Monday, June 30, 2008

better than i could have imagined!

just to let you know...
i'm now a disney-ophile...
i don't want to ever come home...

we are having so much fun! the guys are (goof) trooping along, going all day with minimal fuss, doing every ride from the tea cups to thunder mountain railroad!

ryan has further committed his love for all things california with his preference to california adventure... and jackson is FEARLESS!

more to come... with the pictures!

can you believe i've existed for almost a week without internet access? shocking!

oh, yeah, the american library association is great too :)...

Sunday, June 22, 2008

2 more wake-ups!

almost everyday this last week, my dad has texted me the amount of days we have until our big fam-damily vacation to disneyland! and now we--us in idaho--only have 2 more wake-ups until we leave, and poor nana and papa have to wait until thursday!

and i know for a fact that nana and papa are more excited than we are! they keep telling me that they are too excited to sleep... just like the kids (and parents) in the commercial! i have had to tell them that they need to rest up and be ready for keeping up with the boys... but i can see the kid return to my daddy's face as he says, "but i'm too excited!!" none of us are going to be able to keep up with these guys, because they GO until they STOP (wow, i sound as profound as yogi berra!), and i have a feeling this trip isn't going to be as relaxing as my trip to D.C. last year when i went senza familia; but, its going to be infinitely more fun!

and as time gets nearer, i start to get a little giddy myself! it's consuming my thoughts; for example, i should be taking a quiz over chapters 1-4 in introduction to modern information retrieval by chowdhury... and here i sit thinking if they have good chowder somewhere in anaheim. hmmm... have i mentioned how much i'm loathing grad school?

so if you have any good tips for the park, send them my way. it's been awhile since i've been there. actually, i was last there when i was 16... go ahead, do the math : ) so it's going to be a new experience for all of us... oh, now i won't be able to sleep either... i'm too excited!

Monday, June 16, 2008

big daddy...

of course, this is late... would you expect anything less from me?

as i think about how truly blessed we are, it occured to me that i probably don't tell you these things as often as i ought...


i love you because you are so patient with me when i have a complete melt-down about snow in june...


i love you because every saturday we're only a block from jimmy's, and you have enough self-control not to go in every week...


i love you for the joy you find in parenting, coaching and just hanging out with jackson and ryan...


i love you because of the kindess you show toward people on a daily basis...


i love you because you are an amazing example of goodness for the boys in a world that isn't so good...


i love you for the gentleness in your parenting--it's a nice contrast to my less-than-gentle approach...


i love the sense of peace you bring to our family...


i love you for your faith, you are truly man of God...


i love you because you love me!
little mama...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

f-word...

guess what we heard this angel-face say this afternoon ...

a baseball game...

... is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. Earl Wilson


who would have guessed that i would love baseball? i loved going to baseball games, even when the wind was blowing at gale force! who would have known that i might be one of those moms yelling encouragement? who would have know that i'd be one of those moms who was willing push another mom off the bleachers for talking smack about my team?!?


how did it happen that i would get so passionate about a sport? much to dave's disappointment, i don't feel the same way about soccer--although, it's very touching to see the guys all shin-padded and adidias-up'd just like their dad when i first met him.



but it turns out that i really like baseball. i like that it's organized into nice tidy innings with three understandable outs. it's simple enough for my sports-simple mind to grasp... "You throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball..." or so said Ebby Calvin LaLoosh in 1988.


but just like Nuke, my guys will need to work on their "control" when pitching! jacks has a nice arm, but walked quite a few players and came close to the other dugout... and i think that ryan's talent really may lie in shot-putting. we need to get several more pounds on him. maybe more trips to wasabi for intense sushi inhaling!


and the guys had a fun win or lose this year and had amazing coaches, so it was a great season!

Saturday, June 7, 2008

the sushi was intense!

or at least that's what ryan said after he stuffed himself with sushi last night at his birthday party!

he wanted to have a roll for every year of his life... 9 rolls?!

being the buzz kill that i tend to be as his mom, i said: dude, you can have 3 rolls...

he said: i'm nine now, and so half of nine is... um... (he rolls his eyes to right, and contemplates this mathimatical calculation)... almost 5, so i should have five, right?!

i said: three

he said: ... (well, he didn't say anything and just puffed out a big sigh)

i said: sushi is about being with friends and enjoying the taste of your food. not inhaling it as fast as you can

he said: fine, i'll have four

i said: we'll order three and we'll see

well, this is the result of him getting his way and eating a california roll, a caterpillar roll, a humachi and avocado roll, and an italian roll... he was so full he didn't even eat his free cake!

happy birthday, ryan!!