BEST LAID PLANS

Oh what a weekend!

Friday night we hung out a neat little local eatery.

Yes it had a cover charge...no there was no karaoke.

Bad mullets and leather pants and lots of laughs but no karaoke.

Due to no karaoke, there were no pictures.

Saturday we went to our first MMA fight (think UFC on a really, really small scale).

The pictures I took did not turn out well at all.

Saw my first broken nose and a kid get knocked out but recover. I think I enjoy the UFC's at my house better. I like the color commentary offered by the guys and the food cooked by HH. His fajitas are way better than overpriced nachos and Frito pies.

There was an unexpected twist in the weekend. We spent Sunday doing this:

Totally not planned! Saw it coming on Saturday and started praying and the Lord was good! The damage was minimal and the floor below is good. So this week I will be putting it back together:)

Side note - I had just mopped this floor on Friday - COMPLETE WASTE OF MY TIME!

If you are in need of a great laugh, read Keri's post on the one of the big issues we women face (no pun intended Keri). It will make you laugh out loud. Unless you name is Hilda :o)

Hope you have a great Monday!

BLINDED

On Friday I mopped the kitchen floor
No small feat on my behalf
MC 1 comes in from school
Goes into the kitchen...

"WHOA! Why does everything look different"

"It's called clean"
Can't really blame him.
It has been a while since he has seen the clean kitchen floor.
Probably blinded by the light...oh no
I hear that tune starting to play in my head
Blinded by the light
...something another....like a runner in the night

Best go before it breaks out into all out song!

OUT OF THE BOX..IN TO THE OCTAGON

Okay this weekend HH & I are going to:
1. a karaoke bar
2. a mixed martial arts fight
Girl dream weekend right?
Definitely out of my box.
I will be taking my camera so be looking for pictures!
Have a great weekend!

MENACE TO SOCIETY

Well, I have been a stay at home mom for 3 full days now. I have learned a few things:

1. These guys are a menace to society. They have no concern for the well being of others. We have a feeder out front and when they are feeling territorial there is no concern for loss or injury. You simply become collateral damage.

2. HH has some new work hours that are a bit tough on both of us. Early to bed early to rise is out motto now, and apparently earlier to rise when it HH's job to pick up the donuts - don't ask:(

3. MC 2 L-O-V-E-S staying home. LOVES it. Could not be happier and that brings me great joy!

4. MC 1 is adjusting to school. He has had some really good days. His teacher is very nice and he likes her a lot.

Other than that it is pretty calm. No stressing out over - get out the door- get out the door- we gotta go! No coming in at 5 exhausted and not even thinking about supper. None of that stress. There are different stresses and new ones each day, but with Christ's help we will thrive!

Of course I don't think that the fact it took me 1/2 the day to realize my pants were on backward really counts as thriving.

To answer your question ...no, I did not fix them. Who can really tell with workouts pants anyway?

Have a great day!

A HUNTING WE WILL GO....

a hunting we will go...

hi-ho-the-dair-e-o...

a hunting we will go.

(May be wrong but my phonics training says it sounds right)

Wanna guess as to what he is doing? Come on - anyone?

He is showing me his bear he just killed.

He posed all by himself.

Would anyone agree with me we watch way too many hunting shows?

Anyone?

When your children know how to pose for a shot like that without you telling them how it is a sign of too much Bone Collector.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy watching Michael Waddell.

I drove to another state with hubs to see Nick Mundt (he does not have his own page - yet).

But when your kids can do this unscripted - it is a sign.

So while we were on our little hunting trip I heard,

"Hey Mom! Look at my deer head!"

and I saw this:

Now I must confess when I first saw this, for a moment, the briefest of moments, I panicked. I thought my stars they have taken down one of HH's mounts from the wall and dragged it up in that tree. What am I going to tell him?

Then I did a quick scan of the surroundings and found the victim -


The Glendale Buck has suffered much for the cause. I mean it is bad enough they stole his horns and HH's regularly puts arrows into his abdomen. But this last injustice may be more than he can bear. Insult to injury, insult to injury.
Notice the Star Wars laser gun in our young hunter's hands? I am confident this was the weapon of choice due to the precision of the removal. See that straight line - only a Star Wars laser gun can do that!

So needless to say it is hunting season around here.

Time for weekend trips, midnight corn runs, trips to the one hour photo lab for picture development. Time for scent free clothes and a dryer that smells like dirt. (Oh in case your spouse does not hunt you CAN buy dryer sheets that smell like dirt. You can even buy scent free toothpaste!)

And I don't want to miss a single moment of my boys enjoying it!

I'LL BE BACK

It is the last official Friday of summer and I have big things planned today!

The exterminator is coming.

Exciting right? I know you are asking yourself how I could pack so much into one day. It is a gift - my time management is exceptional. I can block one hour a day with stuff better than anyone.
Hope you have a great weekend. Pray you are able to worship in the house of the Lord this weekend with family and friends. See you Monday!

MONSTER TRUCKS AND X GAMES

We did not do everything on our list this summer. We never went and stayed at a hotel with a pool. We never went to the zoo. We did not take a single educational field trip like I planned.
We did do some things that were not on the list. We went to a mini- monster truck rally and we went to the local skate park. Here is the proof:)

Man child with his mad skilz!

SAFETY FIRST (Where is P when you need him?)

I have no clue where that stance came from. No one is more shocked to see it than me:)

MUD BOGGIN - or something like that.

Needless to say all my men were plotting how they could participate next year.

Dude get ready cuz it is ON!

I had a picture of the first aid kit that we had to use at the skate park, because we all knew that was inevitable. Alas, I took the picture on a public park table and the graffiti mongrels wrote some very not nice stuff that showed up just in the corner of the pic- so it was a no go. Yes I could have cropped it - but nahhh.

Hope you have a great day!