Instagram

There's this cool app you can get on your iPhone called Instagram.  It's kinda like Facebook for photos.  I am in love with it.  I didnt used to like the Instagram look at all, but I'm a convert now.  Here are some pics I've taken since the first day of school with Instagram:

First day of School

First Day of School

Lake Day with our dear friends.... how many kids can fit on one intertube?

Storm chasers camped out on the back patio

Gilbert Temple at Dawn, taken during an early morning group bike ride

Smoothies a grandma would be proud of:  strawberries, blueberries, bananas and apples.

A good friend of ours wanted to see a picture of Eric with hair... this is what I came up with.  Eric and Christy circa 1993 on our first wedding anniversary.

More smoothies.... 

Brayden doing backflips on the tramp

Max feeling lonely with all the kids gone at school

My badge for work.  I love my new job!

How Taylor survives a dust storm during their swim meet.... I guess it worked because he got a great time on his 500 Free that day!

Three more days until the first quarter of school is over.  The greatest thing about my job is that I only work on days when the kids are at school.  So, all five of us get 18 straight days of vacation!  Too bad, Eric will be a stressed out mess during that time because he got slammed with writing 48 performance reviews between now and the end of October.

Quiet

My phone has only rung once today and it was a wrong number. I got to drop Brayden off at a friend's house this morning for a playgroup and spend 2 hours running errands that I've put off because taking him with me would be such a pain. Things like making replacement keys for my RS closet so all my counselors have their own keys, reprinting the funeral program for David that had his middle name spelled wrong, mailing off christmas gifts for my nieces in WA state, returning a CD to Amazon, and scouring local Targets trying to find more supplies for the RS gift we gave the sisters yesterday... we ran out... last year 50 was plenty... this year, not enough. Lesson learned!

I've been doing catch up laundry today. Like washing all the beach towels that have been sitting in tubs on the back porch two months longer than necessary (swimming season was over for us by early October) and I'm finally washing Halloween costumes today so they can go back into the dress-up boxes... the kids want to wear their costumes to make a movie (thanks Heidi and family for the inspiration!)

As soon as the last buzzer rings in a minute I'm going to catch up on TV from last week... haven't seen the Office yet from Thursday and I'm also catching up on episodes of Eli Stone. I love that show, but I guess I'm the only one because my dad told me they are cancelling it. Bummer. At least I have DVR so I have good stuff to watch while I fold laundry... I'm not really into anything on TV during the "daytime" hours....

Tonight I have a band concert, tomorrow a piano recital, wednesday we have pack meeting, thursday a DARE graduation and another band concert, on Friday we have a primary activity after school and then on Saturday Ian has his last soccer game. I will be happy when this week is over.... :) Wish me luck!

Blogging Withdrawal....

Got back yesterday from camp with Megan. I'll blog about it soon, but I want to have pictures to post and I don't have any digital. I knew Megan would want to take her own pics up there with friends, so I reverted to the dark ages and bought her a disposable to take. I didn't take my digital because I didn't want to worry about Mega losing it. Turns out it was a valid concern.... more on that later.... I'm hoping to develop film tomorrow and then I'll have to scan and post.... man, talk about dark ages!

It was good to come home and see all my boys after 3 days of nothing but girls!!! Brayden has changed a lot in the last month, but it really hit me when I came home and when I said no to something he wanted, he clearly replied, "it's not fair!" I couldn't believe my ears! He's been saying phrases like that for a while, I just wasn't really paying much attention, I guess!

My in laws are still here, so blogging time will be limited... I just spent the last hour catching up on friends and family blogs... I was starting to feel "out of the loop"... I really love reading about everything you are all doing!

And by the way, Brayden has been wearing that blue"rambo" ribbon since Monday... he won't take it off for anything but a bath and then it has to go right back on his head. I'm going to try to "lose" it before church, but if you see him at church with a blue ribbon on his head, please don't judge me! I'm not sure if we'll win the battle and if we lose Eric will be so embarrassed to take him out in public! It's so funny though, he calls himself a "ninja turtle" and he points to the one with the blue mask (Leonardo) on the video game we have. It's hilarious!