Boise trip & baseball

Rick flew out to CA with his brother, Chuck, this weekend to help their parents so the kids & I tagged along over to Bosie.

Today was Josh's last baseball game & Trevor was enthralled, he already hero-worships Joshua so in his mind this just made it even better.

Cute cat picture

This post has nothing to do with anything except I just think this picture of the kids & Tonks is too stinkin' cute...

Our very own Monster

Have I mentioned that my kids decided thay they have a monster in their room/ under the beds/ in the closet/ in our room?

Oh, & did I mention that Olivia has decided that the monster is named Alex?

Last week I was getting them ready for bed while Rick was at work and she was cowering between the toilet & the tub peering across the hall into my bedroom. I asked her what was wrong & she pointed and said that "Alex is in there". I asked who Alex was & she told me that he is the monster that Daddy scares away.

Rick will go into their room at night & they will all put on their scary voices & yell "Go home monster! Go home!" The kids laugh & think it's great.

Now they yell for Alex to go home.... no idea where that came from.

Busy week(s)

Sorry I've been out of the loop lately but summer school has been keeping me busy. Here's a bunch of pics so you can all see what we've been up to:

The kids (us too) did some cleaning...

Olivia & I baked a Mother's Day cake:

Rick ended up celebrating his Birthday 3 times:

(click on the links for movie trailers)
1. Iron Man the Saturday before his B-day
2. Rayman Raving Rabbids Wii game on his B-day
3. Prince Caspian, apple pie, & shooting with Rich the Saturday after his B-day
(does that make him 35 now instead of just 33? hmmm....)

Trevor had his last soccer game:

....I finally got my garden in,

thanks to help from Aleisha.
Now we've got a 3 day weekend, so far it's been spent helping friends move & do yard-work-type-stuff. We were going to go for a picnic & go fishing but the weather decided to thunderstorm instead.
Maybe Monday.

Trevor & poor Kitty Tonks

True story, hilarious. For some reason, even though Trevor keeps doing this kind of stuff to her she still loves him best. She sits outside his door at night until he falls asleep & I let her in to sleep on his bed.

This is the IM conversation I had with Rick this morning while I was in class:

Rick says:
so i was walking down the hall and I heard the cat meow. so i look in the bedrooms to see if she got locked somewhere she wasn't suppose to be. I couldn't find her but could still hear her meow. I looked in the closet and found the kid's stuffed frog by the towels and could still hear her meow. I asked trevor where she was and he pointed to the top drawer under the cupboards. I opened the drawer
Erin says:
oh no
Rick says:
and there she was. I don't know how long she was there. I'm guessing a couple hours.
Erin says:
poor kitty
Rick says:
this morning he got introuble for cramming her under the stool in the bathroom and standing on it while he went bathroom. he was torturing her
Erin says:
i've seen him try to do that before. she just lays there

I told my friend Kristen about this & she says that if the cat just lays there then it's totally ok to laugh.

Happy Birthday Honey

Yesterday was Rick's 33rd Birthday, poor guy had to work until midnight.

We went to see Iron Man (way good) this last weekend & we're going to celebrate properly this weekend.

LOVE YOU!!!

Happy Mother's Day

I really hope this works, I got this video clip last year for Mother's Day & it is hilarious.... hope you enjoy.

Hope all you Moms & Moms-to-be have a great Mother's Day!

Rick & his eyelashes

Sometimes my husband is just too cute!

He & all of his siblings are blessed with these amazingly long eyelashes, his just happen to be ultra-blonde.

We were sitting in church today & I looked over at him & noticed that his eyelashes were extra curly today. I leaned over & told him of my observation.

His response was that it was because they were tired.

I was a little confused, I asked what him being tired had to do with his eyelashes being curly?

He said that they were curly because they were too tired to keep trying to stay straight..... apparently that's what "good manly lashes" do.

Awesome.

Things I'm looking forward to:

1. spending time with Rick & the kids

2. planting my garden this weekend (this is last year's)

3. actually seeing our friends

4. two words: summer movies

5. final book of the Twilight series

("Breaking Dawn" due August 2)

~click here to view the trailer for the Twilight movie~

6. lots of homemade salsa & BBQ'ing

7. camping & banana boats (yum! if you don't know what they are you must ask)

8. eating things from my garden

9. apple pie & homemade ice cream

(click here for recipies)

Stay tuned for lots of fun pics & yummy recipies for months to come!

Finals, finally

Wahoo!

So finals are over for me & Rick will be done tomorrow.

I am now officially in my last year of school & in my program.

Wow, I am so excited.... I'm chosing to ignore the fact that summer classes begin on Monday & instead I am going to concentrate on all this free time I will have over the next few days.

We're planning a BBQ/ shooting/ games/ Wii/ whatever afternoon with a bunch of friends for Saturday to celebrate.

I so can't wait.

Optimus Prime

So the other day Rick & I were in the bedroom talking & we hear water splashing. We look at eachother & figure that Trevor is "washing his hands" in the bathroom. We finish our conversation & then go to investigate.
We get out to the living room & Trevor has drug a chair over to the fish tank, he & Olivia have the lid off & he has his hands in the tank splashing around. Rick pulls him out, spanks his bum, and starts chewing him out as he takes him down the hall to take off his sopping wet clothes & wash him off.
During this Trevor keeps trying to talk to explain himself. Finally we hear what he's saying & look at the fish tank. Somehow (one guess) Optimus Prime's gun got dropped into the fish tank & he was just trying to get it out.
That's all! Honest mistake. Could happen to anyone.