Socks, Anyone??

Yesterday I finally tackled the task of matching up all the socks in our house.  We had a laundry basket full of socks that had been dug through for weeks because no one wanted to tackle the job.  After finding all the matched socks I could, I still had this pile of mismatched socks.  I was on a mission now, so I ventured into my kids rooms and looked under beds, behind dressers, dug through gym bags, cleaned out the bottom of closets, and checked all their drawers.  Well I found a few stragglers, but what I really found is that my kids take their freshly folded laundry and shove it in their drawers.  They were a mess, seriously not a thing folded in any drawer.  So guess what they got to do after school, yeah, clean up their clothes I dumped in a pile on their floor.  I think they knew they were caught because there was very little protesting.  So six hours later, everything is washed in our house and I still have this pile of mismatched socks.  Where do they go!!  Maddie and Matt keep telling me they need more socks and blame Riley for taking all the good socks up to school when he was here at Christmas.  We have serious sock issues!!  I thought not having Riley's socks around would make a difference but it hasn't and how sad is it that I spent my entire day yesterday matching socks!  But I have to say I felt great satisfaction seeing all those matched socks folded up and put away, now I just have to figure out what I am going to do with all these leftovers-- and have the fun job start all over again in a few days......

Happy Valentines Day

We have been in full blown valentine making mode lately and I have to say I am ready for this holiday to be over.  Bailey is quite the artist but is also quite messy when she is in the midst of it.  I am constantly cleaning this area about twice a day.  On the plus side, I always have fresh artwork for my fridge!! 

Ben and I spent our 20th Valentine's Day together at a baseball tournament for Matt.  We had a tough decision to stay in Tucson and watch Matt or go to Las Vegas for a volleyball tournament for Madeline.  Neither of us wanted to be alone and we are going to Utah in a few weeks so we decided to stay in Tucson.  We had a great night last night.  We put Bailey to bed, Matt spent the night at a friends, Maddie left for Las Vegas, and Ben and I watched a movie and he gave me a foot rub.  Tonight we barbecued steaks with grandpa and grandma Gooch and had a delicious dinner.  So it was nothing glamorous, but it felt good to have a nice relaxing weekend at home.  I still remember our first valentine's day together-To bad for you, I am going to keep the juicy details to myself!!

Hot Air Balloon Launch!!

Bailey's school had a fun hot air balloon activity in January.  They spent a few weeks making their balloons and talking about how hot air makes a balloon rise.  Bright and early one crisp Tucson morning we met at the school for the LAUNCH.   Bailey's balloon was rainbow of course.  We used campfire stoves with propane fuel to heat the air inside the balloons.  We then would have a countdown and the kids would launch their balloons.  It was amazing how high some of the balloons would go.  The kids would race and follow their balloon to catch it as it was descending.  Their was a ladder handy to get balloons out of the trees and off of the roof if they travelled too far.  We spent about 1 1/2 hours launching balloons the kids could do it as many times as they wanted as long as their balloon held out.  It was a fun morning and Bailey was excited to have her mom, dad, and grandma their to help.