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I've been reallly busy too- loads and loads of pics-
I had lots I wanted to write about, until today when I have the opportunity to put words to it -
....I think I am spent.
Somewhere between taking the kid to the grocery store as a fairy


The hella packed local "everyone is having a yard sale party"
-in which we came home empty handed,unless you count a crying child

the daily cat bathing, he seem better one day- and then he needs a bath.

...then rushing to St.Auggy to meet with Ri's aunt who he hasn't seen in over a decade
They found each other on Facebook and started chatting.



We got YUMMY lunch at Nalu's and went to eat on the hill of the fort.
Soo good. Rory only ate a little before running around




Ri's Aunt Angie has a 2 yr old baby girl- she was a little shy at first , but she started playing with Rory

-"go ahead Rory, get filthy and tired"... the southern in me is coming out


Soooo cute! and I can see soo many similarities in them, I am now certain that Rory's hair is Ri's color- ( I think it is my frizzyfine texture unfortunately)
I don't think mine was ever that light, side by side with Amalie I could see that it is definitely the same color.

She was telling Ri to get back over here with the rest of us.-(he was off being a good citizen bringing a cell phone back we had found on the hill)




This is his Aunt's older daughter..

they are the cutest sisters


It was super nice meeting them- we talked about all sorts of things -topics where I usually don't find common ground with people- like , vegetarianism,parenting, and breastfeeding lol



I think Lissy took this pic- I love this pic



Lissy showed up for a bit- it was the nicest day ever, when she heard we were going to go walk around in St.Auggy she thought it sounded wonderful, she saw us on the hill and hung out for a little bit


Oh! and I got some new sun glasses at the surf station

Let me hold my chunky gorgeous nephew



She even got the great pic of my hair...

In fact... I haven't been taking many pictures with my camera lately..Most of this pics of that day either Lissy took or Ri's Aunt or cousin took
remind me to get back to that subject...


We headed downtown, I hoped to browse a few stores
We also planned to stop for ice cream.
We got gelatos from an awesome little shop- they were reaaaally good.
There was lots of chatting and catching up. .. and then sticky children.
as we headed back towards the car.
We stopped near the parking garage to let the kids play and chat some more..
her little girl Amalie was sooo cute thinking the clock tower was the moon- I got a little vid, but I haven't uploaded it..


Of course by the time we left they were inseparable.
One day we will have to go to the zoo together.

We had a great time.
My antisocial hermity mind did creep up on me at the end of the night a bit- especially feeling the pressure of tacking meeting new relatives Saturday, and the birthday party we were set to attend Sunday.

To be honest,I was sort of frustrated about it. I had told Christie I would try to go to Dakota's party Sunday-and Lissy said she would take us..
but Mel(Sis in law) called sorta last minute and told me I HAD to attend my nieces party-at the same time- and it was at the BBQ joint she manages across the street , and all Ri's fam would be there.
So I had to go.
Ri & I did pic up some cute gifts for both Dakota and Haley.Hopefully I will get to see Kota another time.
So. Me and Rory put on our shades
and walked to the restaurant.-
I also picked out cuter less creepy outfit, because Haley always tells me I look "creepy" if I wear anything near black ..
Ri's mom had me call and harass Sari a bit to make sure she was coming.
They were already on their way- Lily came in and ate soo soo much ,and I don't think she approved of having her picture taken while she did so


Nephew Jade is taller than Sari(sis in law) now.. Sari did not seem thrilled



it is not easy to take a pic of the action from my vantage point...

I could use a hand
I enlisted this boy as a volunteer ( I hope his parents don't mind me posting his pic)

I don't know what it is about little ones and my camera..
or , me letting kids borrow my camera...
but as shocked as everyone was that I would hand off my camera to a kid, kid got some awesome pics
...okay, so I was a little nervous

but I couldn't have caught this pic




I did get my camera to get this vid


and pin the tail on the donkey- I have this theory, that Haley was the only one big enough for the blindfold to actually work on.. because every other kid oddly nailed it.

Lilly tried to eat balloons.. Sari kept trying to plug her with the pacifier
Haley got a bunch of great gifts- she seemed happy :)
She liked the glitter pens we got her.



I can't believe she is 10, or that Dakota is 8. gah.
Not ready for that.

So.. Ri's mom decided she NEEDS a pic with her Grandbabies - for facebook.
She handed me her camera.
I struggled.
Her memory card was almost full, and getting all of them to look in time with the CRUEL EVIL curse of a digicam delay was horrendous...
I don't think I got a single good one..
but.
While I was snapping away with her cam, I had handed my cam back to the kids- and these three little brothers took way better pics than I got.




One problem...
How on earth do I win my camera back?
It apparently requires begging, in the form of posing for a picture.


I did get some good ones of Jade and Lynn


- Ah, see the trick is to trip Eli(his lil bro) while taking the pic.
...no, I totally didn't trip his brother on purpose.




Aww cute.

Getting Rory to hug everyone and leave was a huge ordeal.
She did not want to leave.
Ri's mom and Jade escorted us home

Which was hilarious...and I think scared my neighbors.
Yes. we are walking the streets in the dark.It wasn't even 7pm tho.
Sari & RJ met up to make sure we were home alright too.
Really, it is a well lit neighborhood and it was only across the street-

but it was fun, and it probably did help Rory's not wanting to leave the party.

Ah. that was fun, but hooray.
It's over. Back to limiting my social activity to the interwebs..right?
no.
not quite.
Seems like everyone and their grandmom is on Facebook.. I am finding people I haven't talked to since I was in elementary school!
One girl was in town and decided to pop in- it was soo cool and crazy.. I haven't talked to her since we were 13! Catching each other up on over a decades of life changing events made me feel soo old- especially while reminiscing about trouble we got into way back in what still feels like yesterday.
.. and I didn't take any pics.


I should go back to handing my camera to the kid




hmmm... maybe not.


I feel dizzy.



ANY
HOOZLE. I need to end this post..

Socialization is fun. but taxing. I think I will go in invisible mode for a few days. hide out in my coffee cup with my tv shows.

and all the flashbacks of the 90s I have had this month have me craving bad bad 90s music,too ....
-also-I finally got my indestructible phone.. I am off to go play with it-lets see how tough it actually is.

Oooo and Ri just brought home pumpkin pie flavored ice cream.
If I am not back for awhile.. send help...
no ,don't.
I'm not sharing.


Plus...
I have stuff to do
....on facebook.
Ha!


PEACE AND TOFU CHICkEN GREASE,
BABYHELLFIRE

This is what you call a candy hangover

I think I am going to need to ban candy.
No more artificial colors, way less sugar.
... right after we finish of the giant pile of Halloween Candy.

Child is crazy.
More on that later
Monday- Lissy and I decided to go visit GrammyGrape and wish her happy birthday- her birthday is Halloween. Rory thinks that makes her extra awesome
Lissy printed out some pics- of me and Rory and of Nico and framed them to give to her, and we stopped by the hardware stroe and Rory picked out a flower for her.
Grandad(aGrape) wasn't feeling well so he chatted but sort of kept his distance from the little ones



Only Nico caught me taking pics

We didn't stay long with Grandad sick. Lissy and Gram chatted about it a little-everyone is very worried about him, bit of drama there.
:(
moving on.
We rode to moms for a bit. Poor Nico was hungry for REAL FOOD, and we figured we would raid Mom's fridge. From GrammyGrapes all the way to my Moms house he SCREAMED. Rory tried to sing "let it be" to him.. it didn't help, instead his crying turned to wailing
"mean,mama,mean,mama mama MEAN!" LOL when did he get so big- he ended that sting of words he shouldn't be big enough to say with "HUNGRY"
aww- sad baby but,I was laughing soo hard.

Mom wasn't home for awhile... so we chatted with Amy & JJ.
Talked to Amy's baby bump a bit. Let Nico crawl across the floor-
Look at him go!



"Did you make it all the way off your blanket, in search of something you shouldn't have?"

Rory and I napped on the couch a bit before mom came home.
We chatted with her some , ate mac&cheese and sweettaters before we headed out.

I was TIRED.


I have been soo tired lately.
...and I sitll didn't go to bed for awhile Monday- stayed up chatting with Ri. He has been showing of my Bender Robot costume at work. Everyone loves it :)


Rory HAS been going to sleep at a decent hour- especially thanks to the time change, but I am not used to it and have trouble being in bed at 10pm with her.
Plus..
She has just been sooo sooo atrificially sweetened up
-I have proof , in the form of what was going to be a vidblog for my dready net friends

.... no wonder I have never attempted that before.

I also got some random urge to try on a dress that has been in my closet-
I think, I was thinking of a way to mod it since i knew it wouldn't zip..Thinking I had a nice top and could make it a skirt..
I couldn't zip it , right?

at least, I thought I couldn't...
Rory drove me way crazy Tuesday. Ri made me grumpy about it on top of it.

The cat came in and hung out a bit- then promptly peed on Rory's lap to show his affection .
Ri bought Noobs some dog food- which she hates... so she spends the whole day making that high pitched ear shattering squeal to complain.
grr grr grr.
Wednesday I spent most the day trying to convince myself to get up and going, to do chores and clean- at least move... and had no luck.
Until Terah called, she wanted to take Rory to the park with Lynnix. I could have had a break. Instead I jumped on the bike and followed them (Terah on her skates pushing the double stroller) to the parks..
WHO THE HELL has been closing the parks at 5pm?!
Granted, the park closes at dark and I expect that..
5pm is NOT dark. not even dusk... and really it is FLA- 3to 7 is the BEST ,coolest time to get out of the house.
sorry.
I am unreasonably annoyed by the early close times of the playgrounds.

We came back let the girls play in Rory's room, and got a chance to chat.
Terah decided she would bring the whole crew over for a playground trip the next day(Thursday , Ri's day off). Rory even let Lynni borrow one of her beloved furreal friends toys to babysit for the night.




(this is my little deadend road btw)
The whole gang being Jen's kids she babysits- and hers,switching Val's son Seth for Nova though..
Which worked out really cool,because we ended up with two big boys, two girls, and two little boys-
Our plan was just to hop to the close playground- we put them on wheels and headed out
but the stupid park was locked -AGAIN!

We thought about heading to the far baseball park- knowing it stays open a bit later..
And here is where I REALLY wish I had one of those bike trailers to ride there.
Instead we split up, Ri and I took the girls-
and Terah took the boys
I bet she got a pretty awesome work out-
We beat them there , it was sort of crowded- but the girls didn't care
Love all the stuff at this park

Brad and Seth have mastered the climbing wall


these things are my fav
The bumpy slide is pretty cool ,too.
Rory loves the little playhouses
Lyric knows he is adorable

Rory and Lynni wanted up like the big boys --

So did Damien , but he barely needed help- even with his super cool monster shaped rain boots he still almost made it to the top alone

It was pretty dark- rounding up the kids was more challenging than we expected- Rory and Lynni kept running back to play while the boys started wrestling..
RI to the rescue
LOL- together they are probably near100lbs
So the girls joined the little boys and took down the big boys

LOL!
Sooo much fun.
Now I really want a bike trailer to stick a few kids in and ride up to the baseball park(its a little ways to run) .
Terah dropped Brad ,Seth and Damien off at Jen's and we followed her to our house.
We let the kids play a bit. They were really good, we chatted and laughed.
There was a bit of a sleepy hungry blow out over sharing when they went to leave- but it was all good.
Hopefully we can do it all again soon :)
We ordered pizza for dinner-
OH and -after what appeared to be someone trying to steal his credit card , and many calls to the company-
RI ordered me a new cellphone, the samson rugby- it is supposedly indestructible..we shall see MWHAHAHHAHAAA ha. ha. I am actually more worried about it being loud enough. I am reaaaallly tired of screaming into my phone.

Been lazily putting this post together today-
I did paint Rory's face (She doesn't want halloween to ever end.)
and follow her ,facepaint and all ,to the playground for a bit..
they are gearing up for the annual "everybody is having a yardsale" party- I am not sure if we will go or not, Ri reconnected with his Aunt and is talking about going out some where with her.
Also, got invited to a b-day party Sunday, looks like it may be a good weekend.. maybe.
this post seems sort of dull after all the Halloween hooplah...
here, watch someone try smash my -soon to be -phone.



Well, Ri is home and we have to go buy groceries.

Peace and tofu chicken grease,
babyhellfire