9997, 9998, 9999, 1000, a billion.

cade: hi! i like your beard.

and your mustache.

facial hair man: thanks.

cade: it is so awesome. your beard and mustache. i want russian colors.

do you know what Russian colors are?

i think they're blue, white, and red.

can you do blue, white, and red?

facial hair man: yep, sure can. those are american flag colors too ya know?

cade: american colors are red, white, and blue!

i WANT RUSSIAN! russian flag colors. NOT american.

blue

white

and red.

facial hair man: {laughing} ok, russian flag colors it is.

cade: do you know what RSL soccer colors are?

there's uh yellow, and red, and blue. is there white?

facial hair man: here ya go, RUSSIAN flag colors.

cade: yep sir-ee, RUSSIAN:) i like your beard! and your mustache!

{walks away}

this was the day where brennan 

spilled his shave ice,

and then spilled chase's shave ice, 

after i scooped his spilled one up off of the metal chair with holes, and gave it to chase.

it was then that we decided the tables were not made for children eating shave ice.

grass.

grass was made for children eating shave ice:)

then brennan and cade struck up a conversation with a family over what comes after "a thousand."

during which time they yelled back and forth to me to confirm what they were saying.

it was not 1000 and 1.

it was a billion.

and brennan kept yelling at cade that he was interrupting him.

cade kept yelling at brennan that brennan wasn't letting him talk.

which brennan yelled back that he was interrupting him again.

at which point i just told everyone to just get into the car before we could never show our faces at lani's shave ice ever again. 

ohhhh when best friends act more like siblings:)

 

i was just so glad that 2 yr olds don't care about eating spilled shave ice 

that was scooped up off of a metal chair with holes:)

"JENGA!!!"

while eating a giant snowball of colorful shave ice last night, 

i came to the realization that trying to get a scoop of shave ice 

from my cup to my mouth is like playing jenga.

so the next time you're sitting on the curb next to your favorite shave ice shack,

and you go in for the perfect scoop,

and the top comes tumbling down from the opposite side from which you scooped,

which then falls on your arm,

which then slips down onto your feet,

which then sprays your ankles,

and you try make a human circle with your arms and legs to try to keep it from tumbling on you,

but leaves red streak marks like hawaiian war paint in every which way of its path anyway,

and the remains of a water color mary poppin's washed out portrait on the asphalt all around you,

YELL

JENGA!!!

i promise,

it's way more fun than crying about a little spilled shave ice.

seriously though,

JENGA.

why have i never thought of this before???

tasted too

out with the old,

in with the new.

while our new fridge sat glowing in our kitchen, cooling itself,

 we spent the day in the pool. 

chase napped on my mom's bed in her air conditioned house.

she arrived home from hawaii this morning with treasures for us all.

a pink mumu for max,

with a matching dress for her baby doll,

a shirt with a panda for brennan.

and flip flops a'plenty

{she calls them slippers}.

i know it's almost july in utah b/c it was hot in the shade today.

but it was lovely in the pool.

especially when troy came out with his shave ice maker.

tiger's blood for all of the gibbies.

andrea told me there's 5lbs of sugar in one gallon of water in shave ice.

i wish i didn't know that.

but now you know it too.

i still say it's just juice.

basically water.

so eat up:)

because life is too short.

 the thick of summer never felt so good:)

tasted too.

Lani's

hot all week,

and we decide to hit our favorite shave ice shack on the most windy,

winter of cold days this month.

AND

i forget all of our coats.

good thing our emergency blanket was actually in the trunk for once.

we lasted about 5 minutes on the grass until the kids started uncontrollably shaking

before we called it quits, ran to the car, and blasted the heater to 80*.

i felt a little selfish with my heated seat in the front as a bonus,

but hey, they DID have the blanket.

soon enough i'll be whining about the heat.

but for now,

i just can't wait to be smelling like coconut sunscreen,

eating my blue Hawaiian shave ice at Lani's in the grass.

ice cream at the bottom.

extra blue Hawaiian on top.