A week in the life...

All my blogging energy is going to be over Here this week. If you care to see what our day to day looks like than come on over.

What girl wouldn't swoon

This morning we were having out family favorite Saturday morning breakfast of waffles with buttermilk syrup. We don't always have waffles, usually it's french toast or pancakes, but I do always make buttermilk syrup. The kids love it, so it has become our Saturday tradition. Anyway, Macy was sitting on Josh's lap and I asked "Why do you want to marry Dad someday?"  Something she tells me frequently she wants to do.

Her response. "Because he" (Points to the hair on his arms)

Yes, she wants to marry her dad because he has hair on his arms.

I'm seeing a very hairy husband in her future.

As a disclaimer, Josh is not overly hairy, but he does have dark hair on his arms.

Car Conversations...we're in trouble

Last night the kids and I were on our way to the ward talent show when out of no where James says "OK guys, you can't tell ANYONE, but in Mrs. (?'s) class, I have a crush on Ava."

Me "Why do you have a crush on Ava?"
James "Because she has lipstick, and she's beautiful, and she talks beautiful, and she has beautiful   hair." (pauses for a second) "And I can see inside her and her spirit looks really fun!"

Me "So she wears lipstick huh?"
James "Ya, but I can't ask her to marry me because when I'm ten we are moving."

What is a mother to do!

For those of you (you know who you are) who weren't quite sure if Josh was really a doctor

Pretty cool, huh! Sometimes it's still weird for me to hear him talking doctor stuff when the nurses call. Around here, he's still just dad. We don't ever get to see him in action so it's always fun for me to see pictures. Only certain ones though! I'm pretty squeamish.

By the way, that leg he is cutting on belongs to a 500 pound woman!

Spring is teasing me

Last Saturday we were out running errands and had a few hours before James' floor hockey game so we stopped at a park to enjoy the sunshine. Laila had a great time, but was such a little stinker and would not look at me for a picture.

Samm is starting to make the transition from little girl to tween. I'm not sure how I feel about this.

And Josh was tired, as usual. He ended up with a nice rosy skin color!

A few days later I looked out our sliding glass door to the sad sight of snow flurries. Oh Michigan, please make up your mind! And please choose spring!

Hello Again, Happy Easter

Wow, its been almost a month! And I have to admit, the break from blogging was really nice. I don't know how something as simple as documenting our family goings on can be stressful, but somehow I manage to make it that way. I wish I had a whole bunch of pictures to show from the last month, but I honestly haven't  turned on my camera all that much. I even took a trip to my sister Jenn's house a couple weeks ago with Macy and Laila and the only picture I have is this one I snapped on my phone of Macy walking through the airport. She looked so grown up wearing her little backpack and pulling her own suit case.

I finally dusted off the camera today to take pictures of the kids in their Easter clothes. So, for the three people left who actually check my blog still, Happy Easter from the Rollins Family.

Just a little Saturday morning shirtless painting

Josh has been out of town this week so Saturday morning was a little more laid back than normal. We didn't have to be out of the house until 3:00 so we slept in, did a few chores, and the kids abnormally nicely took turns painting. The shirts came off after I came downstairs to discover that both James and Macy had spilled paint on brand new shirts. Thankfully they were super good clearance finds so I didn't get too upset. And the paint washed out.

Rub a Dub Dub

Laila loves the tub

And this sitting up without any help thing, just sort of happened over night. Now if she would actually roll over, that would be great. Stubborn girl!

Kalahari

Last weekend we took a little mini family vacation to Ohio. There is a huge indoor water park and resort called Kalahari in Sandusky which is just under 2 hours away from us so we decided to go check it out. It did not disappoint. 

Macy working on her basketball skills. If you missed it on facebook, Macy just got measured at her 4yr check up and is in the 100th percentile for height! Josh has big plans for her.

Josh pretty much did not have a single second to sit and relax. He ran around the park with the kids for three days and they could not have been happier.

Samm was a really great help to me of course and walked around with Macy most of the time. 

Of course, her taking care of Macy in the kiddie pool had absolutely NOTHING to do with the fact that she    did not want to ride any of the water slides.

I wasn't sure how this little munchkin was going to do spending all day at the pool, but she really was great.

The big hit of the park was this boogie board ride. Unfortunately the line was always really long so they only rode it a few times, but I was really impressed with how well Samm and James did. 

You had to stand at the top by the life guard and jump forward over the ledge and I wasn't sure if Samm would actually do it, but after only a second of hesitation she went for it.

There was another life guard down in the front facing them and telling/showing them what tricks to try. This one was my favorite.

The life guard in front had a little bit of fun with Josh. After she took her board and did a front roll, the two older guys standing next to me started laughing, and Josh mouthed "ya right!" She smiled and nodded her head that yes she was serious and she may have giggled just a bit also.

It's hard to tell from this picture, but this was him actually completing the roll and making it back onto the board! I'm pretty sure he shocked everyone watching.

Macy was willing to give the bigger water slides a try, but in the end she was happiest on the little ones in the kiddie pools.

James is our ride lover and had Josh going on all of them with him. That is James coming out of the one on the left. 

I love these next two pictures because it shows the difference in the size of splash that Josh and James make. This is our little skin and bones James.

And this is Dad!

So she was mostly happy

Macy was sitting out for a while to warm up and just started singing to herself. Even after I started taking her picture, she acted like I wasn't there and just kept singing away.

Swimming all day makes for very hungry kids!

Mostly Laila and I just sat and people watched but we did play in the water a little.

Macy had a perma-wedgie

Too cute not to take a picture of!

And just a few pictures of my people watching partner. I couldn't help it, she is so stinkin cute! And to answer the question about who Laila actually looks like. Well, according to the Asian lady at the kiddie pool she looks just like her niece. ?

By the third day of nonstop running around with the kids, Josh was d.o.n.e.

And this is what a long day of swimming and  late night dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings will do to a little girl.

PS. That purple shirt is the only proof from our entire trip that I actually do exist. I really need to start handing the camera off to Josh more.