~Speed demon

Courtney looooooves Uncle Craig's 4 wheeler- after she figured out how to change gears she was Flying around the field all by herself! It was good and muddy out today after a boat load of rain came down----perfect for 4 wheeling :-) We literally had to hose the girls off they were so muddy heehee

~Fun with my new camera

I made cora match the carpet (& albino!) cora has purple hair like tonks
cora with a massive tan LOL
red courtney
I've been torturing the kids with testing out the funky settings on my new camera :-) My kids are tired of it, (obviously, see nort walking away?) but I can still get Cora to work with me.

~Old fashioned Lemonade stand

Cora & Courtney are outside selling lemonade, cookies and popcorn right now. They just looked so cute I had to run out and take a picture. They lost $2.58 by sending cody to the general store to get them more cups, because they ran out (the .58 was his 'candy bar commission' for riding to the store for them, they just didn't know it LOL) Rather than having to deal with change they are just accepting tips, most people give a quarter or a dollar. One old guy gave them a dime, because according to him the cups were too small, and then he asked for a refill LOL!!! Guess that's what they get for putting "donations" and "free refills" on the sign. I hope they do well, but then again, I know if they make more than $5 they are going to want me to take them to the store so they can spend their earnings and I'm sooo tired I don't want to go anywhere right now, but I can't take a nap cuz they are out at the end of the road and I keep checking on them, of course I couldn't take a nap if they were in the house either cuz they are so noisy. They have a walkie out there with them in case they need me maybe I'll go fall asleep on the porch :-)


****update: they ended up making $24 yesterday and they were both able to get the webkinz they were hoping for :-) and they woke up this morning and wanted to do it again. Next thing ya know they'll be out there selling baked beans and toast cuz we're out of lemonade and cookies LOL

~Hometown carnival

Duane and the boys had to setup the army simulator at the lil carnivaly-thingy that was in 'town'. I say that loosely because it's a wee small town, we're talking 1 stop light literally . The vermits and I stayed for a little while (until the rain started) to watch them tear down the tent and long enough for Cody and sgt Downy to play cornhole (who named that game btw?!) and long enough for nort to win some stuff. Me, I was sittin in the hummer. I pointed to the building and said "that's where I used to go back in '84" like I do EVERY single time we pass it and I was a little surprised to hear Cort ask "18 or 19 mom?" and I thought "18 or 19 what?!" and she oh so innocently said "1884 or 1984". (gulp!) The problem was she wasn't being sarcastic at all, she was quite serious. The old brick part of the building was built in 1870 pretty dern old, so I guess I see where she was coming from. She has no interest what so ever in history, unlike me, who was infatuated with Little House on the Prairie, Anne of Green Gables and Nancy Drew books. I knew and understood the different era's and decades even tho they were WELL before my time. And to further complicate things she's seen pics of a younger me sitting in my Dad's antique cars or in old log buildings and I still have a dress from when I was about 6, a prairie dress complete with apron that looks like it came straight from a trunk of the lost Donner party. So I understand her confusion, but still......did she just call me old?!?!?! She later redeemed herself by interupting a song I was singing in the car to ask me how someone could audition for American Idol. To which she promptly said I should definately try out because I'm such a good singer. What a tone-deaf little sweet heart of a daughter I have :-)

~Anniversary #15 6~26~1993

Yesterday I was soooo busy having fun celebrating my 15th anniversary.................I think I had about as much fun as Andrea. (no, i'm pretty sure she had more fun since she has 3 lil ones LOL) Sarge took the day off to ......... golf......with Cody. And I was here with Courtney, Cora (who was spending the night) and Mariah. They may call it "having a friend over to play" I call it "babysitting" :-) Lets face it, when ya have kids and your Anniversary is on a weekday it sorta cancels out the romance. But hey, we're still just as married and in love weather we go on a hot date or not. This just happened to be a NOT year. Next year it'll be on a Friday and we WILL go out. Maybe Andrea & Mark can go with us :-) hahahaha

~Birthday #33 6~24~1975

33rd time doing this and it never gets boring.

~RRRanch

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We were suppose to go to Cleveland last weekend for my B-day, but the gay pride parade downtown hindered our plans. Cody was like "there are gay people in OHIO!???" See I told you we are stuck in the boondocks. LOL So we went to a ranch down in amish country instead. One of those that you ride thru on the wagon and stop and feed the animals. Mini-me's favorite part was at the end when we got to the petting zoo area, where there were baby cows from India, peacocks, monkeys, porcupines, etc. Personally I kinda felt like I was at Anne's house :-) (you don't have an ostrich yet do ya anne?)

~Summertime :-)

yes, cora is a ham!

home at last (they wore me out!)

~The nicest Mom on the block Mwahahahaha!

My kids think I'm the bestest mom in the world (not likely) I bought them loads of workbooks the other day. The sprouts have to study every morning before noon if they want to play on anything like the PS3, gamecube, computer, phone, DS, PSP, you know, all that electric junk. They also have to be showered and ready, have beds made and rooms picked up before they are allowed to even think about having any friends over after lunch. Look Alisha we're even studying FL since we weren't able to come down there :-) We got a boatload of library books the other day, we are going to try to study different cultures and we even got cookbooks to go along with the different states/countries. And since the election is upon us I have them studying that too so that they know what is going on when it's being talked about. Cody is very anti-obama, like moi, so I got him a book about B.O. to study - just to torture him :-) Actually I just wanted him to be informed about who he does and doesn't like. Courtney had to write in her journal about why we SHOULD have a woman president and next she has to write why we should NOT have a woman president. She came up with some cute answers. Anyways, I hope this keeps them from leaking braincells all over the place this summer :-)

~Gremlin hunting

Hee hee hee

Cora watched Gremlins for the 1st time the other day, so of course the scary topic of the day was.......gremlins. The girls always have a scary topic to keep them awake every weekend. Makes for some long nights for Me. So yesterday they were running thru the woods looking for gremlins. Cody and I made some pics of Gizmo and he went and hid them in the trees to scare the girls LOL When I took the pic the girls had just heard something and yelled "did you hear that"?! Notice how they girls have their sticks ready? LOL And notice the lil chuckle forming on Cody's face? (click the pic to make it bigger) LOL He Looooves scary those two!!!!