daddy-o's dinner night

i love a man whos not afraid to be in the kitchen...

or get his hands covered in flour...
jack thinks he's helping...

smokin' HOT

"please sir, may i have some moe-ah" actually, please dont quote me on that one because im not sure i got it right... im certainly not a fan of musicals.... but i think thats what ellie is trying to say

thats what im talkin about!!!

and a popsicle for dessert

caught BLUE handed!

the mastermind:

the accomplice:
the aftermath:

this is what happens when you work on a sewing project and you have two small children. i didnt find the marker all over their bedroom walls until after i had put the camera away. but by that time i wasnt in the mood to take pictures :) ellie's hands are still stained, but i suppose i should be grateful her mouth isnt. the bath water looked like i dumped a whole bottle of food coloring in it. this took place in a matter of minutes. the joys!

this should be illegal

snow birds, white heads, q-tips....

it doesnt matter what you call'em...

THEY'RE BACK!

chris and my dad were out fishing last week and were unfortunate enough to catch this picture

remember that grill...

mmmmm ribs

mmmmm boston butt (these are NOT burnt, the black stuff is called bark by the pros, which chris now is...a pro...not a boston butt)

we pulled that pork and made YUMMY sandwiches complete with toasted buns!

chris took two big tests at the beginning of last week. and he did awesome! so to celebrate, he spent the week smokin' meat!

Happy Birthday Uncle Jacob!

hope you have a special day jacob!!!

love-

larissa & bo & everett

lisa & chris & jack & ellie

*since alli's birthday is just 4 days from now, you can watch this video again and substitute alli's name :)

thats my ride!

for the first time in five years, chris and i own TWO cars! we decided that we couldnt stand it any longer and needed a second car. mostly for chris to putt around town and go to school, so it needed to be something that gets good gas mileage. we thought we'd keep it pretty low key. what do you think....

HA!

yeah right!

we didnt want to deal with making any car payments, so we bought a used 2003 toyota carolla. we feel pretty good about it since we were able to pay for it and walk out of the dealership with money still in our pockets... thats always a good thing.

its gettin hot in here...

so take off all your....just kidding! ok so first of all, our ac was broken today and it was 89 degrees and muggy in our little abode! i had to wake the kids up from their naps because they were both sleeping in a puddle of sweat, and im not exaggerating....very much :) but luckily chris was able to figure out what was wrong and it is now a cool 75 and i am appreciating it very much!

and secondly- can you believe that little "blinkee" on the side of my blog! how ridiculous is that! i have refused to check out all of the cute backgrounds and such for my blog because i tend to find some of them over the top and distracting. but today i saw a cute "blinkee" (not knowing at the time that they are called such a silly thing)( it was a jane austen one, by the way) and thought that i might as well see what was out there. i threw up in my mouth a little when i saw this one and then laughed pretty hard. enjoy it now because it wont be there for long!

i should probably add, if they had harry potter blinkees, they would be all over this place - sad, but true