Fat Girl's Guide to Triathalons

Well-I have failed as a blogger, but I am so inspired by several people and organizations right now, I want to be more active here to explore creative endeavors and my wonderful family life.

I am now officially the Vice President of the San Antonio Modern Quilt Guild and I am excited about it!  I think there will be a new website soon, so keep an eye out!  I am in charge of programming, so if you have a short tutorial that you think is brilliant for crafty ladies, let me know!

The boys are growing strong and healthy!  They talk a mile a minute ALL the time, but they are so sweet and polite.  We took them on a first and definitely not last road trip - we had a blast!  Beautiful kids - beautiful Yosemite.

With National Adoption Month approaching, I am constantly reminded of how blessed we are to have such wonderful children, who have totally morphed into mini-Jessi and mini-Rick clones.  Rick and Ezra are such stinkers, Austin is just as sassy as me, and Owen is the sweetest combination of the two of us.  

 

 

  

I love these kids! We had such a great time on our first camping trip - I would have a good picture of Owen - but he was so far out in the ocean we could get a good picture of him in the water.

They pretended that the tent was a spaceship and no one got scared and tried to get into bed with me and my mom.

The only bummer was that Rick got REALLY sick and could not go with us!

They looked like little beach bums when we were roasting hot dogs and marshmellows and sitting in their hoodies with little sunburned noses.

I love them so much!

Pictures...have you seen these?

I can't remember what I post, but here are some sweet pictures of the boys...I think I have already posted these, but I am thin on pictures since I don't really have a camera I like anymore :(

Cute things Ezra says!

Sorry the camera is in sort of iffy state.

We taught the kids how to play 20 questions yesterday...this is about 15 questions in and Rick has just ask me:

Daddy:  Is it a dog?

Mommy: No

Ezra:  Oh Oh My turn!  Does a doggie have a head?

Mommy: (thinking about how to answer this question, but since it is technically a yes or no question, decides to answer it with positive affirmation) Yes, dogs do have heads.

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Ezra: (trying to decide what animal he is, literally) I'm a seal (pronounced teal)

Daddy: I think you area tinky tunk (stinky skunk)

Ezra:  (Irratated now) Teal!

Daddy: Tinky Tunk (laughing because he knows Ezra is getting grouchy about this)

Ezra: Teal! (much louder)

Ok...you get the idea...it went on until Ezra decided to ignore daddy completely, which is hard in a car with 5 people in it.

Cyrus, the house fairy...elf

A little magic has entered the Lane/Owens household.  My mom and I (more my mom than me) does fly lady to keep the house clean and they suggested that your kids get visits from the house fairy.  Well we weren't sure if we had a house fairy, but the kids cleaned their rooms at Babsha's house with the hopes that there was one and...sure enough a house fairy left a treat under their pillow.  They have been so enamored with this idea that they are very conscientious cleaners at Babsha's house. 

Well, Owen, our responsible child was rewarded with a dollar and a letter from the house fairy that read:

           Owen- You did a good job, but in the future I will not come if you continue to call me a house fairy.  I am a house elf. 

           Thank you,

            Cyrus, the house elf

Imagine our horror at realizing that we had been calling the house elf a fairy!  How insulting...we are working on remembering that....turns out our house has a house fairy/elf too...we are not sure yet if it is a boy or a girl.  We hope that it will leave a letter with that clarified soon!