Disneyworld...installment ONE!

Oh goodness, we aren't even CLOSE to being at Disneyworld yet but I've already got enough material for a blog entry!

Day ONE by the numbers-
4-McDonald's 96 gallon sweet teas consumed..okay, they aren't 96 gallons, but darn close!

7-number of times Magoo asked me when we were going to be at the airport, even after we'd been in the car for 8 hours! Poor kid thinks when you go on vacation you HAVE to go on a plane (island baby!)

4-number of times Pookins asked me if we were "at" Florida yet. He asked for the first time at 6:32; we left the house at 6:11 :)

1-entry into the "unintentional porn" portion of MAXIM; we passed by Cox Smoker's Outlet...say it out loud..but not around kids!

1-phone call from friend's 3yo son while she and daddy were "taking a nap". Learned all about his new Storm Trooper gun :)

2-random thoughts from DevilDoc that cracked me up (1) Me-"honey, I think the speed limit is 45, that is why we are FLYING by everyone" Him-"chickens!" and (2) In downtown Atlanta while stopped under an overpass bridge "ahhhh, we're in a 'shady' part of town" hardy har har!

2-viewings of Xmen on the DVD player

3-potty stops

Lastly, not by the numbers but quite a coinky dink if I do say so myself...while driving through Louisville I had my iPod on shuffle and it played Ministry, Depeche Mode and Bjork in a row...10 points if you can tell me WHY that would be a coinky dink?!

I did take some pics but I'm way to lazy to find my camera and do all the work involved, so I'll share them later...k? K!

Oh me Oh my...it's been too long

Ugh, again with the not keeping up the blog! I apologize profusely for my lack of updating, but if you were wearing my shoes over the past few weeks you would be much more understanding!

Once we were back in Hawaii with DevilDoc we lounged around for about 47minutes before we had to start preparing out house for pack out. For those not military lingo inclined that means putting everything in its correct room so when the packers come you don't end up with laundry in your dishes! We dealt with pack out for 2 days and opted to pay off the man, aka Forest City, so we didn't have to clean our house!

We headed on down to Waikiki for 5 days at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. It was SO nice to just relax and enjoy each other's company. No rushing off to work, taking kids to practices or school...heck, I didn't even have to do laundry OR cook! It truly was a VACATION!



I also had a chance to enjoy an "Aloha Farewell" with some of the MOST WONDERFUL people that God could have put in my path...I tell ya, military spouses are a whole different world of friend. They are babysitters, housecleaners, cooks, girlfriends, best friends, substitute husbands, party animals...I could go on and on but I'm sure you get the picture! They are everything and I feel blessed to have such great people around me.

My bunco girls!


My NHKS 'Ohana


That's all I can give ya for now. We are in the throws of going to see THE MOUSE so I need to get a move on with the packing. Next installment, my baby brother gets married :(

Ooooooh, I almost forgot!

I wanted to share these pics of "the boys"....do you know Parms in Paradise? Well, they are my next door neighbors and her LittleMan and my Pookins are bestest buddies. Ok, they are 5 so they are bestest buddies and mortal enemies at different stages during the day, LOL! Anyway, the other day Mommy Parm got out their "water worm" and the kids were all running through it and I caught some after the fact shots...



I'm not sure where the ParmPrincess was? She must have been inside preparing the "picnic" they had afterwards which consisted of cheerios, chips and otter pops!

Not too much goin' on

in the Aloha state for us this week. More of the same: swim lessons, errands, laundry, dishes, cooking; sounds exotic and leisurely doesn't it?! We did have a super fun day today; we met up with some friends after swim lessons for another picnic in the park at Moanalua Gardens. I'd love to share some pictures with you but my camera battery died...I know mom, big surprise right? So, instead I will subject you to more photos of my fish belly pale children at swim lessons :) Pookins jumping off the diving board; notice my use of the "sports setting" on my camera...






And today was safety day at swim lessons which means everyone gets thrown in with life preservers on. NOTE: Magoo DID NOT LIKE THIS AT ALL! Poor thing could barely get his arms around the puffy part to hang on to the wall :( Did I mention he's the youngest (and smallest) kid in the class? God love him!






In case you were thinking it was bright out or something in that last picture; it was. But he's not squinting b/c it is bright, he was practicing for tomorrow when all the parents are invited to get into the pool with the kids. He'll have to squint like that when I reveal my FISH BELLY PALE body to the swim class. God give me strength!

Did I mention I am going to Vegas? 4 days!! More info on that trip over the weekend, stay tuned!

In the summer, summer time....

I had a whole long post all typed out about WHY DevilDoc insists on asking me what we did all day everytime he comes home. And not just a curious, what did you do today? A more accusatory statement insinuating that in fact I did NOTHING all day. Then I deleted it because I'm just not dwelling on negatives.
Instead, here is a positive. Yesterday Pookins jumped off the diving board at swim lessons, on the way home told me he wanted to go off the high dive.




So, of course today they try to get the kids off the high dive. He was having NONE of it! He did climb up and wave to his teacher in the pool though, LOL! He says when he is 10 he can go off the high dive...I've got $5 says he's jumping off it by Friday :)












And, lest you think I have a favorite child or something Magoo is also in swim lessons...




I apologize for the choppiness of this post; I am still figuring this thing out and it isn't cooperating...OBVIOUSLY!