I had so much to do today too

Ugh. That's how I feel. Got a head cold or something. Maybe I finally developed allergies. Ragweed and Grass pollen are sending people with allergies over the edge this week. And I had soooo much to do today to. And all I can do is sit here and go Ugh. Then I get cold and go outside to sit in the sun until I get too hot and go Ugh. Then I come back in and lay down until I can't stand it and go Ugh. I did get enough energy to read the blogs and do this though. And now, I'm back to Ugh.

P.S. To Will my Blog-Personal-Trainer: The migraine was too bad to walk on Friday, but I sniffed my way thru about 4 miles today. Ugh.

WE ROCK!!

Indy and Taryn played an early soccer game this morning and they rocked! They played a team we love to beat, and Taryn scored a goal, helping their team win 2-0! Taryn rocks! This afternoon, Indy worked on her college essays for Auburn. Indy rocks at writing, so I know they'll be good!

Mariah played volleyball this afternoon and her team rocked! They won ALL 3 games. They were smokin' hot, I tell ya. They have improved so much it's amazing. There's volleys and everything now, not just serves and wild bumps, although it's still not advised for the viewing audience to take their eye off the ball. Mariah did great! I'm so proud of her - she rocks!

Mike and Gib went canoeing with the Scouts and they rocked! They were by far the best father-son canoer's out there. Even giving everyone else a half hour head start, they beat them by something like an hour. Same thing happened after lunch. They waited until all the canoes were launched, and then proceeded to pass everyone up and blow 'em out of the water! My guys rock!

Grammy did a bunch of gardening after going to the gym today, so she rocked too!

Did I rock today?! You betcha! I went to the RS General Broadcast and we had a half hour beforehand to conduct our tri-ward craft night meeting with 6 items on the agenda. Somehow I got put in charge of these meetings, so I gave a heads up that each item had 5 minutes and then we were moving on. We totally rocked and covered everything in under 30 minutes. I love a short and productive meeting!

Got It, But Not What I Thought

Upon reflection, (i.e., Mike was no longer too contaminated to talk to) I think Mike had what might have been the only migraine of his life. So now the bad news is really kind of good news, at least for the rest of us, because hopefully we won't be yarking any time soon. Sorry that Mike had a migraine though, especially the big capital M ones that make you yark.

Then it was my turn last night, but it wasn't a yarker. Still hurts, but I'm fully loaded on the ol' Clint Cocktail, my scalp is tingling and one eye is half shut, but I've got things to do, places to go, people to see....

• First on the list is taking two cats to the vet. They are currently holed up in the laundry room where they had breakfast, which conveniently is the location where their carriers are kept. All I have to do is get in there without letting them out, and they're mine, the pretties!
• After that, I will try to be dedicated to my 5 miler Friday. After Will's comment/challenge last week, I don't know if a migraine is excuse enough to miss it. I'd hate to be a starter and not a finisher.
• Then I have my appointment for Eternal Youth with my hairdresser to keep away the grays. The girls and I are all on the same schedule now; Indy, Taryn and Mariah went to her on Wednesday. We get the friends & family group discount that way.
• Wait! There's more! Our landscaper guy who did the walls and walkways is coming by to kill off our Bermuda lawn today. Then he'll be back later to aerrate and reseed it with good stuff. I am sandwiched between two neighbors who are S.O.B.s (Stamp Out Bermuda) so they will be happy I am on the bandwagon and not spreading my nasty weedy lawn to theirs anymore. And by the way, that is a neighborhood acronym, I didn't make that one up people.

So the weekend will be filled with meows and yowling cats who demand to go outside and experience the first breath of Fall and can't because they can't be walking on all that Round Up and eating the sprayed grass. I will go out today and buy them grass at the pet store, and probably fresh catnip toys, because that's how much I love them! Well, one of them, anyway - the one who tried to purr my migraine away this morning.

Yea! Boo! Hiss! Yikes!

Yea! Indy's ACT scores came back earlier than we expected, and she got a composite score of 29! She is very happy with her score and she made some of her best scores ever - a 34 in English, and a 28 in Math! We are proud of her accomplishment and are hoping she can pull out all the stops just one more time and get one teeny tiny point higher because that's what she needs for a 2/3 scholarship to Auburn. Unfortunately, Auburn doesn't super score (take your best scores from each category for a composite). Other universities on her list do super score though, and for them, she is at a 30. Hopefully, with her 4.03 GPA, top 8% in her class and ACT range, she'll still get some decent scholarship offers to choose from. We are waiting to hear back on what she got for the writing portion of the ACT. It should come in a couple weeks. Taryn will be taking the ACT also in October - her first, Indy's last. Please keep the prayers going for the girls test taking next month!

Boo! The bad news is that Mike is sick again. I think the crud made its way here! We'll probably start dropping like flies because it was his turn to make dinner tonight and it didn't hit him until afterwards. Now we're all contaminated! He was sick just a week ago, and Taryn got it too, so this is a bummer one-two punch. I'm sleeping in my mom's room tonight, that's for dang sure! It may not help me though, because he germed that room up too. Geez Mike, keep your contagions contained, will ya?! We lysoled everything we could think of, especially the TV remote, but my tummy is worried.

Hiss! Thursday is looking too stressful! It's our preschool accreditation day, so we will have a person there all day grading us on every little minute, infinitesimal thing that happens at school, our interactions with the kids, what's in their lunches, our program, the playground (yikes! and the kids keep asking for the Jello Jiggler Monster game!) and how safe it is, and how well we supervise out there, teachers, and the biggie....how well I do keeping germs at bay with the bleach water spray bottle and listening for every sneeze and cough, eagle eye for every nose picker or nose swiper, so hands are washed promptly! I have exactly 30 minutes to collapse at home after work, then I have a parent-teacher conference with Mariah's teacher. Then after that, Taryn goes to the 2nd of five ACT prep classes. In between dropping T off and picking her up, is Achievement Day for Mariah. I think I can, I think I can....

Hopefully I won't forget anyone or anything. Ooooh, like picking my mom up at the airport. I just remembered that's tomorrow night too. Forgetting to get your mom at the airport is way up there is the Yikes category!! I already set my cell phone to remind me of the PTC, now I'll have to remember to set it for picking up mom too! 'Cause there's only so much my brain can handle, and I feel full capacity coming on. Mayday! Mayday!

Nature of the Day

This little guy was on our window the other day

We thought it was sooo cute!

The deer enjoying the new water fountain

I was on my way out the door and saw them

so I had to stop and watch, then took photos,

and now I've got to run to get to work!

Here's Auburn!

This was the last photo taken from our tour day,

but the best, so it goes first!

Here we are heading in

Indy hates this picture...she hates the next one too.

After we checked in we got our nametags and then couldn't decide where we wanted to wear them. It would have been funny to watch. Each of us moved it at least twice, Taryn about 4 times, partly because I yanked it off her leg and said to put it where they could see it, and she put it on her shirt, but it was much too low, if you know what I mean, so I yanked it off again. I think she ended up with it back on her leg. I didn't think it was going to stick anymore, but it made it through the day...barely.

Here are a bunch of photos of the campus.
This is the building where Indy would go for Pyschology

It was a great day outside! 85 degrees and sunny...just perfect!

This is the library - it's HUGE!

I can't remember what the ranking is nationally,

but it's up there in the top of "Largest University Libraries".

We liked that it's open 24/7.

Taryn had a funny look on her face

She'll hate this photo!

And here's the happy, but tired, trio

I hate this photo -for reasons discussed in the previous blog!

WAR EAGLE!!!

We said that about 50 times today.

Memory Goes South...

Well, this little tidbit from our trip apparently is blog-worthy in its own right. I would prefer NOT, but the girls LOVED this and both demanded it be blogged. Guess the shoe is on the other foot, as well as other articles of clothing...but I jump ahead.

We had a nice drive down if you don't count the rural route mapquest sent us on. Note: We took the interstate all the way home and even though the distance was longer, it was a much, much better drive. Anyway, after checking in at our motel, we headed off in the direction of the university to test drive our directions so we'd know exactly how to get there and how long it would take from our motel. We spent a real long time finding someplace we didn't need to go which kinda explained why it was so hard to find. When we finally got there and there wasn't a big parking lot, I knew something was wrong. So I re-read some info and discovered I had directions to some museum but not to the intramural field...oops. But while we were having one of Mom's Auburn Blond Moments (luckily there wasn't many of them) we did find the church chapel! So it was a good mistake. We got to see alot of the university from the car while we went about finding the parking lot we needed to drive to the next morning. Then, we drove back towards our motel, memorizing the landmarks, turns and street names. We ate dinner at Panera's and then re-test drove the drive back to the university without the gps or our written directions and because there was a Cheeburger Cheeburger right down the street from Auburn and Indy said they had great shakes that we decided to take back to the motel. Hers didn't even last that long!

So, I've procrastinated this as long as possible....guys, we're heading into Girl Territory, just so you know. Nothing too bad, but thought I should warn you.

We're back at the motel, settling in for the night, and I'm in the bathroom changing into my jammies and I suddenly have this terrible feeling that I did not pack a bra. I wore my spandexy exercise top thingy because it doesn't have underwires and is more comfy in the car. It's aquamarine in color. It was OK under my t-shirt, but under olive green and it will show? Oh, that can't be good. So I kind of mention this out loud and the girls start laughing like loons. I told them to shut up and they laughed louder. So I tried on my shirt with the exercise top and then we all started laughing. It was really, really, really bad. So as I'm trying to decide what to do, frustrated that I didn't think of this sooner, because we are literally across a parking lot from a mall that is now closed, and Alabama is the Walmart Capitol of the world, Indy offers, in between giggles, her extra bra because she packed 3 outfits. Taryn just had to throw in there that there was NO WAY I could fit in hers! They really cracked up when I said "I'll take Indy's!" and went back to the bathroom to try it on. I come out and they can't stop laughing at how "perky" things are, and how with the "uplift" I've got chest-age spilling out in the middle. I think Indy alternated between finding it incredibly funny and being appalled that I could fit in her bra. The girls even made me call Mike and have him guess what I forgot to pack. They huddled around the phone, on speaker mode, so they wouldn't miss a word! Mike got in on the laughs too. I tell you, I was abused on this one. All day long, I could see the lips twitching when they looked at my chest. It was pretty funny, I have to admit! Thanks Indy for saving the day! Otherwise, I would have had to go to Walmart at 5 am, and that would not have made me too happy.

So, to finish the title of the post.... Memory Goes South and Other Things Go North!

Another 5 Miles & Whaddya Get?

Did my Mon/Fri 5 miler with Joanne today. We walked our neighborhood instead of the park track we usually do. We were a tad shy of the full 5 miles, but we have hills and it's a harder walk so we called it good. We're getting back into the groove, shaping up, and I hope to lose some weight. Joanne lost 11 lbs in 2 weeks, while I'll be lucky if I lost half that, so I think that's a Bit Much!! I will weigh in tomorrow and see if I've made any progress. We used to walk together before she adopted Aimee Mei, and now that Aimee is in preschool, coincidentally on my days off, we can hit the pavement together again. It's great!

Today is Gib's lucky day. He gets to come home in the car instead of on the bus. That's always nice on a Friday because the bus reverses its route and his ride is 15-20 minutes longer on Friday's. He's getting picked up as a bonus because I have to get Mariah anyway and their school's are side by side. Mariah needs to come home early to get ready for Girl Scout camp. If she came home on the bus, she'd have to get right back in the car to be at school to leave in 20 minutes for camp. That makes no sense. So I'm pulling her out early.

Tonight Joanne and I, our respective hubbies, and 2 other church couples will all go out to dinner. It's a big combo b-day, visit teaching, home teaching enterprise. There's talk of Joanne doing some of her presentation too, so I suggested she print out the slides of the wonderful PowerPoint demo Indy made for her and she could just breeze through it that way instead of doing the whole she-bang.

The weekend we've been waiting for is finally here. Indy, Taryn and I leave Sunday to go to Auburn for War Eagle Day, bright & early Monday morning. We are in major anticipation....will it be THE university?! We hope so! I looked into tickets to the Auburn vs LSU game, but it was too much moola for tickets and extra nights stay. Oh well. If Indy and/or Taryn ends up at Auburn, there'll be games then! We'll be home Monday night. Hopefully with lots to blog about and if somebody remembers a camera, some syrup too.

Mulch Happens

Today I spent the day in the Nursery at preschool. Our nursery teacher's 93 yr old mother passed away in the wee hours this morning and so I subbed for her today. The baby's didn't say much, but the other day, one of my buddies on the playground had on new shoes that were bothering him because they kept getting mulch in 'em. His teacher asked him why he was sad and he explained the problem and she expressed sympathy. His response...."it's OK, mulch happens!"

The Yays Have It!

Yay! Taryn feels better! She had a cold that kept her home from school Monday and Tuesday, but she is back. Hopefully, there won't be too much make-up work from school. She, Indy and I are going to Auburn next Monday for a college campus visit, so she has to get caught up so she can get behind again right away!

Yay! Mike feels better too! He started the cold and got it bad. His antibiotics did the trick for him whereas youth did the trick for T. :)

Yay! Gib passed his Board of Review last night and will get his Star rank at the next Court of Honor in a couple of weeks! Go Gibbie! Hey, by then, he might be 5' 3 and 1/2"!!

Yay! Mariah got to take out the earring studs they pierce the ears with and is now wearing fashionable, outfit-matching earrings! She almost passed out during the removal of the studs, but it's all good now! Double YAY!!

Yay! Indy had a fun weekend! She went out with Scott, went out with Chantel, went shopping and got some super cute stuff, and we are keeping our fingers crossed that she got a good score on the ACT. Still thinking about whether or not to sign up for the last chance test in October. It wouldn't hurt, but boy is she tired of taking it.

Yay! Ms. Chrissie went to Playground Safety Training! Booo!!! Ms. Chrissie does everything wrong!!! Apparently, all my natural inclinations at play are suspect, and it's a wonder none of my children were ever in the emergency room with broken limbs and missing body parts. Judging from my childhood memories of what we did, it's a miracle anyone from my generation made it through our elementary years! The teacher sitting next to me was chuckling when I realized that everything I do is against Safety Training. Example: Yesterday I was bored so I started doing a Simon Says on the slide and you know the whole going down feet first on your bum thing is b-o-r-i-n-g so I started mixing it up. Yeah, well, who knew, but they frown on head first upside down. I was there to catch 'em, but ok, what if I wasn't. So today I get to deprogram the poor little babies I led astray. I think I need to be excused from the playground.

Pay Attention to Little Things

Gib is growing by quarter inches a week....seriously. Last week, as he was walking to the bus I thought to myself that it was time to measure him again because he looked taller. Sure enough, he was up more than an inch, poised to overtake Indy by a 1/4". Today, he walks up to me, I take one look at him and go, "he grew again". Mike doesn't believe it. Still claims we cheated because I gave Gib a last minute instructional in proper poise, but Mike tried to cheat too by smashing the ruler down on the poor boy's head....in the end, Gib got that 1/4" and is now technically taller than Indy, even though her driver's license says she's 5'3", she is a tad under that, and Gib isn't!! Poise and Ruler Strategies aside, as his mother I claim final authority....I know exactly how high to put my arm to rest it on his shoulder and it's getting higher and higher. The next female in the family to overtake is me by the way! That will be one weird day. Nobody has done that yet.

Another "pay attention to little things" to mention is not for the faint of heart. Yesterday, Taryn and Gib went to help a friend with his Eagle project along with a few other young men from church. Taryn was the only girl and the project is some kind of EPA thing along the river. It involved getting muddy, dirty, stinky, oh yeah, and to find bugs in the river, identify them and count them. She was willing to find, count and identify, but not touch. I told her not to make too big of a production out of it or she'd end up with a bug down her shirt. Well, instead, she ended up with a poisonous water moc slithering across her foot. She said one of the guys laughingly told her, "Hey Taryn, there's a snake behind your foot!" she looks back, thankfully without moving, lets out a scream of dismay, thankfully without moving, and watches the moc slither across the top of her foot. She said it was creepy. Max, the Scout doing the Eagle project, walks up just then, sees it, and calmly states, "hey, that's a baby water moccasin". Taryn told me, "it was just a little one mom - just a baby". Note: I do believe they are just as venomous! Good thing we are not afraid of snakes! Taryn would have just picked it up and played with it if it hadn't been poisonous.

You gotta pay attention to the little things!!

Alot of little things = ALOT!

Not a whole lot going on, just the usual...

School: Indy is studying for another round of the ACT she'll take this weekend (prayers please!). Taryn is starting to think about college majors (Chemical Engineering?!) and will be taking a prep class for the ACT and will take the PSAT soon too. Gib is still mum on the cute girl but we're wearing him down. Progress reports came home and everyone is doing great. Mariah has school pictures tomorrow! (Hey, that reminds me - Happy Anniversary Holly & Eric!)

Then there's Scouts. Gib will receive a few merit badges at the next Court of Honor (Geology, Fishing, Citizenship in the Nation; Citizenship in the World, and Watersports). And he was elected to the Order of the Arrow after completing the Fall Ordeal. Hopefully he will also achieve a rank advancement after his Board of Review next week to Star. For Mariah, Girl Scouts just started back up with another campout coming up again followed by horseback riding next month!

In Sports there's volleyball and the older girls have soccer - last Saturday should have been week 1 but it was rained out (deja vu to last season).

On the work front - Mike is staying busy, I'm staying busy, and Indy is making herself invaluable by staying busy! The managers and servers love her and if she could just avoid working with certain immature people, she would be really happy. She even got to deliver rolls to a table and cleared their table while she was at it because she doesn't like to look at dirty dishes when she's done eating. She passed by a manager on her way to the kitchen with the dishes and he did a double-take. I think her climb to the top of the Hostess Totem Poll will be swift.

Today I had to sub in a Pre-K classroom. Not my favorite thing to do because I get stir crazy staying in the same room all day with 10 loud children all competing for my attention at the same time and they think they can outshout each other and be heard. Everyone learned a couple new phrases today: "Sometimes You Gotta Improvise" ('cause I didn't know how the other teacher did things and told them I was improvising because you know how they all start chirping when you aren't doing something exactly the way teacher does it!) and "Spic & Span". After lunch, the kids had to clear off their area on the table (Spic) and below (Span). They also liked my rhyme of "if it's large, you're in charge" of getting it picked up off the floor. And yes, the crusts of the sandwiches counted!

Hey, it occurs to me that maybe that's how Indy's OCD about those yucky dinner dishes on the tables at the restaurant came about!!

Stock Market

Bought BUCY @ 45.86

Why do I post stock trades?

Football Week 1

Face painting was the order of the day

at Opening Week at the Titans Stadium.

Naturally, we made Scott go first! The Dedicated Fans - Short & Tall

(5'3" - 6'3")

Another famous sunglasses reflection shot!

After the Big Win!
It was a hot one, but we had fun!!

When we got home, Scott & Indy made us dinner, since it's Indy's night to cook, and between the two of them, Scott has more kitchen experience! We had easy beef stroganoff, and I used to make it so much that when I lost the recipe I guess I never replaced it. Then Mike started making it all the time and I guess I kind of forgot how to make it after all that time. So I couldn't give Indy & Scott a recipe to follow, so we had to get Mike to tell us what went in it! Wow! I bet Indy & I made a GREAT impression with our culinary skills!!!

Volleyball Week 1

Mariah joined a beginner's Rec League Volleyball team. This is her first time playing Volleyball outside of P.E. She hopes to someday make the middle school team.

The first picture of the day at warm-ups

shows we have a long way to go!

But the longest journey begins with just one step,

or one bump as the case may be

Mariah's First Serve

Out on rotation, three of four Girl Scouts
on the team who also went rock climbing today (and perhaps ate one too many Oreos)Coach giving Mariah on-the-court Serving 101

She made some nice serves, and some that didn't

make it over the net, and some that went out of bounds,

but with practice, she can do it!

A Volley!!!

Mariah's team won 2 of 4 games today,
and they did well considering it was the first game for many of them.

Off to the Slammer

Everyday at preschool is another adventure. Thursday was especially fun because half the day I spent with the babies in the Nursery where two little ladies thought I was their next best option with Mom gone. Not that they were too terribly happy about option #2, but the way they clung to me anyways still made me smile. We did alot of "Here We Go Libby-Loo" for some reason. I guess I was in a Libby-Loo mood.

In the afternoon, I was back on the playground. And I guess it's a good thing for my shoulder, but I can only put 3 kids on it the tire swing (oops! editing) now, not the 6, or 7 I managed when it was a skinny crowd. Well, they're gonna fly with only 3, lemme tell ya! It'll be way more dangerous!! So, I was goofing around on the balance beam with a couple gals and brought back a favorite game from last year - the Jello Jiggler Monster. You start with 2 or 3 and in minutes have about 12 or 20. It's great. I think the other teachers enjoyed it too. Hey, why not, half the mutants were preoccupied! Basically, I put kids on the beam and tell them what kind of Jello Jiggler they are - usually it goes with whatever color they are wearing, or if I'm really bored, I start making up funny flavors to hear them giggle, which makes them fall off, which is the whole point of the game. If they jiggle off the balance beam, then I get to chase them and tickle 'em while making alot of munching noises. I got a good workout chasing kids all over. One little guy on our third lap around the playground, with about 10' between us as we were running, yelled "Please STOP!" What he said and how he said it made it so funny.

So we're chasing and having fun, and here comes a little short squirt who's been dressing up as a police officer all week. He comes up to me, shoots me and then arrests me. Up go my hands, even though I'm pretty sure I'm dead. He tells me "You're under arrest!" So I play along, because seriously, that's the best part of my job; this is where all the real fun happens. I go for the Innocent Look, "Hey! I didn't do nothin! Why are you arresting me?!" and he grabs my arms and pretends to cuffs me. Sound effects and all. I loved it! And as he is leading me to the car on the playground he says "You're a monster, and you chased kids, and you're going to the slammer!". He puts me in the car, just like real police do on TV - I tell ya, I was really impressed. I kept my hands behind my back the whole time just to see how he handled it. It was great! About a dozen kids came to accompany me to jail, taunting and shouting at me that I was going to jail forever. I complained loudly about police brutality. The other teachers were no help; I do believe I saw a camera come out and photos taken! Geez! Then I was taken one leg at a time out of the car, led by my cuffed arms to Lillie's Playhouse aka The Jail. I was thrown in the slammer, surrounded by bloodthirsty little demons. I demanded a lawyer. The answer was "you're not gonna get one!" So I said I was hungry and that little guy whose life I saved on the swings? He held out his hands and in a very mean little voice said "here's some broccoli" so I put up a fit about the broccoli and asked for pizza - NO! for gum? NO!!! for ice cream? NO!!!!! Then I promised to never do it again. Broccoli Boy who was wearing a spiderman shirt claimed to have special x-ray vision that could detect a lie - after some cool sound effects and a stare down with intense soul searching, he proclaimed "It's a FAKE PROMISE!" so I had to bust myself outta there. I was chased down and rejailed. After a while, they decided they liked being chased more and one crafty kid snapped my cuffs and opened the door - the picnic table they had drug across the opening to prevent another escape. And seriously, they PAY me to do this stuff!! Well, not alot.... :)

Hang On With Everything Ya Got!

So today at preschool, I was coming onto the playground to start giving the teachers a quick break so they could escape from the heat and just get away for a few minutes. As I reach the tire swing a teacher that was there said she didn't need to go, but one of the girls said, "No, we like Ms. Chrissie better!" and I'm all beaming and enjoying the feeling from the top of the world. Only to be cruelly cut back down when that comment was followed up with "She's heavier!". So we laughed and I told the teacher to move it so I could maneuver my HEFT and put some muscle into the tire swing. Actually, what the kids love is when I Under-Doggy the thing. Last week, two classes left and I only had 3 kids left on the swing, and I didn't think to use alot less strength, and accidentally got the swing so high, one kid's head almost hit the top bar! So I have to watch how high I send it aloft. Plus, it makes my shoulder hurt if I'm not careful. But today, it was loaded with as many kids as can fit...about 6 or 7.

So I get them swinging nice and high, and then we stopped because they always yell to stop, just so I will have to Under-Doggy them again. Like I don't have them figured them out! It's not my first time on the Preschool Block Missy! Anyway, we took on another rider and off we went. They requested no count down until lift-off so they wouldn't know when the Under-Doggy was coming. So up they go squealing with joy, and about two swings into it, the new kid on the swing yells, "Stop this thing! Stop! Stop!". Now, this kid is a rough & tumble guy, and nobody ever asks in full swing to stop, so I know something is wrong, so I jump in, grab the nearest chain I can get, and go thrashing left, thrashing right, my walkie-talkie flies one way and my sunglasses fly off my head the other, as the poor little boy is slowly melting into the hole in the middle!! I barely got the thing stopped as his little body fell thru the hole. It was quite funny! I had to ask, "What happened?! Why'd you let go?!" to which he indignantly replied, "I didn't let go! My butt let go!!!". That of course cracked me up (hahaha)! We got him back on, and before we Under-Doggied again, I just had to ask, "Does everyone have two hands on the chains? Is everyone's butt hanging on too?!" This was, of course, met with jubilant gales of laughter. Hopefully, I won't be called in for questioning!

This is what I love about 4 yr olds - they SAY what they mean, but they don't always MEAN what they say!!

Tullahoma Holiday

Indy and her friend Scott spent the holiday with his family and their boat on a lake near Tullahoma, AL. They had a great time! This is the two of them driving in the convertible Corvette. When Indy said they got to drive it since his folks were driving the truck and the boat, I told her to get a picture. I was using the car as an excuse to get a photo of the guy, but she (probably knowing ME) took a picture of just the guy anyways! We crack each other up. She said the Corvette was NICE (we'll never know, because she didn't take a picture of it!) and it FLEW down the back roads (something about 90 MPH feeling like 50?!).

I like this shot because you can see Indy in the reflection of Scott's sunglasses!

Some scenic shot on the way to the lake - it's nice when you

don't have windows in the way! The lake

Indy Tubing

What I want to know is why we don't have a picture of Scott skiing or tubing?!

The rest of us didn't do much. Mariah and Gib got their backpack cubbies cleaned out..whew! That was a chore that really needed to be done. I don't have to tip-toe through the laundry room now! Yay! And Mike & I went out to lunch together at a new place that was yummy. Taryn slept in (that always puts a smile on her face), and Mike put up her new wall art/bulletin board that I made her. It looks cool. While he was doing that, T and I scoped out Scott in the year book. T was very possessive of her yearbook, and didn't want me thumbing through those pages much. Oh really?! The rest of the day was spent doing laundry, some housecleaning and plant watering since Gustav isn't going to bring us any rain (drats).

And that was my holiday. Wish I was on the lake instead!

Mike is trying to get Indy to participate on the Blog and just walked by and said, "She should be writing that!". Indy is doing homework and then will be passing out from exhaustion. Plus her neck is really sore from skiing, and I knew ya'll would want to see that really nice 'Vette right away....lol!!