{To the MAX} '10

{V-day 2010}

Valentines Day 2010

I forgot about these treats!
It's just popcorn,
v-day m&m's
and then melted white chocolate chips
mixed up
Yummy and so easy :)

Halloween 09

{Monkey in a Bucket}

Somehow he got stuck in this tub and instead of helping him out right away,

we took a few pictures first...

Oh, he was fine!

{3 ring s'more circus}

I won "mother of the year" the other day when I let them make s'mores for lunch...

Easter/Spring Break Recap

Sorry, the pictures are all out of order...my blogging skills have been lost and I can't find them...

Easter Sunday

Since it was a month ago now, I guess I should give a little recap of our Spring Break trip to California and Easter. We had a great time! It was pretty cold and windy part of the time we were there but we got to visit lots of friends and family and enjoy the annual easter egg hunt on the ranch.

Max on a mission!!

18 month old monkey

Yesterday Sam came and told me Max was in the sink.

This is what I found...

apparently Brooke had felt the need to move the bench over to the counter and Max took full advantage of it.

he just wanted to peel himself an orange...

The funniest part was that he saw nothing wrong with his situation. No knowing smile, no nervous cry, just enjoying some fruit.

And serious about it.

you can't take your eyes off him for 1 second

Monday night we made candy houses for FHE. It was a really messy reminder of why I don't do crafts with the kids.

The kids loved it! And while we were concentrating on the candy,

Max helped himself to the frosting...

He was willing to share...

Halloween Preview Guessing Game

Last night we tried on costumes and inspected accessories...

Can you guess who is going to be what?

Is Brooke going to be Batman?

Or is Jake?

Or is Jake going to be Dracula?

Or do you think it will be Sam?

Maybe Brooke is going to be a mix monster...

or maybe she will just wear nothing and go as Miss Piggy (family joke)
Tomorrow hopefully I can get them to nail down a costume and keep it on...

What I did on my Fall vacation

We had 5 glorious days off for Fall Break and the weather was perfect so we turned it into a great "Stay-cation" and became tourists about town.

We started out Thursday at Boondocks. Mini-Golf, arcade games, really expensive hamburgers and Go-Karts. Sorry no pictures of go-karts. We were too busy racing around the track, or in my case, trying to stay ahead of the grandma in the next kart. Who knew old ladies were so competitive?

This girl slept through almost the whole trip.

Friday, we went downtown

and discovered Jim's new favorite restaurant.Brazilian Grill.
You know one of those places with the big salad bar and meat is brought around on skewers. yummy!
The dessert was really delish too!

Saturday we finally made it to the ZOO.

There was a lot of pointing going on...

We saw a few animals...

but then Jake kept getting attacked by wild creatures...

and Sam had to tame them...

We wrapped up the vacation with the Barnyard Boo at Thanksgiving Pt. I was a little tired of picture taking so...

Overall we had a great time together and made lots of fun memories to keep us warm as the temperature dips and we start hermitting inside for the long bleak winter.

OK maybe it won't be such a bad winter :) Let's try to end on a positive note :)