Morton Madness

"The Boat"... where do I even start? I can remember back 5 years or so ago that Justin and Brian decided to get a hunting boat. They were so excited about this boat, they sanded it, repainted it, got a duck blind for it and Daph even put her sewing skills to use and made a duck blind. Of course every time they wanted to take the boat out they had to "work on the boat". Daphne and I would just laugh and say, "whatever". We spent many a nights watching the guys work on the boat getting it ready for the next days hunt. We noticed this becoming a pattern, they want to hunt... they have to work on the boat. We continued to laugh... for a few years in fact. The boat stayed in our driveway until we got a notice that it needed to be moved so we moved it down to The Caravellas lake house on Holy Lake. Then hunting season started back up so they guys had to go get the boat so they could work on it so they could then take it out to hunt... ARE YOU SEEING A P...

Today was lunch with loved ones at the boys school. Basically it was a nice way to let the parents know that you should come have lunch with your child and then head on down to the book fair and get ready to spend some money! ha ha ha Sophia and I headed up to the school and had lunch with the boys and then proceeded onto the book fair so I could see everything they wanted from posters, crazy pens, pencils, bookmarks and whatever else they can get away with selling at this thing. Jonah picked out the Star Wars Dictionary Book and Luke picked out Guinea Dog and an animal book. Of course Luke did not want his picture taken but mommy made him.

I thought it was just a phase but boy was I ever WRONG! For as long as I can remember if we ask Luke to do something as simple as take a shower, brush your teeth, put your shoes on he comes back with one of the following excuses. 1. I'm itchy 2. I'm soooooo tired 3. My legs hurt 4. I'm thirsty 5. Ouch, your hurting me (this is when you are drying him off after a shower, he says that the towel hurts him because it is so dry) WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? or when I am shampooing his hair or brushing his teeth. We say that if he was a Garbage Pail Kid his name would be Lazy Luke. So today after school Luke was walking home from the bus stop... (EIGHT houses down from ours mind you.) He looks at me and says, "mom, can we move to a different house on Heritage Green?" I asked him if he meant Druid Hills and he said, "yes". I asked him why and he told me that he does not like walking that far from the bus stop. I could not help but laugh and grab him a...

Sophia is hard to keep in one spot now. She does not like to stay in the stroller anymore so we have to take her a chair to soccer practice.

Last night out of the blue Jonah told me that he wanted to change his name. I asked him what he would like for his new name to be and why he wanted a new name. He told me that his name was B O R I N G and that he would like his new name to be Matt or Scott. I did not ask anymore about it and we headed up to bed. As we were saying our prayers he asked again if he could change his name. I told him that when he was in my tummy that we prayed about it and that God really wanted us to have Jonah. He got really upset and buried his face in his pillow. I asked him to "sleep on it" and see what he thought about it in the morning. We said goodnight and walked out of the room. A minute or so later I heard crying and not just a whimper, it was full on sobbing. I went in and Jonah was very upset. Of course Luke said, "oh Jonah, its just a name, stop crying." I asked him what was wrong and he proceeded to tell me that he did NOT like his name and it was BORING and he ...

This was the pile of laundry that came home! I washed EVERYTHING, including car seat covers We had a buffet in the floorboard of the truck! It was 9 loads of laundry. We were not in any hurry to leave this morning so we did not even get up until 6:30 or so. We woke up to SIX inches of snow outside. When Jonah came down stairs he told me his eye hurt and when I told him to come close it was swollen and all red. Really? Julianne, I guess you got lucky this trip... except for your lips that is. :) Armed with vomit bags in laps we were headed out at 8:17 am and planned on driving all the way home. We also decided to drive through Kansas, which we will NEVER do again. It seemed like it to forever to get to Texas. We hit the first Starbucks at the bottom of the mountain to get going, it was going to be a long day! We stopped for lunch at 12:15 and then at 4:15 stopped at Braums for some ice cream. Jonah walks into the bathroom, sticks his head out and says, "are you kidding m...

Today is the last day we will be skiing. You would have thought that we would have a routine down since we have done it all week. YEA RIGHT! We ARE the Mortons :) ha ha ha We decided that since we could not get child care for the little ones for Thursday that Daph would stay with the Piper, Ansley, Sophia and Benton this morning while Justin, the boys and I went up so we could all ski together then after lunch I would come home with the boys and watch Sophia and Benton while Brian and Daph went up with the girls. We woke up to it snowing so we knew it was going to be a great day to ski. So Brian, Justin and I loaded up the boys, all the skis and ski boots. We get to the parking lot to get everyone ready to hit the slopes. We open the back of the truck and tell the boys to get grab their ski boots and they both say that those are not their boots. WHAT? So we decided to put the boot on the girls skis and sure enough we got there with the girls ski boots. Seriously? By this time we are re...

This morning Daph and I had made breakfast for the whole gang to come eat. Daph of course had the recipes and I just helped make them :) We had a wonderful french toast casserole and an egg white casserole. We had all taken the day off from skiing and decided to go tubing. We loaded the car and were off. When we got to the tubing place the wind was blowing 3o miles an hour and about blow us over. We got our tubes and helmets and were ready to hit the mountain. There was a magic carpet that took you to the top and then you just went down. We went down the 'black" hill and let me tell you... it was FAST! I was actually scared because I went down backwards over half way and when I finally turned I saw Landry flip out of his tub and was headed right for him. I do not know how I missed him but did! I only went two times and and then took Sophia to the truck because it was so windy. Mia joined us because she was tired and wanted out of the wind too. We went and sat in the truck and ...