The First Warm Day...

In a couple weeks and the kids are all outside playing.

I went out to see what they were up to and this is what I saw:

I guess because it's over 50* out you don't need a shirt or shoes?

Peek a Boo!

{31 for 21} Day 21: Caption This!

Go ahead, have some fun =)

Flippin'

Sarge gave permission for the instructors at the dojo to start teaching junior how to do awesome, amazing flip kicks.  Practice started the other day.

And then other day, Junior decided he needed to flip his room...

Remember when it looked like this?

I walked in to find it looking like this.

Yup, Junior rotated the bunk beds to give him more room to practice his flips in his room.

Late night visitor...

Twas the night before last, when all through the house, 

not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

When, what, to my wonder eyes should appear...

Running back up the stairs before I "saw" him.

Stopping to model for me.  

His brother being as quiet as a mouse.

His sister doing her best to keep her brothers from laughing.

The kids are camping out upstairs for a few days while I work on cleaning (ie purging) their rooms.  But, now I'm thinking maybe we'll just keep them up there.

4th of July

We've had some friends from out of town visiting this week.  We thought they were crazy for coming to TX in July, but I guess they really wanted to experience TX =)

She really wanted to break this with her elbow. 

Monday night we took the crew to see Cars 2 at the drive in.

Pretty neat experience.  Only down side is you have to wait until it's dark to start the movie which makes for a really late night.

At the Uptown Fountains.  Great way to cool off on a hot day.  The dads watched the kids have fun while the moms went shopping =)

 

Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum and the wax museum.  We also went through the mirror maze and the boys did the laser race/ maze.  Junior was pretty amazing.  Twenty- one seconds to get through without breaking any beams.  Guess we know who's going to be breaking into vaults for us ;)

Girly- girl kept telling me she wanted pink, purple and blue hair.  She was able to have it for a few minutes at least.

Striking a pose with some hats.

It's been a good visit, but it will be nice to have the relative quietness of just our kids again =)

What to do, what to do??

The kids found an interesting way to entertain themselves yesterday.  Not too sure how I feel about it...

And just in case the pictures aren't doing it justice, here's a video of it.

Flower Power

Girly- girl and I went on a walk last night.  It would have been a bit faster, but she needed to stop every few yards...

Look, but don't touch!

The two of us... 

All the different types of flowers she was able to pick.  We saw a lot more in the landscaping of our neighbors' houses, but I didn't think they would appreciate us picking those flowers =)

Believe It of Not

This last weekend, we headed over to the local Ripley's Believe It or Not museum.  It was pretty interesting, to say the least.

While the displays inside were a tad *scary* for the younger two, Junior had a blast and wants to go back.  These dinosaurs were more to Girly- girl and Junior- junior's liking.

We also walked through the wax museum.  There was a lot less noise and better lighting, so everyone enjoyed themselves.

There were a lot of statues of other famous people, but these are the ones the kids actually knew =)

Junior- junior was very excited to see this.  Especially since he was wearing his Spiderman shoes.

And this one is especially for my dad:

Ripley's has an awesome military discount ($2 off for inactive and $5 per ticket for active duty).  We don't always ask places if they have a discount, but were really excited to hear about theirs. 

Since it was such a beautiful day out, we decided to stop at a park on the way home.  That's one of the nice things about this area.  There are neighborhood parks all over and the majority of them are clean and set- up really nicely.

Yes, he jumped from the top...

Talking to his sister.

Trying to get high enough to talk back to her brother.

Not quite tall enough to use these...