Later Gater

Hello all,

I have to let you all know that I have reached my 1GB free storage with Google so I will no longer be posting to this blog.

After 501 posts, I will be moving on.  Perhaps another blog, perhaps not, I am undecided at this time.  Whatever I decide to do it will probably not be until the New Year because it's just plain crazy at my house right now. 

I've really appreciated everyone coming by and commenting on my posts and seeing what everyone else has created on theirs.  Thanks for coming by,

Laterg8r

Wordless Wednesday - Eyelashes

Friday Funnies - Movember

Last year the DH did "Movember" (grow a stache for men's health awareness) and the kids have found them HILARIOUS ever since.

 This year he's thinking mutton chops - AAAAAAA!  LOL

Lucius's New Haircut

Yup, short, love it!

Friday Funnies - Notes from Kids

The first note is from Rayna.

Accusatory?

  Suggestion?

Sarcasm?

 

This note is from Serenity: 

Motivational?

Accusatory?

Sarcastic?

You be the judge!

Wordless Wednesday - Punkin Patch

Friday Funnies - Teeth

The last few weeks Serenity and Rayna have both lost a tooth.  Here's Serenity trying to gross me out with her loose tooth:

and because the littles can't resist:

 The "Freaky Face" - which she showed to the Border Guard over Thanksgiving LOL

 Much nicer face:

 How are your teeth?  Flossing?

Wordless Wednesday - Ketchup

Friday Funnies - Bus Rodeo

Every year we go to the Bus Rodeo and the kids love all the games they can play and how they can drive the retro buses.  Here is some of our fun:

(cheater)

(he preferred to throw the ball LOL)

The funny:  Skyler actually got a hole in one and then did this awesome air guitar to celebrate!  She got a good laugh from the crowd for that one.

Have you ever been to a rodeo?

Wordless Wednesday - Blueberry Farm

Circus School

How cool is that?  I didn't know there was a circus school until Serenity got invited to a Birthday party at one.  Here she is in the silks:

Adults and kids can take classes (expensive but coool) in all different things.  Love an active party. Where is the coolest place you've been to a party?

Friday Funnies - My Arse!

Yup, that's a rip in my jeans from my hiking adventure with Sarah.

Ok, so you are already laughing, but here's the "hole" story anyway!

We decide to go out and hike the trails in Larabee State Park and for the first part of the day it's hiking, gabbing, geocaching and picture taking like any other day.  See:

(frame the sun challenge)

(my first ever First to Find)

(the Face of Rock)

 

Then things start to get "interesting" when we cannot decide whether or not to go on the marked trail or the one leading up that we see a whole bunch of hikers coming down on.  So we ask them, if the trail leads back to our car and they say yes (BTW - they were BOYS - never ever listen to boys in the woods). We start hiking up and are totally psyched.  We figure we'll get to a cool overlook and then start going down.

 

REALITY: No cool overlook and then we start going down......STRAIGHT DOWN!

This may not look like much but when Sarah ran down it she actually got airborne and totally wiped out at the bottom.

We decided to try different tactics whenever we came to one of these steep spots, but the best tactic seemed to be butt-skiing or shoe-boarding down each one.  I even tried swinging from a tree once.  Ouch, strained my shoulder on that one.

(scream tree - even it is scared)

 

At one point, I'm sliding down this super steep section, have a hole ripped in my pants, a cloud of dirt around me (a la Pig Pen from Charlie Brown) and I get an enormous case of the giggles!  I can't stop thinking about getting dirt in my butt and how crazy it all is.  I keep anticipating some insurmountable rock wall at the end of it all and how it would be impossible to go BACK UP all of this.

 

Sarah and I laugh uncontrollably with tears in our eyes for at least the next 10 minutes (great stress reliever).  So glad we were together on this and took it 20 feet at a time. Obviously we made it out ok in the end but we did walk 2 miles out of our way to get out. 

 

LESSON: Never leave the marked trail! (and never listen to boys)

 

We did go on to have a very fun rest of our day where I geocached with an enormous hole in my pants and she "had my back."  I drew the line at going into a restaurant for dinner though so we ate at a drive-in. We finally found a great view too - but we drove up to it!

Any adventures for you lately?