Staples shopping trip

Grandma Linda sent the kids gift cards to Staples to buy school supplies. Ethan started school a couple weeks ago, but was very excited to go & get this special pen. They were all out so he splurged on HUGE glue stick - he really wanted it - i couldn't talk him into getting 12 small glue sticks for the same price! Grayson had a blast shopping - walking around the whole time with 4 lollipops in one hand - i guess he thought i would put them back on the shelf if he put them in the basket! He picked out some paints, a wipe off board to practice writing, a Toy Story notebook he HAD to have & a $1 pkg of post-it notes 'cause he LOVES using mine & I just love finding them all over the house! Scissors were .50 so I had each of the kids get 2pair because for some reason we can never find scissors when we need them! Jasmyn doesn't get her supply list tell she starts school, which sucks because
some of t/best sales are in July, tho Staples has a couple .01 items each week still. I LOVE that!

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Ethan's 1st day of 3rd grade

I got to spend the whole day with Ethan on his first day. It wasn't planned -his teachers just had so many projects they needed done, they kept me busy from 8:45am-2:15pm!

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Sights at the Zoo...

I don't know if I can post this at People of Wal-mart.com, even tho today's zoo discount is sponsored by Wal-mart.. The lady walked by us & Grayson pointed & said "Heyyyy...Butt Crack....heyyyy Butt Crack...pull ur pants up, butt crack!" Luckily she didn't hear him!

Baby elephant at Oregon zoo

Battle wound from the beach

I slipped on some wet clay on a little hillside & biffed it so hard I knocked the wind out of me. I heard every vertebrae in my neck crack. I have that "whiplash" feeling in my neck & back and my ribs are sore. Luckily, nothing broken! Jasmyn thnks its funny to poke my bruise & ask "Does that hurt?", she's so hilarious....NOT! :)

Ethan LOVES driving grandpa's lawn mower!

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A day at the Ocean Beach in AUGUST!

Grayson asleep...and snoring...

We're on our way to Newport, Oregon from Lincoln City and Grayson fell asleep with his hand in a bag of chips & his sunglasses upside down.

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Grayson enjoying his snack bag!

I started a "Travel Tradition" a couple years ago. When we go on a long car trip & are going on vacation for a week I make each kid a "snack bag". It's filled with chips, candy, crackers, cookies - all things bad for them. They can eat it in an hour or save it for all week. This way we don't have to buy any snacks all week & kids aren't bugging us for candy,etc and they can snack whenever they are hungry. I also provide fruits, but those are kept in the cooler.

My snack bag is a little harder to fill. Trying to find snacks that are fat free AND sugar free is very challenging. You can find sugar free, but then it has sat. fat or if you find fat free it has sugar in it. I did find some chedder flavor rice cakes that are pretty tasty.

Finally on our way to Oregon

We are finally on our way to Oregon to visit Grandparents & to go to my 20 year reunion!  We were supposed to leave yesterday morning, but Jasmyn and I were still working frantically until 9pm last night trying to get our pictures ready for the fair. Next year we will start 3 months ahead of time, not 1 day. The deadline is while we're gone on vacation. I never realized there was so much to it. We drove all over trying to find the correct size mounting boards, several trips to costco & wal-greens to pick up photos (cause sometimes what you thought would look good in an 8x10 doesn't...). I went without sleep from Monday morning at 6:30am until Wednesday morning at 2:30am, working on fair photos). We entered 41 photos and luckily the other items don't have to be there until September!