That was totally wicked!!

I told Randy, for his birthday, I was going to buy him tickets to a Backstreet Boys concert. He looked at me and said, "I'd rather go bungee jumping." So we went! On Saturday, we drove to Amboy and jumped off a bridge. It was a gorgeous day! A guy proposed to his girlfriend right before Randy jumped. He got down on his knee and said, "I'd jump off a bridge for you...." Good thing she said yes. He must have been super nervous after the proposal cuz he did not jump the correct way! We had to go through a 10 minute "jump school" before we jumped. And they told us to jump out and dive. This guy jumped feet first and the cord whipped him in the face and cut his eyelid. Poor guy. I messed up in filming Randy's first jump cuz I was taking a picture of him and didn't realize how fast the countdown was going to be. But I got the second jump where they had us jump backwards. And Randy filmed my first jump but messed up on filming my second jump. Aren't we the perfect match? This is Randy before the jump.

I was glad the countdown was so fast once I got onto the tiny platform. If I had to wait one more second, I probably wouldn't have jumped. Mid jump -I started wondering what I was doing, but it was too late at that point. What a rush! I'm pretty sure my eyes were closed 90% of the time, but it was awesome. I think it was easier to jump off the ledge backwards, since I couldn't see what I was doing, but scarier cuz I couldn't see where I was going.

We Survived! Did I mention this is the highest bungee jumping spot in the USA? 200 feet off the ground. They told us we would go about 68 mph downward and about 70 mph up, pretty crazy, eh?

Somewhere in my jumps, I got a rope burn on my forearm. I didn't notice it until we left the bridge. And then it started stinging like crazy. My jaw also felt really sore -most likely from me clenching it the entire time.

Because Randy and I jumped twice, we are now members of the Dangerous Sports club and received a T-shirt and we get discounts on all of our future jumps. Next year, skydiving....

Look out, Lyssa!

Have you heard of this?

This is the S2h replay watch. For every 60 minutes of activity, you earn a rewards code. Then you go to there website and redeem prizes. It's only $20, and I think it's excellent motivation to get moving more. Now I just have to get Randy to buy one for me.....

Looks like chocolate, but it's actually.....

...brown marker! Not sure how he opened it, but he definitely had fun. Tripp asks me every day when we are going to go to a baseball game. I was sick of the question, so we made this counting chain. Now he can count down the days to the game and the train ride. Can you tell he's excited? He's even wearing his Mariners shirt.
And for some reason he wanted me to take a picture of his hand. That's why he's holding it up.

Life these days

Tripp, Deko, and I were eating waffles for breakfast. I reached over and took a bite of Tripp's waffle and he said, "You eat my waffle, punk!" I laughed, but I'm not sure what to think about that comment. I guess I need to watch what I say.

Tripp had a dentist appointment today. I had him practice opening his mouth for the dentist. The last couple of times we were at the dentist, Tripp cried and had to sit in my lap. So I was trying to get him more prepared this time. They put Tripp in a chair to take x-rays of his teeth and he had his mouth wide open the whole time. It was pretty cute. He didn't cry at all and his teeth are awesome. The dentist who saw him was really nice. She even looked at Deklan's 6 little teeth. Tripp got a token when he was done to get a prize. He picked the baby dinosaur that he is holding up.
We had a gorgeous sunny day this week, so we went out and laid in the grass. Deklan loves picking the grass and dandelions. It's tough trying to keep it out of his mouth.
I love this happy man!

That's what's new with us. Taking life one day at a time and hoping for more warm sunny days.How can you not love these guys to pieces?

Success!

We participated in the 3rd annual Adult flashlight egg hunt this year. It was wicked awesome! They made us run a bit before we got to the eggs and 2,000+ eggs were gone in about 30 seconds. I collected 30 eggs, Tina got 20-30 (so she says;), Jordan got 18 eggs and several bags of chips and cans of pop, and Randy got 63 eggs! I had 2 numbers in my eggs and won Milk Duds and Kit Kats, Jordan won playing cards, and Randy won the grand prize! He won this heavy barbeque gift basket............now if we had a grill, we'd be in business! Randy got his picture taken and it should be posted here when they write about it.

Willy was watching Tripp, Deklan, and Alyssa in the car. They watched all of us take off and a few seconds later they saw several flashlight beams coming toward them. He said it looked like "aliens!" We played putt-putt glow golf before the hunt and Randy and I won a free game of golf and I won my church basketball game this morning. So we have had one lucky day full of winning and prizes. Let's see how long this lucky streak lasts.....

B & A fools

Who doesn't like before and after pics? So here is our island when we moved in: And after we painted it (you might also notice that I actually have a stove in this pic. The first week we lived here we didn't have one): Some chairs I bought off craigslist (they smelled horrible, the cushions were nasty and the fabric was ripped on some of them):

This was our first reupholstering project and it was really fun. I also put a coat of stain on the chairs. And these last 2 pics are of my April fools jokes. These fun little hamburgers are actually Nilla wafers, grasshopper cookies, red & yellow frosting, and sesame seeds. They were fun and delicious.

And for dinner we had CAKE! This is meatloaf with mashed potato "frosting." I got the idea from this blog. It has some really good recipes. I've tried quite a few of them and they have all been amazing and they are pretty easy to follow. Thanks for blogging about it Jen!