Ouch

When an out of control one of these...

is careening down a hill toward one of these...

you get one of these...

This happened a few weeks ago and he's all healed up now.  Fortunately, he was wearing a helmet or else it could've been much worse.  I'm thinking that I need to look into purchasing full body armor fitted for a 7 year old.

Oh, Wait...

...I mustache you a question!

Cracks me up, everytime.

Happy Halloween!

Okay, I'm a week late, I know.  I've been a bit busy since my last post back in August (wow, has it really been that long?!) but I had to show off my two spooky boys. 

As Phillip and I took them around trick or treating we reminisced about how when they were toddlers they were too shy to knock on doors.  Last Monday I had to tell them to slow down as they ran from house to house.  Fortunately, we made it through the night with nary a zombie nor haunted skeleton getting hurt.

A Look Around

I'm embarrassed to show off my garden this year. The heatwave really did a number on my tomato plants. Hard to believe, but I didn't get a single tomato this year. I've had plenty of blooms but they never developed.

Here's another sorry sight...my bell pepper plants. I've only gotten a couple of peppers this year but they were inedible. I can always count on basil, though. Next year, I'm skipping the peppers and planting nothing but basil in this bed.

Look at this poor hydrangea! I have 3 of them and they all look like this! It's starting to put on some new growth since the heatwave and drought broke but most of their existing leaves died.

The muscadines continued to grow, though, and are starting to ripen.

And here's another plant that has continued to grow...vincas (periwinkles). I love this plant because it's almost impossible for me to destroy. It's almost impossible for a border collie mix to destroy, too. She dug out the flowers a few weeks ago and I had to replant them and they're as good as new.

Love For Junie B

Does that classroom look familiar?

It's Room One from the Junie B. Jones books! The boys have been fans of Junie B. since Kindergarten. Sure, she overuses the words smelly, stupid and dumb but she's really a funny character. Especially when she's brought to life in theater. We loved watching Jingle Bells, Batman Smells back in December.

In the first Junie B. book she gets locked in the kindergarten building after school. I can remember reading this book one night to Thomas when he was in kindergarten and as I was turning off the light he said, "Mommy, I wish I could be locked in the kindergarten building with Mrs. D." (Mrs. D was one of the very young and pretty kindergarten teachers at his school.) Cute! Of course, nowadays Thomas doesn't think it's cute at all--especially writing about it my blog--more like stupid and dumb but in the words of Junie B: a journal is where you write your life.

Wordless (Sort Of) Wednesday: Roasted Tomato Soup

(Inspired by chow.com's Doodle Your Favorite Meal contest)

Princess Gravedigger?

(Monster Jam, January 2011)

Nathan and I were playing Know It or Blow It one day and I was doing pretty good, moving along through trivia questions like, name the 7 continents, what are the 4 types of taste buds, and who are the 5 family members in The Simpsons?

But then I hit a snag when it came to naming the 8 original Disney princesses. I know I should have my girl card taken away for this but I could only come up with 2...well, technically just one because I said, "Ariel and the one in the yellow dress." I'm so ashamed. I couldn't even come up with Cinderella?! Sheesh.

On the other hand, I CAN name 8 Monster Jam trucks:)