You can get with this, or you can get with that..

Today Brooke was in charge of Netflix. I'm not sure why we relinquished entertainment control to her (incapable) hands?? But we did .. no really though she has a very unique? taste in movies, that doesn't always (hardly ever) match my own .. so 'Hunchback of Notre Dame', 'James & The Giant Peach', & 'The Borrowers'?? Or as I now like to call it 'what 50% of HP's cast did pre-Hogwarts'

ps Draco?? not meant for gingerdom.. he's too much of a 'summer'

slso do you know how easy it would to live as a borrower?? Okay let me rephrase that. How little you would have to live on?? come on a shoebox would be roomy accomodations!

'You're just an outtie with a rusty roller skate'

So it's been an interesting week in the DeCoria household thusfar. On Tuesday we had to put our dog Ruger down..

^RUGER^



sidenote: I don't know how to act when bad stuff happens.. I mostly just end up smiling really creepy & making bad jokes & inappropro funeral playlists ('drop it like it's hot' anyone?) basically I don't just not know what to do with my hands in most situations, I don't know what to do with myself period. in all actuality it was a pretty crappy affair. NO vet in the valley would answer. not even the horse vets (he was a really big dog so it wasn't that much of a stretch).. so we had to deviate from our normal option of 'putting them to sleep' & opt for the double tap so he wouldn't suffocate to death (he had COPD.. you've seen the commercials) & had 'broken-ish' his leg) so it was the most humane thing to do?? how is going Nazi Germany on anything humane?? i'm not sure Anne Frankly i'd rather not dwell on it.. (uh I am so lame).. well nobody in our house was up for the task at hand so we had to call our family friend Richard (who was a lifesaver.. ironic no?) came over & gave us a hand. We have next to no room for more deceased pets in our front yard

that Jeff Foxworthy joke 'You might be a redneck if..' well WE'RE the rednecks

so Phil buried him in the back yard.. well then Daddy Dave got home from a business trip & he felt that it was unfair segregation (he was a black dog) for him to be the ONLY dead pet in the back yard. so.. he dug him up.

yes folks. he .dug. him. UP!

Daddy Dave: Professional CPA, Amature Grave Robber

& then reburied him in the front yard.

 in. broad. daylight. (worst neighbors EVER!)

I mean in hindsight is was a labor of  love. that most people would not be able to do. & i'm glad my dad is the kind of guy that can do something like that?? but now I know without a shadow of a doubt where I get the 'I don't know what to do that's appropriate' gene.. ok, ok I get it from both sides.

Awktard keeps its pimp hand strong in this here bloodline

Wednesday. oh Wednesday. Cole need deodorant. We needed a paper. The boys needed a walk. So we decided to take care of all 3 needs at once & make an adventure of it!

 So off we walked, & walked, & walked. The boys LOVED it! Gabe likes to swing his cheese feet & talk to EVERYTHING! he makes every tumbleweed, pile of roadkill, & piece of litter feel like it matters & its important! we even took Gross Dog..

 or well she tagged along on her own accord.. she has NO prob inviting herself. So we make it up to town. We stop & see Phil at work. Get our groceries. Then its back to hitting pavement! So we start out & 3 minutes into it, it starts to rain. We have NObody at home to come relieve us from our walk. So I take the least useless &/or decrepit dog we have (that's right our midget marvel Gator Jake!)

(half chesepeake bay retriever// half basset hound)



  & I start to run. in FLIP FLOPS. to say I was ill prepared would be a bit of an undastatement guvna! & I run & I run & I run! ps I have not RUN that much for at least 3 months ( new mom probs I can take a baby on a walk but I NEVER get to take him on a run.. excuses excuses I know..) & I had to RUN for 1 &1/2 miles to get a car to rescue my babies (& gross dog, gross dog was suffering some major stanky leg) so I kept on keeping on. people I was like HIDALGO! my own personal cheerleader! no really I spent the majority of the run verbally cheering myself on

 'you are going so fast!' 'you're faster than the wind' 'you look so good running' 'your feet don't hurt.. at all'..

 stuff like that, that was definitely NOT true.. sidenote: I was obvi NOT a cheerleader in HS. but I made it (barely) & I go rescue my babies

(you go Glen Coco) & when I pick them up just past the HS I feel probably near as good as the peeps that relieved the Donner Party.. ok maybe better cause it was a lottle less graphic.

but that was my Wednesday. And today on my Thursday I. feel. it. but it's the sweet burn of victory! & shin splints. And it's only Thursday night! I still have 2 more WHOLE days this week! Look out world you ARE my oyster!

WOLF OUT!

(smells) like the corpse of a rotting hottie

hi.

 so today was much like any other day

I wiped butts, fed babies, played house elf, played with babies, took babies on adventures

(it's a fair observation to so say that my life revolves around tiny human beings)

 

only today after I dropped a yogurt

for no apparent reason mind you

I decided that my life is completely made up of
awkward micheal j. fox (post-parkinsons) stumbled moments 

uncoordinatedly strung together
in a mismatched handiCAPABLE fashion..

 

i'm really clumsy ya know?

and that was just my first epiphany

 

today was also special cause I showered!

I know, how much of a filthy hamster am I that that's a notable occurance??

I thought about it & it had only been 3 days

ONLY?

the worst part about this is I felt guilt!

like full on semi-catholic (cause i'm not catholic.. ok so nothing like catholic)

GUILT!!

 

who feels guilty about hygiene?

smelly old me apparently..

 

also today I gardened..

I never garden!!

probably due to the green thumb that I DON'T have

but today was different

 

(for a variety of reasons)

 

& I was just feeling it

so I gardened..

in hindsight  Roxie probably should have asked anyone else in the house to do it

(including BenCat..BenCat has 1 eye)

because i'm horrible at it

I have thee hardest time determining weed from flora

like at first i'm really meek & only take a few OBVIOUS garden pesks

but then I grow bolder & bolder with each noxious weed I smite

so I start to pull more.. & more.. & MORE..then suddenly

'holy schnikies where's the plants? but look at this sharp looking patch of fresh turned soil!'

so black thumb & ok

can I just tell you how much I DON'T enjoy gardening?

ok

'I don't enjoy gardening.. at all'

 

Then tonight on the boys walk my apparel was exceptionally dyke looking??

(sidenote: I live in loungewear & just discovered an affinity to cut off boys shirts)

& my family said I should amp it & really REALLY go for it

aka add my lesbian hiking boots & make a social experiment out of it

for science sake.. right??

they want me to go as long as I can looking as gender confused as possible

& my thoughts are

'yeah.. cause if the single mom thing, awkward demeanor, & poor hygiene wasn't enough to scare away potential sutors.. this will DEFINETLY get the job done!!'

solid plan folks

 

so more on my social experiment later

not that i'm committing to it persay

let's just face it

 i'm too lazy, most days, to get ready anyways

so I generally have an inherently butch look about myself as is

 

what was the point of this blog post you say???

sorry folks, i'm afraid today was kinda like a high school romance

aka POINTLESS

& all you got today was a big fatty look inside the scatterbrained mind of me

 

 

DIS-is not right-NEY

So we watch a LOT of animated movies..

I'd like to blame it on our offspring.. but to be perfectly honest

we just have a strong affinity for cartoons

 

Disney movies & the like have been strong entertainment fixtures in our life

since well before we reproduced, or even thought of reproducing really.

As we've gotten older.. wiser.. more cynical?? we've started to pick up on the little things

you know, the bits & pieces that were added for the adult audience

 that would inevitably be watching them with they chillen's,

 so that said older demographic wouldn't want to blow their brains out over the

sheer stupidity & bad jokes (like Nicholas Cage acting/film bad) of it all. 

 

Think if those grown up add-ons weren't supplemented into those movies..

can you imagine 2 hours of Blue's Clues'y like film??

ya..the orphan count would skyrocket

..juss sayin'..

 

So while we enjoy most of the
slightly irreverent more adult aspects
 that we are now aware of..

we are also way more observant over how DARK some of these films are
 

I mean HELLO..

these are supposed to be

 APPROPRIATE FOR ALL AGES,

which is good seeing as the majority audience of these cinematic gems fit in a fairly young age group

 

so here are our takes on the films that have stood out to us as some of the more blatantly darkies 

 

We'll start out with an obvious choice:

 

1. OLD YELLER- for pretty obvious reasons.. okay life is good. just a boy & his canine American: being best friends, staying up late, telling ghost stories, making waffles (wrong movie you say?? meh ok you caught us) & THEN the dog gets rabies.. rabies?? RABIES!! i mean who does that?? & then they don't just live happily ever after together in foamy mouthed bliss.. they shoot the dog! DEAD!!you NEVER KILL OFF the dog!! so the dog was now a semi-crazed potential killer who didn't remember his owner??- a minor detail that could have been solved over no-bake cheesecake, back scratches & episodes of Walking Dead (sure-fire remedy for any situation really)

 

 



2. HOCUS POCUS- They EAT children.. & not like lets make a minor & mushroom deep dish pizza sort of eat.. like a creepy, dark, & twisted, they suck their soul DEMENTOR style, sort of eat.. for the 'sole' purpose of looking young & beautiful (why are women always stereotyped as willing to do ANYTHING & EVERYTHING, i.e eat KIDS, to stay 'BABE STATUS)..  & as far as i'm concerned the Salem Witch Trials are totally justifiable for about the 5 minutes following the conclusion of this movie..


3. TARZAN: This is one of our tamer picks.. I mean his parents are brutally murdered at the very beginning by Sabor the leopard.. (but that's more circle of life dilemma than anything else anyways).. where we take issue, happens at almost the very end when Tarzan (protagonist) & Clayton (antagonist) are having a rumble in the jungle.. the fight seems pretty evenly matched (what with Tarzans bulging muscles & monkey man skills & Claytons.. gun??) but eventually Tarz gets the upper hand.. or Clayton just loses all his hands?? accidentally, BUT VERY OBVIOUSLY falling. to. his. death!! & then they have a scene featuring his cold dead lifeless hanging silhouette to further cement the fact that he did indeed just do a gallows jig!

4. LION KING: Once again pretty light list option. So a PRIDE of lions has ONE alfa male.. who has more or less a brothel of hot lioness babes.. & Simba & Nala hail from the same pride?? do you see where i'm going with this?? it rhymes with schmincest & it's the state sport of Tennessee;) (total Skywalker moment am i right?)





                                                                                    also at the end they shadow-show the hyena's EATING SCAR ALIVE!! talk about sticking it to the man..


5. 101 DALMATIONS: This is a show about a crazy fur obsessed hag who is collecting mass quantities of baby dog to KILL, SKIN, & make a coat with there hides?? She is like the female Hannibal Lector.. only WAAAY worst cause we're talking about puppies!!! once again you NEVER kill the dog (or dogS in this scenario) .. plus don't even get me started on her coif, i mean really.. CHUNKY black & white dyke do on that complexion?? sorry Cruella darling but you're just not a summer

6. GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE:  one of our all time faves!! (sidenote: we've even passed down our love of it to our offspring.. they totally dig Basil of Baker Street) however we just recently stumbled upon what qualifies it for this blog post.. more accurately Coley discovered this.. it was a few months ago & she was watching it for about the millionth time that day (Gabe really REALLY likes it) & when Rattigan is singing about his latest scheme & then his merry band of misfits join in with ..'even meaner? you mean it? WORST THAN THE ORPHANS & WIDOWS WE DROWNED?'..wha?? whaaaa?? holy darkness!! i think my soul just. died. a little bit! & then at the end where Rattigan WERERODENTS out? Ya RatHulk used to scare the poop out of me.. suitable for child audiences..*scoff*


7. ANASTASIA: if you ever paid any attention to your History teachers, you know A's background, & you know that Fox had it's work cut out for them to make this a family friendly jam.. which they were mostly able to accomplish.. who am i kidding?? the entire film was centered around one big satanic shit-show.. (but Demetri was as smoking hot as an animated dude could be).. anyways the antagonist, Rasputin (dead ringer for Al Pacino/Brian David Mitchell hybrid), who in the first 5 minutes sells his SOUL to SATAN!! (it literally animates that out) & then MURDERS her whole family (minus herself & her grams obvi)..in cold blood(like really cold it's set in Russia) ya PG rated my friends!!  then it skips forward 18 years & Rasputin just spends the rest of the feature trying to end Anastasia! he is in lamans term, a serial killer, & did i mention he's a rotting corpse serial killer that is like graphically SMOTE in the end by pure evil?? although to be fair you must applaud his lazer-like focus & determination..plus lets not forget to mention catchy toe-tapping musical numbers

8. CHARLOTTES WEB: The whole time the pig is on the brink of being butchered (try saying that 5 times faster).. & then he's saved from the cold clutches of death by a literate spider with surprisingly good webmanship.. who heart-wrenchingly DIES (i know, who ever thought anyone would be sad to see an arachnid croak?) in the end from exhausting herself in efforts that saved the wee little porker.. you finish the movie & it feels kinda like a facebook fight.. even if you win, you still lose..


9. PINNOCHIO: I wasn't sure about Pinnochio's validity on this blog until Phil broke it down for me at lunch, & i saw the light.. er, well.. opposite.. of.. light.. K think what this movie is centered around.. An old man makes a boy!! YA!!.. now you may be willing to argue with me that perhaps he was just lonely??  in which case i would point out, 'If dude was really that lonely he could have made himself an age appropro female companion'.. instead he made himself a little boy DOLL! then there is the Pleasure Island (??? ...????) , like unto Sodom & Ghamora, where all the little kids turn into donkeys & are sold to work in salt mines?? creeptastic, no??

10. SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFES:  SW's stepmom,  Evil Queen (probably a family name??) is SUUUUPER jelly of SW..(for obvious reasons.. NOT.. easily the most doggish DISprincess.. & they have not one but TWO gingas!! how's that for a below the belt blow to the ole' ego?) So she immediately sets out to murder her stepdaughter in cold blood (cause isn't that the best way to resolve family issues??) but NO! Snowy escapes into the woods & happens upon a midget colony, where she decides to set up residency & bake pies (with exaggerated ease mind you) & serenade woodland creatures till her hearts content.. happy ever after, the end.. NAAAHT!! ole Evil disguises herself as a very believable old crone & hunts SW down & gives her a poisoned apple.. first things first, who accepts fruit from random old hags that look like death warmed over?? albino-esque soprano's apparently.. so SW eats the apple.. DIES! & a full fledged fur RIOT ensues!! Snowy's vertically challenged/animal posse chase the ole bitch up to the top of a cliff, where she accidentally?? commits suicide, by means of a huge boulder smushing her like she was fist-pumping trash on an episode of Jersey Shore..


11. BLACK CAULDRON- well besides the WHOLE damn movie (which scored Disney its first PG rating), where do i start.. ok so there is this Horned King (kinda looks like Judy Dench after she's been on a 2 week bender)

                                                                       ..& he is after this cauldron.. yes yes the BLACK cauldron.. due to its magical ability to bring a kind of life to the dead.. which are called 'cauldron born'.. i know, *shivers*.. because he plans to build himself an undead army with which to take over the world.. global domination at it's DARKEST.. *spoiler alert* he finds the cauldron, & he totes raises his zombie soldiers.. horned king, dark magic, dead soldiers oh my!.. but then there is a kamikaze-like human sacrifice?? & it destroys the undead army, with one horned king kicker to boot, THE END..

12. HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - Judge Frollo (bad guy) in the first 5 minutes has killed a gypsy woman & is about to throw her deformed infant down a well when a priest stops him.. so he leaves the baby (that he named Quasimodo which means half-formed) at the church (Notre Dame) where it stays locked in the bell towers cause he's very unattractive?? anyways ugly kid grows up.. now ole' Frollo is extremely self-righteous & even more so prejudiced against gypsy's.. yet he wants to coheres a (turns out to be 15yr old..(gross, gross, & I submit even more gross))Gypsy dancer Esmeralda into being his glorified prostitute??.. weird.. anyways she is not interesting in any part of his goodie basket, so he gets upset (maybe the understatement of the year.. at least the month), she goes into hiding, he burns down 1/2 of Paris trying to find her.. Quasi helps her out a lot.. eventually she is caught & he goes to burn. her. ALIVE (apparently he was still a little butthurt over the rejection) BUT Quasi saves her life.. then him and Frollo scuffle on the roof & eventually Frollo falls to his death in a most terrifying manner that is symbolically, more or less, saying he's been damned to hell.. serves his self righteous ass right


13. ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN: the main character Charlie (a dog) DIES at the beginning..& goes to heaven.. but finds a way back to earth with the help of a magic pocket watch?? once there he starts up a gambling ring & extorts a little girls ability to talk to animals (which gives him a leg up when making bets at the racetrack).. he recruits her help with (false) promises that he will find her a family (which he of course has no intention of doing) & through lies & bad decisions she catches pneumonia & it wipes out all of her strength so at the end she almost drowns BUT Charlie (doing his only decent act the entire movie) decides to save her, therefore sacrificing himself.. boo.. but it's okay cause like the title says 'All dogs go to Heaven'.. in the sequel (aptly named 'All Dogs Go To Heaven 2') we find out that while our canine compadres are paradise bound after they bite the big one, our furry feline friends are not in for such an afterlife treat seeing as they all go to HELL! no really.. they made a cat the devil.. have you no decency!?!?.

14. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Coley was adamant this one make the cut.. she felt that the villagers actions at the end of the film a bit extreme.. Like, most the show they don't even know the Beast exists & then as soon as they become aware of his persons they go all angry mob on him, fully armed with torches & pitchforks.. it really escalated too quickly.. all the sudden it was BAM! 'KILL THE BEAST!' not 'LETS SEE IF HE'LL MOVE!' or 'LETS TRY TO GET TO KNOW HIM, MAYBE HE'S A NICE GUY!' or 'HE'S NEVER BOTHERED US BEFORE MAYBE WE'RE JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS'.. they were an unjust lynch mob to say the least.. but it's okay cause they get a serious beat down courtesy of random enchanted household objects/appliances.. double plus bonus, the Lead Douchelord Gaston, attempts to cheap shot (cheap stab?? cheap maim?? .. no that doesn't sound right) the beast by trying to take him from behind (okay.. that sounds even worse) but his balance is shotty & he falls to his DOOM.. oh but *happy dance* the beast turns back into a very monochromatic boy.. man?? manboy.. the end

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes..

Since becoming a Mom:

1. I can now perform almost all everyday functions with one arm.. i'm like a slightly more able bodied Captain Hook.. or Bethany Hamilton.. too soon??

2. I can drown out almost any noise.. be it talking, a baby crying, the apocalypse.. with the skill of a dude watching the Super Bowl

3. Hygiene schmygiene.. if I get a bath in a week i'm doing good.. not quite to the semi-annual baths of our pioneer ancestors past... but i'm getting pretty damn close

4. I make hobo's look good.. I wear the same sweats.. for DAYS.. sometimes the worst part of my day is when I have to pull out my dressy leisure clothes for trips to town..

5. Speaking of those little field  trips, my now dressed up public façade usually falls into the realm of butch.. i'm not talking Portia DeGeneres.. i'm talking straight up Rosie O'Donnell.. woof

6. I will always, at all times, have some sort of baby residue on my person at all times.. be it drool, snot, boogers, food, spit up, POOP.. I have pretty much given up looking chic & smelling any sort of decent

7. While were on the subject of how good i DON'T look on any given day let's address my hair.. which is always up in a top knot (not the good looking ones mind you, the one's that look like turds), back in a clip (ala 90's teenager), or back in a slicked ponytail like the greasiest of mob bosses..

8. Clean up in aisle 5..Blow outs are now part of my life.. & when it rains it POURS.. poop.. but I can now rectify the situation & produce a semi-clean, non poopy, freshly dressed infant in warp speed (my fingers now have the accuracy & dexterity of Chopin).. & with the grace of Julie Andrews to boot ;)

9. I now have a self induced speech impediment..hims brings out my backwoodsy grammar oblivious alter ego..

10. Welcome to the gun show.. toting around 16-24 pounds of squirming wiggly weight all day everyday (& i'm not referring to my butt) will give you some serious pythons.. or at least really big garter snakes..

11. I can push & corner a stroller with the speed & agility of a Jamaican bobsled team..
 '1,2,3 *toot* who's the captain of our crew, who's a friend to me & you, kinda nice good looking too, Sanka Sanka yay Sanka'.....
...'who's the big hot bag of air, who doesn't wash or comb his hair, who doesn't bathe & doesn't care, Sanka Sanka yay SANKA!'

12. Lastly.. I can change a baby butt almost anywhere.. on the run, on the go.. you name the time & place & i'll be there to give you a clean, fresh diapered, rear end.. i now wipe other butts more than i wipe my own

LAKE & BAKE

okay okay.. so you may be thinking I've exhausted that title a wee bit..

 guilty as charged

I can't help it though.. it's puntastic!

 

so this year was our Applonie Family Reunion

 

they're held every 2 years

 

at Luby Bay in Priest Lake Idaho!

aka

THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH

I mean for reals though! LOOK ^^^ at the lush green heaven of a haven..

(photo cred: not me)

you were probably thinking IDAHO.. meh.. but keep in mind folks i'm talking about

NORTHERN IDAHO! which should not be blasphamied by grouping it with ALL of that butthole of a state.

 

only downside is it takes quite the pilgrimage to reach it!

only like 11 hours.. whatevs.. half a day..

(not the better half *scoff* okay yes i'm lame)

it's that 2nd to LAST bit of blue at the top right.. err left.. (I know my rights from lefts) of Idaho!

 

 

 See it's damn near the Canadian border.

side note: one reunion we need to take a day trip to the land of maple syrup & Bullwinkle

to reach it we go from IF north, bypass BUTTE (who names these places?), into MISSOULA where we ALWAYS stop at Lucky Lil's travel plaza (they have like a million + one slurpie flavors), then you cut west towards COUER D'ALENE (ps.. they have ZERO mexifry radio stations in them there parts! like zero fiesta's sir!) once you've reached there you go north through HAYDEN then you cut left at ATHOL (I know who is on these naming committees?) then you head north (I know it's a lot of northward travel) to PRIEST RIVER.. which is like PRIEST LAKE but we're not quite there yet!! again we go northward for 30 more minutes and FINALLY!! there you find our little bit of heaven

 

if heaven is no showers, 1 ply toilet paper, long tenures of outdoor living, everything smells & tastes like smoke, smores smores smores!!, sandy cracks, & so. much. family.

 

then ya.. heaven..

 

THIS WAS OUR first YEAR WITH BABIES!!

 

well great grandkid babies

(we've kinda always had a few babies cause we're a large family that reproduces like rabbits)

(I think we're done though now with the O.G's popping out babies.. they've done their part)

 

ASHCAT & GABEY

had their first camping experiences at 4 & 8 months old

I must admit I was scared to go camping with babies

I mean how awful does that sound?

in theory somewhere between kindergarten teacher & wiping with sandpaper right?

it totes wasn't THAT bad

I was hesitant cause I mean there was a lot to consider

such as:

 

how do we keep them clean?

answer: you don't

how do you get warm bottles?

answer: campfire (literal smoke on the water.. they liked the smokehouse milk thang)

how do you keep bugs at bay?

answer: campfire again for the win!!( yup you just hang your babies in the smoke for a minute (obvi you keep their faces out of it..) & the squeeters have zero desire to munch!)

 

so really it wasn't THAT bad

 & to be perfectly honest they ended the 2 weeks smelling a LOT better than the rest of us did..

which granted is not saying much.. but it is saying a little

 

anyways it was an AWESOME reunion!

we didn't have everyone there but it was still a blast

at one point or another our body count was

7/7-Pancheri

6/7-DeCoria

3/3-Tippett

4/4- Applonie/Watsons

1/2-Applonie

0/6Applonie

0/6-Applonie

1/6-Wilker

2/2-Essary

4/5-Wise

7/7 Picard

 

so like 64% attendance.. no bad.. that'd put us at a passing grade I do believe

 

plus we had some of our DeCoria family come join the fun in the forms of

Uncle Mike (dad's older brother)

Aunt Cindy (mikes wife)

Cousins:

 Beck(mikes last daughter)

Anders(kathys first twin)

Gunner(kathys second twin)

2nd Cousin's:

Camdyn (Becks first (she's preggo with her 2nd!! (:  )

Chase (Sara's boy)

Lily (Sara's girl)

 

SO. MUCH. SHARED. DNA.

 

Aunt Helen planned the entire shebang!

& she went above & beyond the call of duty

she had ENDLESS activities for the kids, brown bag skits! a 75th.. errrr I mean 3rd 25th birthday bash for Grama Peggy, beach Olympics, Amazing Race, ect ect..

it. was. a. BLAST!

granted we had our bouts of drama & our little spats

 but you get that much family together, that many FEMALES together & its bound to get a little crazy!

 

here are some pictures of our

2013 Applonie Reunion

 

*aka*

Gabe & Ash's first taste of our hobo(ier)/crazy sides

 

 the boys exersaucers were FILTHY by the time we came home!!

(bums would look upon them & say 'mmm.. no thanks i'm good)

 ben & gabe having a moment

ben literally will not miss anyone BUT the boys during his 2- year tenure to the Lord

 I promise he DUG it.. up until the camera came out.. ya i'm up for mother of the year

 my dog is a huge weiner.. & has no idea he's a dog.. he thinks he's my baby too

..firstborn probs..

 sassy & sunblocked!!

gabe's ode to his Aunt Lamey (me)

the White Hand of Sauromon!!

(ah Gabe+LOTR reference=love..true love)

 such attractive sleepers

 the boys & Aunt Suga!

(ash looks as big as Gabe.. he's not!)

(Aunt Helen custom MADE those little lovelies! & they were REVERSABLE!

the skill, the TALENT!, the pure unadulterated badassness!!) 

 'Lookin's free.. touchings gonna cost ya!'

everybody looking at the correct camera

 

dad proving 'white guys can jump'

has a bit of a pride issue that one

(old jock habits die hard)

 

 

BEACH TIME

 Aunt Cindy with Lily, Cam, & Chase!

I know they are like as big as her!

 Grandpa & his beach babies

 Gabes facial expression cracks me up

 Granny Moo & her Ashercat hiding from the rays

Brooke's reaction to one of the events in the Beach Olympics

 

 

NACHO'S, LEMON HEADS, MY DADS BOAT

WE WON'T GO DOWN CAUSE..

 So this is a really awktard looking picture of me & the sisterfriend

& the out-of-focusness of it all makes it even worst..

'my names amy, & I have a 6 yr old's head sensoring my junk)

 Captain Coley

 Uncle Mike lent us his boat for an ENTIRE week

with which we could use to tube

& we took FULL advantage of it!

SCAR! BROTHER! HELP ME!

long live THE KING!!

(see what I did there?? )

 flag girls!

 our Titanic moment

 Ben & Anders catching air!

only serious tubers need apply

 I may or may not have influenced Nicole to wreck Ben & Anders this hard

they were going between 45-50 when this happened

..they skipped like rocks for at least 7 skips each..

 the yellow shorts is Anders

the gleeful face is obvi DanWolf

 Gunnar, DanWolf, & Anders

 check out that terrified mug

 beach beauties!

& those guys ;)

 Ben was super enthused about his 10mph kiddie ride

 such an easy tube to wreck on.. & off

 so.. DanWolf fell off.. & the driver didn't realize to this is Ben & Gunnar still holding on.. & Dan is back somewhere chilling in the lake..

still no danwolf.. haha it was so funny.. in a kinda bad way.. but he didn't get eated or ran over so it's okay to laugh at

 

bathing beauty

Gabe had a PERI Bronchial virus the last fews days
So they had to take him to the ER in Newport
This is on the way home after he got heavily medicated
The Gabey.. he like a the good stuff

ROCK out with your HAMHOCKs out

sleepy sunbathers