From the "What Was I Thinking" File!

Paint - need I say more. Everytime we run out I think "I'm not buying it again" and then I do!

Keep Calm and Eat Cupcakes!

Loved the sign so much I couldn't resist taking a picture of it!

So we went to Green Goodies (near 76th & Western for my OKC friends) to celebrate St. Patrick's Day - really what is better than green cupcakes at 10 AM to celebrate -right? It was delish, but delish doesn't even cover it - I tried to like the new local cupcake place (no names necessary) but they SUCK compared to Green Goodies & Green Goodies' are better for you! WOW what a concept - after my recent attempts (the sneaky cookies and homemade bread (sorry G'ma I don't have the touch anymore and Carter took a little bite out of the loaf and put it back - best be getting me some lessons next time I'm in town) anyway I wasn't so sure that better for you and tasty went hand in hand and it turns out they do! Going to be thinking about that "Hostess" cupcake for some time!

My attempts...

I made my first attempt at being the "Sneaky Chef" at the Hogan house with a 50% approval rating. Lincoln thought my cookies were good but the kid will eat anything called cookie - and he asks for cookies morning, noon & night! Carter took a bite and tried kindly to say he didn't like them but Sean spit his bite out and continued to wash his mouth out with water for about 3 minutes! Apparently he thinks healthy things like spinach and wheat germ will kill him. Here is the recipe if any of my friends want to try it on their families - think I'll try some other sneaky move next time.

The Sneaky Chef: Free Healthy Recipe for Chocolate Champion Cereal Cookies

My next attempt - although not something I wanted to do was to make yet another Bendaroo animal - first I'm not certain why Santa thought that Bendroo's were going to be so cool - they clearly are too much work for a 4 year old being that I've made all of them but I think my turtle is the best I've done thus far and SHUCKS we are now out of Bendaroos.

Yesterday the boys wore matching shirts - they love to match and Carter insists on Lincoln taking off his jacket at school so that his teachers and friends can see that they match!

We've been bitten by the cold virus again this week which has kept us housebound for much of the week and are hoping that we are all better next week - being sick is no fun for anyone!

Swimming in Winter

Lincoln was SO excited to go swimming!

I guess this is Kung-Fu Fighting with the water?

We took a much needed winter break weekend and headed to Tulsa a few weekends ago. The boys loved splashing in the water - although Lincoln didn't think sleeping elsewhere was a very good idea - he kept saying "go home" when we went back to the hotel after dinner. Their little water park is about perfect for our boys but the tube slide is NOT made for mommies as I found out the hard way! I really almost got stuck in the tube but I wanted to take Lincoln down so he'd go by himself which he did and I will not try again (not I got stuck because there wasn't enough water flow not because I'm as round as the tube) but Sean and I had a very good laugh when I finally emerged!

Trackies!!!

Well I wouldn't say it has been warm but it has been mostly bearable if you are out in a winter coat - so the boys have had 2 days and maybe will have another day or two of tractor play. We took the governor's off their tractors (or the government as my mom called it!) so they can go in 2nd gear now and they are racing around the yard at top speed! It was funny watching them realize they could zip around so fast, think the tractors are not safer in the backyard because Linc would be gone in an instant in the front yard.

Mimi's Pictures

I forgot to upload the critical week on Mimi's time - the boys got to make their first snowman, they've been begging to do it but the snow we had never really worked - well that snow we had on the 8th that nearly made us late to the airport was apparently the correct type of snow for snowman building!

20 post-less days!

Spitting, I mean blowing out Mimi's candles

Mimi's "John Deere" cake - not sure they would have eaten Packer cake

A too tired boy

My handsome baby!

My naughty baby!

I think that might be a record and if I were a betting girl I'd say that my grandma isn't too pleased with my blogging performance! I guess I've been on a little blogging vacation. We took a real vacation too which of course counts for most of my "time off". Sean and I went to San Diego last week - he for a conference, me for some R&R and S, S = shopping, of course! I didn't buy that much but sure enjoyed looking and lingering which isn't usually in the boys plans. The weather in SD wasn't as warm as normal but beat the hell out of our longish Oklahoma winter. We got to enjoy some cocktails and delish food while the boys and Mimi and Papa survived on kid food! I think they had a good week as well, Carter learned all about racing with Papa and threw out all sorts of new terms last week while watching some racing on t.v. Lincoln threw a few "My-mommy" fits but managed to capture even more of Mimi and Papa's hearts in their week together.

This week we've been getting back into our routine and I came back from vacation with much less tolerance for naughtiness - not sure the boys were glad that I was back after the first few days. We even had some nice enough days to play outside this week and are hopeful they will return again next week although our weathermen don't seem to think that they will!