Kids say the darndest things!

Last night, we were watching Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and Kaylin said something or asked me a question…when I answered her she said, “How come you know so much that I don’t?? I’ve been living for 7 1/2 years!!!!” Apparently, that’s a LONG time!

This morning the following conversation took place with Jonathan while going potty:

Jonathan: I have a penis!

Me: Yes, yes you do.

Jonathan: Daddy have a penis too! Sissy don’t have a penis. Sissy only have a butt. (obviously we haven’t explained what the girl body parts are called) *pause* A BUTTHEAD!

Spring Break

Kaylin is on Spring Break right now and we’ve had quiet the vacation!
It started last Saturday, leaving the house at 5:30am for Tennessee. We spent 2 nights at Grandma & Grandpa’s house (Jeremy’s mom & step-dad) and the kids had a blast playing with their cousins. Jacob is 4 and Nicholas is 2. The boys are all 9-10 months apart from each other, so I have a feeling they will only have more fun the older they get! We actually didn’t get any pictures from this leg of the trip. I will try to remember on our way back home on Sunday.
Next stop, Mama Lorraine’s house in Winchester, Virginia. Again, we stopped for 2 nights. Mama Lorraine is 83 years old, we HAD to get the kids out of the house to release some energy. We found a park near the Shenandoah University campus, complete with a creek, a groundhog, and some ducks.




After Mama Lorraine’s house, we headed out for Washington DC. Jeremy, and obviously, the kids, had never been. Jeremy and Kaylin were really looking forward to this part of our vacation. One of Kaylin’s favorite movies is Night at the Museum Battle of the Smithsonian.
Washington Monument
The Capitol
The back of The White House


View of The Capitol and Washington Monument and the Reflecting Pool in front of Lincoln Memorial
Me & the kids in front of Lincoln Memorial

A pretty sunset and the Washington Monument as we made the trek back to the metro station to ride back to our hotel.
There are a LOT more pictures in our Picasa album, hopefully also on  Facebook once we get home. I’ve had issues trying to upload them to Facebook through these hotel internet connections.

Trip to Arizona recap

This weekend we flew to Phoenix for my friend Allison’s wedding. The kids stayed with Mimi & Papa. We had a great time with Allison, Pat & Allison’s family.

Our first stop was In-N-Out Burger. Man, how I miss this place!

The In-N-Out we stopped at wasn’t far from the airport and when exiting, Jeremy realized the street name was the same as his Corporate office. So, I plugged the corporate office address into our GPS and saw that it was 19 miles up the road. He decided being that close to corporate, he couldn’t pass up the chance to see it. Yes, he loves his job! It turned out to be an absolutely wonderful visit. We got a 2 hour tour and Jeremy got face time with some big names within the company. We even got to see the owner’s office. Wow, everything in this building was gorgeous! Jeremy even landed a personal invitation to dinner from the CEO of the company. Unfortunately, we had previous dinner plans that night, so Jeremy declined.  Though I told him later I was sure Allison would have understood when we told her why we had to miss dinner. Man, we kicked ourselves in the rear over that all weekend long!

This warrior (is it a warrior?) was in the lobby. It looked really cool in person. There was a plaque on it that said it was a gift to Discount Tire from Yokohama Tires for 20 years of business. 

Later that night, it was off to dinner at Cibo in Downtown Phoenix. There were 14 of us that rode in an Expedition Limo to the restaurant.

Allison before the ceremony.

These were the favors. Homebrewed beer. I’m thinking a Blue Moon clone, though we haven’t tried it yet. The labels described it as a wheat beer made with Arizona honey, orange peel & coriander.

Pat had promised not to smash cake in Allison’s face. Once she realized he was, she got him back, and she got him back good! He had cake from between his eyes all the way down to his chin. Allison only had icing right below her nose & mouth. Then, of course, they had to kiss and make up.

We had an absolute blast with them this weekend and cannot wait to see them again. Hopefully they can come visit us soon, or we can meet somewhere and vacation together.

Snow pictures, finally!

We had a record breaking snowfall here in Texas on February 11th. The snow started falling around 4am and continued until after midnight on the 12th.  We got almost 14 inches at our house. DFW Airport recorded, I think, 12.5 inches as their final count. So crazy for Texas!

This is Jonathan with our snowman on Friday. He started leaning, then the kids went out and started kicking him, which obviously didn’t help his situation.

This was Friday and it had already started warming up slightly and melting, but if you look at Jonathan’s left leg and how deep it is in the snow, you can get a good idea! Oh, and those boots? They come up to his knees.