a little update!

hey all! just checking in for a sec and thought i'd drop a few lines! just getting some laundry done and kinda getting things ready for our trip thurs...well actually friday. we're leaving in the early morning...so it'll still feel like thurs to me. i don't usually sleep well before we leave, or in the car. needless to say i'll be pooped by the time we get there. but, his aunt usually keeps the kids entertained for a few while we take a little siesta. lol anywho...that's about all that's going on right now.

we went to the mall earlier to get frank a pair of jeans for the trip...but only found some for me...and i got a haircut. yay! i needed one so bad. it was just getting to that weird stage where it started flipping out and acting stupid. so, i'm glad to have that done for a while. it seemed to last a while last time...so she must've thinned it really well!! the kids were pretty crazy and got into some trouble though...but i think they were just really tired from school being back in now. i hate when they get in trouble...although i was kinda glad that they did it to frank for once and not me so he can see what i go through when i take them places alone ALL the time! lol we got home and finished up homework, read a story and got all snuggled in and now they're fast asleep...well they have been for about an hour.

OH i'm putting up some pics from yesterday. jordyn got home from school and went outside to play. she went to the treehouse and came running back in and wanted me to come out and see the 'dead butterfly'. lol so, i did. this is what we found...you'll see that he's far from dead and just trying to wiggle outta his cocoon...which i thought was really cool!! he happened to still be there when tristan got out of school...so he got to see it, too! we checked on him one last time at about 4pm yesterday and then didn't check it again until this afternoon...and i really expected him to be gone. but, nope! we went out there at about 3pm today and he was STILL there...flapping...but going nowhere. so, w/ a little further examination i could see that his 'tail' was stuck to the cocoon!! so i carefully put my finger under him and he held on w/ his feet and i gently pulled him off and away he flew!! jordyn thought it was really neat to see him fly away finally. i thought the whole thing was pretty cool. anyways...here's a couple pics of the butterfly...and then of jordyn swinging. i didn't get any of tristan since he was at school...but hopefully i'll have lotsa new pics when we get home from our trip!

so, that's about it for now! love you all!

Amanda:)