Just Between..............

I'm not going to lie. If the word barf makes you uncomfortable, please do not read any further. Don't say I didn't warn you. Yes the better part of the weekend and the last few days we have been participating in an official barf fest! Whoot! Whoot! Where you earn points for being the best barfer! Let me tell you, it's been a total blast! Do you detect the sarcasm? 

Friday night's Event schedule

Yes it all started Friday night around 12 am when Aris decided to kick off the festival with a monumental barf. I gave her a 10 due to the complex nature of the barf, it was a little hard to clean off of all those little holes in her crib. Then she earned two more perfect scores of 10 due to the fact that all the bean and cheese burrito she had eaten at dinner was projectile vomited onto me. Yep. Not once. Nope that would have been way to kind. Twice! 15 extra points earned for a double barf on the same person. Two showers later and 4 pairs of jammies later I was finally able to feel her body language and knew exactly when she was getting ready to puke. I was pretty pleased with myself. After that Aris was out of the running for earning anymore 10's. No perfect scores when you make it into a sink/toilet/bathroom sink. Valiant effort though little one, for that you earned 20 more points. 5 points for each barf you had after you stopped barfing all over me. This barf fest contestant was able to sleep so well the next day due to all the evenings excitement. Good job sweetie!

Aris::65 points! Awesome!

Sunday night/Monday morning event schedule

The festival started a little after midnight. Let's face it people, I'm the score keeper so if I tallied all my own points for the amount of times I puked, you might think it unfair. Plus it's just not fun to talk about adult barfs, unless you are laughing about stories from that one party in college. I will tell you this. I haven't been this violently ill in over two years. It was pretty brutal.

However Sloan decided to join in all the festivities at 4 am. She earned a whopping 10 points + 20 bonus points for her first barf. Why you ask? Well for the very fact that it was over the side of her bunk bed, it involved red chunky barf on cream colored carpet, and somehow she managed to miss hitting Aris in her crib in the process. Pretty amazing if you ask me. She only earned 20 more points that day because she was able to make it into some kind of container. 

Wait! There's MORE! Yes Zoe decided to join in the fun! So around 7 am right after she finished her Poptart, she earned 5 points. Only 5? Yes. Zoe is my well trained barfer. She has barfed so many times in her short 3 years of life that she knows when she has to barf. Even when she is no longer sick, she will sleep with a little plastic container in her bed for days. Throughout the day she earned 15 more points.

Sloan::50 points

Zoe::20 points

Tuesday's event schedule

The day was pretty uneventful until late afternoon. Wouldn't you know that little Zoe pulled quite the trick out of her hat. In the car on the way to Target she barfed! Oh!!! She still only earned 5 points due to the fact that she was holding her little plastic bowl in her lap. I'm telling you people. She really does hold onto a bowl for days after.

Zoe::5 points

Wednesday's event schedule

That darn Zoe was at it again with her sneaky little antics. Events started before sunrise my friend. I gave her 10 points for this one due to the early nature of the barf (she of coarse made it into the bowl). Yes girlfriend had to go and pull out all the stops. She earned another 5 points for throwing up in the tub, it was in the bowl, in the tub.

Zoe::15 points

A tally of the points

Sloan::50 points

Zoe::40 points

Aris::65 points

Oh! It looks like Aris is the winner!!! Popsicles for all the participants, because really in truly didn't they all give it their best shot?

Life According to Aris

I've been meaning to do this for awhile. For some reason I always find myself getting busy with some other thing. I am bound and determined to start documenting Aris and her booster fixation. If I told you how many times I come to her chair to put her in it for lunch or dinner & she has one of her toys strapped in, well you wouldn't believe me. It's one of those things she does that I find so adorable. Usually I find barbies and tiny skipper dolls buckled up safe and sound. Sometimes the occasional doll. Yesterday it was Pooh. It just kind of cracks me up. Sloan thinks it's funny too. I think it would be fun to make a little scrapbook of all these pictures for her to play with. Sorry for grime, I didn't realize just how gross those straps were until I posted this picture. Guess it's time for her booster to take a little soak in the sink.

Hope everyone has a fun weekend. We are heading to Sacramento tomorrow for the day to attend Hangtown with the girls. Zoe can hardly wait to see all the "ridercycles". Sloan is excited too, but most;y to do something as a family. I will take lots of pictures. 

The other project I am finishing up this weekend aside from all the kids room remodel is another card for this wonderful site. All of the cards that I am producing for Simply Sweet Marriage are free! Yes you can download them for free, in your home, and give them to that special someone in your life. I'll post a link next week when the next card is up. 

Have a super fun weekend!

Under Construction

I loved reading all of your comments from my previous post. Can I just tell you that they make me smile, and really do brighten my day. 

I thought I would post a few pictures of what I've been working on. It involved many cans of spray paint, some glue, and very pretty paper. I do feel good with the fact I repurposed things that were already in the room, but spruced them up a bit. I am so excited with how everything is coming together. I hope to finish the painting on the walls this weekend. Everything is coming together just the way I hoped it would.

So many new projects to work on. I also just went and picked up a ton of new canvases. My mind is reeling with so many ideas. I just need to make time to work on all these ideas. 

Before I go have you joined in this fun yet? Stop by and take a peak!

The Weekend of Unfinished Projects

Right now as I type this, my hubby just took a whole bed full of metal to be recycled at the recycle center. Next up he will be loading all the other crap (sorry mom) that has been sitting patiently in our yard & behind our shed, begging to be laid to rest, to the dump. It's free dump weekend. We are taking full advantage of it. Thankfully my subtle hints of how our yard is starting to look like we are related to the Clampets, have not fallen on deaf ears. I'm not kidding when I say we were turning into "those neighbors". You know the kind I'm talking about. I love that Dean has been working so hard on the outside yard. I feel like it's starting to match the hard work he has done inside.

Zoe has been daddy's little helper. Silly little girl. She kept asking me to take her picture & then would cover her eyes and just giggle. She did this over & over again.

Me, well I've been an organizing fool. I finally got the closets switched over. It took me most of the morning. I put all the girls toy sets into baskets. Somehow I have ended up with a little extra room. Go figure. It feels amazing when you walk into their room. I am so excited about how it's progressing. The girls are excited because they can actually find their toys. We both win. I can't wait to share the before and after of all the stuff I took outside and spray painted yesterday. I'm tickled pink with how it all turned out. I only have a few more things to paint today. I hope to have some pictures up by the middle of next week. I still need to finish painting their walls before I show the big reveal. Even then there are three major projects that I still need to finish before their room is completely done. I still need to paint the bookshelf, dressers, and bunk beds. Those will have to wait a little bit longer. In the mean time I think it looks a whole heck of a lot better than it did.

Well I'm off to put our closet back together now. Hugs to you all. Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend!

Just What I Needed

Where has the week gone? Where has the month gone for that matter? Sometimes I feel like there just aren't enough hours in the day,  weeks in a month, or months in a year. Days like we've had this past week that are full of heat and a hint of the smells of summertime. Days that are warm enough to dress the little ones in bubble rompers and sandals, but still cool enough at night to dress them in warm jammies. I love days like these. They remind me of moments from my childhood. Good memories of longer days and falling asleep when it's still light out. Memories of long days outside, playing in the sprinklers. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Playing in the pool until my brother and I had turned into little raisins and our eyes saw halos around every light. I'm reminded of delicious meals prepared by loving hands of grandmas, great grandmas, aunts and my mother. All bustling around the kitchen laughing and talking. Then dessert. Oh how I miss those family dinners. They were filled with so much happiness. So much laughter. Yes days like these bring back such yummy & happy memories. Days like these make me wish time would slow down, just a little.

I needed those memories this week.

Hope everyone has a weekend filled with sweetness.