Spring Break

I had to work most of spring break. My kids went bowling on Monday without me. Can you see how happy they were playing while I had to work.

Aunt Becky took them all to Game World on Wednesday. I was actually very happy to avoid that that trip. Aunt Becky is amazing.

On Thursday we headed to Utah. Look at my cute husband driving me there.

I was able to meet my best friend from high school, Jenalee. It was great to catch up with her I haven't seen her in years. I decided to torture her and make her get a pedicure. Most people wouldn't think this is torture, however Jenalee is recovering from a broken foot. Me being an idiot forgot. Luckily she was a good sport about it and we both ended up with really cute toes.

We ate lunch at Kneaders, my favorite place in Utah that I don't have in Boise. Then we took our kids to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. Chris has better pictures on his phone, so I will have to download them later.

Sam was very jealous that she missed out on having a pedicure. I sent her to Theron's house to hang out with her cousin Jessie. I was hoping that she would forgive me for leaving her out. Aunt Gena needed a pedicure and thought it would be fun to take the girls. I had the choice of going along or watching a hunting video with Chris and Theron. I obviously opted to go with the girls. There was a lacross store next door, so my nephew Adam and Justin came along to hang out at the lacross store. I didn't want to just sit there, so I had my nails done. I have never had fake nails before, so this is a fun new experience trying to type. This picture is our nails and I have been forgiven. Justin ended up with a lacross stick. It has become his new apendage. I think that he even takes it to bed with him.

My cute nieces were blessed - Ann Geddes eat your heart out - this is Emma and Chloe.

Chris had to leave for Nebraska on Sunday for work. The weather was pretty bad when I dropped him off. I thought that I might stay one more day. Being from Wyoming, I am not scared of a little snow. What scares me is a ten hour drive with five kids in the snow. Luckily for me the weather cleared up so I was ready to head home. My kids had their hopes up, they really wanted to stay one more day. After much begging and pleading I decided that it wouldn't kill us to stay one more day. Some of my kids were convinced that it would kill them if they had to leave on Sunday. So we stayed. The biggest perk to staying was that I was able to eat at Kneaders again on Monday. This time with my mom and sister. It was very good, I really need one in Boise.

Here is a close up of the girls. Chloe is in purple and Emma is in pink.

We are back at home ready to back to school and work. I only forgot to turn in two videos to the library (which is a $6 late fee), get snacks for Tanner's class tomorrow (which means a super early trip to Winco in the morning), a meeting I was supposed to go to with Tanner's teacher today, Devyn's spring break diary, Justin's talk in primary and whatever I needed to do for work and completely forgot about. At least I made it home safely with all of the kids, oh wait, Karen did I leave one of the boys down there, it is unusually quiet here. Nevermind here they are crashed out after all of the excitement.

Tanner's Jokes #2 & #3

Tanner is known as a chick magnet or a girlfriend stealer. He is very cute so my older nephews like to take him along because all of the teenage girls think that they are so sweet to have such a cute little nephew. So one day TJ takes Tanner along to a girl's house and tells everyone that Tanner is his little brother. All of the girls are in love with Tanner and think that TJ is so great because he has such a cute little brother. So Tanner tells them "my brother wears girls underwear, he really does." They all think that TJ is the one that wears girls underwear. He isn't really. One night a really long time ago, Sam and Justin thought it would be funny to swap underwear. Justin got in a lot of trouble for wearing girls underwear. Last week Tanner thought it would be funny to plant some of Sam's underwear in Justin's drawer, hoping that he would get in trouble again. Behind that cute smile is a very mischevious little boy. Jared has become the new chick magnet. He hasn't learned how to talk yet and he doesn't give away any embarassing secrets.

Tanner's Jokes #1

I have mentioned that Tanner likes to pull pranks. One night he thought it would be very funny to get some brown play doh and squish it into a ball and put it down his brother's underwear while he was sleeping. My poor son woke up and said there's play doh in my pants. He was very confused. Now who likes to wake up with play doh in their pants that looks like poop. Tanner thought it was hillarious. I have to admit that it kind of makes me laugh as long as no play doh ends up in my pants while I am sleeping. I just don't think you can teach this kind of humor.

Devyn Doodle Bug

I love Devyn. He is such a sweet kid and most of the time he is okay if Chris or I call him Devyn Doodle Bug, but his brothers are not allowed to. If you ask him though he prefers Devyn, just Devyn. He does not like nicknames. He does not like to get in trouble and he gets embarassed very easily. Most of you have heard this story, but it is my favorite Devyn story. . .

Pink slips from school are not a new thing in my household. I think that Justin brought home 14 his first two years in school. I typically get several phone calls on my cell phone and work phone to let me know that Justin was in trouble. So when I get a call from the school about my son, I automatically think that Justin got in trouble again. Not so much.

Devyn had been throwing wet paper towels on the bathroom wall at school. As I drove home trying to figure out what kind of punishment he is going to get and try to perfect my lecture on respecting school property, I call Chris for advice. His first response is doesn't he know that he should throw them on the ceiling not on the walls. It was very helpful. So I go home and get ready to start in the lecture until I found out that Devyn had actually gotten the pink slip two weeks before hand, but he was too embarassed to tell anyone. He sat on the wall at school during his recesses rather than bring the note home to sign. Finally his teacher was gone one day, so he thought he would pull one over on the substitute because she didn't know me. He had his friend sign my name to it, since his friend knew how to sign my name. The forgery was pretty obvious when they had signed it "Roobie" It turned out to be one of those mom moments that I just had to shake my head so that I wouldn't laugh and I honestly didn't know what to say.

I did learn that Devyn can keep a secret much better than Justin.

Saturday

Our Saturdays are typically filled with basketball, volleyball or football. I have hit the short few months that I get with no sports! Lucky me gets a couple of Saturdays free. So what do I do - I punish myself with a trip to Costco with four kids. There must be something wrong with me. Why do I do it you might ask. Because my desk drawer is completely out of sweedish fish and my fridge is out of diet coke. At least I got to sleep in this morning so my free day wasn't a complete waste.

It's Spring Break!!! What Do We Think?

Tanner's Photos

Tanner likes to "borrow" my cell phone and take pictures. I usually end up with silly pictures like this on it:

or random pictures:

However, I am actually impressed with this one:

Maybe he has the knack after all, but more likely it was pure luck.