Like Mudder like Daughter

(Bad joke?)

This girl is so hardcore, 

she lost a shoe somewhere along the path and barefooted it the rest of the way.

We couldn't have been more proud.

But don't think we didn't strap her dirty little behind to the top of our van for the drive home. ;)

June happenings

On June 1st Jordan and I did a Tough Mudder.  

Unfortunately, this picture is the only proof we have.  

I'm the one toward the top/center wearing pink, and J is right behind me with the blue hanky on his head.

It was definitely one of the coolest things we've ever participated in.

Here is half of our team after the run, and all showered up.

A couple of friends have pointed out how funny it is that I always look like I'm 'posing' in my pictures.

Whatever, I don't even know what they're talking about.

Here we are at the Run or Dye 5k in Philadelphia. 

We had such a good time hanging out and getting dirty.

Today we both have sore throats from all of the dye that we inhaled/swallowed.

And when I blow my nose it comes out in all colors....but I'm telling you, totally worth it.

And these are just a few snapshots from our Father's Day 'celebration'.

Happy Fathers Day to an amazing Daddy.

We love him so much.

A day on the pond

 

Have you ever taken a paddle boat out on the lake?  

It's brutal, I'm telling you.  My buns are still on fire.

 I'll take a rowboat any day. 

Ty was loving being out on the water. 

I could tell, because he had his 'serious' face on the entire time.

I don't think either of us expected to get such a great workout from this outing.

I'd say it was the perfect start to our summer.

Library.

I've avoided going to the library for over a year due to the outrageous fines each of our accounts have accumulated.

I was sure they'd have a warrant out for my arrest by now.

This week on J's day off, we decided to show Ty what a library was, so that maybe in the future when his parents get their act together and pay up, he'll want to visit often and check out books like all of the other little children.

                                          

We sat and watched him play with the toys in the back corner of the library, while we avoided any interaction with the library staff.

While I sat there observing and snapping photos, I realized

it would probably be best to wear holey jeans when my knees aren't quite so frightening.

 eh?

 A couple of weeks ago, I had the girls make a list of things they wanted to do this summer.  Here is what Tia came up with.

I was especially amused with #5...which made me realize that

  some of our summer will be spent learning how to correctly spell the 50 states. ;)

For the sake of getting SOMEthing on the blog...here are some pictures we managed to take over the last few months:

  

Our first Bat Mitzvah.
I snickered every time I looked at J with that thingy on his head, which kept falling off everytime he moved around.

For J's birthday, he requested that we go to the aquarium.   

His birthday candles set off all the smoke alarms in our house.

which scared this little boy and made him cry...for pretty much the rest of the night.

We celebrated Tia's birthday, with a 'Monster High' theme.

                   Tia helped decorate her cake, which I think turned out adorable.      

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

 Here is Tia dressed up like Skeleta, one of her favorite Monster High girls. 

The girls hunting for their easter candy.

  We ordered Tia's birthday cupcakes  (for her classroom) from an 11 year old girl

who has hopes of starting up her own cupcake business.  She

did such a beautiful job.  You can tell Tia was happy with the results.

     Tia's art piece made it to the art show again this year.  

Remember how last year it was the black bird with blood coming out of its beak, and rear end?

I was pretty curious about what we'd find this time.

Thankfully there was no blood involved.

Ty turned 2 on May 7th.   That evening we lit his 2 candles, turned out the lights and just started to sing Happy Birthday when he started to freak OUT, because he was having flashbacks of the fire alarm episode on Jordan's birthday.  He was so scared that the smoke alarms were going to go off, that he cried, covered his ears and kept yelling "NO!" throughout the whole song.

To this day, if we start to sing Happy Birthday, he points to us and yells NO!

After I blew out his candles for him, he wouldn't touch his food for about 5 minutes.

When he finally decided  to try a bite of his cake, he sat like this...whole body stiff, just waiting for that smoke alarm to start beeping.

He was so stressed out!

The next day we went to a Baseball game and Ty took a little tumble on the bleachers.  

During one of the breaks between innings, the announcer  had the crowd sing Happy Birthday to a little 8 year old boy out on the field. Ty immediately stopped what he was doing, and looked around kind of frantically.  He managed to hold it together, but wasn't liking what he was hearing, that was for sure.

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Tia and her two missing top teeth at the Blue Rocks game.  This girl is a superstar when it comes to losing teeth.  She tells daddy to pull as hard as he can, no matter how much it hurts.

Father-son campout

Here's a shot of him before they left for the camp out. 

He had no idea where he was going, he just knew he was going SOMEwhere with daddy, and that he had some fun stuff in his back pack.  He was the happiest little boy on earth that night.

Unfortunately it started to storm pretty bad late that night, so they arrived back home at around 11 pm.

For our ward talent show, Jordan and a few friends did an N'Sync dance to the song "It's gonna be me"

It was fantastic.

J is the second one from the left

Next time I'll catch you up in a little more detail :)