Update

okay so it has been a few day so let me bring you up to speed real fast...because I'm supposed to be doing other things. We have been keeping busy quinten has had day camp... and I have been, well lazy, seriously do you have any idea how much energy it take to do nothing?? No i've done Dr.'s appointments, and got a new drivers license...which of course I look terrible in because it is ...well me. I always think I'm gonna look so different in my pictures and I never do...oh well. I've got youth conference that i"m getting ready for and devotionals to plan, you know the amazing kind where everyone is edified and uplifted...sorry dreaming out loud again...I'll do my best. So i'll be gone for a few days so don't get too stressed out my 3 friends who read this...I'll be back.

July 5th

We took the boys to the park for a picnic today, we wanted a nice KFC picnic like dinner. Then boys wanted McD's because the Happy meal toy was Transformers Animated.....SO WE GAVE IN!!!!!! Man we are pathetic. Anyway after "dinner" we played on the playground for a while and the took a stroll around the little pond...it was all very picturesque....so we took a picture. This time we were very adamant about JUST smiling for the camera. and we got one! Anyway I've spent way to long with the pictures and such now I need to spend some time with David...yeah for me :)!!!!!!

MMMMM our yummy meal!!! Walker actually looked at the camera....hurry take a picture (note: he is still trying to pose)
Quinten taking a breather
Walker doing....his thing....what ever that may be
WE DID IT A ALMOST NORMAL FAMILY PICTURE...we'll have to photoshop me in later!!!!!

Papa watching the "Rocket Can" ascend into orbit...the little white dots are the water shooting up after launch
Albertson Family picture-Take 1 (see story below) Albertson Family picture - Take 2.....and we'll quit for the day
Nana, Mom, and under the blanket enjoying the fireworks, Walker!

So I had to create a new post to finishing addint the 4th of july picture and now they are out of order

Happy 4th

Quinten throwing snap pops
Walker snapping his pops
Walker unable to pop them moves to stepping on them for the desired pop!
Quinten and his glasses-Mom's trying to not notice how grown up he looks
Our boys....unable to take serious pictures


We had such a great Holiday. We hope that everyone else did too...well I really only know of like 2 people who read this so we hope you guys had a great Holiday! We had a big breakfast and got some things done and then headed over to Nana & Papa's the "Holiday party spot". We kidnapped Papa and took him "fireworks" shopping it was great to go shopping with 4 boys...Walker, Quinten, David & and Papa....It went something like this...Papa and Q with a bucket talking about how big of a bang the firework would make, walker with a bucket picking up and putting everything in his bucket that Papa and Q had just touched, and David and I following behind Walker taking out all the fireworks he had just put in the bucket. We came home and worked on the tree house that Papa is trying to build for his grandkids...but quinten kinda didn't want to work on it wanted to do fireworks....so Papa took the boys out to set off fire works. I went to sit our side to watch and out walks Quinten with a grape that Papa has given him permission to blow up....can we sense the trouble we are in. Quinten of course was in heaven and as soon as the grape was rent asunder he turned and asked "What else can we blow up?"....Papa being the great Papa that he went in and found an Apple.....let's do some math Apple+m-150 firecracker=applesauce. Luckily for the produce in the house Papa brought out how do do the homemade rocket with cans water and other stuff....and then you set the Black cat and the can goes flying straight up in the air....well like 3hrs later they ran out of Blackcats...so the can got a break. At this point we stopped and had steak where Walker put on his own display be throwing a MASSIVE fit....all he wanted to do was eat corn...we didn't let him....he wasn't going to bend....neither were David and i ....it was a small stand-off....with no clear winner, we opted for a nap. Now that we had some time to rest we went outside for the show, about 3 firecrackers later, after hiding behind Papa, walker decided that he was scared ( he's a pro at the snap pops )...so I ran inside to grab him a blanket to wrap around himself for extra security...walker's idea of security was to hid underneath the blanket....yep beautiful fireworks going on around us and walker spent basically the whole night under a blanket. For Reals it really was a great Holiday, and I love the 4th and all of it unique history and I loved watch my dad play with the boys and be a kid again himself....we had lots of laughs and a really good pie and isn't that what holidays are about!!!!! And one last rant/rave ...I had us dress all in blue shirts (geeky I know ) because I wanted 4th of July picture....just one...a nice one...of the family. What I got was two children who spent every waking minute in front of the camera posing. so when it came time to take our family picture the were wired and in the first I was trying to get Walker to calm down and just look at the camera and in the second I was trying to get him to not cry and I thought it turned out pretty decent until I noticed that quinten had stuck and green firecracker shell on his face just in time for the shot....I'm sure someday I'll look back and laugh and be grateful that they were weirdo's...but today is not that day my friend.

Also like 2 days ago Quinten got glasses if some of you were wondering why he had them on!

Life is one big Roller Coaster

well I think that the title sums it all up....I was on such an amazing high yesterday with the successful birth of my blog...and in mere moments it all came crashing down to the floor, with me calling David in a fit of tears. What happened Caryn, you ask. Well after spending some "alone" time in the restroom with my trusty DS i set it on the counter and decided that it was time to get some work done! So I put my hairdryer away and that started a chain reaction that resulted in my DS falling....No jumping of the counter and doing a double flip into a jack-knife landing with no splash the toilet (okay that was a bit over the top)....And I know what you are thinking, but I had flushed earlier and it was clear, clean water....Not that my DS cared about that as it sunk to the bottom while absorbing as much water as possible. But my wonderful and calm husband did some research and found that DS toilet duckings happen quite frequently....so now we are waiting to it to dry out... it works, but one of the screens is still water logged. Oh the Drama!! But honestly besides that it was great day... i got dressed yesterday and decided on a whim that I would wear my cute little sun dress...so i put it on and came skipping out to the kitchen where Quinten said to me
"what's the matter mom, did you run out of clean pants?"
and I realized, as the air deflated out of my balloon of perkiness, that I've never in the last 10years have worn a dress just cause....I've always worn them for church but that is it...it was sad and funny at the same time.
and to end and round off my day we stayed up and played the Christensens in Mario Kart....I'd love to brag about the way I threw banana peels at David or shot Jamie with a red shell but I pretty much came in last in every game....except for Rainbow road because david was to busy eating Ice Cream....I came in 3rd instead of 4th....so there Jamie I blogged about it...ha ha I shall see you again my Nemesis on the track!!!!!!

okay david was showing me how to post a picture and this was the one that was choosen....if you are lucky I may choose to tell you about it....but it will have to be later we have a mario kart date

Wait I actually have a valid post

i just remembered that this is my blog so I can talk about me!!!! Okay so for those of you who don't know I'm the 1st Counselor in the Young Women's presidency and that means that occasionally I get to go and do some cool activities with our really fun Youth. Well this last Sat. we went shooting...with real shotguns not BB guns, or air rifles, or Nerf guns. We drove down to Harrisonville at a silly hour in the morning (like 8am, which strikes me as unsafe because who wants to give a groggy person a gun?!?) and we got all ready and stuck in the odd earplugs which drowned out the world so you were left alone with you thoughts (I'm still trying to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing). I of course HAD to try it so I stepped up and got the massive gun ready and they had me shoot a milk carton to make sure my aim was...well good. I of course nailed the stationary milk jug (I'm sure the milk jug wishes I had missed), now came the real test i got the gun reloaded and got ready...screamed pull (because we all had earplugs in we had to scream so others could hear us). and with unsurpassed grace I blew that clay disc out of the sky....yes folks my first time shooting skeet I hit it...did I mention it was my first time. I of course over reacted and maybe I did I small victory dance...I can't recall...once that moment of glory was up I stepped up to my second try. ...."PULL!!!!" and HOLY COW I blew that second disc into oblivion....and I may have turned around and rubbed it in a few faces....who knows I was on a shooters high (is there such a thing). by my third try as I pulled the gun up I noticed it shaking and realized that I had jelly arms...yes I am that pathetically weak that after hold the gun up three times my little bird arms were shot (no pun intended)... so I naturally missed the next few, but my second time around I hit 2 more for a grand total of 4 hits out of ten shots.... It was very cool to go shooting, and actually hit something....and a big thanks to the youth for letting me shoot. Okay so that was my story I was pretty proud and i feel I'm allowed to post stuff like this.

My first Blog entry

WOW- well apparently it's about time that I jump on and join the blogging world. I'd like to first give a shout out to Heidi Simpson for inspiring me to do this...( she has the funniest blog I have EVER read). I have found that this is a wonderful way to read up on your friends with out actually having to make contact with them...a very handy tool...you know when you want to see how so and so is doing but you don't want to put tedious hours into re-kindling a friendship, or hear hour after hour about Jr's latest Dr. visit ....with blogging you can pop on, read up, and get off . The other reason for blogging--I can type about the world the way I see it...It's like a huge commentary. I should warn you that when I type i tend to use the (....) way too much....oh well!
so welcome to my crazy blog. I hope that you enjoy it.....