My Real Life Army Brats

My Real Life Army Brats
Those are not Taytons legs, look closely! And if you can't figure it out click on the picture!

11 August 2008

We did it! Relay has come and gone and we pulled it off!

Back in February when my friend asked me if I would co-chair Relay For Life with her I instantly said no. No way I would not ever want to take on that big of a challenge with so much going on in my life. Then she asked again if I was sure that I didn't want to so I agreed to go with her and our American Cancer Society Representative to look at locations and see if maybe I would want to reconsider. I decided I would go ahead with that idea. By the end of the day I was hooked. My ideas were being taken seriously and I knew that my friend Summer was all in and would take what I was able to give her. But I seriously thought she'd kill me by the end of Relay. I'm alive...thanks Summer!

This county is fair in size and population but lacks in businesses and corporations. Our only store to shop at is WalMart. There is one grocery store other than WalMart. We do all of our shopping on post for food. Most people go outside the county for their other shopping needs. This meant that reaching our financial goal this year in our current economic state was going to be tough.

We moved Relay from the old location 20 minutes from the interstate in a tiny town to a place a mile off the highway and much larger to accommodate our big expectations.

We had illusionist Joel Meyers perform and he did a wonderful show! My BFF Melissa and her family came from Indiana. My MIL and Sister came from Texas with my nephews. We got up Friday morning and got to the location of Relay at 8. We were on our feet setting up from 8am until about 2am when I finally got to sit down.

It was Brandy's birthday so we handled that, here's the video!



Here's Melissa holding Joel Meyers blue balls.


More stories to come....

07 August 2008

Cool Dude Did It

I was smart enough to schedule Korbin's aka Cool Dude's kindergarten screening at 8 am because I just love mornings and couldn't think of any better way to start my day than fighting with two little boys who won't go to sleep at night and therefore don't want to wake up in the morning.

The truth is that I hate mornings with a passion and the boys do too! And I only took the 8 am appointment cause it was that or after 10am which was too late because our RELAY FOR LIFE OF PULASKI COUNTY is tomorrow!!! By the way all the planning is falling apart as we feared it would because some people didn't hold up their end of the deal but that's another story!

So off we went kicking and screaming to the school. Sixth grade teachers were helping with the screenings. We didn't even see the kindergarten teachers at all which is fine cause I know them both and so does Korbin. On second thought maybe they were hiding from him fighting over who gets stuck with him?

Anyhow back on track. We were on time and Korbin got picked up by Mrs. Smith. She took him in her classroom. Another little boy was picked up a few minutes later by another teacher and we waited by the office. Well the other little boy had come back out and gone home and two other kids did the same but Korbin was still in with Mrs. Smith. I worried that he had duct taped her to the chair and was sliding her around her empty classroom like a hockey puck but was afraid to look in the window because ignorance is bliss. I was fine with believing he had behaved while she had him until I was told different.

She came out of the room with her hair standing up a little taller and a defeated look in her eyes...just kidding...I asked her if she was okay. she said yes and then she said (and these are her words not mine because I would never say this outloud for fear his head would explode) "he's brilliant". So of course I see some confusion in her eyes and I ask her whats wrong. She said "does he have a nickname?" Of course I turn beat red and say "oh no! What did he tell you his name is?" She said she asked him to write his name and he started writing something but it wasn't Korbin. Then she showed me the paper. He had written Cool D before she stopped him and thought he couldn't do it. She found it odd since he could write his letters and numbers and knows the sounds.

Silly Kid! If he doesn't stop with the Cool Dude thing we'll have problems I'm sure. She just laughed and said that's funny! I was a little embarassed.

Cool Dude is going to be a problem I believe!

04 August 2008

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Something Happened

Tayton just walked up to me laughing and here's the conversation that followed:

Tayton: "Mom something just happened to me, do you want to to know what it was?"

Me: "Of course I want to know because I'm a loving caring mom."

Tayton: "When I sat down I fell straight into the toilet, well my bottom did."

Me: "Umm ok, yuck!"

How can this kid laugh about falling into the toilet but not be willing to touch another kids plate?

Here's an update....new funny tid bit from Tayton.

Tayton just walked up to me in a serious panic. He had found a necklace earlier with his name on it put on . That was just fine for a while but he must have had a revelation.

Tayton in a panic: "mom can you unsnap this necklace from me?!!! Hurry because if you don't then I'll be stuck in it forever because my head will grow and grow and it won't ever come off!" He was seriously in a panic and even used his hands to show me how big his head is gonna grow!

Yet another update before I even finish the first! This kid's gonna have an anxiety attack!

The boys were out our attached garage rummaging through boxes looking for some toys. Apparently the door between the laundry room and garage closed and was locked. I didn't hear them knocking because I have learned to tune out background noises. Suddenly the door bell starts to ring repeatedly. I open the door and there stands Korbin laughing. Tayton came around the corner out of the garage crying his little blue eyes out asking "why didn't you let us in?" As if I had intentionally locked them out! I'm not that mean!

Then I told them to stay out of the garage. Tayton states that he hasn't found the toy he was looking for yet! I said "no because you've probably already trashed the garage." Tayton replied "not yet!"

Like that is going to convince me to let him go back out to finish the job!

03 August 2008

Crazy Wife with no Life

Here's a little riddle for you.

What does a soldier get when he asks his wife to send him underwear?

hint #1 This wife thinks she is really funny!

hint #2 This wife also thinks her husband is very handsome and could possibly be sought after by lonely females who spend too much time in the sand.

hint #3 Wife has sharpie markers nearby and has that "up to something" twinkle in her eyes!

Give up? Ok here's the answer:










~~~By the way Kirke hasn't been able to read my blog since he left but knowing my luck he'll read it now and totally ruin the surprise when he opens his next care package!~~~

02 August 2008

Who Does That?

So I was just hanging out on my desktop, looking around seeing what useless information I had there that I could get rid of and clear up another spot on my Kirke's face. (he's my background) Well I went to drag and drop a file to recycle bin right? Simple enough. So I clicked on the little sucker and drug it over to the left of my desktop. But wait! There was no recycle bin there. I drug it to the bottom of the screen and guess what? No recycle bin there either! I started to panic! My heart started racing, I was sweating profusely and I looked all around that desktop and found nothing even slightly resembling a trash can!

My panic turned to sheer terror when I realized that it was gone. I sent out a search engine but to no avail! So I clicked on my start menu and had to drag and drop my recycle bin out of hiding and back to it's rightful place on the left side of my desktop.

It was a scary thirty seconds! And who does that anyway? How the hell do you recycle your recycle bin? Seriously! I'm an idiot! But I'm okay with that!

31 July 2008

The Boys Forgot

Tayton and Korbin were upstairs arguing. I called them downstairs. Korbin was saying "no I did not, tell Tayton that I did not spill paint on the floor!" Of course I went through the roof calmly asked why they had paint upstairs! They explained that they didn't have paint now they were talking about a long time ago. Then I remembered the time they were fighting about. I had to show Korbin the pictures so he could remember. I had them on my Myspace page and thought I should share them with you.



Last October the boys asked if they could paint.
So I said "yes of course but if you make a mess....You're gonna clean it up!"

They were only left alone for about 5 minutes and I was only in the living room!
And in that 5 minutes this happened to Korbin.

And the dog looked like this:
They could have at least chosen the black dog! Poor Allie!
She doesn't look so good in purple does she?
My walls also don't look so good in purple!
Nor does the cereal.


Thank god the paint is washable! We got the chairs cleaned up too don't worry. There were no permanent reminders of the paint disaster....other than these pictures!

29 July 2008

Look What I Found

I went to close the living room blinds a few minutes ago and I saw this "little" guy on the porch rail. I of course did the normal thing and grabbed my camera and put on my flip flops and grabbed one tennis shoe in my other hand. I got the pictures I wanted and then I smashed that disgusting creature that tried to kill me by building a booby trap on my front porch to trap me in next time I went outside set him free out by the tree.


Here he is. Lets play identify the spider. I hate spiders and I know we have lots of creepy ones here so now I want to know what kind he is. He doesn't look like the wolf spiders that are huge and when you stomp on them they don't smoosh they just kind fall over and maintain their shape and size. It's really gross. I hate spiders and wanna go back to Alaska where nothing poisonous lives!
OH yeah and today on our horribly long drive riding too close to Amber we saw this on the top of a truck.



Now seriously, if your bike is on the roof do you really think a piece of spandex is gonna help keep it safe? And what's gonna happen? It might get rained on, it might get a bug smashed onto it or possibly a rock might fly up and chip the paint a little! It's a bike! It's on the roof! Put it in the bed of the truck under a tarp if you're that worried about it! OR put it on display in a glass case in your living room if you're that worried about a little dirt or dead bugs! People crack me up!

Allie, NotMe and Idon'tknow Did It!

I walked into the kitchen this afternoon and Allie was standing next to the dog water bowl. Allie is my little dog by the way. Shes a furr ball of a dog. She's Cocker Spaniel and Lhasa Apso mix.

I looked down at the dish because Allie was looking at it like it was an alien. This is what I found and then joined her looking at it like it was an alien:
So of course I screamed called for the boys to come down so that I could find out what on Earth they were doing.

Tayton came in first. I asked him who put bread (that I just bought minutes prior) in the dogs water bowl. Of course he blamed it on our third son "NotMe"!

I asked Korbin the same question he blamed it on our daughter "Idontknow"!

I do know that these two children that I have never met or seen are responsible for a lot of things that happen in this house. I of course told them that I know one of them did it. What I really meant was that I know that Korbin did it. Korbin says "I guess it was Allie".
Okay, so let me get this straight....Allie, my twenty pound twelve inch tall dog jumped onto the counter, opened the bread bag and then decided she didn't like dry bread and thought she should dip it in her water bowl? Not likely!

Then captain obvious came to visit us a little bit ago too. I was sitting on the couch in the middle of four stories of folded laundry. I called the boys downstairs and upon their arrival I hear "what mom?"
I love that question. So I said "look around and then tell me why you think that I called you downstairs". Tayton said "is it time to eat"? Give me a break!! Yeah I just cooked you up some fresh clean underwear and pajamas! Duh! When did I have time to cook when I was folding two tons of laundry?

I think that Tayton, Korbin, Allie, NotMe, and Idon'tknow will be going to bed soon!

26 July 2008

A Little Game

We are going to play a little game. I'm going to say (type) a direction and you're going to go do whatever you hear (read). Any questions before we get started? No? Good! Lets get started.

1. It's bedtime. Go pee and then get into your beds!

Ok, did you get that? How many of you got up, went pee and got into bed? I know the answer. None of you! Otherwise you wouldn't still be reading this! Geesh you don't listen any better than the boys!

But I'd bet my left foot (it's not my favorite foot) that not one of you went upstairs, took a shower then came downstairs to ask for a snack, now did you? I didn't think so!

But that is exactly what the boys did. I thought they had done as they were told until I heard them stomping around and yelled "why aren't you in bed?" and then Tate came downstairs dripping wet to tell me that he was finished but his brother wasn't quite done yet. I didn't ask him to take a shower, I never once mentioned showering. The phrase "go pee and get into bed" does not sound anything like "go take a shower and then come down for a snack", does it?

New Song

This song is a great example of why I can't listen to country music while Kirke is deployed. It's just too much. It's a beautiful song and I'm sure I could love it at a different time in my life, just not now. It really is a great song but I just can't handle the sadness of country music and the reality of it.



Brandy read this and then she posted a song that she found more appropriate. I agree completely.

Tayton's Appointment


We headed off to Columbia this morning and had a seemingly uneventful day. Tayton handled the allergy testing well. They did more tests on his lungs, just normal breathing tests and raised his preventative meds, well actually put him on advair instead of flovent. Good enough.
Oh yeah I forgot! Korbin forgot to wear shoes AGAIN today. How can you forget shoes? Seriously when I'm screaming saying get your shoes on and get in the car you'd think he'd be able to handle a two step set of directions! Grrr darn kid!
The really cool student doctor knew all about Pokemon so he was aloud to actually touch Tayton without too much freaking out, it was really really great! The second person that came in was named Candy. Tayton blurted out "why would your mom name you Candy?" She said "I don't know, I've wondered that myself sometimes!" I jumped in and explained it was because she is so sweet! Darn kids don't realize when they might be being rude. She understood.
They told me that because he has respiratory problems and is so underweight that they still need to test him for cystic fibrosis. They said not to be too worried about it because it's not highly likely but it is a possibility. Then they told me that they can just do it at his next appointment or we can schedule one sooner if we feel the need. I figured we can wait until September when he's due back since its over a two hour drive and they didn't seem overly concerned about this possibility.

On the drive home Tayton asked me "Mom does the water from your stomach go up into your eyeballs?" Now I have no idea why or where that came about but I had no answer so of course I told him that I had no clue. Now this is not an answer that he take lightly. His response is always "but you're the mom and you said mom's know everything! Why won't you tell me?" He's so smart, too bad his daddy hasn't learned that bit of useful info on the mom's yet! So then I have to make up some answer because "I don't know" doesn't work on this little guy and I don't want him to think that maybe, just maybe Mom doesn't know everything!

We had to eat at Burger King today because they have a drive thru and there was no chance of me going inside with these two naughty little boys one of whom was barefoot it's the only logical place to eat since they have Pokemon toys and no one else does. My little Tayton had been through enough at the doctors to earn the right to another Pokemon toy today. He is a die hard poke'fool! And yes I'm "that mom" that lets her kids eat fast food sometimes. Especially when they have Pokemon toys. I'll be glad when that's over! They had homemade pizza for dinner if that helps any? No? I didn't figure it would but it was worth a shot! Besides it beats eating at that M place that's for sure and we had to get home before the storms rolled in.
Oh by the way the car rules haven't actually been enforced yet because we had to be on a long trip today and well, I'm weak. But tomorrow, yeah tomorrow, we'll vacuum it out and the rules will be posted somewhere that they can read them regularly. Maybe I should print them and make them sign a copy too!

25 July 2008

Off To Columbia We Go

The naughty little blonde boys and I are climbing into the van to drive two hours to Columbia to the childrens hospital for more tests for Tayton. Today is the allergy testing, it should prove to be fun. Times like this we really miss the Daddy even more than normal.

Wish me luck....ok wish the boys luck! They'll be lucky if I make the drive without turning into the Incredible Hulk because of them aggrivating me! My veins will start popping out and my gigantic muscles will buldge even more than normal. Then I'll probably rip the top of the van off and it just gets ugly from there. I don't look good in green.

24 July 2008

My Kids are Pigs

First of all, don't let these faces fool you!


I decided just right now that my boys are disgusting!

I have a minivan (go ahead, cough, gag, giggle, point fingers and laugh I can take it) and the boys sit in a different spot every trip I'm sure. Well that's super, we like a little randomness in our home. The problem is that this means the mess in the van is not confined to their normal seats. Noooo because that would be too easy and in our house nothing is easy.....ever!

I have been telling the boys for days to clean out the van and get their junk out or I'm gonna throw it all away! Well they know that I really will but apparently didn't care. Today was their last chance and as I drug the trash can to the van they got to work saving their things.

Now you may be wondering what they could possibly have in there, and I want to know too. It turns out that they had enough clothes in the van to provide clothing for an entire preschool. I thought we were doing good on keeping clothes washed (not folded or put away, but at least clean!). Nope apparently they were just stashing their clothes in the van under the seats, in the seat pockets, under their car seats, in the cup holders and any other crack or crevice visible to only their beady little eyes! And there were more stuffed animals and toys in there than you could ever imagine!

Also there must be an unspoken right to leave all spills in the van for the mom to scrape out or stick to later.

Well dang it I quit! That's right I'm done!

We need rules! Here is what I have come up with:


1. You must be in a DOT approved car seat at all times. Five point harnesses will be worn instead of the seat belt option with the boosters. If no one else is riding with us you will use the middle row seats.

2. At no time may you eat, drink, have candy, or even cough or sneeze in my van if it requires tissues. Tissues are not allowed in my van!

3. Hands must remain in your lap the entire time we drive this is to prevent forbidden objects smuggled aboard from flying and hitting the driver, window, unsuspecting passengers or passing vehicles.

4. IF on some odd occasion I do allow you to eat in the car you will be required to count every french fry and estimated bites of all food and sign a hand receipt accepting responsibility for these items. You are responsible for either consuming or disposing of your accurate amount of fries/bites. Any stray fries or other food items found by the Mom will result in having to eat outside of the car in the nearest parking lot regardless of weather.

5. If you are permitted to drink in my van you must hold your drink with a napkin while sipping carefully and place several napkins in the cup holder where your drink will remain at rest until next sip is consumed. Drinking may only take place at stop signs, red lights and other times when the car is not in motion.

6. Any toy from a restaurant is only yours until we exit the vehicle. At this time all toys become the property of the trash can because they are generally trash and I'm tired of finding these cheaply made plastic toys all over the house.

7. Upon exiting my vehicle you will perform an inspection of all areas within the van to ensure there are no crumbs (ant attractors) chunks, paper, plastic, or other debris left behind.

8.Any spills will be attended to immediately upon the van being put in park and before you exit the vehicle.

****Failure to follow these rules will result in very strong leg muscles cause your little butt will be running along side the van on ALL future trips!****

23 July 2008

Korbin said...

Tayton, Korbin and Cadie are playing out at the table and I just overheard this conversation:.

Korbin: But my Mama doesn't eat grass!

Cadie: Noooo, I said Llama!

Too funny, darn kids. And just so you know, I do not eat grass!

Another How You Found Me

I just clicked to see how my blog's been doing this week. Numbers are down but I haven't been visiting/commenting much so I gotta get back on that.

Of course I had to click on the keyword analysis and here's what I found:


my two children wont go to sleep
Mine won't either, it must be in the water!

i don't want to cut my hair for the army
So don't, they will cut it for ya!

peyton ogle
Who?
****Update***
I was wondering how that name led to my blog so I did a little investigation. I found that Mimi, another blogger who is a care pages Mama linked to Peyton Ogle's carepage from her blog and since I blogrolled her it led someone to my blog. So please go to Mimi's blog and read more about these little cancer kiddo's. The more people who read their stories and bring attention to these kids, the more the world will do to help fight cancer and stop the loss of sweet little kids like Mimi's 4 yr old son Julian who the world lost to cancer in January, less than a year after his diagnosis. I miss Mimi's sweet stories of King Juju! Cancer has to stop taking lives! ***
Our Relay For Life is in two weeks and my team is just a couple hundred dollars short of our goal so if you're interested in helping out you can donate to our team HERE Every dollar counts!

blood and strawberry movie
Really? You'd want to watch that?

my two army brats
That makes sense unless I change my blog name to "My Two Geographical Bastards"

why are women never happy
So! We don't have to be it's our genetic right to be miserable!

tape recorder
I wonder if someone was searching for one. Or maybe some kid wanted to know what the heck one was since they are antiques now I'm sure!

women are never happy
We just went over that.

lego kidney
Now there's a concept! Can't we just build Korbin a new kidney out of lego's and we won't have to worry about him having a broken kidney anymore? Please??

two years of kindergarten
Good idea! Or making more options available for preschool would be super and solve a ton of problems!

boys military haircut
I'm pretty sure that the mohog won't meet standards.

what can u do in the army
Move alot, push ups, get told what to do and when to do it, be separated from your family, get shot at and not be appreciated for that, wear ugly glasses in training, meet people from all over the world, list your best friends by which state you met them in, name your kids according to which duty station or deployment they were born at/during, take vacations to visit your immediate family.

time where my soldier is deployment clock widgets
Hmmm, Iraq is 8 hours ahead of central standard time. That's all I can tell ya besides that living Alaska is easier cause there is a 12 hour difference most of the year.

the army sucks
Sometimes.

stuffed meat toys
EWWW! Why would that search bring you to my blog? We don't have those here and never will cause ...yuck!

oculolinctus pictures
Umm, sorry guys! I shouldn't have posted that picture but I just had to!

mean brats
My kids are not mean that's for sure...the brat part is debatable.

mytwoarmybrats
Aww I think someone was actually looking for me! (thanks Mom)

lego brats
Can I build kids out of lego's? Cause then when I threaten to take their lips off and put them in the freezer for talking rudely to me I can actually follow through!

fetish worming
I don't wanna know, I don't wanna know!

brats on you tube
I'm sure there are plenty!

swallowing a lego
Doesn't really result in delivery of a lego baby like I told Korbin it would.

someone who has oculolinctus
I don't think it's a disease or a condition. It's a voluntary sick thing to want to do and I'm surprised anyone would be searching for someone willing to do that EWW!

army brats from india
Nope mine originated in Alaska. We have a lot of months that are too cold to do anything else what can I say?

kid with a military haircut
Not my youngest!

Vonage Say What?

Here's my latest Vonage Visual Voicemail!

"Hi this is (Saint Robert Walmart?) for the department. We just want to (call?) to know your look like a poster is in. Thank you."

I'm pretty sure it was to tell me that the portrait posters I ordered are in and not that I look like a poster!

22 July 2008

Wii for Me

I got a great phone call this morning. You see I entered a drawing the other day. I knew it said "enter to win" and "Wii". What I didn't realize at the time was that it said "a chance to buy" in between. I won the chance to BUY a Wii. Lucky me! I won the chance to spend $250 bucks woohoo me!

Well I know a great deal when I see one so I of course took them up on that deal. I rushed right down there because they said I had 24 hours to claim my prize that I had to pay for. I put it on layaway but I guess that the Wii is STILL hard to come by and Wii have wanted one and gone back and forth about getting one so we're good! The decision is made we will join the Wii wagon!

I told Kirke I "won the chance to buy a Wii". I think he was confused. And of course the PX got them in stock between paydays so layaway was a must. Once I explained he understood. For a week last year I waited outside the gate at the PX for it to open to see if they had any Wii's in for a friend of mine in Michigan. Then I gave up.

We are going to put the Wii in hiding and it will be our "family gift" for when Kirke gets to come home for R&R. That gives me time to buy the million other things you have to buy to go with the Wii. It so better be worth all this! I'm sure it will be. Maybe I'll get the Wii Fit game and lose another 20 pounds before Kirkey comes home for good!

I'm so excited to win that chance to spend hundreds! Woohoo lucky me!

The Things I do for Entertainment!

I found this video from when Korbin was 2 or 3. I was mean, very mean but it's funny!


20 July 2008

Wet and Wild is My Style

We had an interesting weekend. We went shopping a half hour south west of here yesterday morning and then wound up a half hour north east of here yesterday afternoon. I spent way too much money and had a great time so it's all going to be okay!



After we were done shopping Brandy and I and our 5 kids headed back to my house to have tacos because I wanted to use my new cheese grater. I realized we needed lettuce so we called up Amber and sent her butt to the commissary but it was closed. So I begged Brandy to go into Subway and ask if she can buy a cup of lettuce! She really did it too! See......







After they called the manager to see if they could even sell her a cup and when he said no the Subway workers took pity on her and gave her a large cup of lettuce for free!



Today I tried to stay home and clean but I got suckered into going to Ambers because she had 5 extra kids. When the other kids left I drug her kicking and screaming to Wal-Mart. I can't for the life of me figure out why we do this. It's as if shopping with "Mommy Can I" and "Please Buy Me" (my two boys shopping names) isn't bad enough that I need to invite my friends and their own "Look at this Mommy" and "No Mommy NO" to come along too in order to add to my wonderful adventures at Wal-Mart.



On went our day that included a pool party for Brandy and Ambers companies. They brought me along out of pity I'm sure. I haven't even been contacted by even email from my FRG. I was shocked that only four wives showed up with their kids. We had the entire gigantic pool all to ourselves.


Korbin conned me into going off the high dive. He said that he would go off of it after I did. Now I'm okay with that but I was scared to death. The stairs up to the high dive had no rails! Not one single handle to grab onto just like a ladder that was wet and slippery and I could have slipped and fallen and cracked my little head open at any moment. So like any good mom I took that chance so that my five year old could take that same chance. Who does that? What kind of mom would encourage this kind of ridiculous activity from her child. Aren't we supposed to work to keep them safe not encourage bravery and chance taking? I must have had too much chlorine because I got to the top and luckily there are rails half way down the diving board or I might have fallen off in all my grace. I carefully made my way to the end, I could not stop and look I just did it, I jumped. I even plugged my nose like a weenie and for some strange reason I also covered my eyes with my other hand! WHO DOES THAT? Like it made the fall shorter? As I went under I was embarrassed to come back up but well, it's not like I had a choice right?


As I came up I saw Korbin walking to the ladder. That little snot climbed up that ladder like it was nothing. I had to choose whether to be in the water for when he jumped or to be behind him on the ladder. It would have made sense to be there to break a fall onto cement but I worried more about him landing in water, with his life vest on..........I'm an idiot!


As it turned out he got up there, he stood at the start of the diving board looked around and then looked at me down in the water and decided he was not going off the end of that thing. I made him wait to climb down until I got out to be there when he climbed down. He tries to be brave and he usually is very brave. But a five year old on a high dive is a bit much to expect.


I got all the kids to go down the water slide even my little Tayton! He went under at the end and everything. Korbin had no fear and was going head first after I had done it first of course! Here's some video's and pictures.



Little C's arm is disappearing it is a horrible thing that occasionally happens around here!

Little Megan swimming around like a champ! She had a good time! Nicholas and Tayton played great together as usual. Nicholas is very good with Tayton it makes me happy!!

Elizabeth somehow missed all of the "in pool" pictures but she's always smiling for the camera!!

I am stupid enough to post a really bad picture of myself in a bathing suit looking like Shamu because it's so darn cute that Tayton posed with his lips on my cheek and his foot held up behind him! And Korbin well he's just Korbin silly look on his face Korbin!