Mathis Madness: April 2010

April 28, 2010

Playin' In The Rain (with a little hail mixed in)

In my defense, it was bright and sunny when we first went outside!

But you know what they say about the weather in Washington:

If you don't like it, give it ten minutes. It'll change!

It's too bad you can't see the rain/hail better.

It was coming down at an impressive rate!

April 27, 2010

Robert's Weekend -- "Moor Oar Less"

Robert spent the weekend with his parents in Maryland. He and his Dad spent some time at the marina working on getting the bottom of the boat painted.
Click here to see the picture.

Also, if you happen to be in the market for a boat, it is for sale.
Click here to see the pictures of the boat.
Click here to see the actual listing for the boat.

April 26, 2010

The Painting is Finished!

In the interest of giving credit where credit is due:

Check out his website here!

If you ever need anything painted, or if you ever hear anyone talking about needing anything painted: I want you to know that I would 100%-- without a doubt-- recommend Jeremy for the job.

He is professional, courteous, fair, and obviously he can work wonders no matter how bad the conditions he starts with. And any of you who saw this house before, knows it was BAD. Chipped paint, wood that was eaten by a bad pressure washing, 80 years worth of bad paint jobs on top of bad paint jobs.... I am quite certain it doesn't get much worse than my house was.

Here's the proof:

FRONT OF THE HOUSE

BEFORE

AFTER

The fabulous color scheme, you ask? Jeremy picked it out. My input was exactly this: "I dunno. Whatever!" So if you aren't sure what to do with colors, he can help you there too!

GARAGE
BEFORE

AFTER
Notice the roof? Jeremy pressure washed it for me! Nice, aye?

CHIMNEY
BEFORE

AFTER

WINDOWS IN THE BACK OF THE HOUSE
BEFORE

AFTER

All the little lines you see in the "BEFORE" pic are from a pressure washing gone bad a couple of years back. It ate into the wood. Jeremy filled in all the gaps/holes in the wood. Look how much better it looks! Also, notice you cannot see the clothes? Jeremy frosted the glass for me. And not because I asked, but because he was bothered by it so he asked me if he could!

April 22, 2010

Getting closer to the finished product!!!

April 17, 2010

Puyallup Spring Fair

Tiaira the Explorer

in the making!

Cute huh?

Actually, he's throwing a fit and laying on the ground in the middle of the street inside the fair.

BTW: That's TIA's Dora, not Brendan's... That's what the fit was about!

Gotta have some food at the Fair.

We consumed an onion burger, a chili cheese burger, french fries, and nachos.

And that was just in this sitting.

There was also flavored popcorn (see pics below), an Elephant Ear, lemonaid, fruit snacks, Teddy Grahams, granola bars, ... I think that's it. (I hope that's it.)

Tia puked at the end of the day. We are still trying to figure out why! ;-)

YUMMY!

Junk Chimes.
The kids LOVED these!

Isaiah playing the Junk Chimes.

Jarom and Brendan.

Brendan, Isaiah, and Tia.
Seriously, they LOVED the Junk Chimes.

What do you get when you combine a Trampoline, a harness, and bungie cords?
$6 worth of fun packed into three exciting minutes.
Here's Brendan:

And Zilly.

Brendan again.

Isaiah.

Look at that smile!

So worth getting robbed of $6!!

Jarom!

This is by far my favorite picture of the entire day!

Jarom had SOOOO much fun doing this!

Tia.

Isaiah in Cuz Mo's sunglasses munching on some Sour Apple and Caramel Popcorn.

Brendan with a mouth full of Strawberry Popcorn!

Jarom and Tia checking out the Pygmy Goats.

Tia in the bleachers. We were checking out the miniture horses.

Jarom on the ferris wheel.

He's not scared, is he?

Jarom and Tia on the boat ride. The kids all loved this!

Brendan and Isaiah going through the TeePee.

Jarom and Tia.

Isaiah and Brendan.

We had a lot of fun playing at the Puyallup Spring Fair.

My favorite moment: Biting into the coveted Onion Burger (an all time Fair fave of mine) and watching the kids play the games and seeing how excited they were to win their little prizes. We accumulated two Nemo type stuffed fish, a stuffed alligator, and a poster of Zack and Cody. Good times, good times!

My least favorite moment: When it was time to leave. Brendan decided he wasn't coming with us and stopped cold in his tracks. I tried the sweet, "Come on Brendan." Then the, "Fine. Bye." followed by taking a few steps, followed by Melanie saying, "He's really not coming Jodi." Then I moved to the, "BRENDAN, COME HERE RIGHT NOW!" That didn't work either. Then it was, "I am going to spank you, COME HERE!" I always love it when it gets to that point. Like what am I thinking will happen? The two year old will pop up and come running to me in eager anticipation of his spanking? Crazy. Then I walk back to him, pick him up and begin to walk toward the rest of our group. He begins kicking and screaming and I start yelling. All while realizing that there is a woman standing in a line watching the whole ordeal. She has really just irritated me. How dare she stare? So I snap, "You want him? Stop staring!" I did manage to get it together before adding, "Ya old hag!" But that's what I wanted to say. Good times, good times!

April 11, 2010

Pampered Chef Party

Hey everyone! So it's official, Melanie and I are doing the Pampered Chef Party! We didn't mean to lie and say it was going to be in March, it just worked out like that!
Here are the details:

Saturday May 1st at 3:00 pm.
It will be held at my house.
Come hungry.
BRING A FRIEND.
We are doing door prizes!

Invitations will be emailed soon.

April 7, 2010

Memory Lane

Do you ever end up on Memory Lane? Every once and a while, I do. So I thought I would share my trip down Memory Lane with you. Let me know what you think!

Click Here!

Disclaimer:
Robert, you will not like this. Do not click on this link!