May 2011 Alex English-isms

 "May you get me fork?"

Singing a commercial slogan after eating a Klondike bar: 

"What would you do for a Taekwon bar?"

Alex and Brach were heading out to go fishing and Alex rushes back in exclaiming, "Mom, I almost forgot my fishing recommend!" 

Friday night we went out to eat and I was using chop sticks. "Mom, you using chip stacks?"

Alex went door to door signing folks up for the scout flag fundraiser. (You pay $30 for the year and the scouts put a flag in your yard for all the flag raising holidays.) He went with an older scout who is a good friend. One of the homes they went to said "No soliciting" the older scout told Alex not to worry about it that this was a good guy. Alex asked "What no soliciting mean?"  The older scout answered, "Ahh...he doesn't do drugs or anything." So they go on to a few more houses and come to a home that they don't know with the same "No soliciting" sign and Alex rings the bell. The man comes out and starts yelling at him, "Can't you read? The sign says NO SOLICITING!" Alex looks at him puzzled and then explains, "We are not selling drugs. We are selling flags!" 

Alex had a cold and now I am sick. Upon discovering that I am sick he told me with a shrug, "I guess They jump."  

 

Tune in next month for June's collection! 

 

 

Memorial Day Weekend!

Friday afternoon....on our way!

(Austin is making this face on purpose. He was just slightly more thrilled then this!)

Stopping for dinner @ Olivers 

(Some cafe in Pocatello. The kids decided we needed to go somewhere that we don't have at home.)

Then Austin mentioned he wanted a balloon off a car lot and James stopped and let him take one.

We got to the cabin late, around 10:30 pm, loaded in our stuff, visited for a minute and then we all went to bed. (Well, I think the basement level of boys watched a movie.)

Our weekend consisted of:

Card Games

Tea Parties

Pretend Pony Rides 

(at a yard sale we visited)

My new water cup!

(The only thing we bought at the yard sale. Cost a whole 25 cents!)

Goofing Off

Spectacular Waterfalls

Air-soft BB Gun Wars

Monopoly

Qwirkle Cubes

Hair Braiding & Movie Watching

 Eating

 Hiking

I-poding

 More Air-soft BB Gunning

 Tire Swinging

Reverse Charades

 Laughing 

 More Reverse Charades

"Spot It" 

(Fun matching game that I am terrible at!)

 Reading By The Fire

Eating A Little More

 Playing DS together

Playing DS Alone

Eating Again

 Conversations

 More Monopoly

 Sillyness

A little more eating....

Hide And Go Seek & Sardines

in some very tricky places!

Chilling

 Dress Ups

 Wrestling

 Big Boys playing Candy Land with a Little Girl

 Sleeping

And yet more eating...

 Posing...

 Big Younger Brother Picking On Older Sister

 Four On A Couch

(The girls won THREE times)

 The boys won once!

Learning Poker (with Monopoly Money!)

 More Poker

Alex coming in for a mom hug 

Cheesy Smiles

 Waiting

James asked if we were praying to the washer? Nope, just waiting for it to finish so we could throw towels in the dryer and head out!

The Walton's

(Our host and connection to the fabulous cabin/resort. Amy is BFF gym/running buddy!)

Us!

(Devree...you will learn to pose nicely!)

The Whole Gang

(Waltons, Smiths, Andersons, and Richharts!)

The Kids

(Take #1)

Take #2 

There were actually a few takes but there wasn't a one with everyone looking at the camera!

Traditional Square Ice Cream on the way home!

 Sleeping on the ride home

 Chilling in the back seat....

And now we're home and I am faced with the climb up Mount Laundry!