South Padre Island....... Or bust!

So this is my bummer post. We (meaning the Sallaway/Blair/Bollinger side) have been planning a trip to SPI for almost a year now. Michael has never in the five years we have been married, been on a vacation with my side of the family or been to the beach for longer than 3 hours, so I was pumped about this. We have had the condos rented, fishing trips planned, driving arrangements set. Then came Dolly. Dumb hurricane. So hopefully you are feeling sorry for me and wish and hope that the power on the Island will be turned on soon (next couple of days), since we are scheduled to leave Sunday morning. Seven full fun beach filled days with the family. Wish us luck!

The Octopus... Bad Mom story #655

So since I am confessing bad mom stories, I think this one is worth while. Somewhere, some how Anna picked up this fear of "the octopus". She has completely made it up in her mind that this octopus is something to fear. I have explained that the octopus will never hurt her, but she still has this fear. So... we have totally capitialized on it. The octopus have comes in various forms such has horn honks, doorbell rings, taps on the window, phone calls (yes this is true it is quite hilarious). Whenever she starts acting up and I hear some sort of noise, I tell her that the octopus is listening. It is amazing the change of behavior. She will go down for her nap (at 3 1/2) and will tell me to call the octopus and tell her not to come by because she going straight to sleep. And she does. Walmart trips, mall trips, etc are definately more bareable. The way I see it is that this is just like threatening with time outs or early bed times or spankings, which never work, and this does! So tell me what has worked for you?!

Bad Mom Story # 656

Yes, this is Blake's highchair, the back of the chair on the ground and the seat cover hanging. We usually have his back facing the table because it has done this once before, but we were having family dinner and we wanted him to be facing us. We lost track of time and Michael was in a scramble to get ready for work, and Blake was not done eating. I heard him crying but figured he was out of food. I continued helping Michael get ready and answering the phone trying to help the missionaries figure out where they were to eat tonight, when in walks Blake. His chest is all red. I run into the kitchen to see the highchair like this.... So the bad mom story unfolds. I guess the back fell off and he was stuck and I just ignored him. He definitely deserved the Popsicle in the sink. And of course with Anna, monkey see, monkey do!

What's in a name....

I saw this on Stephanie's blog and I thought it was hilarious.

1. My rock star name (first pet and current car): Buddy Odyssey
2. My gangsta name (favorite ice cream and favorite cookie): Vanilla chocolate chip
3. My "fly girl" name (1st inital of my 1st name and 1st 3 letters of my last): M Owe
4. My detective name (favorite color and favorite animal): Red puppy
5. My soap opera name (middle name and city you were born): Kimberly Rexburg
6. My star wars name (1st 3 letters of your last name & 1st 2 letters of your 1st name): Oweme
7. My superhero name (2nd Fav. color & favorite drink with "The in the front): The Pink Dr.Pepper
8. My nascar name (1st names of your grandfathers): Leroy Arthur
9. My lounge Singer name (name of your fav. perfume/cologne & fav. candy): Happy M&M
10. My witness protection name (mother's and father's middle name): Bollinger Reed

My favorite is my rock star name!

Happy 1st Birthday Nate!

Just given a big birthday shout out to the birthday boy!

Spider....Man!

So Blakey woke up this morning with these huge bumps on his face (added to the huge bruise on his forehead). He reacts crazy to any type of bite. So I throughly check his bed and there in his blanket I found a nasty spider. Agh! It totally gave me the willies. He has three bites, one on the side of his head, and two on his chops. Poor guy. It doesn't seem to bother him any. He is happy as can be.

Everybody loves a blue eyed boy....

Tiny Dancer.....

Today was Anna's first day of tap dance class. She loved it! She learned all new steps. She is going to have a blast.

4th of July

We had a fun 4th. We loved seeing all the family and enjoyed the spirit of the day.

Our Cute Family
Loving the fireworks.....

Handsome Nate

Quite the spread

Just waiting for the fireworks....

Blake's Hair Cut.....

I have always taken Blake to get his hair cut. Finally, I bought my self a new pair of clippers and "tried" to give him a faded hair cut. He had no patience for me, and he ended up with a buzz. These picture are evident of his lack of patience.

I really did think he would leave his make shift cape on.

You can sense the frustration (only about 3 minutes into the process)

Thoroughly irritated. He is such a boy!

What every boys wants.... FOOD!

He is going to have to get over this real fast. We have to many years of hair cuts ahead of us.

Flash Back....July

I thought I would flash back to Anna's one year picture and compare the two. They do not look alike but they sure are beautiful babies!

Has it been a week?

Thomas and Maia

Happy Birthday Ally

Ashley was not to sure of the whole Chuck E thing.

Birthday Girl

WEEEEEE!!!


The only one we are missing is Noah! All the cousins. Ally, Anna, Ashley, Maia, Blake and Noah.

No excuses, just plain old busy this past week. We got to celebrate Maia and Ally's birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. Ashley was in town and we were able to hang out with her too!