...and then he made me a shaker bookcase and matching adirondac chairs

My sweet little four-year old has an obsession with moustaches. When given the opportunity to say something into a fan, as kids like to do, his choice is almost always, "Moustaches are coooooool. Moustaches are coooooool. Moustaches are coooooooooooooooool."

Last Sunday Adam and I went to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner. As we walked in the door I took a quick glance at the offerings in the bubble gum machines. You never know when I'm gonna be able to add to my Homies collection. Besides, I am still looking for that one in the wheelchair. Instead of my beloved Homies, though, I did find the mother of all machines. The Moustache Machine! Sweet Lincoln's Mullet! I knew Blake had to have one, or three.

May I present to you, Straight from his New Yankee Workshop--Norm Abram!




He even let his sister take his 'stache out for a ride. (There's a moustache ride joke in there that, yes, I AM desperately trying to avoid). P.S. I have no idea what's on her face.



Eventually this moustache ended up stuck to the bottom of the television. I thought it was a large Caterpillar and was waiting for it to spin a cocoon. It never did and Adam threw it away.

A pictoral look back at the month of June

On June 3rd I opened The Flop Shop on Etsy. Buy some. Please. I'm tired of looking at the flip flops I have left.

On June 6th Adam channeled the African tribesman in him and did this for no apparent reason.

Then he did this to my eldest child and he wasn't even provoked.

June 13th found us at the Davenport skate park where Adam's band played along with several other local bands.


Adam's guitarist Karl sat in a tiny chair...


...and I got to see my friend from high school perform in his band. He married my best friend in 2005. They had only been dating since we were sophomores. That was 1990. I guess they wanted to make sure it was the real thing.

It got pretty cold for June out at the skate park and the sun stayed behind the clouds. I made the stupid decision to wear short and not bring a jacket so I pushed a small child out of it's stroller and stole his blanket. That was MUCH better.


Adam's parents visited us from Tennessee during skate park weekend. Adam's dad showed me his packs of Camels and their scary warning labels.



Later the next week I woke up and found that not only had Blake dressed himself in his new Spiderman costume, he had also captured and tied himself up using Adam's sports tape.


He also showed off his new "old man underwear". His too-big boxers that my sister bought him.


That night he shoved the too-big boxers under his tiny sleep shorts and then pulled the sleep shorts as high up his butt as possible.


Guess who really loved the thumb wrestling set he got in his meal at Taco Bell?


Father's Day was spent at my sister's house for dinner. The kids got Adam this visor with attached hair that actually looks really natural on him.




A few days before this picture was taken Emily and I watched No Doubt perform on Ellen. If you haven't seen how Gwen Stefani is styling her hair, it's like this only there's two more knots. Emily loves Gwen and wanted to rock her style. On the last day of the month I put one of the Gwen knots in her hair and she did her own make-up. Ladies and Gentlemen, Emily Stefani...