Playing hookie on the weekend

Last weekend I decided to take the oldest out of school and play hookie. Well, sort of. Lineman couldn't get home so we decided to go meet him up at my Mom's near Billings. I pulled our oldest son out of school on Thursday. He missed his Valentines Day party at school on Friday and then Monday was a holiday so that helped.

One day we took the kids along with Gramma's neighbor kids up to Billings to The Reef, an indoor water park. My Mom brought her camera and took these pics for us.

The two neighbor girls and my oldest ready to go across the ropes and lily pads.

Hollllllldddddd Onnnnnnnnn

I was sitting in the wave pool here with Little Man on my lap. He loves the water and so does the middle boy.

There is a GINORMOUS bucket that fills with water and then dumps it all out. Too fun.

I think they were going up to one of the slides here with a double inner tube.

Just playing some more.

Driving home with all the kids...... Quack quack quack.... what else can I say?

Monkey see.... Monkey do!

This was a fun shoot I did with some friends in the area. Gramma had made these completely adorable pajamas for the girls, talk about talent.

To see more from this shoot click here.

And the Winner is.....

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Thank you everyone for voting!

You can now grab my new button on the right hand side of this blog. Just copy and past this code under Layout > Page Elements > Add a Gadget >HTML Code and save it. Thanks everyone for joining along.

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My fun SIL has two boys that are older than my own kids. When the first boy came she said he sucked half her brain out. Then the second kid came and took the other half of her brain. I TOTALLY can understand that! Seriously!

So, seeing as I have THREE boys I guess that leaves me with a serious deficit upstairs. I forget words, call my children by the wrong name, put cereal in the fridge and milk in the pantry... it goes on. Well, thank you Carrie for pointing out that I could not possibly have Sundays for the day for 52 Weeks. That is my sunset day. If I put the "don't cares" that voted into the "Thursday" votes that makes equal vote. I then am the tie breaker and so...

THURSDAY is the new day for 52 Weeks.

Please, no crying.... I can't handle it right now.

I'll try to have a better Mr. Linky up for Thursday and will repost a few guidelines as well. Right now, just work on...... GETTING IN THE PICTURE!

Sorry I haven't been by your blogs lately, I'll be getting back to that very shortly, promise =)

Love.....

Chicken in a Nest - Valentines Style

Nothing like a little Chicken in a Nest, Bulls-eye Egg, or whatever you like call it (what do you call it?). I made it for the boys and decided to give it a little Valentines Day flair. A heart cookie cutter and you are good to go.

52 Weeks HELP!!!!!

Thanks to some great feedback, a little encouragement and a small following I have decided to take 52 Weeks just a little further.

I have made a few buttons and I am ready to add them to the blog so you can grab the button, apply it to your own blog and we will be running! How exciting.

However, first I really, really, need your help! We should all know by know that I can't make a decision and that's where you come in. Please help me to choose a button!

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Okay, for # 4 and 5 what I really would have liked was a distant shot of a mom (preferably not me) and child holding hands but seeing as how I was NEVER, ever, ever in a picture prior to the start of 52 Weeks I certainly don't have anything like that in my folders. If you have a picture you would like considered I would love to see it!

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Before the storm

Enjoying the last nice day before our next snow storm hits. Bring on the snow!

Monkey Business

We all know about my little love with Sam's Club. Well, a while back I got the Little Man some cute red footie pajamas with Monkeys all over them. His older brothers got him a monkey for his birthday that is named.... wait for it...... Banana. Cute huh. Well, I wanted to take some pictures of Little Man with his monkey pajamas and Banana. All was going fine until he fell and bumped his chin. These pictures are of him sitting in the big chair feeling, feeling, well not feeling too chipper let's just say.

6 of 52

Well, let me first admit that I am late on this. "Technically" [placing hands in air to air quote] it should have posted during the last week. But since I am apparently procrastinating this will have to work for today. I will post again this week as well for 7 of 52. Yikes, good thing I started this challenge and have all of you to keep me accountable! Being the only girl around this place I couldn't resist these pink socks when I walked past them the other day. I fully realize I look like a complete dork. What can I say, that's me!


Okay, I'm trying to learn something new and you will have to bear with me while I stumble and trip through this new process. There are more people starting to participate in "52 Weeks" and it was brought to my attention I should start a link for those participating. This is just a very rough start now but hopefully I can get it up and running better soon. Click below on Mr. Linky to add your blog URL if you are participating. Also, by clicking there you can see others that are playing along. Thanks all!