Christmas Presents

Like my Christmas socks? Yes, there is really nothing better to post about today! MelanieWelanie bought these for me. They are actually comfy. AND--this is one pair that I know for sure Dumbledork won't steal from me! I haven't had my own socks in YEARS! I used to have my own socks, then Dumbledork would wear them and stretch them all out and ruin them. So I stopped buying me socks and just wore his. Dippy's are really the perfect size for me now so I borrow from him, too, from time to time. Of course if Dumbledork DOES decide to borrow these, I will so be taking a picture and posting it!

Funny

I had a video to post, but my computer isn't liking my camera anymore so it won't show it. I also took some pictures of Goofy last night, but they came out too dark. So you'll have to enjoy a funny video by someone else. Dumbledork laughed really hard at it. Until I reminded him of the little salamander at the lake house a few years ago that ran over his toe and he screamed like a little girl!

What the Heck Goofy?

And Goofy is back with another 'What the Heck?' moment. Last night, Dippy was doing Cub Scout homework. He is finishing up the last of the Webelos badges. He was working on the Artist badge and he needed to build a structure. Of course we built it out of Legos as there are a million kajillion of those in the house! The assignment was to build a structure, take a picture of it, and then print it for the scrapbook. So Dippy built it (I think Goofy may have helped a little bit) and I took a picture of it. Goofy got so excited at me taking a picture of the Legos structure, that he ran to the box and pulled out a piece and brought it over to me. I took a picture. He giggled and ran back to the box. He dropped the piece he had and brought me another one!

And another.

And another.

And...oops. Dingy walked by with some beef jerky.

And another.

And another.

And another.

And another.

And yet, another.

Winners!

Now that we're done moping around about losing yesterday, I had pictures of some winners sent to me. These are the Pack overall winners. The Wolves and the Web II's were split into two groups because the dens are so large. It ended up that both first and second place went to Wolves. The third place is a Web II. And no, he is not an overly tall kid. Riley is really that little!

JP came in first with Riley right behind him. It came down to a VERY small difference in time.

This is Leia. Riley's little sis. She won second place in the sibling division.

"If You Ain't First, You're Last"

And guess where we were! I'll give you a clue: No trophies came home with us today. Dippy was 4th in his field. Of 5! We're not sure where Goofy was. There were 15 siblings registered. I think he was around 10-12th. And Dippy? Yep. Last. I really don't know where Goofy and Dingy ranked. I just know that Dippy's car was last in all of her races. I think Goofy took a couple of 4th's or 5th's. They race 6 cars at a time. Goofy's car is the black with gold stripe on the second row up. Dippy's is the pickup on the bottom row.

The highlight of the races might have been the adult race. The adult race is an unlimited race so there are no rules about wheels or weights. We had two adults change their entries to siblings instead of racing against Andy and Adam. (A father son team.) They each had a car that weighed over one pound.

They crashed at the end. One car jumped off the track after hitting the pillows at the end of the track. It caused several bullets to fly off the car.

So we're not going out winners. We were invited back next year to enter as friends. We were talking to the Cubmaster and said we wouldn't be able to race again for 5 years when Goofy is in first grade. (And also, the Cubmaster will still be there as he has one more boy that becomes a Tiger next year.) He said we could enter next year in the sibling's, but I told him we don't have anyone left there. But, he said that the siblings is really the siblings AND FRIENDS division. So maybe. Maybe we can keep practicing to be really good at this for when Goofy is older. And maybe, we just need to get a life!

Sunday! Sunday!! Sunday!!!

"Ladies and Gentlemen, Pull up a chair. Drop the kids off with their Aunt and take the phone off the hook. Because it's race day..."

That's right. It's RACE DAY!! The Pinewood Derby is today. This is our last Pinewood Derby, too. (Well, at least until Goofy gets into first grade.) Grandpa shaped the cars with the kids over Christmas. Dumbledork is finishing up tweaking the wheels now.

In the words of race car great Ricky Bobby, "I wanna go fast!" We're trying to go out winners! (As is every other boy in our den!) Check back later tonight to see if we're winners or not. I'm sure the post will show up a lot faster if we are though!

Happy Birthday Cassie!

Today is Dingy's friend's 13th birthday! Happy Birthday Cassie!!

Poor Dumbledork

Poor Dumbledork. I got a call today from him that he was stuck in a bathroom in KFC. He washed his hands and went to dry them. This is what the dryer said.


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He stood there yelling for someone to come help him. I guess he just dried them on his pants or something. He called and said, "Guess what the hand dryer said." (I had already seen this picture so I knew where he was going.)

Dingy Eats Dog Food

If you have been reading Dingy's blog lately, she has been contemplating eating dog food. Why? We learned not to ask why of our kids a LONG time ago! I'm assuming she was bored and well, just a little dingy. She bought a can of dog food and had at it. Now this is the same child that got grossed out at eating deer meat at Grandma's house. (Of course she loved it and had a second helping before being told it was deer meat.) But she'll gladly open a can of basically mystery meat and chomp away.

I know a video would have been much better, but I have been having prooblems getting my videos from my camera to the computer. I can watch them on the camera. On the computer, I only have sound and no picture. So you'll have to settle for the still pics.

She's smiling. For now!

OK. Trying just a pinch. I tried telling her it didn't count unless she ate the whole can.

The full flavor hasn't quite set in yet, but she's getting it.

And a fast turn to run outside!!

Can you tell by the blinds that the door had been slammed? The blinds are off center on BOTH doors. Poor Sara is trying to figure out: 1) Why did she eat my food? 2) Why didn't she let ME outside? and 3) Can I have the food now?

Spitting and gagging.

More gagging along with the "oh my gosh that was nasty" dance.

And no, the taste doesn't wash away with just one water bottle!

What Did She Do???

I've never seen a picture of Goofy looking this sad before! What did Grandma do? If I knew he didn't like to go up there this much, I would have kept him at home with me. (He likes ME!)

Geese Feeding!

Dumbledork came home this afternoon to take Goofy to feed the geese at Tackett's Mill. We ran out of time this weekend, so we had to go today. Goofy went in saying Hi to all of the birds. He was having a fun time throwing bread at them. We were able to get him to hold the bread and wait for a goose to come over. Then one bit him. He wouldn't feed ANY for a while after that! I was finally able to get him to throw it again, but he refused to hold it out for them. At one point I looked at him and his cheeks were full of bread! Glad we took a good loaf and not an old moldy one. When we left he said Bye to all of them.

I don't remember there being this many sea gulls over there before.

Girl Scout Cookies Anyone??

Anyone need Girl Scout cookies? I just received an email from a friend of a friend whose daughter is selling cookies for the first time this year. I haven't been asked to buy cookies since Dingy quit selling almost three years ago! I know some of you might NEED them! So if you want any, here's what they have:

"The cookies are $3.50 a box. There is another option this year that if you are not interested in cookies for yourself, you can donate boxes to a cause of our choice. We have chosen to donate to the Homeless Shelter on Rt. 1 in Dumfries. Here are the choices:
Lemon Chalet Creams
Trefoils (shortbread butter cookies)
Do si Dos(Peanut Butter Sandwich cookie)
Samoas(coconut caramel chocolate)
Dulce de Leche(milk caramel chips and stripes)
Sugar Free chocolate chip
Tagalongs(PB covered with chocolate)
Thin Mints"

We're Home!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Happy Birthday Toots!!

Toots is three today!! Yep, she's a New Year's Eve baby. Ok. Not really a baby anymore. But you know what I meant.

Have a great birthday!

From Dumbledork

Kentucky's Famous Turtle Catcher - Watch more Free Videos

Dumbledork NEEDED this posted to the blog. I didn't love it as much as he did. However, watch it and then consider this, Was the chainsaw on or off when it took out his teeth? And also listen to what he catches. The cameraman asks "Typhoid?" Turtleman's answer is great.

Also, all I have been hearing from Dumbleork is this darn yell!

HELP ME!!

And Now Her Dog?!

You know the 'Dingy is a Weirdo' series? I guess her dog takes after her! I was playing on the computer, Dumbledork was playing his guitar. I looked over and saw this!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope Santa found y'all. Have a great day!

Another 'What the Heck Goofy?'

We haven't had a 'what the heck Goofy' post for a while. But here it is! Dippy was making a smoothie for Santa. Yep. A smoothie. No plain ol' glass of milk this year!

He left the mixer sit beside his bowl on the table and THIS happened!

Yep. Licking off the beaters while they're still on the mixer. This kid is going to end up on Funniest Home Videos with his tongue stuck soon!

(and yes, I took the beaters out of the mixer and handed them over to him.)

Living The Good Life

Goofy has it made. The day before Christmas and no worries! Dippy is baking cookies for him and Goofy to leave for Santa. Goofy doesn't have to worry about any last minute gifts or baking or anything. He's just chilling on the couch (looking EXTREMELY cozy) watching Frosty.

And ten minutes after that first picture, we have this! I guess he'll never know what happened to Frosty. :( And he's totally missing Twas the Night Before Christmas!

Chritmas of Long Ago

I was talking to my Mom on the phone this week and she said that Dad had taken a bunch of pictures of the Christmas tree. It just brought it all flooding back.

Let me take you back a long time and give you a glimpse of the Kirkpatrick house on Christmas morning. My brothers and I were ALWAYS up at the crack of dawn, as all kids are on Christmas morning. Mom was always easy to wake up (Even if it was never in a good mood!)but Dad took FOREVER (Still does!) Once we would finally get him awake, we would have to wait and wait til he got dressed so we could run down the hall and see what Santa left for us. But NO! We had to wait even longer. Why? He needed to take pictures of the TREE! Not the family around the tree. JUST THE TREE! Even the year it was a bush and not a tree he took a roll of film on it! This is the same tree that has been up and decorated since Thanksgiving weekend. Is it really that different on Christmas morning? And yes, I said a roll of film. This was pre digital camera days, so we had to wait while he "finished the roll up." Then, remember the rewinding of the film before loading a new one? Yep. Waited through that, too.

I have a funny feeling that even though these pictures have already been taken, Mom isn't going to be allowed to touch any presents under the tree until there are 50 MORE pictures snapped! (Really, they could fill an entire photo album with just pictures of trees!) There's also a LOT of pictures of Dad playing with our toys while we just got to watch. But that's another story!
It does look very pretty this year. Thanks Aunt Darla!

Can you see the angel on top? It's a rottweiller angel.

But THIS rottweiller is NOT an angel! Merry Christmas anyway Shyanne.

It's Cold!

I said, "Say Cheese!" and her foot started going! What's up with that? Is she talking with her feet now? (And did you notice that even her dog couldn't sit still?)

It was cold yesterday morning and they wanted me to take a picture of them all in their footy jammies. Of course when I say cold, I mean it was around 25 degrees. When I talked to MelanieWelanie, she was at 3! Yes, 3. I didn't mistype and forget a digit! Although, by lunchtime, her temperatures had climbed all the way up to 11. (Wow! So warm!) I can't wait to visit next week! I'll get a chance to see polar bears and penguins again. Or maybe that's too cold for even those animals.

We're only at 21 degrees right now. Really, if it's going to be this cold anyway, how about some snow?! It's almost Christmas. It's definitely cold enough. SNOW!