My Monthy Summer Post

Before I get started in the explanation of these amazing pictures, let me first say that I hate when you're uploading pictures to blogger and it puts them in the opposite order you added them-- for example, you are looking through your pictures, brainstorming how you're going to make your blog entry flow, and then, when everything is uploaded and ready to go, you pictures are all in the wrong order. I've said my piece.

The Country Fair! We took a trip to Eugene in the middle of July. It was a trip for the summer, and it was a fun one! This recent family snap shot would be us, at the fair, drenched in mud and rain. It started down pouring as soon as we got onto the shuttle bus and didn't stop til we got in line to get back on the shuttle to go back to Eugene. We made the best of it. Lucy even got a sno-cone. Good times, good times.

We had a surprise visit from Chris and Alisa who went to the fair on Saturday, and stayed with us at our friends' Nikki and Brady's house on Saturday night. We pitted cherries and against everyone else's will except my own we played a game that I thoroughly enjoyed! Thank you!

A group shot! Sans Nikki :( Brady, Ryan, Lucy, Me, Sarah and Rowan. This was at a winery in the Willamette Valley-- Sweet Cheeks. We had dinner here and it was my first wine tasting trip! Yee-haw! This was the second of two places; the first one with a free 7-taste flight! It might be my new favorite hobby!

R & R at the first of the two wineries--that are across the street from each other.

I don't know what it is about this picture, but I like it. An action shot.

In other news, I saw the movie Julie and Julia last week, and there are two things that are going to come out of it: I am going to get a Julia Child French cook book, and I'm am going to try and blog more. I'll let you know how it goes! Ha!

summertime catch up

Here's the deal; I'm really bad about taking pictures. I have literally no pictures from the summer thus far. People take them, then give them to me. It works ... enjoy these fine selections from the late spring of '09!

Stay tuned! I have a CD of pictures from our trip to Eugene last week...don't hold your breath though!

uuughhh. . .June

Wowza, maybe it's been a few weeks since I've made a post! We've been so busy with the end of school for Lucy (offically a 2nd grader now!) and my birthday, which takes up an entire month as it is. I have a lot of pictures to post, so I'll do them a few days at a time...hold on to your shapewear everyone...it's going to be a wild ride!!
Rowan already tired and it's only 9:30 a.m.

Pretty baby in the morning light.

Back to sleep it is!

An ode to Fart Face

As some of you may know, I started a second myspace a while back, mainly to look at Ryan's myspace page. I couldn't access it unless I had a page myself, so that's what it took. But it was highly secret, as I secretly hate myspace. So, with no better ideas, I decided to make my page a disguise page, with a profile pic of E.T. and Michael Jackson, an old personal favorite. And what better name to go with my incongnietus picture but Fart Face? Right? This post (because I have no other new fun pics) is a dedication, to that myspace page. Below you will see Fig. A, an artist's rendering of my all time favorite image, and Fig. A-1, the actual footage.

Cabin Fever

No, I'm not referring to the amature horror flick starring Ryder Strong, but the Molloy family cabin on Lake Cushman, at the edge of the Olymic National Forrest!! Jen and I took Izzy, Gus and Rowan up for a one-nighter, to get her aired out and cob-web free for the summer. We had awesome weather yesterday upon arrival, and I may have donned one of Jen's 78-year-old Aunt Pat's killer swim suits. Onlookers got a good show. Here's some visual aid: let it be known that I also was playing with color when I uploaded these shots to my computer, so they are all a little different. Enjoy!

Cabin from front. Underneath is wood storage/bat cave. Oars? We got 'em!

No "good dog" for you this time, Izzy. P.S. this game makes a great gift-- Doodle Dice. Do it.

Red haired & blue eyed. She spent most of these 24 hours in this play pen, and loved almost every minute of it! Seriously!

Angus pretending he's a Japanese exchange student with the peace sign in his cheek.

View of the lake and my face. Good times, good times.

A little RECOGNITION

This is a post script to the post you are about to feast your eyes on-- In the first paragraph I make comment on the toys in the picture, please excuse me for forgetting the coolest toys in the picture, the ones my father-in-law, Cliff, made!! There are two toys: an ark with animals, and a put the shapes in the box game. Both of these beauties were made by CDL Cabinet Design, owned and operated by Cliff D. Lago, out of Greenfield, OH. How's that for a plug!?

Family Ties

This is a rare occurance, but I am logged into the computer under Ryan's profile. I came to write a post, and when I clicked to get into my pictures I realized I had none, because I was in Ryan's side of the computer, and all the pictures are in my side. So, what this means ladies and germs, is that the pictures you are about to see Ryan himself has uploaded to the computer, and are all from his phone, it's a day in the life of Ryan Lago, if you please. Let's see what he's got to show us, shall we?

Here we have Rowan giving her new baby a hug. She got this baby for her birthday from Aunt Stacy & Boys, Jill & Johari. The cell phone and keys were also a gift, from Aunt Cindy & Uncle Paul. In the corner you can see the horse from the See 'n' Say, a gift from Auntie Deb, Uncle Carl & Eric.

Here is Rowan attending a tutorial on how to take pictures of yourself for social networking sites. When you hold down the shutter button, you say, "MySpace!" with a gay accent.

Rowan and Lucy sitting on the Care Bear couch getting their daily 3 1/2 hour dose of television. I've said it before and I'll say it again, we are huge promoters of hands-on parenting.

Lucy looking pensive while the eye from her Hello Kitty placemat stares hollow through the eye of the camera.

My lovely husband, Ryan D. Lago. Make no mistake, although times is hard, times is hard, there's no one else I'd take for a companion to make poop sandwiches for lunch with and to watch crude adult cartoons with every night. Love eewe. = )