Operation home takeover

My house has been taken over by the guys. My 15 year old (not so little) brother Terry has been visiting since Friday, our current foster children are 13 year old twin boys and then there is HIM! Twin T is on crutches for the next few weeks and can not go down to the basement where our game systems are kept so as to not exclude him I have graciously given up my living room to them. probably not the smartest idea on my part, but worth it in the end. Since Friday this is what my guys have been doing when HIM is home from work and sometime during the day...got to love MW3 (modern warfare 3).

 

B caught dancing!!!

T with HER and B in the background

They thought the cave was so cool!

Monday it was just so darn nice out that I surprised the boys to a round of putt putt golf and a trip to the mall. T did really good even on his crutches neither T or B had been putt putting so it was another first for them. I really love watching them experience new things they are just so funny and animated. They love all things nature and especially loved this course because of all the animals staged through out it. There was even some real ducks in the center pond which got them really excited. I also caught B dancing while T was putting he got a little embarrassed!! But by the 15th hole T was worn out and ready to go, it was a little more than he thought it would be with his crutches. B won followed by Terry, T and in last HER.  T would have won if he had not given up on the last three holes. But as for HER, I am just horrible at putt putt and am okay with that.  

the ugh egg roll look

 We had lunch at the mall food court and oh my they were cracking me up. All three were trying to check out the girls on the sly.Terry did better at being discreet than the twins, they failed miserably and I caught them in so many pictures at it. They thought that if they pretended to take a drink it wouldn't be so obvious. But as you can see that was so not the case. T got egg rolls with his Chinese even though I warned him that he probably wouldn't like them and yep HER was right. T did not like them at all. After spending a couple of hours at the mall we finally made our way back home so the boys could resume their spots in my living room. 

checking out the girls

checking out the girls

HOMEMADE ICE CREAM

This is ice cream maker #

Okay, so I absolutely LOVE homemade ice cream. I think it is the one thing I like most about summer time. I mean come on who doesn't like homemade ice cream right? Our good friends the Hose's make it all the time and we have been lucky enough to be around to share in the deliciousness. Which made me want a machine of my own, the only problem is I have never made it before by myself. And, I had no idea what machine to get or what recipe to use.  So, I went out Wednesday to the trusty old Wal-mart and picked me up an ice cream maker and was so excited to get home to use it. Got home read the instructions, picked out the recipe and got started on it. Time came to actually use the machine, the expected time to was 20-40 minutes and it ended up taking 1:30 YIKES!! But after it sat for a few hours man was it oh so worth it.

AND this is the amazing second maker!

So here it is Friday and we wanted to make some more. We gathered up all the ingredients, got everything ready to go and the machine would not work. SERIOUS, it wouldn't work. We spent over an hour messing with the dumb thing and nothing. By this time I was so determined to make ice cream that I cleaned everything up put the mixture in the fridge and returned the dang machine to Wal-mart at 10 o'clock at night. Only to find out that it was they were sold out of every other kind besides a display model and the a bunch of the one I just returned. I had no idea if you could buy a display or not but I was gonna try, since there was no worker around to ask, I took that thing right down and went all the way up to customer service. And YES you can purchase a display, but we had to go all the back to the isle to get the cpu code so I could buy it. FINALLY back home machine cleaned up ready to go and (drum roll please) it works!!!!!! I just placed it in the freezer and CAN NOT (I just had to try it out you know to make sure it was safe to serve) wait for tomorrow so I can indulge in this well deserved treat.

Just the begining

I finally joined the blog world!!! I love reading others blogs and have talked about having one of my own but never took the next step until NOW. So it is a little intimidating and not sure if anyone will even enjoy reading about my family and I. But if you love random stuff then this is the blog for you because I am all over the place all the time. I hope everyone out there enjoys!