{7.20.09}

fossils & fruit

3 cars, 5 kiddos, 6 adults and a trip to the john day fossil beds & kimberly orchards.

{7.17.09}

20 things i'm not loving

01. unbreakable silence.
02. random nosebleeds with no tissue in sight.
03. obsessive door lockers.
04. hot leather seats + sundresses = second degree burns.
05. our bread box size freezer.
06. blanket statements and resolutions.
07. my inability to grow long hair.
08. always, always, always getting the short end of a toilet paper roll.
09. emotional walls.
10. Locating an available campsite in Central Oregon.
11. Bing.
12. arm fat.
13. self meetings regarding self boundaries.
14. my exercise routine, what exercise routine?
15. walmart on any given evening after 9pm.
16. the neighbor across the street that should, oh my god, mow and weed their lawn like, oh my god, more than once a year.
17. paying hoa dues which are apparently pointless, i.e., case in point #16.
18. torpedoes.
19. driving in the city of detours.
20. crap music, e.g., birthday sex.

{7.14.09}

excuses

perfectly acceptable excuses for being absent from my blog...

1. i was busy titling 168 blog entries.


2. my brain was temporarily rendered useless due to a hormone induced coma.


3. i was spending hours on yahoo! answers, for like answers, scientific ones.


4. i was busy organizing my organized closets and drawers.


5. i was coveting wallpaper from graham & brown and hygge & west.


6. my dog ate my brainstorm post-its.


7. i was watching awesomely bad action movies.


8. i was filling in for oprah.


9. i couldn't think in plus-140 character concepts (thanks, twitter).


10. i was avoiding reality.

{7.2.09}

hello

good day. it's been awhile since i've posted a family update, and no time like the present since i'm fresh out of photo entries.

let's see, where to begin...oh, yes, adam is turning the big 3-1 tomorrow and doesn't seem too excited about it either. i'm not really sure he has complaining rights since i'll always be 4.5 years older than him, always! he continues to achieve new and better projects at work, all while keeping a low profile. people, the man is a pure genius and when asked what he does for work, he humbly responds, "i work for a software company". ok, when you're asked by thee boss man to manage the other boss man of your company, hello, you're freaking kinda a big successful deal, and I would happily shout from any rooftop in town...

and my dearest rolling ball of energy, brenner, whose favorite summer activity this year are sleepovers. he is all about the sleepover, mainly because he knows he can stay up later than 8:00pm, watch movies, eat popcorn and play one of the five or six different game devices we now have in the house. and because he's a tiny bit behind in reading, i found a tutor for him until he starts summer school in a few weeks.

bike update: we are happy to announce that someone found brenner's bike in an empty lot near our house and turned it in at the police station. and because we had the serial number on file at the station, the match was found and the bike was returned safe and dirty, very dirty. we suspect someone had a hecka fun joyride then dumped it. we put up posters around the neighborhood soon after the bike was taken and can only hope it somehow made a difference with the outcome.

nothing really new and exciting to report with me, other than i'm peeing on o-sticks again and taking prescription progesterone (((oh the hormone roll coaster raging i want to tear your head off before i cry uncontrollably about absolutely nothing worth crying about and oh i've got to pee bubbles again for the 30th time this morning ride))) until we get and stay pregnant.

oh and i want, no....need one of these for my hormone induced brain.

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