punch 'em

No on his second birthday, enjoying the punch 'em balloon from Grandma!

This post was brought to you by the letter 'Z'

For Zithromax.  Seriously, sinus infections are horrible and am I ever grateful to have relief.  The pic was taken by Em while we were waiting at the doctor's office.  She asked me to put it on the blob.  

Just imminent duty, and in the middle of it--ME!

I spent the (awesomely fun) weekend volunteering for Operation: COPE up in Eden, UT.   It's a program for military members designed to help them and military families prepare for deployment.  I helped out with childcare and activities for 15 little 3-5 year olds.  It was absolutely exhausting, but so much fun!  Saturday we had the gym full of inflatable slides, mazes and the gladiator contest thing where you stand on a pedestal and try to knock the other person off with a big foam battering ram.  I'm awfully glad that our kids were too young to do that one, because I had enough fun going into the maze to protect our little kids from the bigger ones (what do you call rug burns from an inflatable bounce house?  Vinyl burns?)  McGruff the crime dog visited (and scared the heck out of one of our little girls) and we watched the working military dogs.  The kids thought it was absolutely HILARIOUS to watch the dog take down the 'perp'.   (can you imagine the job description for that one?  Wanted:  person to run away from police dogs and get bitten many times per day while wearing a heavy protective suit) 

I feel guilty now because I had such a great time.  Isn't service supposed to be hard?  

C'est la vie

In the face of a double ear infection, bronchitis, endless visits to the doctor's office and the pharmacist at Walgreens knowing me by name, it is good to remind myself to: 'Cowboy up!'

Founded

One little pink camera.  It was in the laptop bag, right where I put it after uploading the ice fishing pictures.  So very, very logical of me--no wonder I couldn't find it!  

Missing:

1. Energy
The last few weeks I have been feeling exhausted. Worse than when I was pregnant (I'm not, thanks for asking) and even Ben is starting to get worried. He came home for lunch yesterday to find his wife asleep and drooling on the couch while his two little ones were pulling all the books out of the bookcase. Linnea thinks I have mono, Ben thinks I'm anemic, I think we need a nanny, maid and cook

2. Cute little pink camera
We bought an Exilim before our Yellowstone trip to have a camera which fits into a pocket (it usually lives in my diaper bag), and while it doesn't take great pictures, it is better to have not-great pictures than no pictures because I didn't feel like hauling my gigantor SLR camera with its kit around. I have no idea where I put it, and because of it's cute little size the chances of finding it aren't great

3. keys
This is nothing new, I loose these all the time, but I've been through my purse, diaper bag and my coat and still can't find them. Good thing we have spares in my home organization binder!

4. hair
I regularly make the mistake of cutting my hair when I get tired of it. This week I have bangs as a result of hating my hair. I hate doing bangs, even if they hide my huge forehead nicely.

5. sanity
Ben keeps mentioning jobs available in places like--Alaska!! or Germany!! (actually, I'd probably like Germany.) It just stresses me out to have to hear about it. Let me know when we have orders and I'll deal with it then!!!

Also, we painted the girls room and it looks really nice. I don't think I can let them live in there. So, missing: place for the little girls to sleep ;-)

DAMAGE!

Yell it loudly, it's quite satisfying!

$80 to get our garage door fixed, $150 to fix the van. The average cost of my stupidheaded things is well over $300, so this isn't too bad. Sigh.