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Friday's Favorites...a little common sense...

Published on 4.29.2011 in ,

A friend recently recommended the following article...


...the author's stance is that dressing children like, well, prostitutes, is the parents' choice.  And...they need to stop being their child's friends.


My favorite quote:

"The way I see it, my son can go to therapy later if my strict rules have scarred him. But I have peace knowing he'll be able to afford therapy as an adult because I didn't allow him to wear or do whatever he wanted as a kid."

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

Published on 4.28.2011 in

As he's pouting...

"What's wrong buddy?"

"You're not letting me hit the computer with the remote.  You're being mean at me."

Suck it up kid...life's rough.

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Word Association...country edition

Published on 4.27.2011 in ,

...never ending skies...

...dirt roads...

...the Milky Way...

...nails in tires...

...hello mud...

...the two-finger steering wheel wave...

...snipe hunting...

...tipping cows...

...shotgun shells...

...clay pigeons...

...it's a crick, not a creek...

...supper...

...lunch is at 2:30 p.m....

...barefeet...


Feel free to add your own!


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On your mark...

Published on 4.26.2011 in , ,

...get set...


...go!...





...apparently the young ones didn't quite understand what was happening.

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Monday's Week in Review...

Published on 4.25.2011 in , , , , ,

Oh dear sweet Jesus.  Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins and causing me to have a GREAT weekend celebrating your resurrection.

Now...can we just work on getting our family back together?  We really missed Engineering Man this weekend! 

Anyway...bear with me on the amount of pictures in this post.

The week included a coloring fest...

...hula hoops...


...Easter baskets...


...fun on a tire swing...


...waiting...


...for the cousins!...


...we missed them!...


...look how cute she is...


...hunting eggs...


...(check tomorrow for some fun start pics)...
...finding eggs...






...chasing cows...


...playing play-doh at 8 a.m....


...prepping...


...and preparing...


...for some dying!...


...very interesting stuff...


...and gorgeous colors...


...helping Grandma with make-up...


...before heading to the next event...


...with all 19 cousins...


...more egg hunting...




...*smile*...


...momma helping...

...*heart strings*...


...ugh...how can you handle this cuteness??...


...party foul...


...a picture for daddy...


...seriously?  Can I have a girl next time...


...more egg hunting...


...learning to be a gentleman...


...like father like son...


...hanging with the big kids...


...and what is this??...


...baby chicks!...


...beer cans...


...Grandpa!...


...a new way to wear a tie...


...more time with the chicks...


...*smile*...


Hope you had a great Easter weekend!

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Uh, yea...about that...

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I'm cleaning the house, sorting candy, and trying not to fall asleep.  

Hope to be back later today with a week in review.  See you then!

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Friday's Favorites...the empty tomb...

Published on 4.22.2011 in ,

I know I'm a few days early, but in celebration of what today and this glorious weekend are...


I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die.

John 11:25-26












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

Published on 4.21.2011 in ,

Mini #1 came home from his "new" Sunday School with my cousin.

Mr. Napa came walking in laughing...

"I'm not sure where you take this kid, but you might have to rethink it."

"Why?"

"I asked him how Sunday School was and he said that, 'It was good, but I didn't go to the one with the hooker.'"

Oh dear God...

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How to burn...

Published on 4.20.2011 in

...you light a match...

The End.

hahaha...

Really, though, that's how it all starts.

Dad has a "torch" of sorts that drops flammable liquid.  As you strike a match and light the fluid, it ends up dropping little balls of fire on the ground.

sidenote: the grass is being burned because...well, this blog really sums it up well, and has great pictures...
...I'll wait while you check it out...

Back?  Ok...

So, as dad set the fire...
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...for this part of the field...
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...and as the blog above states, it started to burn quickly...
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...very quickly...
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...and this is what it looked like in the end...
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For perspective...Dad's in the same place as he was in the first picture.

So, what do you think?  Crazy?  Questions??