Face paiting

Nicole is into face painting now.  The kids went through their band aid faze and their washable tattoo faze.  Now we are on to face painting.  Michael doesn't like it on his face but he likes them on his legs.  Here are a few from the last couple of days.

She wanted to be an angel.  The picture doesn't show it but it is very glittery.

For some reason Michael wanted both a rocket and a comet attacking Saturn.

Keeping it Real

OK this is something I actually said....
My best friend calls as asks me what I have planned for the day.
"I think I'm going to see if I can get the sweat stains out of my work shirts." 


I have a lot of things I could be doing but this is the first thing that popped into my head.

Ranting some more

So I did get to do laundry but I had to go to the laundromat the other day.  I hate washing clothes in the laundromat.  I swear everything comes out stained and dirtier than they went in.
Ed tried to put everything back together for me today and the cement weight whipped around and clocked him in the head.  He, of course is blaming it all on me because he wanted to have it done for me that he didn't wait until I got home from work to help him.  Now he has a bump on his noggin and a cut on his nose.

Ranting

Who gets excited about doing laundry.  I do.  I am hoping that I actually get to wash some tonight.  I have been without a washing machine for about two weeks now.  We have be looking for the part for our machine and we just couldn't get it in the US without buying half the machine. Ed had tried to get just the piece we need but for some reason you have to buy the whole drum with it.  We finally tracked down just the part we need in Canada.  I paid extra for faster shipping and when I got the package I was so excited but they only sent us part of what we ordered.  I called and they were very nice and agreed to send the other piece out right away.  Then when Ed got home he opened it up and it was the wrong size.  So a little delay but everything should work out. 
I am so glad that Ed is able to do the repairs for us.  I can't imagine what we would have to do if we had to pay someone to fix things around the house.  Seriously it was cheaper to buy a new washing machine than buy the parts from Sears even with Ed doing the work. 
At the same time the washer went the radiator blew on the car.  I was without a car for about a week but at least Ed was able to fix that as well.  I don't know what I would do without him.
It's about 10:30 and I have to wake up the kids.  Michael started bothering us about 1 in the morning asking if it was almost morning.  He continued to ask every half hour or so if it was almost morning, apparently he wanted to watch the sun rise.  He finally fell asleep about 5:30 this morning and missed it.

National Night Out 2012

Yesterday was National Night Out.  We have gone to a couple in the past.  From an adults point of view I think the one they do in Howell is much better.  From a kids point of view you can't beat free candy and rides.  We were the first ones there this year.  Last year the kids wanted to go on all the rides first and then when Nicole finally decided she wanted her face painted it was too late.  So I told her if she wanted it done this year she had to get her face painted first and then go on all the rides.  But of course the pony rides always win over face painting.  The kids got to ride the ponies three times. 

While Nicole was getting her face painted Michael went through the alligator bouncy thing, like 20 times.  At this point I think there was only about 6 kids there.

The kids had a ball.  It wasn't as crowded as it has been in the past so they got to go on everything over and over again.

They even got a tour of the ambulance and they showed them how some of the things are used.