YO!

She put it on all by herself!

sweat equity

This is what sweat equity looks like

And here's to an amazing husband who spent an entire day doing his duty with a heart full of song by painting the entire basement. And then a week caulking all of the finish work.

Three cheers for JIM!!!!!

Couldn't be prouder

Look what Kirsten picked to read for her book report.

I loved this book as a kid-okay okay I still do. I brag that it's the last book I've read.

I couldn't be prouder at this moment as her mom!!!!

Well unless she brought home a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records.
( I have a feeling that it has been ruled out for all kids and book reports - probably due large in part to me and my inestimable book reports on the "worlds fattest twins" spanning my 2nd to 5th grade reading career. And, well, it hasn't really improved much since then.)

To which I say: Book Club shmook club who wants to start a Movie club or a People Magazine club? How about a find the best Milkshake in the valley club? Or the best Nacho's? Let's do something mindless for ourselves-who's with me?

cooties

Please visit my sisters BLOG and watch the You- Tube clip
You won't be sorry!

Look what my mom found

The Mistress Picture

That's what the family has so affectionately called this picture dating back to cir. 1984.

Here's the deal:


I practically hit puberty in Kindergarten

No one else in the family hit puberty until their 20's

I didn't have a cute new outfit for the picture SO....

Mom had me wear the brides maids dress that SHE wore at her sister's wedding the weekend before

I'm only 14

I am the oldest of 5 kids in 7 years (bless my mothers heart!)

My brother and I are only 19 months apart (he's the little guy sitting on my mom's shoulder)

So there I sit, looking like my Father's mistress who was invited to sit in on the family picture

Although I'm not sure which is worse: me or my father's PERMED hair! (He thought it made him look like he had more hair-more of what little hair he had)

Sur La Table

Kudos to Sur La Table!

Kudos to Holly Howarth for giving me the gift card a year ago that I "misplaced" and then finally found only weeks before it expired

Kudos to "Date night in Mexico City" the name of our cooking class

Kudos to Chef Kyle (or as Jim called him: Coach Kyle) for the 6 delicious recipes (eating more than a pregnant woman should at 8:00 p.m.) and wonderful instruction

AND finally, Kudos to the 15% off coupon (good only that night) that we would have liked to use on the Vitamix blender had it not been priced at $499.00 but instead left with a belly full of food and heartburn that would kill a cow hitting at 1:00 A.M.-

I guess a final Kudos to Tums inc. would be appropriate here

Fart Fan - Guest Blog by Jim Hall

We are finishing the rest of our basement and I am down there with our electrician. We start talking fans in the bathroom. He refers to it as a "Fart Fan". I've got to tell you this really bothered me and I am not sure why. I am a dude. I am passing stuff out of my rear all the time. There have been times when I have never laughed so hard as to the sound and duration of a fart. So why does calling it a fart fan bug me? Then the heating guy comes by and I ask him about running an exhaust line for the fan in the bathroom. He says "yea I can run a fart fan exhaust" and I am thinking why is everyone calling it that. You need to stop, please. Refer to it as a "not so pleasant smell expulsion fan". Then I would be able to talk to you about it.

Also, when I am talking to the electrician, he asked if I want a quiet "Fart Fan" or a noisy one. What? Why in the H.E. double hockey sticks would you want a quiet "not so pleasant smell expulsion fan". One of the main reasons you have the fan is to hide the noise that is occurring in the bathroom. I dont like hearing the noise when I am in there, so I assume nobody else outside the bathroom will either.

Please join me in my "Renaming the Fart Fan" campaign. All donations are greatly appreciated.