Life has just been a little busy. Last week we had company over 4 nights, so I was doing a lot of cooking and yelling and stepping over my posse in the kitchen. I really need to learn to just buy things pre-made at the store...... Saturday we had a birthday party at the bowling alley, then tried to fit going to the Shrimp Festival downtown in before running home to make dinner and cookies. Why, you ask, would we try to go to a Shrimp Festival with 3 little kids on a VERY hot Saturday afternoon after we had just been at a birthday party? I have no idea. Tuesday we went to the pumpkin patch with some friends to get pumpkins and have a picnic lunch. It would have been great if I hadn't made the lunch and left it sitting on the kitchen counter. We ran home, just in time to wash all the dirt off before we went to our dentist appointments, all 4 of us. I found that is rather difficult to keep your kids in line while getting your teeth cleaned. They didn't seem to understand what I was saying with my hands. I am sure they were glad to see us leave..... Ran to the store and made it home just in time to make dinner for company. I did my best not to fall asleep while they were talking after dinner. I think I succeeded. The rest of the days have been filled with much of the same. In between was date night in our sunroom that we spent most of the time telling the kids to be quiet and Jason trying to get something out of his eye (it was really romantic, but hey, we try), Kyle doing scary wheelies on his bike, Ryleigh on top of the kitchen table every time I turn around, a house showing, a play date that ended in broken glass, doing one load of laundry 4 times because I kept forgetting about it, Aiden and Kyle sick, and my dinner consisting of apples that Ryleigh had thrown off her highchair. So is life on the Port Side.....
I can not, for the life of me, get all of the to look at the camera at the same time and smile
Here they are, all ready for lunch......that I left at home.
Feeding the rabbit green beans. Ryleigh ate the green beans instead of giving them to the rabbit. Do you blame her? Her mother forgot her lunch.
Feeding the goats, Ryleigh enjoyed their food also.
Here are the pictures for our camping trip a few weeks ago. It was fun, besides the fact that our air mattress had a phantom leak and we woke up on the ground every hour. We made sure that no one around us got a good night sleep either since we blow up the mattress every hour and Ryleigh woke every half hour to cry. Taking a 14 month old camping is great, I would recommend everyone try it at least once it their life. We are suckers for punishment, we are doing it again later this month. See that face below, she is like "Me, trouble?"
There was a hill right by our campsite and the boys spent most of the weekend climbing this hill and then running back down. They slept fine.
There was a hill right by our campsite and the boys spent most of the weekend climbing this hill and then running back down. They slept fine.Ryleigh kept running into the woods after the boys and we had to keep going in after her. I wish she had a little more fear of the unknown.
We went camping with friends and one morning we were all at their campsite. Ryleigh had not finished her breakfast, so this is how Jason got her to the next campsite.
Yum, breakfast over an open fire.
It looks like we are having a blast, and I am sure the kids were, but when we walked down to the beach the wind was crazy and we ended up only staying for like 20 minutes. It was blowing so hard that if I let go of the stroller, the wind pushed it backwards. The guys were going shore fishing, but after only one cast, the wind broke their lines. 
We went camping with friends and one morning we were all at their campsite. Ryleigh had not finished her breakfast, so this is how Jason got her to the next campsite.
Yum, breakfast over an open fire.
It looks like we are having a blast, and I am sure the kids were, but when we walked down to the beach the wind was crazy and we ended up only staying for like 20 minutes. It was blowing so hard that if I let go of the stroller, the wind pushed it backwards. The guys were going shore fishing, but after only one cast, the wind broke their lines. 
Until next time, which could be a long time.......
I believe Kyle's philosophy in life is: "Life is short, never sit still"
I am sure once you see these pictures I will instantly be classified as a bad mom. I am letting them climb a very tall lamp post. In fact you might even think that I might be encouraging it since I am taking their picture. But, if you happen to have 2 boys close in age, you will realize that I have reached the point of giving in to the fact that boys climb EVERYTHING. Now, if you just have one boy, or boys with a number of years between them, or a boy then a girl or two and then another boy, to you I am a bad mom. I know this from experience. :) Most moms have several heart attacks each visit when they come to our house. Now, moms with boys like I mentioned above, we never even bat an eye when we see things like this. We are used to it, we have become immune to scares such as these. It just happens too often. Our hearts would have given out long ago if we let little things like this bother us. We have to save our freaked out, "GET DOWN FROM THERE NOW!" voices for very special occasions. When Aiden came in from playing outside one day and informed me he had touched the top of this lamp post, we did have a little talk. I told them I have to be outside if they are going to climb stuff like that. That way if they do fall, at least I can tell the ER doctor that I was standing right there. :{
They moved to a little safer venue and started climbing trees.
From lamp post climbing, to tree climbing, we moved on to baseball. As you can see, Ryleigh had to have a bat and ball too. I love the expression on her face. Like "Yeah, I am just one of the boys."
After awhile she got tired of such a boy sport and decided to sit on rocks and just look cute.
