NC Trip: Randoms

Here are a few 

random pictures

of our trip...

they didn't seem to fit 

in any of the previous 6 weeks...

Ms. Priss showing off
her new NC State Hello Kitty shirt.
How stinking cute???
Mommy loves it almost as
much as she does!

Bike rides!

I asked my folks to help come up with

something for them to do outside.

So my mom & dad

found bikes for all of the kids

(thank you Craigslist!)

This one was borrow from a neighbor.

And we brought their helmets.

They found 2 great ones for the boys too.

They really enjoyed riding them,

but there is a pretty interesting hill on the other side of 

my folk's cul-de-sac.

In the beginning I asked the boys just to stay in the 

very small cul-de-sac...

but one afternoon

I allowed them to go down the hill.

I went in to eat lunch 

and was interrupted by my lunch

from my oldest 

coming to tell me that J had wrecked and was hurt.

I went out to see what was going on

and 

J was ok, thank goodness for helmets!

Apparently he had a pretty major run in

with a mailbox...

so badly that he 

BENT the front fork of the bike!!!

HOLY COW KID!

So my dad did a hunt and found another bike

and picked it up on Sunday.

However,

J broke his arm days later,

so it didn't get a whole lot more use...

Mommy had to push Ms. Priss,

and apparently I wasn't

being responsive enough,

so she recruited her little brother...

HOW STINKING CUTE IS THIS???

And of course I got a video of it too!

Ms. Priss and Nana did a LOT of cooking together!

 Not sure what they are making here,
but whatever it is...
it looks pretty interesting!

Here they are making eggs,

Ms. Priss made this almost

every morning for her breakfast.

I got another year older while we were on 

the East Coast and away from Daddy

so he sent me these beauties!

What a sweet daddy!

I guess Mr. T got tired of all the pictures,

cause he went through a phase of

covering his face and saying 

"No"

when I whipped out my phone

and assumed the 

"say cheese" pose.

I stumbled upon this lovely picture

from 1988 of

me 

and 

my sisters 

and 

cousins!

A drive by smooching from mom!

Hahah!

While we were in NC,

one of R's friends and classmates

invited us to his birthday party.

R was so excited to see his buds from school

and even more excited to get to participate in a 

"go cart" birthday party!

Looks the part,

doesn't he?

A bunch of sweaty

testosterone filled boys

after their first go round on the race track!

Hahah!

As previously mentioned,

we had a bought of walking pneumonia go through

the boys...

so when our sweet new baby cousin

came over,

the only way they were allowed to be in the room

was with these lawn mower masks

that papa brought in from the garage.

They were NOT happy with us.

But it was the only way

they could stay in the room with 

the 3 week old little bit.

After we got daddy,

everyone was SO excited to see him

after so many weeks away

R was semi-attached

and

daddy was doing the good daddy thing

and attempting to apply 

lip gloss to the princess.

That is talent right there!

We hit our dentist while we were there,

all 6 of us...

With 6 people,

you have to work in cycles...

so R baby sat

while I got mine done.

(Not really but it might have actually worked!)

The littles weren't going anywhere!

And we hit Trader Joe's,

we don't have one close to us here in Texas.

We went during their fall festival

and the littles got pumpkins on their faces,

Look how good he is being! 

Mercy what a good kid!

Tee hee

Then a little shopping.

Who needs one big cart when you can have

two little carts to fill

and attempt to prevent from running into heels?