Faithism of the day

Emmy: What is "Vegas"
Me: **Thinking in my mind how in the WORLD do you explain "Vegas" to her?** "Um....it's a place in Nevada. They have lots of parties there."
Faith: Basically, it's the birthplace of poker.

Why didn't I just let her explain it in the first place?

Vote For Emmy!

Ok all you St. Joseph (and surrounding area peeps), look for this picture and dump your change (or bills, bills work too=) in Emmy's cup at the IGA or the bank. She is up for fair princess, and lets face it, she's totally the cutest kid up there. I know, I know, I'm biased, but whatever. I have no shame is promoting my kid:) Plus.....she totally wants to ride on top of a "convertival" and wear a crown. Are you really going to deny a 6-year-old her dream?

Eminisms......

It is daily that one of my kids says something that literally makes me laugh so hard that I almost pee my pants. Usually, that kid is Emmy, but sometimes 1 and 3 will switch it up.....I refer to these little nuggets of truth as "isms"....."Faithisms, Emminisms, and Maebrinisms".

Usually these little quotes leave my brain within 24 hours of hearing them, becuase usually I try to sleep at night and I think they fall out of my ears and are gone forever. So I've decided to start throwing them up on a blog since this will be their little psuedo memory book someday.

Em's "Eminism" of the day:
Em: I'm hungry, can I have a snack cake when I go to grandmas?
Me: What is a snack cake anyway, are you like 80?
Em: You know, a swiss cake roll. That's what papa calls them, snack cakes. Besides, snack cake sounds way cooler than just swiss cake roll. And I like the way cake sounds after snack.


She is truly a "mini-me"....

Indy Trip 2009 Take Two

Allright, finally! I have five minutes to write up a post, so I am going to take advantage.

To reserve time, I'm just going to throw all the pics up, I mean, it's a zoo and they are pretty self explanitory:) We had an excellent time there touchin' sharks, riding ponies and roller coasters, and seeing all of Gods gorgeous creatures.

It was Maebree's first zoo visit (well, first since she is able to understand what the heck a "zoo" is), and she was amazed at EVERYTHING! My favorite video to prove that:

I LOVE how she yells "Whoa!" after everything:0

She was also amazed at the dolphins, as were we, but my video won't upload:(

We headed back to the hotel and took a much needed rest (well, Russ did, I layed there bugged that the kids would'nt stop fighting long enough for me to take a rest:) We ate another delicious meal at the hotel and headed out for a walk along the canal and some paddleboating. The kids begged us to go, then complained the whole time. Faith informed us when we were completly on the other side of the canal (and the farthest point from where we started) that she had to pee.
Just a little taste of our ride:

**sigh** story of our whole vacation:)

We ended the trip with some shopping, BD's Mongolian BBQ, and of course, The Cheesecake Factory!

Now, if I could just get a vacation away from fighting, that would be perfect!

Awesomest. Wedding. Party. EVER!

I am sick today and was in serious need of a break from editing. Instead of getting up Indy Part Deux up, I decided to share this. All I can say is one of my hooker sisters better get married soon so I can do something awesome like this at their wedding. And if anyone else out there wants to get married and do something like this, call me and I will be another bridesmaid, or cake girl, whatever gets me in the door:)

Bitter-sweet

I said good-bye to my childhood home yesterday. I am happy and sad at the same time. My parents are moving on to smaller but much better places, and for that, I'm happy. Saying good-bye to a place that holds SO many memories (both good and bad) has me pretty sad.

I will have a huge post about it in the near future...but still have to get Indy trip part 2 up.....some day I will have time for it all:)

Indy Trip 2009 Part one

In an effort to do our part in spurring on the economy, Russ and I decided to take a little "mini-cation" to Indianapolis Zoo. I found a GREAT hotel right downtown in Indianapolis for a great price, so we packed up the kids Monday afternoon and headed out. After an incredibly exhausting 2-hour ride over (I'm so glad we did not go any place any further ), we arrived at our destination. I grabbed the camera to do a quick tour of our awesome room:

Bedroom

Bathroom, obviously:)


Living room and kitchen

I have no idea what the deal is with my husband, kids, and wanting to show off their muscles in pictures.....but there are like 8 more pics where these came from.

Next, we checked out the pool......Maebree stripped off her shirt immediately thinking it was "fimming" time.

After dinner at the hotel (yes, the hotel provided us with a hot breakfast AND a hot dinner meal Monday through Thursday!) we decided to take a little walk downtown, then head to Circle Center mall for our first "activity" of the weekend.

Walking to the Monument.

Emmy informed me that these guys were hurt really bad:)

Posers......

Now off to Circle Center for some games and to watch Ice Age 2 (advice: Don't waste your money, wait for it to come out on video:)

Emmy's MarioKart game face. Cracked us up!

Self portraits......


"Essie" :o)

In our walk through the mall, Beyonce's "Single Ladies" came on, and Mae decided to show off her moves:) This is totally not prompted by me either!

Watch part of the video on YouTube if you want to see why she is doing what she is doing.....

We decided to walk back around the monument area to get some yummy icecream and the girls ran into a bear....

The next morning we arose early to head off to the zoo.....but I will save that for another post as this one has taken me all morning and I have a lot to do today! So tune back for some riveting videos and more great pics!