Fun Family Blog

yes, its new years eve and here i sit watching the boys play the wii while i upload photos to post.
we went on an adventure today. we saw two coyotes, it was so cool. they were right there 20 feet from the burb. we also saw a white bird…what kind of white bird you may wonder. if you ask T is was a white duck because on maggie and the beast there were white ducks so it’s a white duck with long skinny legs.
we found a new place to take photos on this drive. it was a parking lot made into a half size ghost town.
the kids weren’t so much into picture taking but man i got some favorites.
i will share them now……… i keep looking at these two photos and saying”if only T was making eye contact…if only…its almost one of those perfect photos you want on canvas.

oh and this is my favorite outtake from the day. i have no idea what they were laughing at but it was funny.

these two are as close as bread and butter, they adore each other.

let me pause here and say when i got the boys dressed and approved JJ’s attire i was planning on these photos being all black and white. i had already made up my mind that the last photos of 2008 were going to be timeless black and whites. i was SO WRONG!!! they turned out to be all color…why? because i am too lazy to edit tonight. maybe at a later date i will open them in PS to do more than size.

OMGOSH…..LOCK her up, would you….i mean shes only 12 but really, get the shot gun and shackles.

Now my favorite of the day..well, not my favorite because they are all my favorites but man i got myself some awesome children.

i am always telling them if they can’t keep their hands to themselves to put them in their pockets…
it always works.

aren’t these boys cute? SO cute if you ask me. they were laughing because G was being too serious so i said “pretend like you farted” sure enough they all cracked up. i don’t always get boy humor but use it to my advantage when needed.

today was the day i had been putting off for a very long time, too long now that i actually did it.
we went to the library, not the library near our house though. that one sucks. it used to be an AWESOME library. when we first moved here they had just finished the children area and it was bright and open with colorful chairs and tons of books. about 18 months ago they closed the other part of the library off and all that adult crap invaded this colorful warm bright happy place. where did this leave the kids? with a small dark conference room with half the books, no little people sized tables and chairs. just books. now how is this fair or even smart? so we stopped going because it was actually depressing to walk in and see the north side all boarded up with a fake wall and then have to walk through boring adult books to get to a tiny room with hardly any books to choose from.

Wy got this special library card with a dragon on it just for 1st graders. when you check out books you get prizes. so he has been hounding me to go to the library. this card was not accepted at the library by our house because this card was for phoenix city libraries and our library is a maricopa county library. they like to make it confusing on purpose to see how many people walk into a library with a library card that doesn’t work at that certain library but will if you go to the one a 7 miles further down the road.
so ANYWAYS!! we did it. i packed the kids up and traveled to the library that is not 1 mile from my home but almost 10. that’s far for me.
i walked in and i fell in love. the area is open and the light rocks. i was kicking myself for not having my camera. we will be going back on friday just so i can get some photos.
we also checked out some videos that were free, our other library charges $2. redbox is even cheaper so why would i go to the library?
i also have to say that the people working the front desk at this library are WAAAAY better than our old library. these women had smiles and didn’t mind answering question after question. they tolerated the anxious children while i filled in papers for our new library cards as if one didn’t keep running away and one wasn’t hanging on my leg whining about something or everything.
so the conclusion to this rambling post is that my kids will see the inside of a library more often now that we found a good one.