clay, me, and chloe v.

clay, me, and chloe v.
tee hee

Thursday, January 31, 2008

cabin weekend -- take 2!

went up to the cabin again last weekend... what can i say, i just cant get enough of that place! ha ha! Baba, La, the kids, and i headed into the storm in search of snow... and we got plenty of it! we built an awesome sled run right in the front yard...

Baba and june

La and june
clayclay loved the snow. he just couldnt get enough of it!my intense little chloe beardude... my daughter had some serious temper tantrums while we were up there!chloe and june our rad run
snow angel juniesnowball fight!!! our kids are nuts, okay?
party time at the cabin!!

nothing better than hot cocoa in the morning i had so much fun getting silly up in the snow. we were gonna come home on sunday, but it started to snow on sunday so we called in sick to work and school and we were lucky enough to wake up to fresh snow covering the trees on monday morning. it was beautiful.

good times. good bloody marys. good margaritas. good cosmos. (all made with fresh snow!) good sledding. oh, and here's a sick video : http://spottedpufferfish.blogspot.com/2008/01/yes-we-went-again.html

thanks guys! i love you all so much!!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

cabin weekend

the first trip up to the cabin was for la's birthday. adam, christian, B, La, and I all rode together on the way up... stopping to look at track homes, explore an impressive rock wall, drink some blue moons at a bar that was SUCH a whole in the wall, and hit up the cool thrift stores. it was so nice to get to hang out and just do whatever we wanted ( being a parent, i really dont get to do that very often so i was stoked!)

The first night was rad... playing the wii, drinking, laughing, sledding, more drinking, and then going out for a little night hike. Brandon led a group of us through the snow around the cabin. we lost a few people along the way and lori and i almost gave up but we decided to keep pushing on... and thats when it got intense. i swear to god, i felt like i was Beahr Grillys on man vs wild. we were trekking up steep hills that were covered in feets of snow... crawling on our hands and knees through pine trees and bushes... sliding down the hill on our stomachs just like the penguins do... getting freaked out by a barking dog... somehow getting stuck in a pen with a horse that was fricking ginormous... and somehow managing to find our way back to the cabin. although the hike was an extreme test of my physical fitness skills, it was the raddest hike that i have EVER been on. cheers to B, la, adam, lainie, and steve for an unforgetable night hike!



the next night we had a wonderful feast complete with some yummy tofurkey, mashed potatoes, stuffin, salad, and salty vegetables ( just kidding, the veggies weren't too salty even though bridget was obsessed with the salt.. ha ha!) The feast was so delicious and it was awesome to be able to all sit down at the table together and enjoy a thanksgiving-style dinner. After din din we had some drinks and dessert and toasted the birthday girl!! good times good times. so many laughs and good memories. thanks to everyone who was there! i had the best time with you all!! Unfortunately i was retarded and didnt take any pictures. i totally brought my camera... but only used it once to capture this moment:


B is totally smoking out the window... ha ha ha!!!



and on the ride home with lainie and steve, i snapped a pic of a train:

Fortunately, i have friends with cameras... thanks to Leslie, Tara, Adam, and La for the great pictures! You guys rock!

Friday, January 25, 2008

the bars

at work on wednesday, while i was fulfilling my yard-duty duties and monitoring the kids on the playground... i saw some girls playing on the bars and went over to chat it up with them. the girls were first-graders and i actually knew one of them cause her older brother is in clay's class. anyways... so I'm watching them spin around on the bars, reminiscing of the days when i used to play on the bars at school... and then one of the little girls calls out to me, "yard-duty, it feels funny when i go around on the bar like this..." and she proceeded to demonstrate it to me. basically she just kept pushing herself forward around and around on the bars... i couldn't help but laugh a little because i knew exactly what was happening... she was getting off on the bars! ha ha ha! how do i know this? well, come on... i didn't play on the bars at school to try and master my gymnast skills either! ha ha. just kidding. but seriously, i totally remember it happening to me when i was young! of course i didn't know, at the time, that i was having my first orgasms... all i knew was that if you went over the bars a certain way- it felt pretty good.. ha ha.
i didn't really know what to say to the little girl at school.. i just kinda laughed and walked away thinking to myself:
...little did you boys know that long before you started spankin your monkey, there were us girls... playing on the bars... tee hee.

Monday, January 21, 2008

god bless american idol!!

take it! take it, take it, take it!
i do a lovely impression of the girl in the video. just ask and i'll demonstrate. ha ha ha!

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

happy new year!!

we all went bowling for new year's. it was so much fun. the kids had a great time!after bowling we did some sparklers!!i was into it : )chloe and g-ma had some fun too!
afterwards, i braided chloe's hair. i thought it looked cute, but she took it out like 15 minutes after i did it. arghh! whatever, at least i got a picture of her:

clay and i stayed up til midnight. then we went to bed... ha ha ha. happy new year y'all!!