Father's day picture...

I am not in it because I am taking the picture...

Carson...and friends...he is in the middle

My computer is so freakin' slow....

I think that is why I don't do this....bloggin thing!

Jake's graduation

Jake is a high school grad! We did not take the babies...we are getting smarter!

my kid

Carmel...

On Sunday Carmel is coming to live with us! We are all very excited and the boys keep asking me "How many more days?" My friend Andrea is going to Haifa fora couple years and she is entrusting Carmel's care to us!

Here is Luke and Carmel when she visited a couple weeks ago...

Wafffle's is a complete nut! He is about a year and a half. He is full of energy and lots of fun BUT can drive you crazy! He is like a kitten in many ways....I don't know how to explain that...I think Carmel will calm him down a bit (maybe) and He can get her running around...SO Excited!

Mastermind Luke collecting information before taking over....

Luke asked me today:

"Mom, how do you make money?"

I replied:

"You make money by working and then you get paid money...or you can make something and sell it."

I added:

"There are lots of different jobs and you get to pick what you want to do."

He stopped me by saying:

"No...no...no...I mean how do you make money...do you draw it and can you print it on the computer?"

I answered:

"UH............................................................no we don't print money...the government prints the money..it is against the law to make money."

blogging: writing and posting pictures into space.....

maybe someday an alien will post a comment...

Korgi...the cutest graphic novel!

http://www.sladestudio.com/1082.html

Seth and I loved it!

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?

me-ow

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.....

must see....

this is awesome!

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

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...

make an inaugural pop-up card

click here for popularkinetics.com

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

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...

Download a old man mask here

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?

Ella and Jakeward....

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

Jake has a wonderful girlfriend named Ella...

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!

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...

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...