Master of Messes

Why is it as mothers we are always doing things that we don't like but it really ends up being a situation where it is the lesser of two evils? Here is a great example. I hate, and mean HATE those child safety locks for cabinets. I think that they are just a pain. When we moved into our house in Michigan the previous owner had them on every single thing that opened in the kitchen. I took them all off and told Elaine what drawer she could not touch, and she never did...yes she was the perfect baby. Drew came along and I had to reinstall all of them and then he broke them off by the time that he was 6 months. I don't recall how Izzy was about stuff. BUT Evan loves cereal. He always getting into the cabinet and taking a box of cereal out, pulling the bag out of the box, and then emptying the bag on the floor. He is the dogs best friend. Here is his latest cereal adventure. I am really tired of sweeping it all up...not to mention the expense of going through cereal so fast. The worst part in the itty bitty tiny crumbs that are left at the bottom of the bag. The broom doesn't get them all, and then the Swiffer only gets them if I see them and go over it. The worst is Life...those sugar crystals stick to everything......but mostly my socks. I am doing the happy dance. We now have a safety thing installed on that cabinet. I don't mind of they play with the pots and pans or the plastics. I can't wait to see how Evan is when he discovers he is no longer Master of the Cereal Mess.

Sad day

Sad, sad, SAD day. Or maybe I should say sad week! Only about one thing (everything else is great)....my camera is broken. No repairing it, old and dead. I thought it was the battery, but I replaced it and it still doesn't work. Sad, sad. I think I might have to cry big crocodile tears. I have a big Birthday coming up for Izzy....I have to have a camera!!! Where are my really close friends so that I can barrow one??? Or better yet, when are we going to win the lottery that we don't play so that I can get a really awesome camera. I need some reviews. Tell me what kind of camera you have and if you like, and what about it you do like, AND let me know if it is going to break the bank.

I'm back!

So I think that I am back! I took a little breather, but I might be blogging again...maybe.

10 year anniversary

10 years! WOW! 10 years. We can't believe it either. I wonder if there were people that gave a number of years? We joke around and say "we are celebrating the fact that we made it to 10 years without killing each other". Yes we think we will make it another 10, and another and another.....We are truly very different people, but we did it and I think that we are both pretty happy. So this is the only picture of us on our wedding day that I could find on the computer. I have little book of a bunch of them, but this one somehow got scanned in to the computer at one point or another. We did go and celebrate. Long story but we ended up in Chicago. We had a good time. Thanks mom for coming out to watch the kids!

Elaine is 9!!!!

I really can't believe that she is 9, I mean 9!!! Can you believe it?

This is the only pictures that I got of while she was opening her present AND looking at the camera.

I asked Elaine what kind of cake she wanted. She said light pink and light purple flowers. Then we agreed on a round cake. The above pic is what we got. They did call and say that they didn't have anymore round cakes but they would do a normal one.....but really does this look like light pink and purple to you? Well, at least Elaine loved it. It was one of those occasions when you say "well I am glad that you like it" (there is an inside joke about this, ask me sometime).