The Fourth at Firestone

I realize that the 4th of July has passed but I just downloaded these fun pictures! We haven't had such a fun 4th in well, ever... The whole day was exciting and the kids had a blast! We watched a parade and were hosed down with water guns every 5 mins and there was even a little carnival that wanted Jerry's entire paycheck to ride about 8 rides but they blasted Michael Jackson songs on the karaoke stage so it was TOTALLY worth it. We had to wait in line for a hot air balloon ride for about 45 mins, though!!!!! Jessica was a blast during that, let me tell you. But later that night we had a perfect spot to spread out and watch the fireworks display that was beautiful and lasted almost...drum roll...12 mins!!! Oh well, we only had to drive about 3 mins to get there so the trade off was definately worth it! They were amazing and we were so close. It doesn't look like it in the pictures but it must have only been about a mile away... It was a great day and we even had one of the neighbors invite us up to set off fireworks with them. I think I'm falling in love with this small town...

Lie # 99: It Aint Easy Being Cheesy

Of course it's easy being cheesy. I do it all day long and so do most of my friends and family! Take lunch with my gal pals a few weeks ago.


Hey Jen...wanna be a model? Carrie and I think you'd be GREAT! Ha ha...


Really? I've always wanted to try it!



How about this?


No? What about this one...it's serious.


This?


You know what, just forget it. Ask Chelsie...I'm gonna eat.



Naw, I can't.


Well, OK!


Vogue!


At least it was a better attempt than Jenn's! You moved BOTH your arms!



I know, let's ask the waiter if he can take our picture and we can ALL be models!

A few Joelisms

My third boy has his own vocabulary. If he doesn't know a word for something, he simply makes one up that fits into his knowledge base. For example, my sister and her two youngest boys were visiting us last week. Mindy walks into the boys bedroom where Joel is just walking out and when he sees her, he stops, looks up at her with an accusing look on his face and says, "Why didn't you bring your netters? He said you have netters! You should have brought your netters!" I am dying laughing and she is looking at me very confused. She asks if I know what he's talking about and I tell her I do (but only because he and I had a similiar conversation earlier in the evening). He had ripped his baby sisters doll and wanted me to sew it back up for him. But since he didn't know the word 'sew' he asked if I would net it for him. I asked what he was talking about and he said, "You know, get your netters down and net it back up for me." Well, I didn't do that so he apparently had a conversation with his cousin who amazingly knew exactly what he was talking about because he told him that his mom has lots of those! I think he was on a mission to find his Aunt Mindy and ask how she could have forgotten to bring her netters. She catches on quickly and tells him she does have netters but she just forgot them at home. He's pretty mad at us all by this point and just stomps off...

Jonah came down and was excited that I made him his favorite dinner, pb&j, and exclaims, "That rocks the beat, mom!" He said he heard it on tv. Ok. So a few minutes later, Joel comes down and sees that he gets chicken tetrazinni and exclaims, "That rocks the bait!" I don't think they watched the same show...