29 posts from August 2008

Remember my ice cream loving Naomi?

The one that created cheese ice cream?

 

Well, she's come out with a new flavor

 

 

Remember when I got her some beautiful ice cream art for her birthday last year, custom made by Diane Duda?

(to remind you...)

...When I visited her blog and saw this-

And absolutely loved it and had to get it for Naomi because she believes she is THE Ice Cream Queen.

Minus the hair though, right?

 So I emailed the artist and asked and she came up with this!

It goes without saying, Naomi loved it, it was by far her favorite birthday gift.

 

 

So imagine my delight to see this charming piece-

 

And guess what?! I can get this on a t-shirt!

When I saw She Believed In Triple Scoops, I commented on Diane's blog and said, "I must get that for my daughter on a t-shirt" (or something like that) and she added it to her t-shirts. Along with so many other cute things. You should check out her Zazzle shop!

 (just click on the word t-shirts above)

I've also ordered it as a little print to frame too, from her etsy shop.

So expect to see Naomi fashioning her new shirt in October. I can't wait to give it to her. She will love it.

 

I just had to share not just great art, but an awesome artist, who has been so wonderful to work with.  

 

 

 

 

 

Start the soft sappy music please.....

 

 

He was a "perty baby", as his mom words it.

 

 

And she'd still be pregnant with him to this day if they didn't induce, she says.

 (I don't think about that one too long... the visual?? But it is funny when she says it)

 

 

His parents took him to Dairy Queen as a wittle babe, which explains his facination with all things

 a la' mode.

(are you catching the phone booth in the picture? And the cool car?)

 

 

He's the oldest... the big bro... the bubba.

 

 

And he took the cutest kindergarten picture of anyone I've seen.

(his dad carried this picture in his wallet even after Gary was grown)

 

 

Outdoorsmen.

 

 

Sharp shooter military guy

 

 

HOT in a uniform!!! Boy Howdy!!!

 

 

Thrill seeker

 

Let's make that clear.... seriously, for real...

 

Jumping out of airplanes 10 times thrill seeker.

 

Wonderful husband.

(little did he know that jumping out of planes was easy in comparison to this)

 

 

 Family man.

 

 

 

Poet.

 

 

My Birthday Man!!!

 

 

hApPy BiRtHdAy GaRy!!!!

 

I love you, old geazer!

 

 

 

Today is school picture day at the elementary school. Yaaay.

 No school uniforms. Bigger Yaaaay.

 Kids don't want mom to pick out their clothes. Booooooooooooooo.

Kids want to choose their own hair style. Double Booooooo.

I have to let them be free to choose or else I would be as bad as the school.  Boooo.

At least I'm not being hypocritical. Yaaaay.

 

So we practiced their smiles this morning.

Here is what they plan to have their pictures look like.

 

 

 

and...

Yaaaaay.

 

Saturday, with dirty muddy girls running in and out of the house, I kept hearing the words 'fishin' and one calling to the other 'let's go catch more fish'.

So I checked it out. 

 

 

 

Maybe there was also a little 'it's my turn to catch fish, "neighbor friend"' and then a little 'it's my net' and then a little 'it's our "mountain stream"'.

 

Can you spy with your little eye....

2 crawdads, 5 minnows, icky water, lotsa moss, 1 leaf....

 

Then the 'fishing pier' becomes a balance beam

In case you all are having Olympic withdrawals like I am.... even before the closing ceremony.

 

My favorite event- Gymnastics.

 

 

I'm usually quite opposed to feet pictures on blogs. With the exception of baby feet.

I couldn't pass up sharing this though.

This Saturday morning, Naomi shoved her feet in my face and said, "Mom, meet my little friends!"

I thought you might want to meet them too.

 

 

Fay.

The Tropical Storm Fay.

The Tropical Storm Fay that is driving alligators and snakes into suburbia Florida. The Tropical Storm Fay that is causing flooding, as much as 5 feet in some areas!

The Tropical Storm Fay who brought me cooler temps yesterday, beautiful rain and glorious wind. Oh, how I love the wind. Of course it's all fun and games until a tree gets blown onto my home, that would stink. I still love the wind, as long as it's not doing that.

Tropical Storm Fay also let's me pretend it's time to bring out the cold weather dinners. I don't get enough soups and stews living in Georgia so I have to take rainy day opportunities.

So yesterday, even though it was 80 degrees, I made chili.

I mostly make my own chili recipe...

 

...but yesterday we went with Bear Creek. 

I remember when Bear Creek was just a small company getting started in Utah, going to boutique fairs back in the day when it was all about eating low fat, and they offered it in the way of the most flavorful and filling Potato Soup. It offered the simplicity of 'just add water'.  I was hooked at my first sample in a tiny cup.

Now Bear Creek can be found all over the US in the local grocery store. Even in Georgia. 

Good thing that. Good thing for me.  

 

Nolan & Rae

Rae & Nolan

They are a comical brother/sister combo. And a sharing and caring duo.

 

They like to share seats

 

Sometimes they share the exact same spot.

 

They share hair help

 

They love movie making.

(as seen before)

 (Nolan- making and acting. Rae- just acting) 

 

They aren't so great though, at sharing food. Sometimes they resort to sneaking the food with a "Look! A pink power ranger!"

 

Although there was a day when if Rae had a sucker....

 

and Nolan didn't....

 

Rae would share.

 

I'm so glad I caught this on film.

 

I don't know why they don't do that anymore.

 I really need to talk to them about sharing suckers like they used to.

:-D 

Oh boy.

 I am shaking in my boots here, worried about who this post might offend. I am a nervous wreck, but I'm gonna jump on in anyways... But if the words seem a little shaky it's because my hands were doing just that as I typed them.

..........Deep breath...........

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Okay. I just read the. stupidest. book. ever.

Supposedly it's a very popular book. They even made a movie from the book.

I read the whole thing and as I was reading it I kept whining about how dumb it was and Gary would say, "So stop reading it!" And I would come back with, "I paid 8 bucks for this book! I'm reading the thing!"

So what book, right?

 

Okay, here goes.... here is the book.

 

This book is suppose to be hilarious!

People will probably think less of me for thinking it wasn't hilarious. Sure, there was a spot here and there, but over all, the parts that so many people loved, not so much for me.

Here is the thing, I ...... well, I..... I don't like British humour.

I LOVE British people!!

 It's just the humour.... Monty Python? I don't get it... Four Weddings and a Funeral? Nope, didn't do it for me.

My mother-in-law, however, loves Keeping up Apperances. She always says, "They must go to school for years to learn to talk that way."

Here are some British people I love..

(at least, the people I think are British, because who and where British people come from confuse me)

 

Do you have to be in the UK to be British? Or the British Islands? Or Isles?

See, I don't know. So now I am probably being all the more offensive.

 

So, here are the people I LOOOVE who (I think) are British.

I think she's funny. When she had Twitch on SYTYCD take his grills out of his mouth and put them in hers- that was funny!

 

I used to have a mad crush on Tim Roth. (come back Tim, come back!)

 

And Seal. (you should come back too)

 

We have all heard the story about me and my Mary Poppins.

 

Plus my beautiful bird banner was created by someone from the UK because she loves me. (see her here)

 

See, it's not about the people, I love the people, it's about the humor.

I wonder if any British people don't find humor in what is called 'British humour' either??

That's some food for thought, eh? 

I get humor, just not that humor. The book was just a bunch of jumbled words that made no sense to me.

 

Which reminded me... of a time, on my family's website, when we created something quite similar.

 

So IF you are someone who enjoyed the above book, you might like this bit of nonsense.

 

And to my family, I can't believe this was written SIX YEARS ago!!

And so because it was written 6 years ago, I must point out, that I was only 32 then, and really with my maturity issues, it's like I was 30. So please don't think less of me when you read it.

So here, I present to you all a very tiny snippet of a conversation on my personal family's web site titled So Today.

(and if you like this, you might like The Hitchhikers book. Might.)

 

		Wittle Baby Sister - Oct 22, 2002   View | Viewers Categories: JHSJHDFKAJ FHAJSH     the rat and the big old plant in the living room went to the gas station and whadya know, then done gone and upped the price of water in the central tank of the international water resource tank of america in utah connected with france.   i was like...what?!?!?
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		Boyfriend Taker Dar - Oct 22, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     and I am like... what?!?!?!?!?
		LoW - Oct 22, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Well, duh, rats and plants never go to the gas station for gas, it's always about the water! Besides, France always gets Utah, so it's Utah turn to get back at France, I am just glad that Minnesota had nothing to do with it this time, because then they would bring in the bananas and creamed corn from "you know where" and that always messes with my eye sight, which is barely 5/5 as it is!
		Wittle Baby Sister- Oct 22, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Minnesota always tries to get in the business with France and Utah though.   The big relief is that the corn chip base based out of Ontario Canada stayed out of it, they are always polluting stuff on purose with their corn extracts which makes the water taste really bad.   But the rat actually prefers it.   But either way, the water price upping is really going to ruin the paint chips that the dog uses.
		LoW - Oct 22, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     I know the rat prefers the corn extracts in the water, I do believe it is the umblilicalitis from the pernderous sipintotalis. I think once they cloned a mix of the rat and the common chair, we were just headed straight towards problems of that nature. And nature in it's best form, it can jilly and jally and end up with Texas having corn tasting water too, and then the chicken won't cross the road, not even to get to the other side.
		Wittle Baby Sister- Oct 22, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Jilly and Jally??   They haven't been around since the big deodarant scare in '95.   You know, when the corn chip base polluted the deodarant factories in Paris, Texas that is and everyones armpits smelt like corn chips and people were knawing on eachother.   But that was all caused by the darn doors.   Not the band but the doors that keep the deodarant factory closed off from everything.   Namely the corn chips.   So anways, the doors stayed open for some reason, I think the wolly carpet bribed them.   I swear this is just all one vicious cycle!!
		LoW - Oct 23, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Oh no, Jilly and Jally are in hiding, they live in a small town on Black Street and go by the name of Mary and Burley now. They have a daughter that goes by the name of Darla that has always had corn breath, from eating the deoderant that was polluted by the cornchip factories. All that is besides the oint though, or point, whichever you refer, or prefer, because when you have problems with the P's, the bones weaken, and the only thing you can do about that is leave the door open and pray for wolly carpet to walk right on through those open doors. However, if the stars shined down on you, what would YOU do about it?
		E- Oct 23, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Well, if the wolly carpet walked through the door and the stars were shining down on me I would have to speak with Australia about the kangaroo convention. That would open the discussion of water and what was put in it, besides the corn anyway. The twinkling stars and the corn deorderant eating Darla will then have to deal with the Jilly Jally at the water fall.
		LoW- Oct 24, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     THANK YOU for bringing up the Kangaroo convention!! I almost forgot!! And I signed up to bring the stink weed! I hope Jilly and Jally aren't there this year! Last year they flung the tater through the shoot and scoobied all the way to the punkin suite where the three wheelin octopuses were dining. They really misbehave after they have been flying with those butterflies. It's irritating!
		Wittle Baby Sister- Oct 24, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     well of couse they misbehave after hanging with the butterflies. cause the butterflies are the spawn of satan.   and you know what else is the spawn of satan??   the kangaroo convention.   its just a big cult.   i cant believe that jilly and jally would be involved with it. or any body else for that matter.   you know what convention ISN'T the spawn of satan. the convention for the people who are against the convention of the kanagroo convention. so i'm gonna head over to tulsa, oaklahoma and   go to that convention while you all go to the cult one where you dont have to pay taxes.   or pay for cornchip deodarant. but you guys aren't focusing on the point here.   they upped the price of water. and now they done gone and upped the price of green oreos!!
		LoW- Oct 24, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Upped the price of green oreo's?!?!?!?! Now they are spinning out of control! I think I will z-mail the head stool and ask her to shave her goat-T. That may help with the price of water too, because of the reply from computerized cellular wireless digitized manual labor they are expecting from the doorbells that require crushed green oreo's mixed with their gas on a hot summer day.
		LoW- Oct 24, 2002   Viewers | Reply to this item     Did anyone smell that?

 

 

 

I feel the need to apologize.

If you are offended that I didn't like the book

or

that I don't know who is British and who isn't

or

that I don't get British humor

or

that I compared it to the nonsensical stuff on my family site

or

because you are my family and you never wanted that stuff shared

or

because you are not family and you never wanted that stuff shared...

 I'm sorry.

 

Lately Naomi and Zoe are all about getting ready for school in record time, so they can get some scootin' in before school.

I am all about it because I don't have to beg, plead, cry, threaten them to hurry so they won't be late.

 

Zoe requested I do her hair like this. Rae used to do it for her, they call it pig-ears. I don't know if they made that up or it's a well known hair term. Does anyone know? 

When she got home from school she said, "Lots of people said my hair looked good..." then she started adding up all the people that said they liked it....

"Mom, 7 people said they liked my hair, including me."

 

 

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Zoe was in charge of Family Home Evening last night. Her idea was to sit around the family room eating dessert and talking. Eating in the family room with permission is a big deal. Nolan said we should go around the room saying nice things about each other.

It's funny how hard they seem to think it is, to give a true compliment.

"Wes, you have a very nice cell phone."

"Rae, you are really good at straightening people's hair."

"Nolan, you wear glasses like noone else in this family."

"Mom, you did a good job picking out my cell phone."

"Mom, you did a good job slicing this store bought pie."

Nobody really said the last one, but that was about how the compliments went. And we did have store bought pie.

 

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Sunday in Sacrament Meeting there was a talk on pride.

Zoe whispered excitedly in my ear, "Mom!!  I know that word. That was one of my spelling words! Pride! p-r-i-d-e, pride."