Now thats some cute kids!

Neighbors won't believe this, but underneath those wild child kids that they find out in the mountainside communing with nature.. are some well cleaned up kids! good job "lady bug mama" cleaning those four wild childs up! (and getting their picture prior to anyone dispersing in all different directions!) or getting.. dirt.. on that otherwise white.. tie... I'm guessing you digitally edited the tie like they do those models..

course zoe's well on her way out, Marina's doing her best to grow taller than the picture frame, isaac's looking like he'd rather be opening a gooey chocolate bar, and nico's dutifully giving zoe bug the right direction out of frame..

Isaac vs Marine one

Nixon fingers "Isaac" took on the apt skills of all the presidential library volunteer staff in a battle waged on the marine one battleground. It wasn't clear who the winner of the outcome was, but what was made very clear is that they don't make a piece of plexiglass secure enough to withstand the repetitive assault from a 5 year old future presidential candidate. he was going to sit in "his" seat!

cooool runnin's

This is isaac on about the 9th trip around mickeys roller coaster at Disneyland. The ride operator just about left him in the same seat the entire time, as that little guy could jump out, run all the way back around, and almost get back in the same car in the same place before it left the station again. He was cold, he was tired, but he was RUNNIN!

not going... anywhere..

A bit looking like Yoda's kid..

This one always reminds me why we decided to keep the kids about, rather than then send back to finlandia, or wherever it was that they came from.. I can google that later I guess...

wholly boot mongers batman!

I know Zoe bug makes the blog quite frequently.. but its hard to pass up these comic candid moments. its almost like she's trying to wake the world up, put it on notice....

And yes, those are her "brothers" boots that she puts on her hands.. today she had my shoes on there, and she runs about chanting like a monkey flapping her boots like some kind of menacing boot monster....

until they fall off, or someone notices.. whichever comes first.

Driver Profile to watch for on the roads this holiday season

Law officials have had the following photo distributed to assist in their holiday efforts to keep inebriated drivers off the roadways. If you can match this behavior to any of your fellow party attendees including drooling, wandering eyes, low attention span, silliness, and inability to mount and drive off in their cozy coupes, please be a friend and keep them overnight (diapering and burping optional.)

Happy hOlidaYs!

The last sane moments of the setting sun

This is Katie in California.
This is Cherise in California..

Don't they look like twins? Its hard to tell because really whats going on is..

This is Katie's last moments at the ocean before she spends 8 hours in the vehicle with the boyz...

and

this is Cherise at the ocean before she's placed into that afformentioned situation with her mom and the boys for 8 hours while crossing the mojave desert..

does that help better explain the picture?


See Katie [not] Run.. Run Katie Run. 

kids on the internet

eee.ystrd.com or .net. or .org.. sometimes they just gooooooogle, and sometimes they actually read what they are typing.. I see alot of "dad dad dad dad whan arr yuo cuming hoam?" while I'm at work.. and lots of searches for "bar bee" if you check the search histories, you can find "sreck" (rhymes with wreck), "cartone netwok", nicolodian, disneyCars (the only group capable of marketing enough to children that kids can remember) and discovreekizd.com

The 4 year old typical goes for the history and selects, and selects until what he wants pops up. passing up the joys of online banking, stock tickers, baby care tips, and oodles of online shopping (thank goodness they haven't figured out one click.) Nico wants an ebay.com account so he can buy things, and Marina spends her days finding games to put them in the history for the 4 year old to find. (even if she doesn't realize this is her primary function.) Today theres some mysterious white powder on the keyboard.. doesn't appear to affect anything but the arrows, and the ctrl key. (which is not part of anyones keyset but zoe's) which reminds me...

The Last Dell service call for the late laptop (which served this function) and was finally met with an untimely golf ball incursion. was serviced by a very kind, and knowledgable 16 year old who noted, amongst the DVD and keyboard replacement, that the batteries were still sticky. (typically I've found it to be coke syrup.) He serviced them by cleaning up the syrup, and returning it to service. 

divine intervention... from above

Does anything taste better than sand?


Does Sand come in Multiple flavors....


Will there be enough sand for my childrens children.... 

Chevy 19B69 cleared for the option

For those who don't know, this is what the open road looks like. Sometimes, you can see a car here or there. I'm glad the plane is back, sometimes on the longer trips, I like to think of these desolate roads as runways... and I practice driving down the middle.. (its the whole stripe-ed line thing.)Sometimes the other drivers show signs of annoyance. They apparently don't like people pretending that they are airplanes landing on their desolate roads. I figure its good practice for them just in case an airplane does have to land on their road. Perhaps they would rather be in an airplane themselves, or they are just annoyed that someone else thought of it first. Or maybe they just don't like someone driving down the middle of their road. I doubt they want to stop and chat about it, so I let them pass, and then I go back to making my airplane noises, and driving down the middle of their desert runway..

only Twice in 12 years! A three hour tour?

Having had 4 kids, its obviously not the number of times we've been able to obscond to a quiet corner, and have sex... Therefore, two would be the number of times I've been able to get kimberlee to go somewhere in the plane. (in the last 12 years) Being our anniversary, we load-balanced the kids between her parents and her sister. Just as we were leaving the last dropoff (yes, we spent more time visiting, and dropping kids, than we spent on our 12 year anniversary date), kimberlee figured out that I had made all the arrangements to fly to wendover for dinner.
She caught on instantly when I was making a last minute weather check.. and argued a fair bit of the way to the airport. Only after making me promise that we could have another child (eventually) in exchange for her getting into the plane did she actually get into the plane. (stuff deleted here.) At any rate. She did get into the plane after being re-assured by a 19 year old (almost commercial) private pilot who fueled the plane, and checked the tires that if a 19 year old was still alive after multiple trips, it must be safe... somehow..

Long story short, we bailed out over the great salt lake, and the plane flew into the largest open pit copper mine in the world. (I think it landed safely where its visited and admired year round by tourists.) We swam to antelope island where we live without electricity, or any modern amenities... castaways... living in harmony with the buffalo, wondering what they did with the antelope. Fortuneatly, we make trinkets to sell in exchange for food from tourists, knowing that our children are being raised pel-mel by relates and pygmi tribes found in northern idaho. This may be our last update, as we relay these messages to tourists who come to the island across the causeway (smuggled in empty SoBe jars.) we hope to some day raise the $5 cause-way fee, (or learn to swim the 20 miles) and see our kids again. So it ended as well as could be expected.

Til we see the next SoBe toting tourist, otherwise, see you on the island!