Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Not Only Do We Have A Brewery....

But we have a vineyard too!
I planted this grape plant as one little twig a couple years ago and it never really did anything but grow and then die last winter in one of our cold snaps. I trimmed it back to the ground and it started to grow like crazy this spring. In about March, I noticed clusters of tiny grapes growing on it as I tried to weave the tendrils a little neater on the lattice. And then, I forgot all about it...that is until last night the boys mentioned that the grapes in the backyard taste really good!

And sure enough, we picked our first crop! There's about the same amount still on the vines that aren't quite ready yet. They are kind of small but they are sweet and tasty! I guess we can call them totally organic too! Or maybe GOB fertilized it with dog poop without me knowing? Who knows! Just kidding! LOB says we should plant some more! I agree, maybe we should!
Do you thing I have enough to make a bottle of wine?

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

CAUTION: HUGE, LONG Overdue Post Ahead!

This is the post in which I catch up for about the last month of our life! We've been busy busy here at 3 Boys and a Brewery! Sit down, grab a beverage, and enjoy our adventures from the last month!

DJB graduated from Kindergarten. His teacher Ms. S was so incredibly awesome! She cried and cried when she had to say goodbye to him. She said he is a student she will always remember. I sure wish he could have her as a teacher for his whole school career! I told her many times what a wonderful job she did teaching DJB-it was a transformation beyond explanation! I also told her I really hope that she stays at our school so she can work her magic with DVB in a couple years!

There were about 120 Kinder grads! They sang a bunch of cute little songs with cute little dance moves.


Here he is receiving his diploma from Mr. M, the principal and Mrs. D, the assistant principal.

Then there was a celebration in the classroom.
Now on to Memorial Day weekend fun!

We had lots of company for the weekend that we spent up at the cabin. There were 6 little boys and 1 little girl to keep busy; not to mention 6 parents who needed the relaxation time! On one outing, GOB brought out his arsenal of guns! Well only 15 of them! The company also brought a few of their own! So needless to say, after several hours of shooting, we had a ton of used ammo to clean up!
This poor little future sharp shooter did not enjoy being confined to the back of the truck for too long!

LOB was shooting his Cricket with a new scope attached!

This is Curt helping DJB line up a target!

Cousin A had to manually toss a few clay pigeons a few million times, I believe.


I guess GOB threw a few too with his side-hip-helper!
It was a fun weekend with friends and cousins!
Now onto Momma's girls only trip to Mexico!
I went with 3 of my wonderfully fun neighbor girls to Puerto Penasco, Mexico-it's a quick 4 hour drive just south of us. The 5 days away were absolute heaven! It was very much needed and very much recharging! We had tons of laughs, several hours of soaking up the sun, many bargain-filled shopping trips, and maybe just a few beers while we enjoyed our time away!


This was the view from our 5th floor condo balcony.

What a beautiful Mexican sunset!


Here's the clan!


This cute little boy made a few bucks off of us suckers! He was selling bracelets on his lunch break while we were having shrimp tacos and tecates at a little shack!


These are a couple of my Mexican purchases! I just had to have the beer drinking monkey and the cute little Tecate dog was too cute to pass up also! I had to buy "Poncho" a poncho to cover up his junk because he is anatomically correct under that little cover-up! But I thought he might be kinda warm this summer so I got him a much cooler outfit for $3 on ebay and named her "Ponchita" for the summer!

My Mexican get-away was one to remember for a long long time! We are thinking of going back down for Fall Break with our campers and we thought we'd let the rest of our families join us!

This is just a miscellaneous picture of my cute little boys! They are all Toy Story maniacs and just had to have these pool towels! They are looking forward to the release of Toy Story 3 this weekend!
Next up is our most recent weekend adventure!
GOB and I got our own quads last week. We didn't like sharing with the boys any longer! Since the weather was unseasonably cool (high 80's, low 90's for June is unheard of in AZ), we couldn't pass up a weekend of trying out our new toys in the desert dirt! We found a great, flat camping/riding area that is just about 30 miles east of our house a few months back and have returned there several times since.


This is my new ride. It's a Honda 250 something or another. I don't know, but it goes plenty fast for me! She's a little on the plain side so I'm in search of some PINK decals for her! I'll post a picture update when I get her all prettied up!

We all ride safely, of course!


This is GOB's new beast! It's a Honda TRX 700 something or another. All I know about this one is, is that it can go WAY too fast! He's going shopping this weekend for lots of protective gear!


Here's our cute little fam all geared up for a family ride! Just before this picture we were out toodling around and DVB actually fell asleep while riding with GOB!
So what's next up on our adventure agenda? Well, my first born will be turning 8 years old next week so that calls for a celebration! He actually opted for a "friend-only" party instead of the big ol' shindig his Momma likes to throw! Boo hoo! He's getting too big!
The month of July will be very adventurous as well! Our calendar is jammed-packed, full of fun!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Has Anyone Seen My Camera Cord?

Here I psyched myself up for a blog post, had a title and everything! And now I can't find my camera cord to upload my pics! Darn it! The post would not be exciting without pics to go along with it! We at 3 Boys and a Brewery have been busy! So..............

Don't mind me, I'm just going to remind myself what to elaborate on as soon as I locate my cord to attach pictures to my thoughts:

1. DJB graduated from Kindergarten; LOB will be a 3rd grader!

2. Momma took a girl's trip to Mexico.

3. Summer fun.

4. New toys.

5. DVB can sing!

6. Memorial Day weekend fun.

7. Let's see what else I can think of while I hunt for my cord! Arrrrrgh!