I have had alot of strange things happen to me. But this is one to laugh about. My computer has not been working right for awhile now at work. So I took it to get fixed. I saved everything on to a memory stick. Yes I did it. Those little stick things are amazing. They hold so much stuff. So I did some work at my house on wednesday night. After I was done I put an envelope on the table to be mailed and I think I put my keys there too. But on Thursday I was off. Friday I went to the post office and then I realized I did not have my keys to get into the office. Yes I go the office and I spend all day by myself. I am there for support in case one of the guys come in. They usually come in very early in the morning before I get there. I drop Braxton off at Pre K and then head to work. Then I leave work in just enough time to pick him up. Lets get back on track....So I came home from the post office and looked everywhere for the keys. I called PJ and he said he would just leave the door open for me at work so I could get in. So I went to work with out them. When I got home I cleaned and still did not find them. Then I thought.....OMG> did I mail them to the main office with the paperwork?. After I looked and looked and racked my brain "Could I really have mailed these keys 4 keys,pink ring and a memory stick". Really, Surely, Absolutely I would have noticed if the mail was heavy. So after a long night of searching I email the main secretary and told her just maybe I mailed you my keys. (What is it when you have lost something you go crazy until you find it. Even if it is something stupid.) So the keys were still missing and I did tell you the computer at work was at the shop. Well I had just told them to go ahead and erase everything and we can start over because I have a memory stick. I am so proud of this stupid stick!. So I am sick at this point and Saturday no keys, Sunday morning we are reading the paper and McKayla & Braxton are playing barbies. (That is another story HEADLINE: Yes, My son loves Barbies.) Out comes Ken in his Cool black hummer and following is Sharpay in her Cool Fabo Hot Pink V. Bug with the coolest keys hanging out of the back window! Yes ladies my keys. I did the JIG in my living room. I think I failed to mention that my 4 keys are colorful. Tie Died , Paridise, Zebra....MCKayla was in love with my keys but now for McKaylas sake she says I do not know how they got there. I think the doll Sharpay got up on Wednesday night to get a drink and looked at the table and said/ " I am going to go to work tomorrow and type some logs and while I am there I will use the other keys to get some parts from the garage and raffle them at my tea party."......O.K. They just magically made their way to Mckaylas room. .... Ok Ok Ok I can not tell a lie. When I was done with my work I tip toed to MCKaylas room and was playing with her toys . Pretending to drive Sharpays Car and left my keys there. .................I must go now. I have to subject myself to more humiliation and email the other Secretary and tell her I found the keys!. I LOVE MY KIDS >>>I LOVE MY KIDS>>> I LOVE MY KIDS>>>>>>

Pete is our puppy. I got him for a family pet. My husband got him for a hunting machine. PJ has big plans for this dog. He says OH YES he is a smart dog. BlahBlah BLah. Well I want to ship him out. If he has one more accident in the house I think I might scream. He is so cute when he is sleeping but when he is awake YIKES!

We started the dances at the fire hall again. They have not had them since I was 14. The kids love it. The crowd grows every month. We are up to 30. This month since school is in I am sure there will be more. Yes this Video is horriable. But it is my first and it was so dark. But that is my son second from the right. He loves to dance. (to show of for the girls anyway). I thought I knew the Macara... but not this one. They love to do it this way.

My friend Lacie emailed me this and I have been laughing for an hour over it!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to us e a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a fringing fire. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! Regards, The over 30 Crowd

This is MJ's 2nd year cheering. She loves it. She seems so small compared to the other girls. But they are all the same age.

My favorite cheer is

Totally For Sure

I just got a manicure

The sun. I swear

Is bleaching out my gourgous hair

24 to 34 I don't even know the score

Win Win, Fight Fight

G! I hope I look alright.

HE!HE! Ha!Ha! I Love it

ICV Football

Go # 2!

Football season is here. They have a web site now and post pictures. I am sharing them with you.

Brandin has been playing football since 3rd grade. I was so scared back then. The tackle even at that age.

Brandin loves to hunt. He has decided to stay home because of hunting season instead of going to Disney. He loves to get up before the sun and go. He traps, bow hunts, gun hunts anything he can....

We went to the Sarris Candy Ice Cream Parlor. Gram Big Cheese only lives a few minutes away from it. It is a hugh candy store and an old fashion parlor. Brandin & CJ wanted their own banana splits but we talked them into sharing. Well as you can see from this picture they are both glad they shared. Brandin looks like he is going to puke.....I can say Echo's husband Chris did order his own and he could not finish it. He tried and tried.

This picture just cracks me up. This is Bethany and Rayne saying " I'm hot & your not". Rayne just loves the girls.

When Echo's kids where here in July the kids loved to sit on the steps at Grams and they loved Kennywood.

When I sleep my hair gets messed up. But Brandin's hair just gets out of control. It takes on a life of its own

Brandin went to the beach to camp with his BFF. CJ & his family go every year. Brandin and CJ did not hang out so much last year. I am very glad things have worked out and they have gotten close again.

I loved the idea of making bows. My sister Echo told me how last year but I never found the time. Now that cheer leading is starting I want to have a variety of ribbons for MJ. So I got the ribbon and clips.. Echo told me just put the ribbon on a rod and bake it in the oven on low heat for 2 to 3 min. So MJ & I cut the ribbon and got it all ready I turned the oven on low . Low to me is like 200-250. Since it only needed to bake for 3 min . I set the time and MJ and I enjoyed a coke and watched it bake. Remember the shrinky dink. I'm not sure why we felt the need to watch it like it was going to do something spectacular. We baked it the first time and let it cool in front of the air conditioner. It did not work so MJ and I tried it 3 more times. It still did not work . So we called aunt Echo. She says we I know I'm right but let me call my good friend and I'll call you back.......Well she was 1/2 wrong. Low heat my butt. You need to have it on 375. And 3 min. Yeah O.K...try 25 in. So we did not watch it this time but it worked. We love it. We are working on a few different ones. This picture does not do it justice but next time MJ wears it I will take her picture.

Fish

So We have a really big fish tank. It was my grandfathers then my mothers and I just ended up with it. So we have around 13 fish in it now but we can not seem to get any more to stay alive. The kids love to go to the pet store and look around and then pick out fish. We went there last week. Braxton picked 2 new water frogs for the tank we already have one and he loves it. Brandin picked out another shark we already have two. I wanted some really cute colorful fish but they never like the ones I like and if I really thought they would not die I would just buy one for me to. But its for the kids. MJ loves the ones that were called Dalmatians. She called them oreo's. I told the lady to bag us up two of them. She was so nice and told MJ that two were pregnant and would be having babies with in the week. "Honey would you like those?". Why would she ask her that she should have asked me. But needless to say we came home with two pregnant fish. We also got a snail . The lady said we do not have any out here I will get one and I will bring it to check out. Sounded OK to me. When we got to check out She had a snail alright. It was bigger then a golf ball. It was the biggest blackest snail I have ever seen. So when we left Brandin went to the car with the kids and I walked next door to Target to get vanilla Ice Cream for the picnic ( I will explain that in another post). When I came out of target Brandin was jumping up and down in the parking lot. MJ was crying her eyes out in the car and Braxton was trying to calm her down by holding her. I ran to the car because they were acting like something tragic just happened. Well........The one fish was having babies. Sounds like the kids should have been delighted. but no the other fish in the bag were eating them almost as fast as she was having them. My children saw first hand the pyramid of life. We live 20 min. from town. So I rushed home and MJ was so upset. Fish have alot of babies. Over 30 little fish lived. The other fish ate more then double that. So now 3 days later all of the fish, frogs and babies are dead. The only thing still alive is the giant snail. But I called the pet store to tell the lady who sold us the fish about the babies dieing and I asked her if I could have done something to save them. I am glad I called. Did you know Pet Smart has a two week return policy on their fish. To bad I already flushed them. But now we can buy buy buy and return return return. I am so excited. Looks like we will be going to the pet Smart more often now.

Is it just me or are these girls cute. They look so much alike. They both love the sun. And I am jealous of their natural highlights.

Stoner Reunion..What fun. We had a great day. As usual I was in charge of kids games. We had Cherios Bingo, Amazing Bubbles, Snow Cones, Pinata, Volleyball, Ring Toss, Swimming... I have even more ideas for next year!

Uncle Tim turned 50..So Aunt Terri had a suprise party. It rained all day. But she had the party at the Uphold Pavilion. It stopped raining in the evening we had a fire. This is a picture of me my daughter McKayla and Heathers (Red) daughter. I can not remember her name...Ugh.

So 4th of July we celebrate! It is one of my Grams favorite days....We woke up early and went to the canonsburg parade.. WOW. Hundreds of people and the parade was over 2 hours long...After that we went to Ruthies for a picnic.

We go camping every year at Tub Run. We are the WACP. We are crazy people club. so anyway our group grows bigger every year. What fun. We had activites everyday for the kids and adults. We had tea parties, water ballons, sand castle contests, bike races (for skins ..hehe), light parades, flashlight walks, we caught crabs, looked for sea shells, (that is another story for another day.). So here are some pictures from the tea party....I never said the adults regular tea we had Long Island Iceteas.....ooohhh.ya they were refreshing.. Hats and pearls required or no tea for You!

So we went to the Lake everyday. The kids played on the fake beach and looked for those special sea shells. ... Yep who would have ever guessed that Tub RUn had sea creatures.. that leave shells. Well OK . I purchase them at the store and our wonderful friend Haley would go down right before us and toss them around everyday. The kids were so excited to find them. The funniest thing was all of the other campers questioning where the kids found seashells at.... One man said to his wife. They do have to buy the sand from somewhere ..they came with it. ..Now that sand has been there for over 10 years and they do not put more every year...DUH! Mommy Island was a hit we would all get on and push ourselves out to the middle of the lake. One adult would say back to monitor the situation at shore ( the kids ). It always seemed to be Gram Lu. There got to be so many Mom's wanting on Mommy Island by the end of the week we had to start hooking the kids spiders to the Island. The last saturday we were there (we stayed 10 days). I ended up on the spider. we were floating for about an hour or so and we were all chatting and laughing....I woke up 6 hours later to Casey saying just unhook her and let her float away.... They let me take a big nap...But sure they never offered me sun block or shade....I was lookin' like a lobster...

Is was a great trip...Casey, Becky & Angie loved the Island.....Going camping and need so ideas...Just ask I bet I could surprise you!

Gram Big Cheese and the girls.

Echo and her family arrvied last night. We got to bed a 4am. Gram is so excited all of the kids are here. She was the firsit one up this morning . The kids were in and out up and down. Way to much stimulation for Gram.

I am ready to POP with excitement. My neice and nephew are coming to visit me for 2 weeks. We have so many things planned. I almost want to cry with excitment. Mckayla has all of their matching clothes lined up in her room and Braxton has Noah & his stuffed into a little suitcase. Not sure when he thinks they are going but he tells me ahncnsdfopuiudosasjdangfgfdsa,.,.,asdkjbhdfuijebfv,,aselsdlfnrjkddfrtrtraaaa aaa. Yes my 4 year old still talks like a caveman. So where ever he thinks they are going sounds great. And the way he flaps his arms when he tells me I think they might fly there or dig a hole to get there. Or maybe ride on a fire breathing dragon. I know its not nice to make fun of him but he gets so excited and makes no sense.

Pappy Butch got Braxton a new puppy. He loves it so much. The puppy runs around pulling Braxton's pants down. Every evening Braxton runs around the living room so the dog will chase him. The dog bites his underwear and does not let go until they rip. Now after 10 pair of underwear in the trash I do not think it is very funny. Brandin can not wait to go hunting with the dog.

Braxtons hair

Braxton loves his haircut. Every summer we let him decide on how he wants it cut. For the last 2 years this is what he picked. I have gel in every color. yes he is my little rock star.

My orphan

On Monday I was so sick. I still had to go to work. While i was trying to pull myself together I told McKayla & Braxton to get ready to go. Brandin is at church camp for the week and so they had to go with me. They went out to the van. I got in and never looked back. (No I did not forget them). When I arrived at work Mckayla jumped out and TADA she was still in her robe. She is always trying to play jokes on me so I laughed and told her get that robe off. She said OK. Off the robe came and there she stood in her pretty pink silk underwear. After work I went to the store to get he and Bethany some matching clothes. I got so many looks from people I just kept saying" I sure wish you would have gotten dressed today". I think the people at the store were thinking thank goodness her mom is buying her all those clothes. Because she only owns a robe. (A dirty one at that). She was very upset that I took this picture.

It is another ball season. Braxton & Mckayla play on the Farmington Fire Department Team, The Chiefs. "Wee-Ball". Yes we all love Wee-Ball it is for ages 3-5. Everyone is a winner we have no outs and everyone bats every inning. (Yes Mckayla is 6 but do not tell anyone) I did not want to be at the ball field for Tee-Ball and Wee-Ball. That would just be to much. So Wee-Ball everyone one is a winner. The kids are learning the basics. Which way to run. What to do with the ball. But from what I see the kids are teaching each other how to make awesome dirt castles in the out field. And I think sometimes they forget we are playing ball. They all run and tackle the ball in a kid pile up. 1 ball 10 little kids. Braxton hits the ball waits for an applause then runs. Sometimes he runs to first then stops and chats with a girl from Preschool then moves on. We can not forget this is after several swings to even hit the ball from the tee. The kids are so cute. One team has a 16 year old as a coach. he is doing it for a school project. I give him credit this is a hard age for a young man to control let alone 10 of them. I hear him in the outfield yelling to the kids. It is like catching Ice cream in your glove. And you know then it is not about ball anymore. The kids start saying I want ice cream, I like vanilla, who has ice cream. They crack me up. I am betting this guy does not have kids anytime soon. The best birth control ever.

CJ's Birthday

What a great time. This kids had so much fun. CJ is Brandin's best friend. They have been the best of friends since age 5. CJ at first wanted only boys at his party. After Brandin talked him into having girls come....Well CJ told Brandin he could invite some girls if he wanted. This picture speaks one thousand words. .....More girls then boys were there. The boys have never seen the girls in bathing suits before. I wish I would have had the video camera out when the girls came up on the deck together for the 1st time. The boys looked scared to death. That would have been a million dollar memory. I have known all of these kids since they were in diapers. I am begining to feel old.