Friday, February 6, 2009

too much television....


Today...Luke came up to me and asked me where my "scrap gold" was?


Huh?


I asked him why and he said:


"You just put your old scrap gold in an envelope and you put it in the mailbox and you mail it to the mail guy so he can take the scrap gold and turn it into money."


Really? Wow!

I decided to also ask his twin, Seth. He said:


"You take your old jewelry that you never wear and put it in a bag and send it to them and then in a couple weeks you get money."
I wonder what they would do with the money?


Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Francis told me this poem her brother wrote...


I heard a Cricket under a picket


Singing a cheerful song


I went out to see what it was about


and the little critter was gone.....

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Sunday, January 25, 2009

this is awesome!




best is at the end...what goes up must come down...

Friday, January 23, 2009

this hangs on our front door....

I don't know who put it there...

after the snow.....


beautiful mushrooms....

I need another picture from the side...


oh crap...here he comes....


the spazz monkey is on the loose...."hey I am trying to take a picture of that....@^#%@&!"



"hey ...don't eat them....they could be poisoness!"


part of my day consists of saving the dog from himself...

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

make an inaugural pop-up card



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Carol Barton is cool! She made it....

Monday, January 19, 2009

wize old man..

I was sitting with some Senior friends at dinner...One of the Sr. men stood up to go...


and I said to him "Be Good."


He replied..."If you can''t be good, be careful!"


Great advice from a wize old man...




Tuesday, January 13, 2009

puzzle rules.....

which get broken all the time..

1. No Farting!
2. You can only look at the picture once.
3. If you look at the picture more...you can't work on puzzle...but you can now look at the puzzle all you want and tell everyone all about the puzzle as.....much as you like...unless you are under 10. Then you can look at the puzzle and still work on puzzle.
4. No crying.
5. Try to get the frame of puzzle done first...
6. Joe gets to do the signs.


If puzzle is not too challenging...put it together face down...

There are more...but I can't remember themmm all..

Do you have any?

This isn't quite how I pictured them....


A senior man came up to me at the front desk at work and spooked me out....He told me that his wife who has alzheimers told him that out the window from their apartment there were people across the street dressed in black waving to her...

When he told me that..... it.... freaked me out...he said "of course there aren't any people doing that..it was all in her head..." but was it really or could she see more than us? yikes....

at least they were across the street though...right????

My new quest...(dream)

sweet....




super sweet.....



I want this! I asked the kids if they were cool with us getting a limo for our next family car..and they surprisingly liked the idea...but we have to sell the stoopid van first...


This one shown here is 16,000....but there are others for less...but that is the cost of a cheap new stoopid little gas car... and since there aren't very many hybrids out yet ...I thought it would be fun to par-tay...until they start to come out...

Here is another one from Craigslist....Wouldn't it be cool if my husband surprised me with this...



There is something written on the back...but they don't say what it is....What do you think it says?







Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Ella and Jakeward....

That's what we call them....Twilight inspired

Jake has a wonderful girlfriend named Ella...

Monday, December 22, 2008

you just don't understand....

It never snows like this in Portland...

Yes...those are pumpkins...
I was trapped at work for 24 hours...but then my wonderful Joe came and rescued me at midnight...He had to pull over on the freeway every couple of minutes to scrape his windshield of his VW bus....because his defroster wasn't strong enough....He put the chains on my car and we braved it home....Thanks Joe!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Next dinner.....

I am going to put piggy faces on everything...it doesn't take too long...
Does it?
Cute Piggy Bentos.....I love them all....BUT....takes a little more time...

I could look at Bento pictures all day ...








and a fluffy dog....





THESE WONDERFUL BENTOS COME FROM LUCKY SUNDAE PHOTO STREAM

Can't wait.....




(for the movie)

not for this to happen...

Monday, December 8, 2008

It's official!

We are now a 6 cell phone + 1 land line family....



We held off for as long as we could....Happy Birthday Joe and E!

Teen Party....

We took a group of great friends out to dinner and a band...



Joe got a really nice rock....


Elizabeth had fun with her friends...they are very funny...



Dad driving crazy teens to dinner...

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Guess what the stoopid boys from church used to call me?

I think I was about 11....



But I am galaxy girl....

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Troll Zits....





that is what my Mother told me MAYONAISE was made out of .....when I was about 11 years old!

So I have been avoiding Troll Zits most of my life...


I broke down the other day and bought some to make this recipe.......this is from Desperation Dinners Cookbook


It turned out pretty good:



2 Cups pasta (8 oz) I chose the twirly ones

1/3 Cup reduced fat Troll Zits

2 Tablespoons Dijon Mustard (Hey Mom where does dijon mustard come from?)

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Black Pepper to taste

8 oz Deli ham cut into pieces

1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese

1 Cup peas



and whatever else there is..you want to throw in there...

Basically cook pasta, drain...add to mixed ingredients..



boogers?....?


Jan Brett troll









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Nerf Wars..


I noticed we had more than a couple Nerf guns...but no bullets...

I bought a package and put them on the dining room table...I forgot to tell anyone that I had gotten them...but it didn't take long for a war to insue....

Where do all the bullets disappear too? It is mostly a mystery...But I did see the dog poop part of one out one time...poor guy

okay this is dangerous...


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This is what my husband emailed me Tuesday....

This is what I found behind my bed....




Seth had dumped it...
I became suspicious because...one second he had a plate full of food...and the next second... the plate was completely empty....
Good thing I am on top of my game!
Takin care of business!

I was lucky enough to be standing....


at the end of the drink table when the first wave of Football Players were coming down with their plates of food....This was at the High School Football Banquet.


They each had one plate of food and one plate of deserts...packed high..I thought about each kid....... There is no way he can eat all that....But sure enough when I sat down at our table and watched my own son woof down all his food and deserts and then he was given 3 large cookies by his friend and ate them...I couldn't believe it....I looked around... each one had eaten all their food.


All the boys are lean mean fighting machines...they all spend a lot of time in the weight room..
My son fits in probably the 75 percentile..You know, out of a 100 kids he is shorter than 25 but taller than 75...


The football program was amazing and I realized how lucky he was to be part of the team with such great kids and awesome coaches...The coaches talked about each kid and their attributes and hard work..

Wherever I lay my hat.....





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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Star Wars School...

Luke: "Now sit down in class and put on your space pack..."



Luke: "I am going to teach you a lesson....If you smell food..it is your dinner cooking..."



Seth: "Where do I sleep?"



Luke: "Lay down on the ground and take off all your mask's."



Luke: "You get to hide and I will find you...1...2...3...4..Ready or not here I come...now where is Boba Fett?"

Mom: "Can I borrow the pepper?"

Luke: "R2D2 is going to show us some songs..."

Luke and Seth then sing the Scooby Dooby Doo song together...


(Darth Vader is a keychain...they hook the clip part on his hand and it becomes his gun)




Seth: "Let's call Darth Vader."
Luke: "We are suppose to go together on every mission."
Seth: "I am Darth Vader!"
Luke: "Let's go....sneak attack."
Seth: "go go go..."



The Star Wars Clubhouse......

A robot had a medical emergency...

Luke: "Does he need a new battery...wires...glue gun?"