I tried to give them a ride...

But they wanted to walk home from school.

And then it rained. Hard.And when they arrived home they were mad.
(Hee hee.)

Can I pull off the win?

So a few weeks ago, one of my favorite food blogs was participating in a menu contest against two other food bloggers. They asked their followers to go and vote for them, and at the end someone's name would get drawn to win $300.

I voted everyday for two weeks. And I am convinced I am going to win the money. I even know how I am going to spend it.

On these:

Currently, my boys are sleeping on the very same bunk beds my brothers used when they were growing up. They are in a sad state. Check out the missing bars underneath.
And that is the better of the two.

The other bed frame is missing half of the bars. It now resides on the ground, not underneath the top bunk, just in case that, too, should suddenly lose half it's bars in the middle of the night. Here's what it looks like:I must say, Isaac's bed-making job doesn't help any. But the poor mattress sags to the ground when you sit in the middle.

I find out tomorrow if I win the $300 dollars. I've told Steve a dozen times this week, "I can't wait for April 30th, when I will get my money."

When.

Not if.

(Are my hopes going to be dashed tomorrow? I'll let you know.)

This year's Pinewood Derby entry:

The ice cream sandwich...

Not the fastest, but definitely the coolest (or it would be if it were an actual ice cream sandwich).

What you do for fun if you don't have a Wii.

This is not a picture of dog poop. Really, it's a picture of those elongated dirt clumps you get when you aerate your lawn.
Around here, we like to use them as sidewalk chalk. Laura calls them "Envirochalk" because she thinks they are good for the environment.

And bird poop apparently doubles as finger paint...if you're really hard-up for entertainment.

Making bagels.

Belated (and kinda boring) Easter images.

Sunday morning concert.

Yeah, this looks like I caught her reaction the first time she saw her basket, but actually this picture was taken several hours after, and I think she was just about to sneeze.

His favorite part. And yet, two weeks later and it's only half gone. What is wrong with that kid? Seriously!

Here's my gluten-free basket. No chocolate because the Easter bunny knows I have a hard time remembering to eat fruits and vegetables if there's good chocolate in the house.

I hope your Easter was more blog-worthy than ours. (Not that we didn't enjoy it.)

April ambiguity.

I like to think we keep things pretty random around here, and this post definitely won't disappointment you if randomness is what you're after.

Here's the present Noelle gave me a few days ago while we were playing outside: And yet another present:

What does your family do when it's 80 degrees outside and sunny?

Well, our family swims in the indoor pool. At least that's what we do when it's a "residents-must-go" party. The kids had fun...

...until Isaac fell in the pool (with his life jacket on, but he still thought he was going to die). As an added bonus, you also get to catch a glimpse of someone's (I won't say whose) hairy belly.

Oh, yeah. We also found a house we like. Should we get it? Should we not? We don't know. But what we do know is that...

...I really like this kitchen. It looks like the kind of kitchen that would look pretty even if there were a bunch of school papers stacked messily in the corner and crums scattered, well, all over, and a full sink of dishes, doesn't it?

And this is the biggest selling-point for Steve (Isn't it pretty?):

Course, buying a new house means selling the one we're living in, which sounds like LOADS of fun. Anyone want to buy our house? I promise I'll clean the bathrooms first.