Aww...How Sweet

Remember the picture of my car earlier today? With inches of snow all over it? Now look! Rod came home and cleaned it all off for me so that I can take Goofy to the doctor. He even shoveled off the porch and a path to the car.

Double Roar!

So you know the little snow we had yesterday? I guess that was a baby lion running in front of his parents! Mommy and Daddy lion came through last night!

Rod even cleared me a path to the office!

Here's the front!

Yeah, I don't think the kids are going to school tomorrow either! It must be bad out on the roads, too. Rod went to the gym this morning and when he came home he asked me if Goofy has a doctor's appointment today...which he does....and Rod said, I don't think he's going. For ROD to say we're not going out, it must be bad! (Although the appointment isn't il 2 and I really don't want to reschedule.)

AND--Rod just called me to check the weather to see when this is going to end and we're getting 2-4 MORE inches this morning!!

I need to get the kids up and outside! Mommy wants to see a snowman!!

Poor Dingy.....

I think I upset Dingy. I didn't really mean to. We ate supper this evening...a real supper...you know, chicken, mashed potatoes, broccoli. Not even an hour later, I see Dingy sitting on the couch eating leftover pizza! Everytime I turn around now she is eating! I told her she was going to need to get on the treadmill or stay active somehow if she was going to keep eating like that. I told her she was going to start looking more like ME than the way she does now. She said, "I don't want to look like you...no offense." So I said, "I don't want you to either, but I was as little as you until, I don't know, SEVENTH GRADE!" I think she put the pizza back. I didn't mean for her to put her food away. Now I probably caused her to have an eating disorder. I was merely saying she needed to stay active...not stop eating. (but I think she called me fat...is that what y'all are thinking, too?)

Roar!!

Remember the saying, "March comes in like a lion and out like a lamb"? Well, hello little lion.

Another Dippy?

Remember the post a few weeks ago with all of the strange places and positions we have found Dippy sleeping in? Well....I think I have another one of those kids!
Can you tell that his feet are just dangling?

I think Dingy must have taken pity on him because the next time I checked on him, he was sleeping comfortable on the couch all covered up.

Another Birthday!

Happy Birthday Marie!

(Not Grandma Marie.....Grandma Marie's neighbor Marie.)

Missed Birthday

Apparently, I don't know when everyone's birthday is from Rod's family yet. So happy belated birthday to Rod's Grandpa Harry!

Please Explain....

Ok. First, can you see the side of his neck? Those dark spots? Those aren't bruises. It's ice cream! How in the world do you get ice cream on the side of your neck like that?
Then, would you please explain this....He goes to school one day a week. Every day, he is up usually to see Dingy off to school (around 7:45) and if he misses her, he always is up to see Dippy go. (He leaves around 8:30) Why is it that EVERY Friday..his one day of school...is the ONE day he sleeps in? I have to wake him up for that one day! And we don't have to leave until 9:15! Why can't he pick, oh I don't know, a Saturday? or Sunday to sleep in?? No. Friday. I'm up already and he HAS to be up! I'll show him. Next year, he can sleep in on his school days all he wants....his class won't start until NOON anyway!

Dingy's Birthday

40 days til Dingy's birthday. Then we will officially be in the teenage years. She hasn't mentioned what she wants for her birthday cake yet. Or what she wants to do for her birthday. Maybe we'll see a comment on here from her to help us out.

Weirdo

I said, "Say cheese." This is what I got. Twice.

Random Pictures

There's not much new here. Instead of leaving the blog un-updated (and getting yelled at by Mom, who NEEDS pictures) I'm posting random smiles today.

This is Goofy's favorite picture. He gets very excited when he sees it and re-poses for it.

And I couldn't leave out a picture of Mom and Dad!

I was talking to Goofy last night. I was trying to find out who gave him sticker earrings. I assumed it was Dingy, but when I asked Goofy if it was, he said no. I asked if it was Dippy and he said yes. So then I pointed to Dippy and said, "Is this Dingy?" and he said, "No, mine." So I guess Dippy officially belongs to Goofy now.

MMmmmmm.....

Nadine took me out to lunch today to Chili's. We even ordered dessert! They have a new cake that looks like that only it is a chocolate chip cake with the ice cream and the chocolate shell on top. It was AWESOME!!! We had one dessert and three spoons and we all still got enough. It is much bigger than it looks!

Safety Patrol Badge

Dippy got his safety patrol badge yesterday!! He earned it last week, but just got it yesterday....after stalking the guidance counselor all day!! (I told him to just sit in the man's office until he handed it over! He said he went in the morning and he wasn't there and he went back in the afternoon and he wasn't there, then he found him outside waiting on Dippy with his badge.)
He had to memorize the pledge to earn it. It doesn't sound like a huge deal to learn the pledge, but ....at the same time he was learning that pledge, he was also having to learn the Boy Scout Oath and Promise, too. I don't know how he managed to keep it all separate. I was getting confused helping him practice them all!

Rod and My Camera

Last week, Rod was asked to go talk to a Scout about his Eagle Project. The kid is trying to rebuild this platform for the marching band at his high school. Rod wanted to take pictures so that he could redraw it and come up with a materials list and all that good stuff. I let him borrow my camera. (I think I should have just taken the pictures myself.)

Ok. Not so bad so far, right? Those are decent pictures. But THESE were in the middle.

What the heck? When he got back in the car I asked him if he got good pictures and he even said, yeah, I even got a picture of my finger and the ground. So he KNEW he took these. Does he know there's a delete button? (OK. I really DON'T want him using the delete. He pushed it once and then clicked OK to delete ALL! ) And he wonders why I'm always the one carrying the camera on family trips!

Facebook

I'm on Facebook now. I'm not completely sure that I want to be, but I am. Dingy is going to be slightly angry when she reads this as she has been asking and asking to get a page and I keep telling her no. BUT--I did tell her this weekend that if she gets on A/B honor roll, she can have a Facebook page. This way, when she gets hers, I'll have a small idea of how to use it so I'll have a small idea of what she is doing. I received an email this morning from the American Cancer Society stating that there is an application you can download in Facebook that shows your fundraising progress and provides a link for anyone wanting to donate. I thought that was worth a try. I'm only at 20% of my $150 goal.

Relay For Life

I got my first donation for the Relay for Life this week!! Thanks MelanieWelanie!!

They had the spaghetti dinner and pep rally Friday night. They asked each team to make a centerpiece that they will use for the survivor's dinner in May. The theme this year is the 25th birthday of the relay. We all got together and created this masterpiece.
Very colorful, huh?

Here are some of the other entries.

I don't think I got a picture of the winning centerpiece. We didn't win. The winner was either that one above with the trees on it, or one that was three 'presents' stacked and covered with candles. It was very, very festive. They just brought it in after I had taken pictures.

My Constant Source of Entertainment

Last night, Dingy and I went to a pep rally thing for the Relay For Life. On the way home, we stopped at Burger King. Dingy ordered a Whopper Jr meal. We sat down and she opened her sandwich and started taking toppings off. I asked her what she was taking off. My thought was, next time she orders one, we'll order it minus whatever it was that is in that pile. So I ask, "What are you taking off?" She answers, "The stuff I don't like." Are you kidding me? The stuff I don't like? Really? Glad to hear you're not taking off what you DO like and leaving the crap! I ask her again what she's taking off and she still tells me, in that disgusted tone of hers that says I already answered you, The stuff I don't like! OK. So I tell her why I was asking and inform her that if I try ordering a Whopper jr minus "the stuff I don't like" the workers may have no clue what to do! (She never did tell me what she took off either! Knowing her it was the meat!)

Then tonight, we went to see Coraline. I was going to go to Wendy's for their fish sandwich, but Dingy asked to go to Chik-fil-et. SHE asked to go there. So we did. On the way over, she asked, "Wait. What do they have there?" Ummm...CHICKEN!! They got chicken, Dingy! It's in the name!

That instantly made me think of this clip. Wait for the KFC part. Then for extra fun, right around the 5 minute mark, watch the lady in blue in the front row. How do you miss your hands when you're clapping??

Happy Birthday Tucker!

ANOTHER teenage grandchild for Mom! Happy Birthday Tucker!

I was almost late posting this, but I still made it on the 20th! Hope you had a great day!

Oh, Heck Yeah!!

I went to McDonald's drive thru for breakfast after dropping Goofy off at school this morning. I just wanted the chicken biscuit and a drink, but it is easier to order the meal than to order separately. So I get up to the pick up window and the manager came over and asked if she could give me an apple pie instead of the hash browns cause the hashbrowns were still cooking. DUH! I didn't even want the hashbrown, but I'll sure as shootin' eat that apple pie!

It suddenly dawned on me how sad my life must be that this free apple pie might just be the highlight of my week!

(And, yes, I know today is Tucker's birthday and that I haven't posted anything for him yet. I need to find a couple of pictures and then there will be something up for him.)

What?

We got a new Joann Frabics here. They are having their Grand Opening sale this weekend, and since MelanieWelanie from Fodder for Conversation is visiting, we of course went to check it out. We saw this cute little froggy lantern thing in the kids section.
And THIS was written on the bottom!

WHAT?

I really liked a cup that was with this, but I was afraid to buy it for Goofy after reading that label!