Oh BOY!

One morning before school I caught Jacob rocking in the chair purposely knocking it into Peyt's dollhouse knocking all the furniture and dolls around. I asked him to please fix it. He said, "Seriously?" "Yes, Jacob, Seriously." I replied. After the boys had left for school this is what I found...

Oh my word, just a little bit fat, ok.

So, Ben is turning 5 tomorrow, June 3rd. I can't believe it. He is starting Kindergarten this fall! He is my sweetheart, my nearly constant companion. This boy does not do "self-entertaining" He loves games still, all kinds of games. Today it was chess, I hate chess, but I love Benjamin. He is always talking and always saying funny stuff.
I have been really trying to lose weight and I've been doing Jillian Michaels 6 days a week (workout video). I switched to doing it at night to help me lose weight. Well tonight I actually did it in my sports bra and shorts because it was so stinking hot. After I finish Ben looks at me and says, "Why do you look a little bit fat?" I guess he saw my look of death, or maybe he heard the gasps escaping from the mouths of his brothers, but he emphasized, "a little bit fat." Oh boy, I was thinking, "Hmm, I don't know why I only look a little bit fat because I'm much more than a little bit fat." Or, "Maybe I look a little bit fat because I carried 4 babies that were big and stretched my skin way out and you were the biggest of my babies weighing in at 10 pounds Ben!" No, really, Ben is a sweetheart and never means to hurt feelings, he's just an honest kid. He speaks the truth. I am a little bit fat, and it is just a little bit, it's ok. I have 4 beautiful children to show for my fat and stretch marks. They're worth every bit of it!
On another note, Last week when Ty was in LA for work he stayed at a nice hotel and brought home some Bath and Body Works Orange and Ginger bath stuff. I thought there were 2 conditioners and one shampoo so I put them all in the shower. Tonight when I was in there and I picked up one to make sure it was the shampoo, and it was the lotion...LOTION?! Yep, that's what it said, and it was half full. I lotioned my hair last night. I thought it felt a little different than most conditioner.

Happy 5th Birthday my sweet Benji!

Jessica's "Daily Affirmation"

I'm pretty sure I'm going to start doing something a little like this every morning.

SWAGGER WAGON

I saw this on someone's blog and had to post it. I think I have a new name for our Sienna now.

Optimus Prime Crying, oh wait, that's Peyton

This was a few weeks ago. Since I posted the video of my mom recently I thought I'd just keep it up. I have a lot of very short videos from my camera that I never post, so here you go. We were playing with the boys voice changing Optimus Prime helmet and Peyton was pretty funny with it. I wish I would have gotten my camera out sooner.

I guess this is where I get it

This is my mother on the day my sister had her baby. I think she was a bit anxious...or something. Anyway, I'm a bit goofy, and I'm beginning to think it's because of my mom.

Is Nacho Libre a church movie?

On Sunday's we don't let our kids watch anything, with the exception of church movies. Jacob, just a few minutes ago, called to me while I was in the kitchen. He was looking at the movie shelf in the living room and this is what he said, "Mom, Is Nacho Libre a church movie?" I laughed and said, "No honey, sorry." He said, "But it has the church in it." Micah said, "Yeah, but it's not our church."
On that note, I've been meaning to do it, and now I'm going to. Right after I post this I'm starting another blog! It's going to be all the funny or interesting things that I've recorded in my little My Kids Make Me Laugh book. I started it a number of years ago, so I'll post them from the beginning to the present. Find it HERE!

Are you speaking spanish?

Yesterday I had Luke Sever all day. I have watched him a lot over the last few years and I love him like one of my own. He is just a cute and funny little boy. He is 4 1/2 years old. We went swimming at my parents house yesterday and had just gotten out and were lounging around drying off. Ben is into story telling lately and was going off on one of his stories, which can be quite long. Well, when he finally paused to take a breath, Luke says, "Ben, are you speaking Spanish?" I still laugh about it every time I think of it. Ben is pretty hard to understand sometimes, so I guess Luke thought it must have been another language.

Zoobilation

Mine is probably the only zoobilation blog you will see Orange Explosion in! Just 2 days following Jacob's field trip too the zoo we were back again for a zoo members only event. It was there in the parking lot that we spotted this beauty...


Of course, you may know that the zoo is in a pretty "Ghetto" area, so this really isn't all that surprising, I just had to get a picture of it.
feeding the giraffes, my favorite thing to do at the zoo


Zoobilation was pretty fun. We missed going to a few of the behind the scenes things we could have seen (animal hospital and reptile house) but we did go into the elephants area, very cool. Ben peed in the toilet while we were there too, that was a bonus (I am so sick of potty training!)

Today I did't do it.

A man came home from work and found his three children outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard. The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house and there was no sign of the dog. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess. A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, the fridge door was open wide, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door. He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she might be ill, or that something serious had happened. He was met with a small trickle of water as it made its way out the bathroom door. As he peered inside he found wet towels, scummy soap and more toys strewn over the floor. Miles of toilet paper lay in a heap and toothpaste had been smeared over the mirror and walls.

As he rushed to the bedroom, he found his wife still curled up in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?" She again smiled and answered, "You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world did I do today?" "Yes," was his incredulous reply. She answered, "Well, today I didn't do it."

Celebrity Morph by MyHeritage

This thing is so much fun. I've done lots of pics of my family and myself. The people that always come up for me are Kate Bosworth, Marcia Cross and Angelina Jolie. Tyler keeps getting Chad Michael Murray and Michael Vartan. See who you resemble and post it, consider this a tag!!!

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