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Monday's Week in Review...

Published on 2.27.2011 in

The week included playing with letters...
















...taking them apart...
























...and putting them all back together again...

























...a day at the park...
























...snow ice cream...

















...learning new tricks...
























 ...and gratuitous shots of this cutie...
















...sorry, one more...
























...spending time with the dog...
















...Mini #1 misses him...
















...being depressed when my phone says this...
















...and this is outside my window...

















...and a visit from the cousins that ended with a swimming party at the Y...

















Have a great week!!!



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Friday's Favorites...

Published on 2.25.2011 in ,

a SOLD sign!!


 













Yep, that's right.  After much phone time last Friday, and this past Tuesday, the Wichita house is finally SOLD...

...now, just to dig up that St. Joseph statue...

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Thursday Things...

Published on 2.24.2011 in

My nephew asked my dad to open one of Mini #2's birthday presents.

Dad had to use a knife.

Nephew #1 looked at him and said, "Be careful.  That knife is really sharp.  And you're really old."

Awesome.

fyi...my dad is only 56.

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About this photo...

Published on 2.23.2011 in ,

This is Engineering Man and I at a friend's "Redneck BBQ."

...best time EVER...

...no, the tattoo on my boob is not real...

...yes, I really did wear those curlers when I was younger, to bed...

...everything we were wearing was our own...

...yes, I find that very sad, and surprisingly, it made my cheapskate side happy...

...and yes, even those Wranglers were in Engineering Man's closet...

...and the "Nice Rack" hat...

...thank you Engineering Man...

...maybe we should rethink that whole "gonna turn the boys into pro athletes" thing...

...what pro athlete would be birthed from that????....

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Where's our famous athlete??

Published on 2.22.2011 in , ,

The Marysville Advocate, my hometown newspaper, posted an article originally posted in the Washington County News, about the Meyer siblings...five sisters and one brother that basically ended up birthing the entire non-Catholic Hanover/Bremen area.

The Advocate article talked about how four pro athletes have actually come from three of these sisters.  I don't know how random this is, but I found it quite interesting...
Click on the word link to go to the Advocate article or click after the break to see the full article.  

Now that you've read all about the history, here's why I find it so interesting.

Since I'm from that area, and not Catholic, I'm from one of the sisters.  And well, our sister didn't have one of the four athletes.

So, where's our athlete??  Or is he/she still coming?

Alright Engineering Man, let's start grooming Mini #1 and Mini #2.

Maybe they'll be our retirement...

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Monday's Week in Review...

Published on 2.21.2011 in

This week included a first day of school...






















...with his very own locker...






















...a new workout routine...






















...a first birthday party...































...with the coolest cake by Aunt A...
















...and cousins and friends to celebrate with...
















...Mini #2 decided he could put out his own candle with his fingers...
















(yep...parentoftheyear...)

 ...and was enamored with the cake...
















...he even thought it would make a great hair accessory...
















...please note the extent to which he demolished his cake...

...I handled the ice cream...
















...and then we got started on the presents...






















...and the cards...






















...as Aunt A unwired all the awesome presents he got...
















...the other one chilled with Papa...
















 ...and played with his friends...
















...as we Skyped with the other cousins...























...oh, and did I happen to mention that this one got to come too?...
















...the weekend also included hugs for Aunt A...
















...backward riding...






















...and story time!...
















...I couldn't help but take a quick photo of all of them...
















...Mini #2 scolded the dog...
















...and wrapped it all up by antagonizing Mini #1...


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Friday's Favorites...

Published on 2.18.2011 in

Today was going to be a post about how much I love being only a few days away from closing on our house in Wichita...

...but you see, last night I got a call from our relocation company and they said, "We hit a snag and may not be able to close Tuesday..."

Needless to say I was cussing. 

A lot.

Wish me luck as I deal with big corporations today that forget about the people they're screwing around with...

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Thursday Things I Never Thought I'd Hear...

Published on 2.17.2011 in ,

Engineering Man is random.

Really random.

While looking at a 3D version of Where's Waldo...

"You know why you can never find Waldo? Because he's a lazy POS.  He's never doing anything."

And about 10 seconds later...

"Yep; there he is.  Not doing $h*t." 

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About this photo...

Published on 2.16.2011 in

This is a photo of me and all my cousins on my mom's side...
...the same ones that were in the picture on Monday...

...I'm the one on the bottom row in the blue shirt with the stunner glasses...

...I love the clothes...

...and yes, there is a set of twins in this picture...

...I'm about 90% certain Grandma still has that tree...

...the couch in the background is right now in my storage unit...

...We lost one cousin, the one next to me in the red, way before we should have...

...I miss him...

...everyone in this photo, beside my siblings, are all K-State fans...

...I dealt with a LOT of purple growing up...

...I still deal with a lot of purple...

...Best part of all??  All cousins, and their significant others, well, except my brother and sister-in-law, got together this past Friday; and had a BLAST...

...well...at least the girls did...

...sorry guys...we'll try to be a little quieter next time...HA!

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DIY of the week...Appreciation Puzzle

Published on 2.15.2011 in ,

Before I left Texas Mrs. K asked me to help with Teacher Appreciation Week...
















...one project was an Appreciation Puzzle...
















...group effort led to some great ideas...
















...we used a poster board to hand draw out a puzzle for each class at the school...
















...we then put lines for the students to write their names, wrote BACK so the students new what side to decorate...
















...and also wrote out a system so we knew how to put each class's puzzle together quickly...

...unfortunately because of the ice/snow, I didn't ge tthe chance to finish them all for Mr. K...
















...but we got quite a few back...
















...THIS has got to be my favorite...
















...I mean really?  Who doesn't love Snickers?... 

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About this photo...Valentine's Day Edition...

Published on 2.14.2011 in , , , ,

In honor of the day...

...this was our wedding day...


...isn't Engineering Man sexy?...

...yes, I realize it looks like I'm naked in this photo...

...calla lillies are my favorite flower...

...the necklace I'm wearing I got from Engineering Man when he was deployed to Iraq...

...this picture was taken in the church I grew up in...

...it was built in 1901...

...the windows...are gorgeous...

...just about as gorgeous as Engineering Man's butt...

...sorry...

...miss and love you so much sweetheart...