You have red neck potential if....

We are in clean mode...the smell of Pine Sol is in the air and I am really missing some amenities of Desperado Way. I told Robert, "We need tunes. We need surround sound up in here!" He said, "We can put the kids' radios on the same station and turn it up."

Houston, we have potential...I'm just saying!

I've been holding out on you!

***I have totally held on to a story for 3 days. Please empty your minds so you can fully take this story in!!! ***

On Sunday the guys were watching the Cardinals game. I was in one of the back rooms working on my annual photo dvd/slideshow. Which, by the way could easily turn into a featured length film. Hey, 'my b' it was a great year.

Anyways, it was half time and my 3 Kurt Warners were going to throw the football around in the front yard. Rumor has it that Cade left the front door open Rose darted out!!! She has no fear or manners when her paws hit freedom. Again, supposedly Cole had ahold of her collar but let go. So that left Robert to fetch his dog. I was not too concerned. Eventually I heard muffled cussing and Robert was bringing Rose to her kennel. He was angry. He looked at me and said, " I had to get her from inside the neighbor's house!!!"

***Please don't gloss over that! He didn't say, "from the neighbor's yard" or "neighbor's trash." He said, "INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!" ****

He was so angry and humiliated that I kept a straight face UNTIL he left the room. When he left I smiled and laughed and texted Melanie.

Rose went through their garage and into their open door. Robert said he stayed at the door saying, "Hello? Hello?" and then he just had to go get her!!! I had so many questions, but this is the one that came out: "So how is it decorated in there?" LMAO!! And then I said, "this would be a great Southwest commercial...'Wanna get away?' "

Our nice neighbor came over about 10 minutes later to tell him it was o.k. and not to be sorry. What a great sport.

I told Robert that it was not worse than Roxy jumping into the Domino's delivery truck or any worse than the embarrassment the kids cause at the grocery store on any given day.

All is well now, thank God Robert was not treated as an intruder!

Cha Ching

Imagine this scene in our house:
I say, "Okay, c'mon kids, it's time to go." Then you would hear moans and groans, you'd hear them ask, "do I need a coat?" and now, you would also hear a noise that says, "ching, ching, ching." That would be CADE getting money from his ATM!!!!!!! He meets up with us at the front door with loaded pockets and a grin on his face.

He received a personal ATM for Christmas, complete with an ATM card and pass code. He makes deposits and withdraws like a little man. They did not have school on Friday so we ran errands most of the day. We were leaving Wal Mart and the Subway was calling his name! He asked if he could buy his own lunch and I said yes. So I stayed at a distance and watched him get in line, order his meal and pay for it. When we got home, you could hear him make a deposit. How does he earn his money you ask? Well, being a mother with sonar ears, I heard Cole and Aubrey ask him to play 'hide and seek'. He declined, until Aubrey offered to pay him. She said, "I'll pay you two 5's." I don't know if he ever got paid, but they all laughed and played until Rose caught on. At that point, they each got mad because she ratted everyone out.

Mmmm, mmmmm, we ate great food on Saturday. We went to reintroduce ourselves to the Prairie House. It's bbq in Roanoke. But not bbq that is all smothered in sauce...just smoked greatness. AND I had their cobbler for the first time. Peach cobbler. I made Robert a peach cobbler for Father's Day and now that I can compare it to something I know he had a major poker face going on that day. :0)

Surfin' USA!

Aubs has a new talent. I turned the corner to her "room" and there she was..box surfing! Get this girl to the beach! After a long week, it's great to have some GOOD unexpected moments.

Did you know that we had an on call nurse when we were sick? ROSE f-i-n-a-l-l-y acted like a good girl and resembled Roxy. We had the leather sectional, in the living room, set up as our triage station and Rose stayed with anyone who was sick. She detached herself from Robert to lend a paw to the needy. We're going to visit a new church in the morning. We sure did like our pastor and band-worship team at CCV. So the hunt is on...we'll see what we find. Good night.

Stomach bug

Ugh.
Horrible.
Nasty.
Sad.
Clorox.

Those are a few of my feelings about this rampid stomach bug that 3/5 of us have. It's hitting Cade the worst, so I pray it goes away.

Good night. Or will it be?
Dar

...and that's an understatement.

Well....we're here. We are back in TX and living in our cute starter home. We knew we would not be able to fit all of our belongings in here and we would use our garage as storage....and that was an understatement. Our garage is full, a storage unit filling and boxes, boxes and boxes still looking for a home. Yikes!

Aubs has had a toe issue for a few weeks so I thought I should get her in to the dr. We went in and the dr. saw a legit problem and said we could do a procedure there or be sent to a podiatrist. I trust her, so I elected to just do it there. She said she would need to block the nerves in Aubs's toe with 4 shots, then do what she needed to do. (I am not giving those details, out of respect.) So, the 4 shots.....that was an understatement. Three of us had to hold Aubrey down while she got the shots. She screamed and cried. But not the annoying kid cry. She went for the gusto. I was holding her head and arms and she was looking at me, through her tears, screaming, "They are hurting me!, I love you Mom, just take me home. Quit hurting me. This is really, really, really hurting." What parent could handle that? I cried too. The doctor said there wasn't a dry eye in the room...understatement.

Well, this morning Cole showed me some math homework that he did not show me last night! I told him this was NOT a good time to bring out homework...understatement. I was fresh out of the shower with 20 minutes to get ready and leave. Come to find out, he didn't bring it out b/c he was scared or embarrassed. He didn't know how to do it. This class is ahead of his last school so we have major catching up to do.

So to take a line from the election: We can. We will.

My baby gets out of school soon, I'll go get in line.