Summer Fun

This is pretty much what most of our summer has looked like. Water, water, and more water. we planted a garden which has flourishes along with the weeds. We made the rounds of the neighborhood giving away our goods. The kids thought that was pretty cool. I bet I looked great pulling a wagon loaded with 3 kids and piled high with cabbage. All of the little ones have honed their swimming skills. Jamie has excede them all with her diving. Chance will jump to anyone willing to catch him. Sometimes he jumps before we're ready.

The life jackets make me feel safer when they are all in there together.

Isn't she just the cutest doll?

The 3 muskateers. They are practically inseperable. They love each other and fight like cats and dogs. GO FIGURE!

The biggest kid of all.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WARREN

• Sorry about the quality of this photo but it is 1980. Warren is about 2 in this picture. Happy because he is still an only child, basking in the attention of everyone. That will change in 1981 when his creepy sister comes along.
• Happy Birthday Son
• Here are some fun tidbits to chuckle about
• He knew you had a forehead, but thought higher up was a five head. Totally makes sense to me.
• He called 7up....7 eight
• He thought all birds beaks were called peckers.( story for another post)
• Ate as much food as a five year old
• Loved his uncle Dennis
• Was his Dads shadow
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CAKE, CAKE, AND MORE CAKE

In 3 days I have received 3 e-mails about this yummy looking cake made in a coffee mug.
Do you hate me?
Do you know the crazy things that run through my mind when I am up at 4 am?
Have you seen the size of my trunk lately?
If my husband wakes up some morning and I have filled every available mug with cake, and I am in a chocolate induced coma, maybe you will be a little more considerate about what you shoot me in the mail. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND SHAME ON YOU.

Roller Derby

This is the original sign at the roller drome in Nampa. I have been going there since about the 5th grade. Kathleen can verify times because she was there and has a better memory than I.Skating was on Sarahs list of things to do. So off we went. All my kids and their kids.Grampa lacing up his skates and trying to talk the little ones into skating. Olivia was the only brave soldier. I have never been able to skate well. I'm a wall hugger doofus! My kids are all pretty good. Sarah and Joe won the adult race. Joe beat a couple young whippersnappers and Sarah was the only girl so she won the girl prize. We couldn't talk Warren into racing. In fact I believe he thought us quite foolish.

You may not notice but I DO NOT HAVE ON SKATES!! My back is still iffy , and as I confessed before DOOFUS!!

The winners and their trophy's. They each won a free drink from the snack bar. They both needed it because they worked up quite a thirst on that one lap. Hey kids, does that make you wanna quit smoking?

It was fun and I love doing things with the kids. I'm a good bench warmer. Hope I can cheer on my great grand kids.

MY SIGN POST

I found this picture at Target and it just struck a cord in me.
I do have a fabulous life.
Now before you get all "WHATEVER", let me justify my stand.

• I and all my family are in good health.
• My house is not in foreclosure
• We have as much work as we need or want
• My pantry is full of good food
• I'm happy and I have a great husband
• Life don't get no better than this
  

I am spending a quiet evening at home with a heating pad on my back. No big deal, I just get a hitch in my gitalong ever so often.
I am on a quilting jag. I am in the middle of making a cupcake quilt for Olivia, and my brain has 3 others already mapped out. I found a quilt top I put together probably 20 years ago, and I think that's what got me fired up.
One year my friend Janet and I made quilts for all the kids. They were just patchwork quilts but they dearly loved them. I believe Sarah still has some ragged scraps of hers left.
My quilting magazine had an article about how important it is to sign, date and give a name to the quilt, who you made it for etc. I wish I would have done that to all the quilts I have made.
I'm chomping at the bit to plant my flowers. I will have been here a year in May and I haven't got to flower the place up yet. I got great bulbs at Costco for cheap. Dinner plate dahlias are my favorite. They grow 10 inches across and are beautiful!!
I have spring fever BAD.
Off to enjoy quiet and a book. Have a good evening.

HAPPY PATTYS DAY

If you marry an Irish person does that mean you are now Irish?

I WILL LIVE TO BE 100

I just went through the yearly run of tests to see if all your parts are working. Kind of like the 30000 mile check on your car, accept I think mine is the 100,000 mile check.
Cholesterol-good
thyroid-good
cortisol-good
liver function-good
progesterone- good
estrogen- good
testosterone- non existent
What?
How much do I really need?
I don't want to grow a beard or beat up the neighbor guy, but I also don't want to be a ....... what? What are you if you don't have enough testosterone? I mean I am female.
At the risk of being too informative I'll have to let you know how this works.
I'll start a small dose this week and we'll see how it goes.
If I end up at the cage fights and Shortys as a contender I will assume the dose is a little high.

ALOHA

This was pretty much my position on the whole trip. However I did shift these feet to rest under a dining table.

I wish I were better at downloading and arranging pictures but.......

This is Gene on North shore in Oahu. 80 degrees aahhh

Typical tourist cheese. We took Joanne to a luau for her birthday. It was really fun and the food was yummy. Roasted pork mmmmm.

This was probably the most relaxing vacation I can remember. We usually go 90 miles an hour trying to cram as much fun in the time allotted. We really didn't have a lot of structure , and it was great. I did not call home a hundred times or stress about what was not getting done. My husband is a doll to chauffeur and herd us around all week. I think I will keep him a while longer.

TOTAL DENIAL

This is not a list of resolutions.
I make new resolutions on a daily basis, so that once a year business does not do it for me.
I am in Denial about my age.
I have a false sense of my non existent youth.
Anyway....
Tuesday night we attended a seminar about estate planning. Upon entering the room I was shocked by how old the people were. I thought they should have been planning long before now.
They all seemed to be 70+, with the exception of a few.
As the evening progressed I was more an more annoyed by old people behavior.
Don't get me wrong I love, love ,love old people. I plan on being one myself someday. Maybe setting a record for THE OLDEST. Ask Sarah, she can vouch for me.
Anyway, all the throat clearing, loud whispering, potty breaks were bugging me.
The attorney who was speaking said he had just had a birthday and he was 51.
FIFTY-ONE? Are you kidding me.............I thought he was 60 if he was a day.
I scanned the room and sure enough I began to question my first impression. Maybe there were a few more people my age. I hoped it to not be true.
Surely I do not posses that many facials lines, and I know I was not wearing anything that came close to polyester. I don't carry a hanky and my shoes were not orthopedic. I drove myself there in the fog and darkness and needed no help walking swiftly into the building.
Having said that, let me ask you a question. Why is my brain still 20 but my body, face etc will not cooperate? Why is it when someone calls me ma'am I am a little surprised? When the kid at the grocery asks if I need help out, HELL NO, I put all this stuff in here I'll take it out!!
I order 2 tickets at the theatre and the girl asks"adults"? No Einstein, 2 children. Are you blind? I couldn't help but ask"did you mean senior"? She turned red and mumbled something stupid.
Where am I going with this? I don't know. I forgot.