Here are all the littles lined up. The best of friends.

Table for 17?

Simon's birthday is in two days and Emily's is next week so they got the birthday song and cupcake.

Lots of computer games during the downtime...

$5.00 in the arcade gets burned up in about three minutes. Ask me how I know...

And my ONLY pic from the water park....I am counting on Kristin for some water park shots. Hint hint...

Simon in the kiddie area. The two slides in there were perfect for both Simon and Xander.

The desk tables came out of their boxes this weekend. Just a little more painting on the book shelves and the computers, lamps and desk chairs can move in.

Isn't it a fun painting? Local artist Irina Beffa..check out her other stuff.

The kids gobbled them all up in a about 5 minutes, so I guess they tasted fine.

A little peak at the family room progress...

Here he is working on Xander's computer now.

I'm thinking it's time to set up his own station in the new family room remodel.

15 seconds later I have a new iPod dock...

I know! Classy, eh? I might have to check out the additional color choices.

and found this pic from the last time the kids came over. We are wild and crazy like that! :D

The storage crap piled up and the room has been ignored until recently.

We finally decided the extra living space MUST be made usable. The room will be our new "computer room" and also a corner for TV/Netflix and video game consoles.

and the beginnings of the after...

My friend Sheri inspired me with some design ideas (thank you!) and I have carpet coming on Monday. Jason is working hard repairing the walls, planning the network cable routing and bookshelf builds.

It has been a long time since we've gone to the pool and Xander didn't seem into it at all. Xander has always hated showers, getting his hair washed and now apparently the pool too. His spirit animal must be the cat. ;)

Every one of the guildies was present and accounted for and let me tell you, we are just as much fun in real life as we are in virtual life. ha!

The founding four of the Switchblade Symphony guild...

and the fun spread to a few more members...

Party animals, eh?

My nephews and their friend who is our newest guild member...(I love the big boys in the front holding their Magic cards and the little guys in the back playing their DS game).

Kristin and Dan have given up the game but once a guildie, always a guildie.

We settled the wild kids in for a movie...

Little Simon took a cat nap on Andy...

And we ALL squeezed into the computer room for a guild-wide raid. We did a low level one we have never run before so we could see something new, have fun and not require too many skills from a healer who had a few mojitos (aka..me;).

I love little Isaac in there, my two nephews, my hubby...it's a family affair and we have made some great friends.

The party was oh so fun! I hope it's an annual occasion.

"Do you want to _____?"
"Okay! Let's go!"

So painting it was this morning right after the breakfast was finished.

The package looks like it holds a giant blood clot. Interesting.

I pulled up a liver recipe with rave reviews and managed to turn this...

...into this:

Doused in butter, bacon and sprinkled with lemon juice and zest.

Plated with green beans.

We all ate it, dipped in BBQ sauce. If it was the liver or starve, I'd eat it and say it was damn delicious. But it's not the liver or starve and it's obvious the cover up ingredients were not enough.

We can all say we tried liver now and I think I may live out the rest of my life on that single taste.