rachel's continued ramblings

this is a VERY full week! the spread: the first half:     it’s so hard to choose just one pic! sunday’s is all the girls with the duck farts. monday’s is a 3 part collage of micah counting to “fifty” before jumping in the pool. tuesday’s is our whole group at the golden gate bridge. the second half:     wednesday is a small collage of dave, nolan and I at the giants game. thursday is the kids at feickert park. friday is just a cute shot of my boys sleeping (and the cat’s tail). saturday is our selfie while riding the train in old sac. (lots of) extras:     first off, this cracks me up, and if you have ever had or known a cat, you will appreciate this. they have a way of planting their butts in exactly the wrong spot. the cat I had in college used to lay down in the middle of my (very heavy) “complete works of shakespeare” book while I was trying to read. anyway, these are sunday’s pics. monday’s and the first part of tuesday’s: the seco...

the spread:     I only had one sheet of extra pics to put in this week, and not really any artwork or anything like that, so I’m thankful that the 12x12 cardstock sheets included in the kit have pretty designs on the backs of them! maybe I’ll find something that needs to go in here, but for the time being, it’s a tree. the first half of the week: the second half:     nothing I haven’t already blogged about here. the extras:     for our trip to californa (we left on friday of this week, after layla’s last day of school), I made an 8x10 collage of the pics for each day. saturday’s is the only one included for this week. and that’s week 24.

well, try as I might, I was unsuccessful at refusing to leave california. we got up early on sunday morning and began our long drive home. but with only 2 kids. lucky shane got to stay an extra week. 3 more days with gramma and papa, and then the rest of the week at the hughes’ cabin in big bar. gramma and papa are heading up here next sunday, and will meet up with him in redding to bring him home.   a lovely peak at mt. shasta on I-5.   layla dozed off while reading “go dog go”.   we stopped for lunch in medford and found a great park to play at.   we were out of the car for about an hour, which was GREAT, and then hit the road again. we all (except for dave, who was driving) took a nap. micah slept for 3 hours! we had dinner at a taco del mar in vancouver. I’d like to say it was the last stop, but we forgot to get gas, AND, micah needed another potty stop.   layla, waiting for the bathroom to open up. she found a stack of booster seats to sit in while she w...

our FINAL day in EG. we started the day with laundry and cleaning out the car, organizing the suitcases, etc. I heard micah complaining out the front door, and layla came in and told me that daddy had put him in a time out and had buckled him into his car seat so he couldn’t get away. I thought this was odd, but figured it was between dave and micah and went on about my business. about 10 minutes later, micah was still there and no sign of dave, so I went out to the car, where he and gary were looking under the hood at something, to ask if he was ever going to talk to micah about whatever it was he was in trouble for and let him out of his seat. dave knew nothing about it. apparently, micah had sat down in his seat and buckled himself in, but couldn’t get out. where layla got the story about the time out, I have no idea… shane had wanted to go and ride the train in old sac, which only runs on saturdays and sundays, so we made one last trip through in-n-out, and headed to sacramento. ...

the day began with auntie re picking up shane, layla, jordan and sophia and bringing them back to the house. then, we ALL went to the theater to see CARS 2! it was very exciting! everyone loved the movie. then, it was back in the pool:   dave put on the big green floaties and looked like the incredible hulk.    I taught layla how to do a canonball.   micah thought he was doing a canonball too… his version involves screaming “CANONBALL!!!” at the top of his lungs and then jumping in as usual. after swimming, micah passed out. dave woke him up but he apparently wasn’t ready to be awake because he curled up in a ball on the floor and went back to sleep: that night was family night at the church. laurie and gary had spent the afternoon grilling chicken to bring for the picnic. after eating, dave played in the softball game and the kids played some baseball too.   micah at bat.   layla, practicing her monkey bar skills.   my boys, passed out together. s...

  no, it’s not a milkshake, just a cup of water. but cute, none-the-less!   daddy, paying bills in his awesome hair with layla in her awesome hair! no trip to EG would be complete without a trip to feickert park:   shane, riding laps around the playground. he insisted on bringing his bike on the trip. this was the ONE time he rode it… layla climbed up the ladder to do the tallest slide in the park, but quickly turned and booked it back down because there was a SPIDER on the slide! eek!   selfie at the park.   I call this one “kids on posts”. back at home, the kids went swimming, and dave and I went on a lunch date to paesano’s.    I had this yummy margarita and an even yummier salad! dave had a calzone that he ordered without onions. when the waitress came by and saw him painstakingly picking onions out of it, she offered to have a new one made, which he declined, and she said she’d have it taken off the bill. well, when we got the bill, not only wa...