Knock, Knock

This is what we saw yesterday when Sawyer opened the door.

Blech. A snail. I cannot stand snails, they are entirely gross. What's worse is that today when Sawyer and I were playing catch on the front porch today the snail was still on the door. And we could see the migratory path it had taken after we left it yesterday. Today, after I pried it from the door, we assessed that it was probably dead. Double blech.

I've been trying to capture some great images of this wonderful baby of ours before he turns 7 months. That way I can call them his *6 month photos* even though there are hundreds of them. He seemed to enjoy himself quite a bit - and I thought the results were okay. (I've still got a bit of work ahead of me, though.)

And you knew *this* would happen, right?

I certainly did.

same old

Last night was bunco. It was rip-roaring, but I suppose you'll have to take my word for it. The usual crowd was there, plus a couple of subs. (one of which is my dear friend Cara and another is Shelby - a fun and dynamic woman who has 9 children total, 5 birthed and 4 step children. I digress...)

It was the usual dice rolling, score keeping, wine drinking, chocolate eating and cheating group. Did I say cheating? Yup, I sure did. Last year, I played in 2 bunco groups (how *do* you spell bunco with a C or a K?) this one and another one. Both groups had a girl who cheated. It was fairly common knowledge - everyone knew/knows who it is and it annoys everyone.

Last night, I was dividing the cash prizes amongst the winners and guess what? We were $6 short in the can. $6 is the bunco entry fee. *someone* didn't pay. Gee, might it be THE SAME person who has done this before? Might this be THE SAME person that somehow always wins *something*?? (Last night she had the last bunco so she won the prize, which was a $25 Nordstrom gift card. A nice gift, but certainly not worth cheating for. But, I personally can't think of anything worth cheating for)

I'm not really going anywhere with this story. It's just annoying, she's annoying and I can't stand that there is this drama every.single.month. I don't even like bunco that much. I just go to see my friends.

Now, I must go cut some hearts for Sawyer's school. He tried to explain what they were for - some special thing I've never heard of. But, he'd like 15 hearts to take to school today, so I will oblige him. He's hard to say no to.

Can you believe that?

After a great weekend, we're settling back into normal life. Saturday and Sunday were spent maxing and relaxing. LOVE that. We watched Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on Saturday night (until the DVD player decided not to work - again!) while enjoying another pizza picnic. (This has quickly become a McG family favorite.)

Yesterday, we drove down to Ramona and dined at Ramona Lisa with Gini, Ricky and Christie. Then, we went to their house for dessert and play time. Good fun.

Today, while Andy was driving home, he did a tally. A tally of how many cars he's had possession of in his life time. As you probably don't know, Andy is buying another car as we speak. We already have a 2007 Camry Hybrid that Andy drives back and forth to work, I drive a 2008 Toyota Sienna and soon Andy will be the proud owner of a 2007 Toyota Prius. A garage cleaning is in order because it seems like we should be able to at least get two of our cars in our three car garage. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, here is the ever expanding list of Andy's cars:

• 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic
• 1990 Pontiac Grand (Am)
• 1999 Toyota Tacoma
• 2000 Toyota Solara*
• 2001 (grey) Toyota Camry*
• 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee
• 2001 Toyota Tacoma
• 2002 (blue) Camry*
• 1996 Toyota 4Runner
• 2003 Toyota Matrix
• 1995 Mazda Protoge
• 2002 Toyota Sequoia*
• 2004 Toyota Corolla
• 1990 Jeep Wrangler
• 2005 Toyota Solara convertible
• 2007 (white) Camry Hybrid
• 2008 Toyota Sienna*
• the not yet purchased 2007 Toyota Prius

For those of you not keeping track, Andy is 32 years of age. He's been driving for 16 years. He drove the Grand Am for 5-6 years -- you do the math. (Disclaimer: I did primarily drive some of these vehicles and they have an asterisk after them. But, even if they were *my* car, Andy can still claim them, as he did still drive them probably 25% of the time - plus - they were/are in his name from work) Also, in case you were wondering, my first car was a 1988 Ford Escort and I drove that until 1996 when I got the 1995 Toyota Tercel that I drove until 1999 when I got the red Solara.

You're all probably slumped over asleep in your chair, completely bored from our reminiscing. Count yourself lucky though, because if I had all of the pictures on this computer I would post all of those!

Anyway, that is all for today. I was not able to volunteer in class today because Sawyer was feeling under the weather. But, we did go to his last tee ball practice and I will attend bunko tonight. Can't wait to see my friends but I can wait to toss the dice...

baby in a tea cup, boop boop

A little of this, a little of that

First, a follow up of sorts to yesterday. The weather only continued to get worse. At Cam's open house there was some severe weather (SUPER unusual for this area) and a torrential downpour. Unfortunately, we were all drenched -- the roof at the school was leaking in many places and the place was mass chaos. We decided to brave the rain and run out to Cam's classroom (as it's in a portable building) and it was hailing. HAIL!

Anyway, apparently nearby to here in two different areas there were tornadoes! Now, when everyone tells me that they'd take earthquakes over tornadoes anyday, I'll have to remind them that we have both here! Here are some photos (not great ones) of the tornadoes taken by a teacher at Campbell's school.

http://www.haldermanhome.com/luiseno/weather/PictureOfTheDay.htm

Sawyer also had an open house as well and it was, fortunately, much less eventful. We saw some of Sawyer's work, his friends and teachers, plus heard a couple of songs. All I have to say is that Ms. Susann is a saint dealing with the little boys in that class!

Sawyer looks so thrilled, right? And, next to him on the right is Jake. He's spirited.

Enough about the weather and school! (Apparently two of my most common subjects) Shall we discuss my most favorite subject? The baby!

There are two hot topics surrounding the baby. Sitting and spitting. I have a love/hate with the sitting and the spitting both, really. I want him to sit - it opens all kinds of opportunities. He can play with toys, I can put him down places, I don't have to worry about him rolling all over creation and chewing on power cords (oh wait! he might still do that anyway!), and we can have some great photo opportunities. But, if he's sitting, then he's not a wee little baby anymore. :(

And, the spitting. Argh! It's adorable for the baby -- he is so cute and has so much enthusiasm for it. Thing 1 and Thing 2 LOVE to emulate this all.day.long and that gets very annoying. (Notice all the drool on his orange outfit from the spitting!)

This is a cute picture of Harrison loving the spinner with the little balls in it on the exersaucer. He *hearts* the exersaucer!

One of those days

Today was one of those days where you think that Voldemort is real and that he has a hand in what is going on. From huge earthquakes in (what seems like everywhere!) China, Cyclones in Myanmar, tornadoes in Colorado and thunder/snow/lightning in Seven California on May 22 you know the Dark Lord must be behind all of this.

Obviously, we had some rain today -- Sawyer and I listened to the pouring rain and thunder with amazement, it was really quite something.

Anyway, tonight is busy. PTA meeting and In 'N Out burger at Luiseno at 530. Then, Cam's Open House from 6-7 pm. Then Sawyer's open house is up in Corona from 730-800. Busy night!

Is this better?

original:

The lightened version. At least you can see their faces!

Out of time

I have exactly 12 minutes until I have to leave to pick up Campbell at school. Harrison is sleeping and I'm sitting amongst the largest pile of laundry I've ever seen. And, here I am.

I was waiting to blog until I edited a few photos to share. Then, I decided that I was probably not going to get to those photos until I was at least 33, so I should share underexposed photos and photos that need to be cropped. What will you see? Photos that need to be lightened, tweaked, and cropped. Eyes that need to be popped, color that needs to be saturated and images that need to be sharpened. Ah well...another day, okay?

In the mean time... Sunday we took 3 boys to see Speed Racer in the theater. Harrison was perfect, as usual. He sat quietly, ate and slept in his carseat. The 3 biggest boys and I were totally enthralled by the movie and the overall story line. I *LOVE* stories where good prevails over evil. LOVE it.

Monday was yet another HOT (100*+ degrees!) day and we had a little evening swim. When we arrived at the pool we were delighted to find Sawyer's friend from school, Grace there. The two boys had a delightful time playing with Grace while Andy, Harrison and I watched. Good times.

Cutie at the pool

How fun is that?

Same photo, different focus. So, the bokeh is in different spots. In the first photo I'm focused on Campbell and Harrison is out of focus. In the second, I'm focused on Harrison and Campbell is out of focus. I think it tells the same story but maybe with a bit of a different language.

Sawyer is paying homage to his Papa Tom, who loves to wave in photos. (This is one of those pictures where I would lighten it up, some!)

The cutest baby in the world. 'Nough said.

The best things in the world include a sleeping baby.

Time's up! gotta run.

brothers

Now we have pictures of both little brothers eating Cam's face. Cute, huh?

big and fun

Today was a pretty big day and I'm not talking about the temperatures. (The high today here in the Temescal Valley was 100.6*) Sawyer and Campbell both had a baseball game today -- only one more left! (May 31!!)

We sat through Sawyer's game and then after the game Andy wanted to drive by/through a couple of car shows that he'd read about in the newspaper. One was at the Glen Eden Sun Club. So, into the nudist colony we went. Okay, I'm joking about that last part. We didn't actually go in. BUT, that was where one of the car shows was.

Campbell's game was later this afternoon and it was still blazing and we were still sweating. He still played really well and had a lot of fun. Sawyer still enjoyed his friends on the sidelines and still enjoyed being bat boy. (There were several spray bottles involved and I think that might have kept Sawyer cooler than us)

We had big plans for tonight. With the new Indiana Jones movie coming out next weekend we decided to get the first three movies from Netflix. So, the first one came yesterday and we planned to watch the movie tonight after dinner and that the boys could have their favorite movie snack with it. (Popcorn and M&M's) So, we had a pizza picnic on the floor in front of the TV and started the movie. (I'd never seen any of them either! How exciting for me, as well) Sadly, we only made it through 45 minutes of the movie before we realized the DVD was damaged. How sad.

That is the big and the small and all of the news that is fit to print.