Finishing the Lord of the Rings

After several years of night time reading we finished the series The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

 

 

To celebrate we got a projector, darkened the living room and spent the weekend watching the directors cut of all 3 movies. 11 hours of movies. We started with a cartoon for the little kids.

We ate pizza rolls, yogurt, pudding, mozzarella sticks, fruit roll ups, jello cups, granola bars, cheese its, applesauce cups, taquitos, and chicken nuggets. (All health food in Dad's opinion, All junkfood in Robin's opinion)

It was one of our favorite weekends of the year. : )

What do you think happened here??

Family Picture Time

parenting win

there were some leftover beans in a thick creamy brown bean sauce. dad hatches a plan.

he dumps the beans into the toilet and yells at the kids, "who didn't flush the toilet! everybody get in here now!" he proceeds to reprimand them for several minutes about how disgusting it is to leave this messy diarrhea unflushed...how lazy the kids must be to just walk away without flushing, etc. just look at this mess. get in really close and look how disgusting this is. all of the kids are making really gross faces as they see how revolting the contents of the toilet really are.

then when they were all leaning over to look at how gross it is, dad says, "oh, wait a minute. this piece looks kind of tasty." and he picks up a bean out of the toilet and eats it.

all of the kids screamed and ran away. i win at parenting.

Abbey's culture

All the kids help put away the food after a grocery trip. Tonight, Abbey saw a bag of frozen peas and called out "I've got the ice pack!"

Also, she calls her sheets her sheeps. She is always excited to get new sheeps on her bed. "Clean sheeps feel so nice", she says.

sayings

luke while playing risk: "I'm going to take over an entire consonant"

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abbie after being told to make her bed: "mom, i can't get the sheep off the bed"

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giddybug after titus tried to steal his shirt off his back: "no, you'll put a hoe in it"

dad: "gideon, do you mean a hole in it"

giddybug: "yeah, a hoe"

Gideon thinks ahead

 

Gideon (age 4) “Mom, I’m going to give you grandchildren. I’m going to give you one grandchild. And Joe is going to give you one grandchild... Mom, we are going to give you ten grandchildren. Mom? Can you handle ten grandchildren? Can you handle them? Do you want ten? Do you? Can you handle it?”

Oh Gideon you are so cute! Yes Gideon! I'll take ten grandchildren!

Sayings

Gideon: "Dad, how much Gorilla Glue would it take to glue a gorilla?"

Sam: "Dad, you're very hairy."

Luke: "Yeah, he's a mammal."

Small World

One of Matt’s many oddities that I am forced agree to put up with is, he picks up hitchhikers. Today on his way home from Cheyenne he saw a young guy hitch hiking in the middle of nowhere (Hwy 85). The man was holding a sign but Matt couldn’t see what it said. He stopped and asked what the sign said. It read, “I won’t kill you.” Matt gave him a ride.

Justin, the hitchhiker, is a student at Chico State University and was hitchhiking home to Deadwood, South Dakota. Matt gave him a ride to Lagrange, but with 0% chance of him getting a ride out of Lagrange, Matt brought him home to our house.

They hung out in the driveway a bit while Matt asked me if he could drive the guy to the next town so he could catch a ride. I agreed (it was either that or invite him to dinner.)

While we chatted it up in the driveway, my neighbor Jessica strolled by. She looked at him and stopped walking. He looked at her and then waved and said, “Jessica?” 

Turns out, they used to work at the same restaurant in South Dakota and they reconnected in my driveway in the middle of nowhere Lagrange.

Small World.

Can I keep him?

This is Buddy. He lived down the street from us and LOVED the boys.

AHHH! Buddy being loved!

Easy solutions

Gideon was sitting on my lap today at church. I pointed out to him that his cowboy boots were on the wrong feet. He crossed his feet and asked, "Is that better?"