I'm Back

Had a few difficult days....
Spent the weekend getting my children ready to head back to school, ran around the house like a mad woman making sure we had all the essentuals crayons, makers, pencils, pens, socks, Fruit of the Loom boxer briefs, the last being the most important cause I was informed by my 16 yr old that "that is all I am wearing this year nothing else cause there the most comfortable" I'm not sure what underwear I wore as a 16 yr old but I'm sure that comfort was not something I was to concerned with. Must be a guy thing..... Got sick on Sunday night and spent all day Monday wrapped in a quilt on the couch with the chills and my husbands truck parked on my head. I felt weak and ached all over could barely get up to visit the can. My youngest desided this was a good time to recarpet the livingroom with his miniture GI Joe's there were vehicles, guns, cots,tents, bunkers, nets, and little GI men strewn everywhere, thank God I was not suffering from diaria too or there would have been trouble. All day as I fell in and out of sleep I was forced to liston to machine gun sounds, granades going off, vehicles backfiring and things like"this guy got blown up" "this guy lost an arm" "that guys tank blew up and he's got metal in his head" and "this guy can't find his toe" and "sergent were surrounded" and "retreet retreet" I felt like I was trapped in one of those cheesy army movies from the fiftys. It was pure hell, I was never so happy to get up and clean the house in all my life.

You missed a spot! 

Backyard visiter.......found this big guy resting on my Tall Phlox. 

Interesting photos

Just a few interesting photes found on recent outings.

Found this tree stump along shore thouhgt it was worth a picture. 

Indian carving on a huge tree stump not sure who did this but I thought it was nice. 

Coyote footprints I think. Found them on a dry riverbed along a bike trail we took with my sisters family. 

What the!!!

It was recomended that my teenage son get a graphing calculator for school. What is up with that? It's not just the fact that they cost $70 to 100$ even more for a good one. But you have to be a friggin engeneer at Nasa to run the damn thing. Okay so I might be a teckno retard, but what every happened to those nice little simple, and more importantly cheep calculators that had on, off, memory and the number keys. And what do they need such a complicated thing for anyway aren't they suppose to use there brain. "You barely past Basic Math, so what would you know" was the comment I got from the teenager. "Hey I past and using my own brilliant mind I might add" "oh shizzel aka dizzel" he says. "Huh" I say "Thats Snoop Dog mom you have no clue". "I think that Snoop Dog road the little bus to school" I said......All this technology and people who speak in riddles is hurting my head I feel like the girl in the song "1985" by Bowling for Soup, except I dont wear a leather mini made of snake skin,.....Please make it stop!

Girls must play! This is what happens when two beautiful little neices ask "Can Teddie come play with us" the poor dog ends up babysittting.  

Yard ornament!! My dog Teddie pretending he's one of those wooden bears climbing a tree(you know the ones I'm talking about)  

Summer sunset! Just messin with the camera on the nightshot setting and this is what I got.  

Serpent in the sky! This is a picture that I took at my sister's house earlier this summer, we ran through the hayfield behind their house to get this shot, the sky was so beautiful that night. 

My little cowboy! Jacob from his school play last year, he's showing his art work. This is one of the pictures he likes, he thinks he's such a chick magnet. 

The Boys with the snow caped mountains of Colorado in the background, Got these on a recent vacation on are way to Arces National Park in Utah! Mountains gotta love those mountains yep! yep! yep! 

Snow caped mountains of Colorado! 

Mountains of Colorado! 

A day devoted to the hulk of a cat (Friendly) who keeps me up all night by drueling on my neck when I am trying to sleep, playing with my hair when I'm trying to sleep, walks across my chest several times at night when I'm trying to sleep, trys to stick his nose in my mouth when I'm trying to sleep, and lays directly between me and the hubby at night with his head on my pillow and his bumm on the hubbys.....Friendly enough already!  

CatEyes 

Shameless! first messing with the leaky faucet then after a fly that landed on the inside of sink (my little hunter) 

still hunting 

Eating Crow

After baiting my husband with words like "coward", "chicken" and "are ya yella", he finaly decided to come out and play badminton with me and the kids. After all he spent guite some time setting it up when the inlaws were here, were talkin regulation badminton court all the way, measured lines, net perfect height, stickler for the rules. To all of you who know him you know how anel he can be about things like that.... I know what your thinking didn't badminton go out in the 80's along with big hair, spandex, and wham!( loved George Michael) and you may be right but its "damn fun". I was looking pretty good; much like the Williams sisters; had my groove going didn't trip over any lines or fall in any holes, basicly spent the entire time in the upright position (was pretty proud of myself) but I was know match for the badminton champ ( I just know he was captain of the badminton club in highschool) give it up hun I know its true.... It was T.J.( the oldest) and I against Jake and the hubby. Teeg and I were clearly at a disadvantage. After all we had all the distractions on our side of the court. The dog running through weaving between our feet, the neighbor cat Floyde cleaning the "family jewels" were we had to serve, a monarch butterfly who wanted to make the birdie its girlfriend, and the teenager with the shorts pulled down nearly to his knees so every time he went up for a high one I was stuck looking at the crack of his ass. I mean realy how is anyone expected to play under these conditions let alone win. Lets just say T.J. and I were spanked like a 4 year old in K-mart it was pretty embarassing. And I was all up in the hubbies face talking smack right before the game thinking I was something else (open mouth insert foot)

"How humiliating" 

Adventure

I Had a day to spend with two of my favorite little men yesterday, so mom decide to take them on an "adventure" like we like to call it, you know, take off for the day not sure were you'll end up at. Well we bought bait and ended up fishing at a little steam down the road from our house. Its back in the woods along who knows what river,set in among an oak grove. It was beautiful. The 3 of us fished, while the dog got into all sorts of trouble. He rolled in several dead fish , ran in the sludge down river, and decide to submerge his fat little body in the water were he found the most green stuff, not by the clear water just a few feet away, oh no, right in the most disgusting part of the lake. He's not to bright, we know this and yet will still leave him to his own devices. We paid for this oversight. Now my two boys are the kind of fishermen that really get into fishing. There not content to just stand there and fish along shore , they decided while mom was taking pictures of everything from the dog being stupid to the lake and the sky they would ditch the socks and shoes and go in the water knee deep in the sludge to get that mighty fish they couldn't catch safely along shore. They thought they were so clever a fact that was written all over there faces as I discovered were they were. "we had to mom" "there's no fish over there " "my line kept snagging" "I saw something" "your camera was scaring the fish away" and my personal favorite "he made me" this coming from the oldest. We stayed for several hours tell we coundn't bear the smell of the dog any longer, went home and threw his butt in the tub.

Knee deep in sludge! 

Biggest damn clam I ever seen! 

Yes you are seeing a fish just a hair bigger than the worm, but" he was quite a fighter" T.J. said. 

The pea soup on the right side of my oldest son thats were the stupid dog decided to take his swim at, you can see the trail he made Yah! he' a smart one! 

The fishing hole! 

county fair

We took the little beggers to the county fair this weekend and had alot of fun. Spent about 2 1/2 hrs there (quite busy so we rushed it) out of that 2 1/2 we spent about an 1 hr of it eating (boy did I pay for that one, spent the next morning seated squarely on the porclein throne "all morning") can,t go to the fair without getting the deep fried flower onion(my favorite) yah! you know the one that gives you bad breath, heartburn and the backdoor trots all at the same time.Every year I always say next year I'm just getting the lemonaid, but somehow when I get there a giant plate of deep-fried food somehow finds its way into my hands. (Not sure how).......Got quite a few pictures but these are the family favorites.

Got a kiss from this sweet little thing! 

What a cute little Ass! seen this little guy at the fair isn't he the cutest!