Ten on Ten: August

new strap.

drop off.

driving by.

going down.

second waiting room.

our baby.

her new best friend.

more driving with cute toes.

dad's gone. dinner.

bath time.

I'm Still Here

photo by Hannah Lombardo (age 8)

Yes, I'm still here. I've been in a bit of a computer/camera funk. I just downloaded some photos today- from yesterday and realized they are the first ones I have taken in August. A whole week went by without one picture. WHAT? Usually there are several everyday. I'm just tired.

I did receive two fun things in the mail today! One was a book (a late birthday present from Amy) and the other was my long awaited camera strap. I was about to go ballistic on this lady (I ordered it on my birthday- two and a half months ago) but its just too cute to be mad. It was worth the wait.

We had a weird kid free weekend. Don't get me wrong it was great but I did miss them. The weird part was we didn't have anything planned and we didn't need a babysitter. We just have a Grandma and Yaya who love to see those sweet girls. They had an awesome time- toenails painted, haircuts, Red Robin, a trip to the mall, playing nonstop with out of town cousins and cousins they see all the time, and swimming. Casey and I had a nice time too. I beat him in a putting contest. But I must say he DID beat me at very long game of Mexican Train Dominos.

Also, still going to change the name of my blog. Props to Anne Marie for sending me a list of ideas. I loved them all and so did Casey. They did get the creative juices flowing. My favorite though...."Regulators Mount Up"  This was totally not a serious blog name but it made me laugh out loud. You will only get this if you like Warren G and you were a bit of a closet gangsta rap lover in the nineties.

Tomorrow we get to see baby number three aka peanut for the first time. I'm excited.

Tomorrow is also Ten on Ten. We'll see how mine turns out. I have about two hours worth of driving tomorrow and three hours worth of doctors appoints/ultrasound.

Til tomorrow.....

a taste of italy

Yesterday we got a little taste of Italia. We visited Joe & Fran Lombardo aka Pa & Gigi or Taryn's Grandpa & Grandma's cute little house on the Key Peninsula. It was a great day, a much warmer beach experience, and a delicious meal (minus the icky dessert I made).

Classic Bell/Lombardo behavior seen here. Casey posing Karate Kid style while Joey laughs. Too bad he had a stiff neck or he would have been up there too.

We all enjoyed our walk on the beach, even if the kids did need to be carried part of the way...

Kyla LOVED the clothes line and clothes pins that Gigi had. She had never seen such thing before. She had several pins stashed in her pockets. Gigi let her take them home and when the kids clothes got soaked from the bird bath it was the perfect opportunity to hang some things to dry. She loved it.

                     And of course what little trip is complete without quad rides and quad photo ops.

Thanks Gigi and Joe for having us.

Thanks Taryn and Joe for inviting us.

We loved it.

Chels and Tyler you were missed.

Street Rats (Part II)

Remember THIS from last summer, when we officially became Street Rats for the night? Well this summer we took it a bit further... all the way down the race track.

The Lang clan was out in full force, including our racing Grandmas Carolyn and Nee Nee.

But I think my favorite was Tim racing Blackjack, which is one of those boxy toaster looking Scions.

It was loud and smokey and poor baby Harper, Julia, and Enzo's little ears didn't like it. But my girls and Pearson seemed to be into it. Our crew was over half the crowd. And it was quite an experience.

Project Life

Since I haven't been feeling the greatest, we decided to stay inside the entire day today and take it easy. I did a little catch up and organized my Project Life pictures. I hadn't done anything since the beginning of May. They are all on that blog site...now I just have to upload, print, pick up, and journal.

One Day @ The Beach

Sunday we decided to go for a little day trip to Ocean Shores (about 2 1/2 hours from home). It was a ninety degree day in Seattle but we managed to find the only place in Washington that was 52 degrees. It was COLD, but we still managed to have a fun time. We did a one day only trip almost exactly two years ago. (Of course I had Heidi wear the same thing that Kyla was wearing on that trip on purpose).

This picture is not altered in anyway. This is what it was like when we got there. You couldn't even see the ocean. That's Heidi and Casey on Enzo's quad. They had a pretty fun time despite the frigid sea air for about twenty minutes until the cops busted them and the quad had to go back in the truck.

The wind made for some good kite flying.

And of course Kyla had a great time just being Kyla...

The sand was also a big hit and buckets and shovels kept us busy for most of the time.

This picture (above) was taken about ten minutes before this picture below.

Heidi kept asking "when summer was gonna come to the beach?" and if it was time for swimsuits.

I told her to go down and feel the water and see what she thought.

She did and then said it was warm enough (it was about 55 at this point).

She got her suit on and ventured down to the surf- splashed for a minute and was done.

After that it was pretty much time to go.

We had a fun day at the beach! It was worth the drive and the effort.

Gone Fishin'

Last night we went fishing on Biddy's dock.

The Barbie and Princess poles didn't snag anything

but Biddy let Heidi real one in.

It was quite thrilling to say the least.

I love their faces in that one on the left.