Haircut Day

It was totally past due date for Haircut Day! Matt was a shaggy dude, and Beau's hair was sticking out over his ears. James and I worked together to give these studmuffins a new do. Matt wanted his ultra short and Beau got a mohawk. Sweet! I'm gonna leave it for a while. He's too cute with it!

Here's the 3 boys after Beau's cut was done.

Kayley and I decided we wanted in on the action, so we went online and got virtual cuts. Yep, we're dorks. :)

I think Kayley looks like a celebrity with this hairstyle. Jerk. I'm the fatty in the other pic.

The Demo Derby

Beau started to get excited once the cars came out. I don't blame him, we sat in the crowd for over an hour before the festivities started. Kayley and James met up with us and we saw some pretty awesome stuff.


Kayley caught some video of a van "jumping" some rocks. It rocked! (guffaw!)

Van jumping rocks

Free Lawn Care, Baby!

Matt and James Campbell outside maintaining the lawn for us. Thanks boys! Thanks to Kayley as well for keeping them in line... ;)

Not quite 16 candles, Babe, sorry... ;)

It's 26 candles, actually.

One year older and wiser too! And cuter, and stronger, and funnier, and friendlier, and hunkier if you ask me. But I'm biased. :) Happy Birthday hubby!

We had a blast at his parent's only Lego party! We played "Pin the flag on the Lego Castle", had a "Lego Tower Building Contest", a "Guess How Many Lego's are in the Jar Contest", and we even did a "Lego Birthday Wordsearch". And, to wrap it all up, we had a Lego cake and Lego fruit snacks. Whoo! I'm Lego'd out!

If you'd like to see more pics from the party feel free to watch this slideshow! :)

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. -Wm Shakespeare

Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

-William Shakespeare

These beautiful flowers grew in our yard this summer. Just wanted to share.

The LIED children's museum in Vegas

Rachelle, Connie, and I all travelled to Las Vegas on July 29th to visit the LIED children's museum. It was a very interesting experience besides Connie getting a little lost and me directing her to us over the phone. The museum wasn't too exciting. They had some neat exhibits, but it's not a draw to go back again. Here's a bunch of pics I took of Beau and some of the group.

At first, all Beau wanted to do was climb on the bleachers.

Beau and cousin, Geraldine, in the playhouse.

The climbing/sliding contraption (that's truly the only explanation for it,) was a BIG hit for Beau.

Of course he was all over anything that had wheels. Here they had wheel barrows for collecting "rocks" that were to be used in the mining exhibit.

One little monkey jumping on the bed....

Smith's Grocery had a store exhibit where kids could shop and buy and sale goods. The apron was a bit too big for Beau. Oh well.

Rachelle and Geraldine, The Daredevil, in the hurricane chamber. I took Beau in it and he totally flipped out. It went up to like 70mph wind. A very strange feeling altogether if you ask me.

The special exhibit was about refugee's. We constructed a refugee tent together. I have no idea how anyone could live like that. We are so blessed!

Beau was totally engaged by this particular toy house. He kept telling me what some of the items were, i.e. "chair, momma!" or "dat door!", etc. And he kept bouncing in glee, thus the tippy toe position.

Behind the above toy house was a step that the kids could climb on to look inside the other side of the house. It was SO ornate! Anyway, suddenly Beau recognized his reflection in the glass and went in for a smooch. I was lucky to get this pic. I thought it was so cute!

They say it's your birthday....

Happy __hmhmhm'th__ Birthday to you! My lovely and talented sister, Rachelle got another candle on her cake this year. Her hubby and I actually accomplished the impossible and threw a surprise party for her.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get the cake completed before everyone arrived, but I still think it came out cute. It's a fairy cake, cause she loves fairies (thus the fairy book). How do you think the cake turned out?

Okay, fine, I'll do it..

So, my sis-in-law, Rachel, "tagged" me like a few months ago and I kinda forgot/ignored it for a while. Well, another sis-in-law, Jody, took the tag challenge the other day so now I think I'd better do it too, so, okay, fine, I'll do it.. (you better love me lots Rachel!) ;)

TAG!
Name 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random/surprising facts about yourself - then tag 3 people.

3 Joys- Matt, Beau, cookies

3 Fears- someone breaking into my house; Matt getting in an accident and getting seriously hurt or killed; my kid(s) growing up and making as bad or worse mistakes than I've made in my life

3 Goals- go back to school and accomplishing something; learn to play my guitar; get my laundry done (that's a recurring goal...)

3 Current Obsessions- Diet Coke; pandora.com; The Olympics

3 Random Facts- I only have one living parent OR grandparent (my dad)
- Not only am I my mom's daughter, I'm her 8th cousin (or something like that), which also means that Beau is not only my son, but my somethingdey'd cousin however times removed
- my favorite season is winter

Now, I choose to be last tagged. Only because I hate this game. No offense. So all you other non-tagged people (if there are any of you out there..) don't have to worry about me tagging you. Yep, that's right, love me! :o)

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Now, like Jody I wanted to do the memory thing she did, so....

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.