memorial day 2011.

we had a fun long weekend with Aaron's sis & hubby. we swam, got sunburned, played cards, painted, had birthday cake, made pizza, colored our hair dark (coco & me), watched movies, talked a lot, listened to Jake strum the geetar and just had an all around good time. I have a cute picture of Cody blowing out her birthday candles, but not on this computer. These days I only blog from bed.

I am sleeping in a brand new bed tonight. In a brand new bedroom. I feel like I am in a fancy hotel suit. For our upcoming anniversary, we finally ordered bedroom furniture. In our 11 years of marriage we've never had matching nightstands or a headboard. It hardly feels like my house anymore. I will show you pictures soon.

Today was a pretty low key day. We organized our dressers, played a few games with the kids, went to Cafe Rio for lunch, napped, and cleaned. While sanding and painting my bathroom cabinets I tried to watch Lost, but honestly, I just don't have the interest. I hear it's good, but can I really commit THAT much time to it? I don't think so. I watched Footloose instead. It made me think of good times in high school planning Junior Prom.

I have also been thinking about last Memorial Day. It was the day Cindy arrived. We were so excited to have her live with us for the whole summer! Now she's a grown-up, married woman. She and her husband will be coming to see us on Friday but it won't be the same kind of visit. I keep thinking about how much more exciting this summer would be with my sister living with me. Did I relish it or appreciate it enough last year? I hope I did. Anyway, amazing how fast a year can go by.. and how quickly everything can change.

Having a laptop has kind of ruined my blogging routine. My pictures aren't on here, and there is no way I would rather sit at the computer than lay in bed. So instead I have a bunch of boring posts without any pictures. If I was really on top of my blogging game, I would write about Zack peeing in the bushes outside Cafe Rio. And how I yelled at him to stop when I saw what he was doing... and how he pinched his boy part and walked over to me with it out for the whole world to see. While Aaron and I lectured him about using a toilet, I looked down and saw that it was dripping... and his face was in agony. We told him to hurry and finish up in the bushes, but make sure he wasn't facing the cars. And then we laughed... hard. We shouldn't be allowed to be parents. Either that or Zack shouldn't be allowed out in public.

The only other noteworthy thing that happened this weekend was another lost tooth for Benjamin. After he pulled it out, he put it in the special toothfairy case and said, "I am going to put it under my pillow tonight, but I doubt the toothfairy will come." Since it was only minutes before bedtime, I assured him that she would. He wasn't convinced and said, "I will bet double or nothing that she doesn't." Without the other boys looking, I shook on it. The next morning he came into my bedroom shaking a little case with a tooth still inside. And then I cursed. Being the toothfairy is the worst job in the world.