Time Flies When You Are Having Fun

Last year our neighborhood Porch Crawl took us around the world in a wagon...

This year it took us through decades in one afternoon.

Starting with us and another couple in the roaring 20's...

we drank Coke from glass bottles, sipped beer from the Speakeasy Bar, made paper dolls, played with Lincoln Logs and yo-yo's, and jumped rope.

Then we jived through the 30 to the 50's...
drinking Fuzzy Astronauts, munching on vintage candy, and adorning our sunglasses with glitter paint.

Followed by rockin' through the 70's with Harvy Wallbangers, eating amazingly delicious veggies even my veggie hater enjoyed (seriously I think they had crack in them, they were so good) and decorating pet rocks.

I love this picture of Girlfriend.
It totally captures her "Sure, I'm excited about and up for anything" spirit about life.
I just love. her. up!

AJ took the process of decorating his rock very serious...
analyzing every object and its placement...
Chicka was all about the fuzzy pom-poms...

& now I present to you...my children personified as pet rocks:

Girlfriend was thrilled to get in some quality Cozy Coupe time.
Chick loves these things.
Girl will go down fighting for her turn.
They bring out an evil, evil possessive side in her.
I dread them at events...
knowing I will have to drag her away from one...
kicking and cussing me out in baby language.

& if you know Abby, you know she is serious about her food.
Girl came put away massive quantities of food.

All the kids were playing...their plates long abandoned & Girlfriend was still putting down meatballs and Doritos and slamming back the pink lemonade.

We partied through the 80's and AJ was introduced to his first Silly Bandz...
I think I witnessed instant addiction in the gleam of his eyes.

Notice even after she left the table,
she still clung to her Dorito with a death grip as she pondered the physics of a yo-yo.

Then she just decided to eat the yo-yo.

We ended the day with ice cream and silly putty as a journey through time brought us to looking toward the future...

Unfortunately I do not have any pictures of the last event as the journey closer to bedtime was also reflected by early signs of Over Tired Child Syndrome with symptoms of
early onset irrational melt-down, fussiness, uncooperativeness and tears...

Porch Crawl 2010: A huge success with many great pics and neighborhood memories.
I love a good theme party, so you can only imagine multiple themes in one day is my paradise.
Already curious about next years theme...

Leaving For School

AJ's first day of school for his second year of pre-school was Tuesday.
He has been asking me all summer if he was going to school when he wakes up...
Finally Monday night I could say...
Yes, child you are going to school tomorrow when you wake up.

He requested to have his hair fixed "just like daddy" for such a special day.

On the way out to the car he received a call.
He informed me, "This is a very important call. I need to take this one."

Apparently it was Da-Da...
his imaginary friend.

He needed to make arrangements for Da-Da to take Duke,
his imaginary friend's imaginary dog,
to Pet Smart since they couldn't come to school with him.

When he finished up with his business call he said,
"Okay, we can go now. I am just so excited to go to school, but I had to take care of Duke."

Such a responsible friend, he is.

In Less Than 24 Hours...

We ventured up to the mountains
with the grand intentions of "camping" for 2 days and nights in the family cabin...

Yes, I said cabin...
but there is no running water...
so as far as I am concerned it was camping.

We explored the great outdoors...

made a tire swing...

found a home for the said tire swing...

hung up the tire swing...

played on our new tire swing...

smashed pennies on railroad tracks...

did some more swinging...

blew bubbles...

played trains outside...

packed up and...

came home...after
one l.o.n.g restless night...

where we attempted to sleep on the couch in the front room
(due to a mice infested cabin bedroom)...
(scream...gag...throw up a little in your mouth..whimper softly & tell your child you love camping with a strained smile on your face)

where Abby screamed from 10:30pm to 3:30am...
where Latte thought my head (I. kid. you. not.) was the best place to sleep for the night...
where the temperature went from comfortable to stuffy hot to freakin' freeze your butt off cold.

Next year we can just pitch a tent in our back yard
or something.

Under The Big Top

Little Dude & Girlfriend enjoyed their first circus over the weekend.

(I firmly believe you can't go to such an event without purchasing cotton candy.)

AJ laughed out loud...
my heart bubbled over.

Abby clapped & squealed in excitement...
I remembered the magic of a circus as a child.

I enjoyed watching them take it all in
more than I could have ever enjoyed any show.

AJ held my hand on the way out of the tent...
& said, "We should swing our hands together because we are happy."

Yes. Indeed.
We should swing our hands.
Because. we. are. happy.

We may become Circus Junkies.
We are already planning our next trip to the Big Top in October.

New Wheels

All Wheel Drive...

safe on snow & ice...

fuel efficient...

great for a commute down I-25...

Does it get anymore Colorado than a Subaru?

A Morning On The Boat

Checking out dad's rad moves.