Playing outside!! And some other stuff

Wow, this is really irritating. My computer is taking FOREVER to load the pictures from the memory card to the computer. I just want to click through them, for crying out loud! But, noooo. It takes about 15 seconds for each picture to load. Ugh.

Anyway, It's finally starting to warm up (on occasion) around here. Some days are warmish and then three hours later it might snow. You never know. But the warm days give me hope that I'm not stuck in some sort of global cooling trend. I'll take global warming over global cooling any day.

One day we went over to the park by our house and played. The kids had a great time being out of the house. Especially Alaina. She doesn't get recess like the other kids do. But at least we could all go out without freezing in 5 minutes.










Last Sunday, we sent the kids off to get dressed and Ryker comes back like this. You can't expect much since neither Brice or I have any fashion sense, but you'd think that maybe he'd recognize that nothing he was wearing matched after we pointed it out. Nope. He was a bit hurt that we found his outfit funny. Poor guy.Brice has been wanting a 9mm handgun for a long time. He found a really cheap one and had been hoping to get it for his birthday. I told him that I wasn't able to get it in time. He has this annoying habit of figuring out what his presents are before he opens them by shaking them and feeling them through the paper. Drives me nuts! So I lied. I told him that there were a bunch of hoops I had to jump through because my driver's license wasn't updated with our current address. It's true that I had to update my address, but I was able to do it online and it only took a day for the DMV to change it. But I told Brice that I had to submit the info in writing via snail mail and that it is, after all, the DMV. He was disappointed, but moved on with life. But then he opened his gun and...
was totally surprised! Hahahahahaha, I'm so sneaky!

No nap today

Ryker cracks me up even when he's throwing fits:

"Mommy why are you always starving us?!! You never give us any food!"

(I'd just given them rather large rice crispy treats, carrots and dip, and cheese. An hour before that, they had cupcakes--lots of sugar, I know. Bad! And dinner's in an hour)

Now the sobbing begins. "I'm starving! Why don't you ever feed us! You're starving us!"

"Why don't you go to your room and eat your arm."

"Noooo! Then I won't have an arm!" Still sobbing.

"It will grow back."

Still sobbing, "No it won't! Only lizards can grow things back."


Sidenote: Yes, I realize this is my 4th post today. It's been a waiting game all day. Waiting, in the end, to do nothing. At least I got the downstairs cleaned up! And hopefully gave you something interesting to do on your computer.

Great Laugh

I heard crazy amounts of intense laughter coming from the girls' room and I went to investigate. This is what I found. Alaina just thinks Raelin is the funniest thing in the world! I only caught the tail end of their laughing session on video, but at least it's something!

Lest you be deceived

I've posted several of my sewing successes, but I would hate to have you mistakenly believe that I am some sort of master sewer; far from it. Here's the proof. I mean just look at this thing! What the...!?Raelin was kinda sad after Christmas when she realized that she was now the only one without a stuffed mousie. Ryker has had one for a long time that he got from his Aunt Melissa and he loves it. Now Alaina got one for Christmas. And poor little Raelin feels downtrodden, as she the only child to remain mousie-less. I've looked high and low (she had money from Christmas that she wanted to use to get a mouse) at every store I go to, but alas, no mousies to be had anywhere! So I thought, well, someone sews these stuffed animals; maybe I could do it. Mmmm, not so much. Fortunately, she still loves it. Unfortunately, it's not exactly the sturdiest thing I've ever sewn (tiny circles are hard to sew!) and it is destined to a short life. In the meantime, in preparation for a day not too far in the future when this little guy will find his way into the trash, the mousie hunt continues...

Clarification of my explanation

So, a friend of mine pointed out that the background is just fine, but the problem is that Alaina is the only one represented in the header labeled "The Somers Family." Well, now, there's an oversight! (Don't worry, Andria, this post is really just an excuse to post some funny pictures of R&R.) But she's so darn cute, can you blame me?! At any rate, the reason for that is that she's the only one I seem to get good pictures of! Every time the camera comes out, I get things like this:Or this:Or this:And if I try to get myself in a picture (Brice isn't usually around to take pictures and he doesn't often think of taking them when he is around), you get this:And we are just boring:So Alaina, being around me the most and being cute rather than silly (I can't tell you how often the kids want me to take pictures of their hand or the pen they're holding or something else no one wants a picture of) and posing for me like Alaina will:you just naturally end up with lots of great pictures of her and not so many of the other kids. Summer ought to change that. I love taking pictures outside, so I'll be taking more then. And I also don't have many recent ones of all the kids or the whole family. I thought about making a collage, but I have to figure out if I even have a program that will let me do it, then I have to figure out how to use it. Maybe one day I'll have a more appropriate picture to put up with "The Somers Family" but for now, it's just little Alaina with her big eyelashes! I must say, though, I love opening up to my blog and seeing that pretty little face!

Explanation

I thought perhaps I should explain the new background. There are two reasons.

1. I'm trying to think warm thoughts in hopes that spring will come quickly and the weather will stop teasing me with its bipolarity. I'm sick of snow that never sticks and bright sunny days that get your hopes up only to have them dashed when you step outside to find that it's freezing and windy. We have had occasional warm-ish days, but then I wake up the next morning to find it snowing. Again. Guess how much snow is on the ground right now. None. Guess when it snowed last. 10:00 this morning. Story of my life right now and I'm so sick of it! I want sunshine and t-shirt weather!!!!!!! Even Ryker, who's always happy and excited about everything, has been begging to plant things and I have to keep explaining to him that the plants would die because it's too cold.

2. My computer with the new operating system is set so that I have to zoom out to see the whole frame, so I'll probably forget what background I have for several months. With this one, I won't have to worry about it until fall.

Ryker

Ryker says the funniest things.

After church:

Brice: Do you guys want to go for a drive?

Kids: Nooooooooooo!!!
Brice: Why not?
Ryker: Because we should go straight home and eat sugar.

Towards the end of a long day of Ryker snatching treats with the last straw being that he was snatching (again) Raelin's Valentine's hearts while her back was turned:

Me: Ryker! NO MORE CANDY!! You may not have any more candy for the rest of the day!

Ryker: Waaaaaaa! I just love sugar!!!

Followed by a complete meltdown and consequently an early bedtime. Sugar overload I guess.

Showing the kids some more dollars I printed out for our family money system (they were smaller than the last batch):

Kids: Aaaawwww! They're so cute!
Ryker: They're like a baby horse. Cuuuute!

What?! Where did that come from?

In the car:

Ryker: And when we have the new baby, it can sit in that seat, and then our next baby can sit in this seat, and then our next baby can sit in that seat and then when we have our next baby, we won't have any more seats and we'll have to get a new car.
Me: How many more babies do you think we're having?
Ryker: 8!

He's continued to tell me that we are having 8 more kids in our family for a grand total of 11 kids. Yeah, right.