Can't help but feel a little guilty because I feel so happy?!?

Remember this post? Take a minute to read it...I'll wait for you! :)








Yeah, ummmm.........well..........they're putting their house up for sale next week...

She's tarnished?!?!?

So, the other day, I was in the kitchen (aren't I always in the kitchen?!?) getting ready to put dinner on the table. Chloe walks in, and the following is what was said:

Chloe: (in a sing song voice) Daddy sang bass, momma sang tenor...
(Click on the link to hear the song)


Me: What?!?!

Chloe: (in a sing song voice) Daddy sang bass, momma sang tenor...

Me: Where'd you hear that?

Chloe: Me and daddy listen to it when we go to school in the morning! (Big grin on her face)

I go into the family room and tell Ryan what just happened in the kitchen, and he too gets a big grin on his face.

A little background for you, Ryan LOVES Johnny Cash! I, on the other hand - HATE IT!! Really, I don't like his music at all!!! Well, I had the great idea last year for Christmas to get him the Greatest Hits CD, and he listens to it - ALOT and apparently even when he brings Chloe to school each morning.

While I can't say that Johnny Cash is the best thing to fill her mind with before school, I can say that those are awesome times that she shares with her daddy each and every morning, and those are going to be the times she remembers!

So when she's singing, "we got married in a fever - hotter than a pepper sprout" through the house, I just have to come to grips with the fact that she will be a Johnny Cash fan, if she isn't one already...and I'm o.k. with that.

The blob!

At the lake, there is a trampoline, and a yellow pillow type thing that the kids call the blob. Chloe absolutely HATES getting bounced off of the blob, while Owen and Brett won't come near it...until my niece Leah came! Brett allowed Leah to "blob" him off and absolutely loved it! Now you can't get the kid off of it! As I've said before, this kid is a fish, AND a daredevil! :) Thanks Leah - now you have to work on getting Owen out there! :) (Again, don't mind my voice...I can't stand my voice on video!!!)

Too many cooks in the kitchen didn't spoil this corn!!

(l to r: Aimee, Amy, Susan, Michelle, Katie, Melanie and Christina (32 weeks pregnant with TWINS!!!))

As most of you know, I go to Katie's house each week to play cards. Well, last night we decided we would make freezer corn. I got the idea from the Mummy Deals website, so if you're interested in getting the recipe - go here.

We decided we were just going to do 15 dozen to start out with, and if we wanted to do it again, we would. We had a so much fun! To start out, only 5 of us were there, so we got all of the corn shucked, and then moved into the kitchen to start cleaning, cutting, cooking, cooling and then bagging! :)

It's amazing when you get us girls together in the kitchen. Everyone just starts a job, and it all gets done so quickly. We've canned tomatoes before, made freezer meals (which we're going to do next week), and now corn. We just have so much fun together!

Anyway, Katie got a new camera, and we thought we'd try to figure out how the timer works, ahem...yeah, that's why we took so many "corny" pictures of us!!


I just love this next one - Katie is hilarious! :)




Not sure what our thought was with this one!?!?



And last, but certainly not least, a picture that Katie forbid me to put on this blog. It is just too stinkin' funny not to post up here! Katie's expression is just priceless!!! Love you Kate!

All joking aside though - I love you girls! You are my bestest friends and I am so blessed to have each and every one of you in my life! I don't know what I would do without you guys, and I certainly don't know what I would do without "cards" each week! Love you!!!

Froggy

We have a big field in our backyard. It's fun to watch the weather move in, like last night - we had a pretty good storm.

Anyway, this morning is was pretty foggy outside, and Brett says to Ryan, "Hey Dad! It's really froggy out there!" :) We kept trying to correct him, and he would say, "yeah, froggy." Too cute!

He jumps AND swims!!!!!

All summer long, Owen has not wanted to swim...at all. He would pretty much stay on the boat when we would go out and swim in the lake.

This weekend, Ryan was trying to get him to jump in, and he just wouldn't do it. Well, I had to be the bad mother, and I just kind of threw him in, and he LOVED it!! Yippeee! We couldn't get him to stop jumping in. And then finally, he figured out that he could swim with the life jacket! It was awesome! Here's a little video of him with his new tricks! :)

A future Olympic Diver?!?

This weekend Brett figured out how to dive. Not just a forward dive, but a BACKWARD dive! It scares me every time he does it, but he's just so good at it! :)

And yes, my laugh is ridiculous!! Sorry you have to listen to it.