ever something you think to take a picture of, but Camille is leaving us and moving back to Vegas :( so she wanted to get one before she left! Gotta love girlfriends!!! and we'll miss you so much Camille, but we will do this again :) and Yeah! maybe one of our Girls Nights will be in Vegas, do you think the hubbies will go for that?

What the #@!*%#? Was that?

Last night we took the kids to eat at Firehouse, it had starting raining and hailing, but I guess inside the restaurant we couldn't tell how bad it really was. One of our neighbors called on the cell phone and said their basement was flooding, so we rushed home to help them, as we pulled up to our house this is what our yard looked like....
Seriously, isn't it June? Then we went to check our basement and this is what we found in Taya's room....
Holy Crap!!! I threw all the clothes in Taya's dirty clothes basket on the floor to keep some of the water from hitting the floor, grabbed her garbage can and some other buckets and sent the kids up stairs to get me some towels. Taya jumped right into action, she was a huge help. She would hold the buckets while I went to dump the full ones....
Jett on the other hand is our little worry-wart, he thought our house was going to wash away. So this is what he did the entire time....
Which made Lincoln do this.....
Oh My Crazy! It was a totally chaotic night and yet I apparently found it humorous enough to take a few pictures :) Really what are you going to do? Ya might as well have a chuckle about it!
I don't think Taya thought it was very funny she kept asking me why I was laughing (mostly I was laughing at Jett). I guess some of the nieghbors got it way worse than we did. The whole neighbor hood were out helping each other until almost midnight. Maybe I won't think it's very funny in couple days when Taya's room starts smelling! (oh, I hope not) We had to pull back a few feet of her carpet, and put a blower under it. That was a crazy storm and it literally lasted like only an hour, I can't imagine what it would have done had it lasted any longer! What A Night!

Their the Mailman's kids!

The other day the boys and I met Justin in town and took him a sub for lunch. Jett wanted to ride in the mail truck with Dad, but being that it's against the law, sitting in it would have to do. Man, don't those kids kinda look like they could be the "Mailman's" ha ha ha!