REALLY?

About a month ago our landlord informed us that they are going to try to sell our home. The real estate agent came by the house and put this wonderfully accurate sign out front!


Text OMG...I think you mean text W.T.H. to 1-800-needs-repair.

GORGEOUS??...you decide...

Bathroom covered in blue tile. So popular these days.

I'm always tripping on the uneven broken artificial tiles in the kitchen.
As far as I'm concerned...gorgeous is an exaggeration when functionality is in question.


Phil's rigged up system so we can have an electrical outlet in the bathroom via the other end of the extension cord. Don't even think about turning the light off while I'm trying to heat my flat iron.


Toothbrush holder has two problems. ONE-the holes are too small to fit a toothbrush (even chase's) and TWO- placed too close to the cupboards so even if we could fit our toothbrushes into the container they would be impossible to access. Very good thinking there.

UMMMM....where's the toilet paper????? Oh, why didn't I think to look behind the towels? No joke...the ONLY towel hanger happens to be directly above the toilet paper ring...both very much permanent fixtures on the wall.

Glasses? ...Glasses!!

Sometimes the English language intersects with irony so forcefully that Socretes the Great Philosopher himself would have trouble making sense of it.

In English, eye glasses and drinking glasses are hard to tell apart phonetically speaking and so their fates are intertwined. But Italian for instance, specchio and bicchiere, have a fates phonetically disconnected and are subject to their own course in the universe, as it were.

The universal course of glasses and glasses in our house generally is a short ride to the recycle bin and then on to the great unknown.

Here is our cupboard where we used to store our glasses.
And here is the dishwasher where you can sometimes find the rest of the glasses when you are in a crunch before you have time to unload the dishwasher, which task takes less and less time by the way.
Yes, 3 surviving glasses.

Here is Melanie's glasses who's unfortunate naming convention got them into a heap of trouble.

Here is the replacement for our glasses. I will let you try to figure out which iteration we mean here.

And here is the author of much of the fate going on around here.

Fire Flys

We caught a few bugs to help light up the house because we are totally joining the green movement.




Now we just can't figure out how to turn em off.

Chase, Chase, Chase

Chase is growing and getting more personality each and every day and we LOVE it :) Here's some of the things that he's been doing recently...

Loves to collect Sippy cups and carry two at a time.

Loves to bite down on everything, usually it's a fork or spoon mid meal or his toothbrush while trying to keep those few teeth he has clean. Pictured here is a plastic something or other found in the mystery spot in our house where he finds all completely random and unknown items.

LOVES mud and splashing. Lots of laundry for me these days.

Pool time

Isn't this the cutest whining face ever??? I just can't help loving this face in all of it's varieties.Messy meals

Loves to show off and carry around his sippy cup with no hands.

I don't have a picture of this...but he LOVES to bonk his head gently on any hard surface. I hear it in the morning when he wakes up, at nap time, in our living room against the glass french doors etc. Just the other day when Phil and I went running he put his forehead on the stroller tray in front of him to catch the vibrations...all while laughing. He's so silly sometimes :)

PHOTOSHOP!!

I am currently addicted to photoshop and it's killing progress on the looming thesis!! The pictures I worked on this morning!

Before...

After... (hopefully that's obvious!)
Before...Yes, I let him destroy his whole cake that I worked for an hour to decorate...where's the logic?? -Michelle...Phil probably would have complained about the frosting to cake ratio anyway.


After... he's still a dirty mess!


Now on to my thesis... YEA!

Chase is talking...

GIBERISH!! I've watched this video a hundred times and it makes me smile every time. I LOVE my boy!!!

Mickel Man WINS!!

Very few people know how much I enjoy watching golf!! I know, it seems boring...but when you grow up with three brothers and a dad that love it, I guess it just rubs off on ya. After watching a rather stressful tournament years ago at my grandpa's house my gramps said to my mom, "Is she always like this when watching golf?" This referred to my occasional outbursts! Usually the answer is no but last night was another one of those tournaments with a racing heart sitting nervously on the edge of the couch. Phil may have told me last night that I looked flushed during a stressful moment :) I actually had to cover my eyes a couple times because I couldn't bare the disappointment had Mickel man missed key shots. Oh but the joy that followed when victory was made :) Thanks for some good entertainment Phil Mickelson!