Free Range on Fairview

Ok so I'm pretty sure if I don't finish this thing now it will never get done so here is part three. I am not an organized blogger and am realizing nothing is special about this but here is then end of my grand idea. Sort of a two-parter.  Know your Store One of my favorite stores to shop at in my town in Fred Meyer. I used to know exactly where everything was (until they moved everything around when Washington changed the laws and allowed grocery stores to start selling liquor and now I am totally lost). I know where they put clearance items and love seeing this yellow and orange sticker. I know their coupon policy. I know several of the checkers. I know it and I am comfortable this makes my shopping trip so much easier.  Shopping with Kids Shopping with kids isn't always the easiest thing to do, but for most of the stay-at-home-moms that I know, shopping with kids is a part of the deal but there are tips to make it an enjoyable experience. Warner on the...

This was the only picture of me during my birthday weekend extravaganza. We went camping, out to dinner, had a family movie morning (couldn't miss the bachelorette finale), a shopping spree and even went out to a movie with the hubby. I don't think we've gone since Avatar was in the theater. I feel so blessed to have family and friends in my life!

We went camping with all three boys for the first time this weekend. We didn't go too far away (Easton) and we went with another family which provided extra entertainment for all of my boys (Shane included). We had tons of fun getting outside, the weather turned out really nice, and the baby did great. Luckily I was pretty organized and even prepped a meal before hand. I only forgot two big things, the creamer and the syrup.  Lincoln loved playing in the dirt.  Dylan and his friend spent much time biking.  All day fires are my favorite. Linc is such a cutie. Posing on his bike... since he can't figure that darn pedal thing out yet. Shane and Warner. Boys on the bed of the trailer. Lincoln's battle wound. I think the ground won.

And it's started already. Warner is 2.5 months and a little chatter box when he's not sleeping away the day. Yup he's vocal much like his brothers. Something is always going on when the house is silent :)

I ordered diapers the other day off of Amazon.com and they sent this extremely large amount of packing paper in with the box so things couldn't shift around in transit. I decided that rather than throwing the whole thing away, the boys could use it to make life size paper boys and decorate them however they saw fit. Dylan started his while Lincoln was still napping so he got pretty creative. He had a few lows when he couldn't get the Nike swoosh just how he wanted it, but he didn't give up. Lincoln wasn't too thrilled with laying down on the paper, or coloring in general but when I told him to color the face he started drawing on his  own  face. I guess I should have clarified. The boys ended up with some cool tattoos, some lifesized paper boys and some new buddies to practice boxing with. Yes, they had to put on gloves so punching didn't hurt so bad. Silly boys.  Measuring Dylan Measuring Lincoln The body art begins. Busy, busy coloring.  ...

Normally I feel like a slave to the kitchen so it warmed my heart yesterday when I turned around and saw this without any prodding. I don't really like the little one "helping" me with the dishes because he will usually end up pulling out dirty utensils (which he did with a steak knife right after this was taken) but it was so cute to watch and hear Dylan telling Lincoln how to do things :)

Dylan came up with this idea the other day after I informed him that he is going to start helping out around the house more, starting with putting his cereal bowl in the dish washer. After spelling out "clean" and "dirty" we decided which ever word was on the top was the state the contents were in. Man that thing gets a lot of use!