Bath Time Babies

I had to document the very last time that all my little babies were able to take a bath together. This is how I've been able to get through the last seven years of bath times--group bath!!! Now we have had to split it up to girls in the shower (they are too big to fit in the little tub together anymore) and boys in the bath. I just miss when they could all bath and play together. This is a super cute pic, but behind the scenes was lots of "Durham has his bottom on my foot...", "Kyla will NOT scoot over", "I don't have any room!!!" "Tell Marshall to stop jumping on me!!!".

Bath time is FUN time! :)

There's a SNAKE on the roof!!!

Yes, I realize that this isn't a very good clear picture, BUT seriously, I'm surprised I could compose myself enough to take a picture in the first place--I just didn't think anyone would believe me! Here's the story:

The kids, one of their girl friends and I were all sitting down at the table for dinner. Dinnertime is always a silly time at our house, we love to play games at the table. We play "movies" where we take turns quoting a line from a movie and everyone has to guess the movie, and "telephone" the game of whispering from neighbor to neighbor and the last person repeats the sentence out loud to see if it made it around the table in it's original form, or when Daddy is home we all take turns telling jokes--that game is only fun with Daddy because Daddy knows all the good jokes, and Mom always forgets her punchlines.

Anyway, we were all absorbed into our game when Durham states calmly "Mom, there is a snake on our roof." A little annoyed because Durham has a tendency to change games in the middle quite frequently and LOVES to be able to shout out"tricked ya" even when no one even acknowledged the attempted trick, we all ignored him. Then as another movie line was being quoted with great enthusiasm, Durham looked over with wide eyes and horror on his face he said, "Mom, there is a snake on our roof", I thought he's definitely getting better at this tricking, I decided to see...

Just as I was telling Durham, "Oh, buddy, it's just a stick someone tossed up on the...IT MOVED!!!!" "OH MY GOSH THERE'S A SNAKE ON THE ROOF!!!" I ran outside, ran back inside, ran in circles trying to think who to call. Eric-out of town, Dad-out of town, Quinten, August--out of town!!!! TYLER!!! I called Tyler. HE WAS IN CYPRESS!!! "When are you coming back?!?!? There's a SNAKE ON MY ROOF!" Tyler being the hero that he is made a call to a friend, and he came over within minutes to rescue us from our horrifying ordeal!!! He jumped out of his truck, machete in hand, and saved the day! As the kids all watched in amazement, begging him not to hurt the snake, I quivered in the doorway ordering it be killed and taken away IMMEDIATELY!!! I was sure it was an extremely venomous snake just waiting to "jump" on top of the next passerby. Those of you that would tell me it was probably just a chicken snake sunning itself, harmless, and that snakes don't jump...you were NOT HERE!!! It was a HUGE SCARY CREATURE!!! Thank you Tommy for slaughtering the beast!

Cute Pic From the Past

Found this pic the other day when browsing for pictures to put in Kyla's picture slideshow at her baptism. I can't believe my little girls are growing up so fast!!! Look at those two cute little faces, don't they just say, "Mommy we'll be your babies FOREVER!"??? How dare they grow up!!! Ashley is graduated, and Kyla just got baptized! Not "babies" anymore! :(
I have enjoyed every moment of watching them grow and become the beautiful young ladies they are. Every moment EXCEPT the realization that the years have gone by much too fast!

Ashley's Graduation

Friday June 4, 2010

CLASS OF 2010

Ashley worked hard all year and it paid off! She graduated from Angleton High School an entire year early!!! We're so proud of her accomplishment! Her commencement ceremony took place at the new Wildcat Stadium friday night. It was HOT! But soo exciting getting to hear her name be called, "Ashley Marie Mach", over the loud speaker as she walked up to recieve her diploma. She looked beautiful! I can't believe she grew up so fast!!!Proud Dad

Found my phone! Losing my Mind!

I finally found my phone!!!! I just new I had thrown it away mindlessly, just like I do so many other things when my multitasking body leaps ahead of my much slower and less capable brain. It was in my church bag! The one place EVERYONE told me to look first! Stubborn, stubborn me, I just knew I had lost it saturday with all the comotion of Kyla's Baptism, therefore making it impossible that it could be in my Sunday bag...oops! It would have been much easier to check the church bag than dig through the NASTY, poopy diaper laden garage trash, or scower the entire church building several times, or tear up the house from one end to the other. Next time, next time.

What I've learned after a week with no phone...

I've learned that if I had to depend on my brain to recall a phone number in an emergency, I'd be in pretty bad shape! I had to look up phone numbers in the "phone book", yes they still exist! But, alas, no one publishes their cell numbers, and few people still have a house phone--if they do, they don't answer it (I have to include myself in that category).

I learned that people are confused if you have to physically go into a store to ask for directions somewhere...evidently I should call the place or GPS it!?!? Duh, I HAVE NO PHONE!

I learned that this IS my last Iphone, and if I lose it again, my husband will have no sympathy, and I will be forced to get a cheapo--No more GPS, Internet, or cool apps! :(

But, most importantly, I learned that I can get alot done when I'm disconnected from the world. I took my kids to the museum, and instead of constantly being interrupted, got to talk with them and explore and enjoy all the exibits. I have some pretty smart kids!

It's funny how we can feel like every call is important or might be an emergency, but they very seldom are. It's such an automatic response to answer the phone every time it rings...in fact, it's VERY difficult not to. But after a week, I found that no major crisis happened without me, and if it was something important people found a way to get a hold of me. I think this summer, I'll spend more time with my awesome kids, and less time with my phone! So if it's important, call twice!!! :)

I'm back in the stone ages...

Okay, maybe not the stone ages, but I lost my cell phone AGAIN!!! This is the THIRD iphone in the last year that I have either lost or broken--Eric is not too happy with me right now! :) But, seriously, how in the heck are we supposed to survive without the technology we depend on. It's funny how you think the technology of smart phones has propelled our generation farther forward, but I think it has rendered us incapably of self survival! I had somewhere very important to go today, and couldn't find the way because without my phone I had no GPS, and no way of calling for directions--I had to stop at Walgreens and ask for directions! Who does that anymore!?! I had a very lonely, day because the ONLY phone number I have memorized is Eric's, so everytime I needed to call someone I had to call him to get the number from his phone, and then I had to listen to his reminding me that he is still on his first iphone!

Kyla wanted to call her friend, and we had to look up the number in the phone book (what's that?) and she couldn't figure out how to work the house phone!!! I really hope I find it soon, I have a horrible feeling that I threw it in the trash, with all the comotion of the baptism, and parties this weekend...that's the problem with multitasking!!! I can't tell you how many times I've misplaced or throw things away, because I'm doing 10 things, while thinking about 15 others!!! Oh and by the way, the only house phone we have is plugged into the wall, so when I AM on the phone, I'm STUCK sitting there!!! Ugh! Why, phone, why?? Why did you have to run away, I was treating you soo much better than the others, I even gave you a pretty pink case! Come back to me, I promise I'll never drop you again or let the kids play with you with sticky goopy fingers...perhaps I'll even keep you nice and charged! Please come back, I can't live without you!