Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Pirates say ARGH
Emily "Cooperbottom "
Benson "Captin Underpants"
Sophie "Booty"
Benson was surprised by a family costume party. He had no idea about the pirate theme until Sophie gave him his present with tons of pirate stuff, guns, swords, bone keys and so on. My family went above and beyond in dressing up. They made the day so fun.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Family Pictures
Right now I am being licked to death and distracted by a puppy. She just learned how to jump onto the couch. Great, just what I wanted and needed, something else touching,poking and doing anything possible to get my attention.
On the other side of the room, a piano is now located. I feel so blessed and fortunate to have an older neighbor, gift this piano to our family. The noise level in my house has doubled between a barking dog and pounding piano keys. So has the yelling. "Get off the piano." The best is when Sophie yells at the dog. "I have had about enough of you. We will not have any more messes in this house. I have had it. Go outside... OUT OUT OOOOUT."
Okay the real reason for my post is FAMILY PICTURES. Getting ready for them about sent me over the edge. The kids clothes we so easy. Hey they don't really have a choice. I decided to put myself in brown because there would be a variety of outfits to choose from. Bryan hates dark colors so I left the pretty BLUE for him. How was I suppose to know that a man who has every color of blue in his closest and blue is his favorite color doesn't like this particular hue.
Bryan went to his closet and said, " Why can't I where this?" DUH --it doesn't match anyone else.
So a light clicked on...after looking for matching clothes for the family I didn't ask Bry once what colors he would like. If I would have said, " Bry...pick something out of your closet you like. I will match everyone to you." It would have saved me hours of shopping and returning clothes.
It was a breeze getting in kids clothes to match Bryan. Little kids clothes come in every shade of every color. Adults clothes seem to stay in the boring range and good luck matching it to anything cute that a four year old would wear. A light bolt hit--men clothing stores are retarded. Within one department store they have skater boy stuff to old man golfer sweater vests. Where are the clothes that a normal 30 year old man should wear? Gee, I don't think a Tony Hawk shirt will really go with those pleated khakis. So I went to Express. That just sparkles gay man or midlife crisis. There really needs to be a 30 something store that helps these men dress there age. Not younger nor older. Bryan, you know I hate the mock turtle necks. So if anyone is interested going through the hoops, financing, being a buyer-- I WILL SHOP at YOUR STORE.
Pictures are another thing. I thought I would spend a hundred dollars. We haven't had pictures for 5 years and we have never had one to display in our home. Okay I had no idea how expensive a 20X24 picture is. WOW. Those creative photo places make you take a bazillion pictures and of course one is going to be perfect and you are going to want it on your wall. When looking at the picture packages I just nodded my head, lowered my eyebrows and tried not to look shocked.
You're going to need pictures for parents, daddy's office, aunts and uncles oh and why don't you give your neighbor and 8X10 also. Oh well... It is done, the pictures are perfect and I am really happy. I guess every time I think of why we have no "fun"money I can look at the picture and remember how blessed I am to have a family.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Emersyn turns one
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