We awoke a morning a few weeks ago to a treasure hunt, with notes stashed around the house, the boys were SO excited. We trapezed all over the house, finding all of the clues or “plues” as Tru called them, left by Dad.
The last one in the office, attached to some pirate swords, was a clue/note sending us here:
WALLE is awesome. I laughed hard at this one than I have at the previous previews, I am looking forward to seeing this show.
When my siblings and I were little, we had the coolest big brother ever. Ryan.
All of us have pleasant memories of playing train station with him. I don’t know if that is what we called it or not, but we all remember it. We all love it, and him so much, that we still talk about ‘the train’.
Let me explain…or attempt to—
My parents house at the time had hardwood floors in the hallways that led to each of our rooms, as well as to the front door. Ryan used to get a big blanket out, and we would all sit on it (me and my two younger siblings).
Then he would proceed to pull us (on the blanket) to the different stations (our rooms and the front door). We played this ALL the time. That was it. Simple but overwhelmingly and extremely fun.
So last week when I saw the boys doing this:
pushing the pumpkins to work on the train (my upside-down coffee table), I couldn’t help but be filled with warm fuzzies and warm memories. How I love my boys, and how I love my Sibs: Eric, Amy and Ryan….
Nothing like the good times.
So today, in preparation for the big V-day, we wanted to make sugar cookies, but I remembered I lent our Cream of Tarter to the neighbor, and had forgotten to get it back. Oh well. So we made cupcakes today. I forgot how HAPPY pink icing makes me. I usually don’t love frosting things, but I enjoyed frosting these cuppy-cakes just because of the pink cherry frosting. (I think we need to get more pink things in our house..hmmmm…) Of course, the boys ate all the cute ones with the Candy Hearts on top, before I could take the picture, but that is okay, they’re still pink. And Deilcious.
Hope your V day is as pink and Delicious as our cupcakes are…
Love you all!
Thank you Grams so much for the blankies…
After so much talk, everynight, the boys put their animals to bed with the blankeys, they love them. Thank you!!
No, not the princess pat, who lived in a tree, the princess Cat.
When Truman found out that Cat was coming down on her birthday, he insisted on making this beautiful Crown, with the words princess cat on it and his Aunt Cathrine was kind enough to wear it, the entire evening. What a nice aunt…
Truman made her a cake, and Tucker frosted it, by himself…(looks delicious, uh?)
We went to dinner with Mom, Dad and Cat, ate delicious pizza, and talked, and talked. Toph even got to talk some politics, which he loves, and I don’t think I do often enough as I should. I know he likes to talk about it.
It was so fun to Mom and Dad here too! Our house feels complete and warm with them here.
We are glad we got to spend your birthday with you Cat! WE LOVE YOU!!
Chillin’ with the Greene Fam…
The kids had a grand time, turning off the lights and being silly. We are lucky to have such good, fun cousins.
The wrestling match ups were Tuck vs. Ike and Belle vs. Tru.
I know it looks like Ikey is crying in the previous picture, but rest assured, he was just laughing, here is the next picture that was taken (Don’t you love that smile?):
A fun day to be together and enjoy each others company, and moms homemade chicken noodle soup. Delicious. Thanks Momma Greene, and the Greene Team. Love you Guys!
So my sweetheart, is one smart cookie, with that smart noggin of his, he came up with a solution to my picture hording computer problem…
But first, last week I spent hours on the phone with a nice gentleman named William, from apple, who tried and failed to fix my computer dilemma, but failed miserably, informing me that the people who ‘helped’ me before, acutally didn’t help me at all, but in fact made at least 9 copies of every picture that I have in my I photo library. (which by the way is in the upper 25,000ish, so that times 9 is WHAT?!?!?!).
After the time I spent on the phone with him, Toph and I decided that we have a few options.
1-buying and installing a new version on Iphoto, Cost 100 dollarsish.
2-Buying a new computer (which we have been saving up to do anyways) Cost, a few thousand dollarsish
3-do nothing about it, and store all of my pictures on my digital camera. cost freeish, but yet, my inner soul asks for order this last option, is not really an option, I take WAY too many pictures for that one to really work!!!
So far, this last option is all we got, so I am uploading my pics to Tophs computer for now (a temporary fix)…. and for now I can re-join the Blog-o-sphere. Hurray!
Thanks Hubs!!!
I don’t think so!!! Funny to see though!
Em:
Toph:
Tuck:
Tru:
So I am not sure which one it is, dancing or wrestling, probably a little bit of both. 🙂
This movie is a long one, like almost 5 minutes long, my boys don’t ‘dance’ (if that is what you call it) often, so I was just enjoying seeing them “bust-a-move”.
boysdance.mov
As you can tell, we still LOVE that song by Naim Yael, we listen to it often through out the day, it really does make us happy!!!
Oh, boys will be boys!
I love being an Aunt–I love my neices and nephews, and after this weekend with the Greene’s I love it even more.
Belle calls me Aunty Em, and Ikey pronounces my name, Aunt M-lee, how fun to hear your name with “aunt” in front!
The boys had their first official sleepover this weekend with the Belle and Ikey, and I wish both my camera batteries didn’t die, because the kids were DARLING and we had such a crazy, fun time!
We only had one problem. Tuck and Belle were sharing a room and Ikey and Truey were sharing another room. The problem arose, when they were having so much fun, that the didn’t want to go to sleep. So after an hour and a half of fun, we put the siblings together in separate rooms, and with in 2 minutes they were asleep. When you’re having so much fun, it takes alot of energy I guess!
I got a few shots before my battery died, playing games:
By morning my camera batteries were charged, but we were so busy playing, and taking care of the busy-ness that comes from having 4 kid, we didn’t get to many pictures. But I couldn’t pass up pictures in the dress ups!
The boys are already looking forward to another sleepover! Thanks Guys!