As usual...

As usual, I've been keeping these little people busy. Thank God that school starts tomorrow because I am EXHAUSTED. I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I had fun also but I'm totally ready for a schedule. And quiet. Three days of three glorious hours of only girl noise. Not so much for the alarm clock though.

Here's what we've been up to, as presented by visual evidence:

We went to the library's Frozen extravaganza. Thatch was too cool to be in the picture but H totally "Let It Go."

Then we went to the BP picnic, which was AWESOME. There was a zipline, a mechanical bull, unlimited free ice cream trucks, trains, and bouncy houses...but no booze for the exhausted parents/employees. Oh, and J had to work so I made Grandma Jonesie and Papa come with us.

There were pony rides too. This is the "unicorn" Coopie wanted to ride :)

And then he found a Papa to ride :)

Here's Thatch freaking out about going on the zipline and Grandma Jonesie restraining encouraging him :) 

This is just cute. I don't know why, in general I'd not be happy about this rough housing but they're boys and it was 3 weeks ago so I'm over it.

Here's a cute video of Coopie pre-zipline. Turns out he weighed enough but his little waist was too small for the harness so he couldn't go. Sadness ensued.

Coopie was able ride the mechanical bull. He wasn't impressed at all. 

But Thatch rode the bull and let me just say, that kid rocked it's face off. Actually, it didn't have a face, but he did awesome! You can see on his face where he goes from "Oh, this is fun" to "Oh.My.Gosh.". 

Okay, so this is just a picture of kids in blankets but here's the back story: I saw a "thing" about a free drive in movie that a neighborhood puts on drive-in movie so I loaded us all up and headed out. When I pulled up though it looked oddly like a grocery store and not like a drive in...word on the street is I'm not really great at keeping up with dates during the Summer. The drive in was the night before! So we came home and rented Back to the Future on Amazon. 

I, feeling badly about the mix up, let them have soda, popcorn, and (GASP) even candy! I'm giving guilty pleasures a new meaning I suppose.

So...then I got a text from my favorite teacher from High School. Good Lord, I must have been an uber Goodie Two Shoes, or was I this cool even that far back? Anyhoo, Mrs. Holmberg was visiting her sister, who lives in Bellingham, and I was able to see her for a bit and she was able to meet the Heathens. Fair warning: I'm in a swimsuit. I apologize in advance.

This vessel is referred to as "the booger". It was seriously fun though :)

Harper has no fear of the water. Life vest it is then.

And then she got tired. Like, really tired.

But Thatch was having so much fun paddle boarding so we toughed it out!

And then the crabs showed up. We played with them, smelled them and then left them to fulfill their purpose in life, dinner. Mrs. Holmberg provided us with an awesomely exhausting day :)

And then we took them to the Fair. And it was dark. And warm. We were confused, that's not how we are used to experiencing the Fair :)

This picture is kind of cool. The trains though, left something to be desired.

Coopie thought they were just fine the way they are though!

Actually, Coopie was into it all. He's not terribly discerning when it comes to a good time. This worries me.

Thatch dug the Dragon Lady too though, so it's all good.

But then we found the real rides...

...and I was terrified we were going to end up buying a $200K tractor and have to live in it. Luckily, we didn't manage to break anything...well no one chased us as we left so that's what I assume.

Then we saw this. Jonathan and Thatcher insisted that we needed it for our front yard. Maybe finding a house can wait a little longer.

We managed to survive the Fair, even though our bank account didn't fair as well. Nor did our waists.

Then we had MORE visitors! My Mom and my Grandma came to stay with us. So what does Harper do to prepare for them? Pee on the couch, of course. I'm really wondering what I was thinking when we decided to not go with the leather couch.

This is me, in case you forgot what I looked like. This is my "I should be cleaning but I'm going to procrastinate and take pictures of myself" face. 

And here they are! I made them pick apples. And then I made a pie, so they weren't mad.

Here's my little Ladybug in a pumpkin patch. 

I'm getting kind of decent with a camera. This isn't even edited. :)

I'm maybe not so great with the angles though. Sorry about my double chin. It's clearly not genetic. My Mom looks great though.

And here we have 4 generations.

Thanks to a flipped cement truck in the middle of I-5 we missed my Grandma's flight. It was rescheduled though and then we had time to head over to Pikes for a bit! 

Cuteness :)

Cutting of the Cheese at Beacher's. Har. Har.

And there you have it...August. Whew. 

Get back to school now little people, Mommy is going to need at least until October to stop twitching. 

Peace out Peeps.

S

A SportsCenter Recap

Okay, so it's been AGES since I've done a blog. My bad. I'll just post some highlights to get us up to date on the peeps. I need to find my cord to connect to the computer and upload a few more pics as well but we'll get to that later I suppose.

So here we go...the SportsCenter Top 10 version of the past six weeks.

10. We swung down to Seattle, picked up Auntie B and headed to the Northwest Garden show which was pretty awesome, even with a 2 year old!

Coopie and his Auntie B.

Captain Coopie in the Swiss Family Robinson area.

Awh crap, I thought I could rotate in blogger. Here's the Poopster buying us flowers and carrying them around. They were as big as him :)

Harpie matched the tulip displays.

Coop found a pig to ride. Good times.

9. Jonathan drove off the boat with Thatch...The Yarsleys are reunited at 8 AM. They would have been cheerier if it had been more like 11AM.

Thatch waving. 

7. Poopie Coopie turned 3! This really deserves it's own blog post but alas, I'm a bit behind. Sorry Poops. You can tell your therapist later. We had a small shindig with Aunts popping up for the night from Seattle and the neighbors coming over with their twin girls. Three 3 year olds is a lot of 3 year olds in one room.

Oh My Gosh, how stinking cute is he? When he blew them out he shouted out in his adorable little voice "I DID IT!" I wish I had videoed that.

Opening presents while Grammy watched on the phone. And, making her very first appearance in the blog...Auntie Lorny! She's going to be in here a lot now because she's going to baby sit a ton. True story. Don't tell her though ;)

Coopie playing with his balloons. They were kind of a big deal.

6. Tuesday after Coops party someone broke into the house and whilst scaring the crap out of me during Jeopardy (Side Note: Did you know I'm awesome at Jeopardy? I'm going to make a ton of money on there one day.), also surprised us immensely! Auntie B came back up for an impromtu visit! Yay for living close!! Little did she know I was going to make her come to library time with us.

I made it in a picture!

Harpie rocking her I love my Auntie shirt. She's such a suck up.

We're entering a clingy phase. It's awesome. Oh wait, no, it's not.

Doing some form of kid dance. Good God, I am never wearing that shirt again. Front pockets on the stomach area are a TERRIBLE idea Banana Republic.

5. In an effort to keep things like home we went to B&N to have some relaxing time. I ended up chasing Coop around the store and looked like a crazy woman. It was just like home.

I say "Coopie, show me your cookie." This is what I get. Boys are gross.

Harps and Coop, totally the cool kids.

Seriously yummy cookie.

She's too cool for Starbucks, she brings her own from home. 

4. Movie Night...It's BACK!!!

It's blurry, but Harps is in focus so it's okay.

Popcorn hog.

Does this really need a caption? I think not.

3. Making their debut on the blog is the Glaze Family!!! I can't beleive my bestie has been gone long enough to not have ever been in the blog! We were reunited in Tacoma for a few hours until Cooper was Cooper and we had to leave early. His dumb Mommy forgot to bring extra clothes and he got soaked so he had to ride home in his diaper.

Cool little area. 

My beautiful girl.

Jonathan being a little kid :)

"Baby" Beau playing with the pump. I really need to stop calling him that.

Poopie Coopie in the dry phase of the day.

He's thinking, "This is awesome. I'm going to totally get wet because my Mom is always prepared." He was wrong.

Baby Easton, who I finally got to meet! Harpie and Easton are 2 days apart.

The museum had this WAY cool structure that I can only assume was modeled after a DaVinci sketch. The wings moved, it had phones to talk between the top and the bottom, it had nooks for littles to hide in. It was super neato!

Here's Thatch doing something cool on the structure. You can see one of the climbing tunnels really well here.

Here's Thatch and Brandon waiting for someone to come down the slide. I'm thinking Beau. This was the point of the day where Cooper wandered off back to the water, Yars thinking I had him in sight and myself vise versa. We were both very wrong but the museum staff caught our snafu and brought our little fish back. Sigh.

Here's Nicki and I! Yay for us :)

My view of Harper from the passenger seat. Her new favorite thing is to take off her socks and throw them around the car. The car is also a great place to lose socks, similar to the washer. There must be something in Pinterest to do with only 1 sock. 

Here's Nudie Coopie, and the rest of the gang.

2. I really have nothing left. Here's a cute picture of Harpie.

She's standing on her own now with no support now. 

She so stinking cute. Have I mentioned that?

1. Yeah, I've used up all my pictures. Time to find the cord. But I'll leave you wanting more at least?

This was obviously in chronological order, not in order of awesomeness. We've been keeping busy and getting used to the swing of things around here. I think we are getting settled though and are definitely happy with our move.

More to come once the cord is found (which really means once I clean off the junk table. Boo.)

Love you long time,
S