Mama you should get life alert!

Joy has been watching TV past her bed time. she just came to tell me ,"you should get life alert." i said what is life alert? wondering if it was the same thing i thought it was, and Joy starts explaining to me the wonders of life alert. "If you fall down and can't reach the phone you push the button and life alert comes. OR if there is a fire you push the button and life alert calls the fire men. "
I promptly tell Joy," that is for old people." (and i am totally thinking it's for people who are alone, I am never alone , I'm not lucky enough to be alone EVER, not even to the bathroom, alone, so if i fall i am yelling for a kid to get dad or get the phone)

and she quickly responds ,"then can we get that for Grandma Jones?" she is a thinker. She thinks Life alert is a great idea! i wonder how much those cost?

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Do you ever overhear things the kids say while you are riding in the car, like conversations between the kids, or while they are playing with friends? and do you think" i am totally blogging that!"? and the next thing out of the kids mouth is MOM don't blog that! you can't blog that! You blog everything! that is so embarrassing!
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today we were at my sister Maria's house swapping kids back. and somehow a bowl of popcorn got tipped over. i told the kids to pick it up. and people are whining and refusing. then the next thing i see are a bunch of kids laying on the ground eating it like dogs. yeah. they were, thankfully Maria had just mopped this morning. so i got out the camera, and snap a couple pictures. Then the next thing I hear is "She is gonna blog this, my mom blogs everything!" and in the background i hear one of her kids saying if you are eating like dogs why is no one barking? so they started in with the barking. for real! pictures? here you go!




Needless to say after i took the pictures, i made them go out back while we swept and vacuumed the mess. and then it was time to leave.

on the way to the car we took some pictures on the wall outside.

the big boys were up there
then Pierce climbed on up

then the girls. Maria and Hope are 3 and a half. Hope spent the night at her house for the first time last night.
don't mind that shiny AZ sun! (from left to right-mine, mine, hers, mine,hers,mine,hers,hers,mine, mine)

of course any idea that people might see Peyton's butt and he is instantly making fart sounds and shaking his butt.

the end!