Vote for the BERRY best cake!

Esplin: The Second Annual Hunger Games Cakes

"Camping" is way more funner when you bring indoor plumbing you gize!!!

Dooooods.  My husband hearts to camp.  And I heart to not have to take a walk with a shovel and a cottenelle wipe in the pocket of my hoodie when I gotta go number two.  So my hubby got me one of them tents with a potty!!!!

Is that like the most redneckest photog?  Saweet!  So but I was wanting to push all the buttons and work all the parts before we took it into the wild but our amps or something weren't strong enough on the plug outside to amp it up or whatevs.  So my Dad..who is awesome...way awesome...came over with A: extra pots and pans from their kitchen to be donated to the mobile cabin and B: his madd skillz at fixing anything that ever needs fixed and 3: his willingness to teach stuff to RodTodd and myself as long as we don't try to "get ahead of ourselves" aka touch stuff before he says to.  Which is a lamerz rool btw.  Here's some pictoral documentation of the fixings:

Plzkthanks note..well..more like take my word for it..Dad is wearing his Jeppson reoon shirt from DENVA 2009!!  Which he has almost worn/washed off all the lettering he wears/washes it so much.  But THIS next pic is a total framer for me:

My two favritt men in the whole wide world.  Working together.  RodTodd not doing anything without instruction.  Dads tongue out between his teeth while using a power tool.   ::: single tear :::

So anyway we learned what most of the gadgetty things on it did and immediately RodTodd put in for a Monday off and we drug it to a more appropriate trailerhood:

HEAVEN!!!!!!  Check out how RodTodd's freakin awesome parking job made our views from inside the bestest ever!

EEEK!  River all the way around!  No need for a white noise machine!

Seeeeereeeeeissly!!!! It was so beautiful we would just sit there for like...MINUTES and just watch the river.  But then I'd be all...where's my iPod we need some rawkin tunage!

So I made the little dinette area into a chillaxin bed thing and plugged the iPod into the aux jack thingie and hit the outside speakers to on too in case some of the poor peeps in tents wanted to enjoy some of Tim McGraws Southern Voice album too!  Cuz remember..me ekwals helpy!!!  p.s. that's my Lady Antebellum trucker hat thurr...aint it a dandy?  Sheeeuuuuute.  Oh yeah and that TV swivels in case it's just too much effort to watch TV not in the bedroom.  Cuz I bet I didn't get tired cuz it was the first time we'd takin the hizzy out but after awhile I bet after pushin the button to lower the awning and pushing the button to level the hizzy and pushin the buttons to the other stuff..I will need to go to bed for awhile and watch some TV in the wilderness.  That's why I packed 13 going on 30.  And nemo.

But srsly... these are my favritt things about our new mobile cabin...not in this order:

Words...cannot...describe....it's like I srsly hear angelic music when I look at it.  freelz.

But so then we totally did rill camping type stuff.  Swearz.  Look.

These are all different fishing holes btw.  Amaze gorge.

He Swim slash fishes!!!!

I got all done with New Moon even!!!!  And p.s. YES it DOES end with Edward proposing ya goofs.  It's just not the TOTAL end.  After he proposes or whatever/demands she marry him if he's gonna change her... Jacob goes and rats her out about the motorbike.  Geesh.. You girlers need to read it again or something.  But yeah I totally caught a trophy fishy too!

And then RodTodd was super jealous so he made me carry all my crap back to the burb MYSELF!

Fer rood.  Oh and at one fishing spot I was all comfy with my book nstuff and a windy gust blew my lil umbrella out in the river so I selflessly risked my life to save it...but alas...this is what it looks like now

And this is what my poor LEG looks like now:

if you zoom in you can see my hero..RodTodd...downstream just a fishin away unawares of the heroic disast that just went on.

So you get the idea tho, right?  We didn't just sit inside and watch movies and stuff.  Check it out we even had a real live campfire!

(mostly because we felt we should.  If we are being honest here.  and I am trying to not have to have risk thoughts to have to disclose in group so I have opted to be sorta honest)

And then RodTodd took a hot shower (totally in his swimsuit in case you are a child or are my sister and are grossed out by implied nudity of the RodTodd nature) *I'm fine with disclosing this lie

Scrubbin all the fishguts off... just to go do it all over again

Oh yeah and it rained one of the nights.  Boy were we glad we weren't in a tent!  But then RodTodd's OCD kicked in and he started tapping and counting stuff and doing this:

I heart his OCD btw.  A. Lots.

Then our super friendly miner guy neighbor Ed had to move to a diff campground:

cuz get this lamerz rool!  You can't stay in a campground in the same spot for more than 14 days!!!  Frowny face.

In looking thru the bagillion pics I took I found this one from when we went tent camping:

Don't get me wrong...I had a blast camping the tenty way..but I cannot imagine what kind of series of unfortunate events would have to unfold upon me and make me do the frowny face IRL...that would make me choose this kind of camping now.  Even if I had wi-fi.

So anywayz.  ONE MORE WEEK TILL THE REOOOOOON in MCCALL!!!!  Weeeeeeehaw!!!!  Now I got room on my camera for that funapalooza!  I cannot WAIT to see YOU!!!!!

Best Use of Permission to leave Ada County so far! And yes I'm keeping track...cuz there was the zero times..and now..the one. Srsly!

Since I didn't have a ticker or anything (cuz I don't know how) I bet you had NO idea I went to Bakersfield, California for not quite fourth of July!!!  Oh and since Eclipse opened while we were there we were like...wtfreak, let's go see it? 
Obviously...Landee was the MOST excited....

Thank the goodnesses I always carry wetnaps in my purse/diaper bag.  For others.  Helpy ekwals me.

Here we all are just like...right on, what's playing?  K guess we'll get in line...

Um....I need to figure out the settings on my camera cuz..well...anyway.

Our seats were freakin awesome!

View of the screen:

And my pictures of our real reason for gathering in Bako turned out craptacular so I ganked this copy off of Jespys bloggie.

UNCLE VISOR AND AUNT VISOR!!!!!  Heart them to the NTH.  And I'm not just sayin that just because they can read this.  swear.

Aunt Visor with the cutest chubbers I have ever laid eyes on IRL in for...since my babies were babies:

And in case you wanna see how we are JUST LIKE YOU:

See?  You could prolly pull this off too. 

In our "down time" aka the 20 minutes between eating ginorm meals at awes restaurants and shopping and seeing ..a movie a couple times.. we were chillaxin with YOU!!!!

Jespy takes this WWF thing soooo seriously making real words nstuff!  Landee doesn't.  Obviously.

Watching crazy bangs excersizeaholic lady AND playing WWF in the BIG BED!!!!

There was much comparing/coveting/getting new iCovers going on btw.  And somehow S-Rod ended up with a girl one...by choice. 

We also payed a lil visit to the DOLLAR STORE to get "liars dice kits".  Cuz THIS is super way fun:

Obviously I was taking the pic so I'm not in it.  And S-Rod had gone to bed.  Cuz he has a job and crap.  I toyed with the idea of putting nametags on these girlers so you wouldn't be confused...but...yeah.

Nachos.

On our way back we barely weren't killed twice and had time to go to PAWN STARS!!!!

And then it was back to reality............where NOONE HAD TAKEN THIS POOR SWEET GIRL TO SEE THE MOVIE YET!!!!

I should call CPS.  It had been almost a WEEK since it came out and she has read all the books!!!!  Check out the lamerz cups tho....thank goodness I had brought mine back from Bako:

If I was trying to get an a word. for the best stepmom ever I'd give it to her.  But a words are overrated.

Oh my goodness...I'm so CITED!!!!

MOCKINGJAY: The Final Hunger Games book (or so they'll have us bleeve)

Unboredness is easy even if you don't have a job, srsly!

So my daughter is freakin smart.  Like you'd think she was ugly she's so smart.  But she's super pritty tho.  So here's the thing.. there had to be some kind of lines in the beforelife.. like you had to decide.. do you wanna be super smart and rich and responsible cuz of the smartsness or do you want to be sorta dingbatty but rilly super pritty and have lots of fun and like glitter and get funner frenz but be not very rich but you don't care..cuz your frenz rawk and yer so super cute?   Cuz I mean if there was a line where you could have it ALL...what's the dealio?  Anyway.  So she's like all of it.. I'm just sayin.  She must have shoved some kids outta her line er sumpthin.

Her solo lasted the whole freakin song.

p.s. before you are all "waaa waaa ur camera sux get a new fancy billion dollar one for scrapbooking u bad mom"  These are grabs from VIDEO people.. so shutty.

That's right.  I make DVDs of her performances and add titles and music to the menues and put lots of fancy transitions in there and make collage covers and labels and put them in real DVD cases.  Who is the bad Mom now?  Yeah......ats what I thought.

But so it doesn't end there with her talential downpour.  She plays the clarinet too !!!!!

And she's like that one person that plays the note first during warmup and then the whole rest of the band has to tune to her sustained note.  So basically it's her fault if they are all flat.  But it makes her the bosslady I think.

If you knew her when she was a toddler you'd know why I think her feeties all pointed in are adorable in this pic.  If not... well it's not like it took you an hour to look at one photo but thanks for indulging me or whatever.

That's just a cool lookin instrument.

RodTodd almost got fired from teaching for leaving early to come see this/be my ride/take our picture cuz we were doing a bad bad job of self portraits even with the dual LCD thingie...but it was toadally worth it.  For me anyways.  Nampa is a long walk you gize!

Anyway so that isn't the only thing that's been totally unboring.  I've been making super cute stuff for people too.

My friend had painted her daughters room in all kinds of polka dots to match a comforter she got..that she ended up hating.  The comforter that is..not the walls.  So she and I ..and RodTodd...went to JoAnn's aka my happy place...and picked out all these fun fabrics to make this girlpowerpalooza for her new full size big girl bed!

How cutefun would that be with a tulle bedskirt?  Way cutefun that's how cutefun.

Anyway so then she came and took it cuz she's mean and forced me to make a crazyfun comforter for my sewing room.  This is my genius plan so far.

Subtle.  And super grown-up.  You can bet your sweet bumcheeks I'm going to have a tulle bedskirt.  Or something resembling the bottom of Landees wedding dress anyway.

Oh and at the Quilting Guild meeting Mom and I won DOORPRIZES you gize!

 

So then all-a-sudden our cousin decided we had to hurry and get one of our blocks done for the cuzzin/aunt/uncle jack block exchange so that she can take ONE of all of our blocks and make a quilt for Gramma to be done in TIME for the reoon.  It's times like this I think.... you DO realize most of these girlers and Uncle Jack are ACTIVE mo-mos...right?  Early....cha-right!

But anyway.  The theme was..  make an 8 1/2 inch block out of reds, whites, blues or golds and any combination of those... any method..like pieced/color crayoned/appliqued...er whatever.  So this is mine.

I can't wait to see how all of the blocks look together.  Does our fam know how to get crazee or what?

Oh yeah.

p.s. update plz

*******OH SNAP!!! FACE! I FORGOT TO ADD MY FAVRITT PIC OF SISSY_BUG ******

Pritty!