I don’t have many updates lately – Brian and I are both busy with various projects that will go into our completed laundry room. The difference is already amazing, but I’m waiting to post before and after pictures once the entire project is done. I do, however, have several pictures on my camera and on my phone from general “stuff”

 

Aiden goes to extremes to show how serious we are around here about our Chicago Bears!

I already posted this on facebook, but I think it’s crazy how often one of the boys puts a hole in a perfectly good pair of pants. Logan especially! Doesn’t he know that he’s supposed to be the MOST careful? Those pants are supposed to be in pass-down condition by the time he needs new ones!

It’s tax time again and what a job it is for a traveling man (Brian gets state returns from any state where he works that has a branch for his company….tends to be a lot of places…last year, he even had to do a Canadian return!) Anyway, this guy showed up to help. I’m not sure if he’s experienced with tax returns, but he looks so gosh-darn professional, he’s obviously here to be of service SOME how!

Ok, but seriously. Brady’s going through a “dress like a business man” phase. I ended up needing to go to Goodwill this week to buy some stuff for an 80’s party Brian and I have this weekend. While there, Brady spotted the ties and begged for one with “dragons” on it (exact words, “I want a Chinese dragon scarf!”). We also picked up a button-down shirt that actually fits. He wore this 3 days in a row. Quite sharp looking, actually! I also found an old belt I bought when Logan was little so he has an appropriate belt….although wore OVER the shirt. We’ll work on that later!

A week ago Friday, Brian took the day off of work. The boys were all off of school as well. We went to breakfast and then decided to take in a movie. This is how the modern family choses their flicks: fire up an ipad at the restaurant and check out all the previews for the movies currently being shown. Not sure what they are watching here, but it doesn’t look like a pleaser. We ended up seeing The Secret of Airretty and it was adorable (NONE of the boys moved even an inch the entire time, which is rare).

Unfortunately, after taking Friday off, daddy had to fly out for work on Sunday night. The boys had Monday off as well so we decided to do something fun: yet another movie, popcorn and “kiddie cocktails” (sprite with cherry syrup) under a fort in the living room. I took this picture on my phone to send to Brian…that’s why the quality isn’t so great.

This is a “take my picture” picture. Aiden wandered in while I was taking pictures of business-man Brady and wanted to show me a gun he was constructing out of laser pegs.

 

These are actually at least a month old now. One morning, Aiden set about constructing one of his lego ships. I thought the two of them laying around and playing legos was cute.

Pretty soon they had me in there too because the ship needed very specific stud colors and it was getting hard to locate the right ones. I was put on red duty. For the life of me, I couldn’t find just ONE more red stud so I finally called Anne down the street and she gave me one out of AJ’s stash.

Pretty cool!

This is the year’s only snowman. Yesterday we had a playdate with one of Brady’s friends from school. We had finally been given a little bit of “snowball snow” the night before and the boys wanted to play outside. I helped Aiden build this tiny snowman….then the three boys immediately took shovels to the poor thing and knocked it down. Again I say, “ah – boys!”