Eleven years ago today...

I married my Sweet Potato.  

 

 

(Sorry for the bad scans.  I was doing this w/ my printer/scanner on my bedroom floor and my 8 month old "helping" me!   Needless to say, I was scanning as fast as I possibly could!)

 

 

 

 

Four states and five kids later, we're still going strong. 

 

I love you!

I found this over at MARSHA'S BLOG and thought it would be fun to do. 

The idea is to copy and paste to your own blog and bold the things you have done.

HAVE YOU EVER...

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said "I love you" and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights (I did do Planetarium shows on the Northern Lights many years ago.  It is one of my dreams to see the Northern Lights for real)
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper

21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (at my wedding when I was supposed to say "I do".  I couldn't say it I just nodded.  How's that for an embarassing moment.)
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster

35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment

39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched whales (no, but we're hoping to soon)
45. Stolen a sign

46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Moonlit walk on the beach

50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs

57. Pretended to be a superhero

58. Sang karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day (pre-kids)

60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving (no, but I've been snorkeling in the Carribean)
62. Kissed in the rain (yup)
63. Played in the mud (yup)

64. Played in the rain

66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch

78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
83. Gotten flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas (when I was a kid.  We drove through on a family vacation LOL )
86. Recorded music

87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children

97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
98. Passed out cold
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication

106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone

The post I meant to post yesterday

9 years ago, I became a mom. 



I love you Sweet Pea.  I'm looking forward to the next 9 years!

Boring Blog

I must have the most boring blog out there.  At least in the realm of active blogs that is.  Before I found where some of my traffic was coming from, or more precisely what they were looking for, I was really getting into the whole blogging thing and trying to be more creative.  But now...  I'm leary of writing anything that might bring the undesirables back.  Speaking of which, I need to go check out my flickr account and see exactly what's happening to my photos.  blah! 

 

I do have something fun to add but it deserves it's own entry soooo.... Be looking for something of some interest to someone tomorrow.  Which is really today when most of you will be reading this.

Please Pray

For a sweet friend.  Although I've never met her irl, she is a friend nonetheless.  She has had soooo much going on in her life lately and needs to be lifted up.  If you have time, leave her a message to let her know you all are praying!

 

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Week 2

Week 2 school report:

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This Country of Ours ch 6

Michelangelo by Diane Stanley

Minn of the Mississippi ch. 2

Story of Inventions end of chapt. 1

Science Lab in a Supermarket pg 16 Why is Food Packaged?

potato chip experiment to show importance of packaging

Parables of Nature ch 77

The Princess and the Goblin ch 4-6

poetry from William Blake

MUS Beta

Italics handwriting practice

 

A.

An Island Story ch 23

Child's History of the World ch 47

The Little Duke end of ch. 1

Burgess Animal Book ch 3-4

Understood Betsy ch. 1

poetry from Walter de la Mare

 

R (and everyone)

FIAR

Daniel's Duck  We learned about TN, ducks, carving, cabin life, climates - comparison between long winters to our long summers.  One of the fun things we did this week is to make our own carvings using soap.  I'll post pictures once I download them.

 

Exploring Creation w/ Zoology 2

We're on chapter 2 learning about whales this week.  I have to share what happened today as I tried to make this a "fun" holistic learning day.  Since we were discussing whales and how they communicate I told the girls for quiet time I'll put in my tape of San Juan Suites which has beautiful piano music accompanied w/ many nature sounds, some of which are whales.  My girls are all in their room w/ the lights dimmed and resting in their beds listening to the tape.  I think what a perfect way to end our week.  Weelllll, my 3rd dd, age 5, comes out maybe 15 min. later in tears.  She's telling me how scary the sounds are.  I grab Baby Gill and head off to listen to the tape w/ them trying to allay her fears that that really is how whales sound and they are just talking to each other.  She would have none of it.  She wouldn't even come back into the room. *sigh*   So much for trying to have a nice peaceful end to our school week.  I instead have popped in a cd of irish hymns that are really soothing and pretty.  I don't even know where I got this cd from, but I know there are no whale sounds on it anywhere.  LOL

 

That pretty much wraps up our school week.  We're looking forward to Daddy being off this weekend!

 

New Season

New look!

 

Now that it says it's fall on my calendar (see I have to look at my calendar to tell me it's fall because our weather is anything but "fallish") I thought I'd change my blog.  Some of you may remember that I don't know anything about computers so changing my template is a huge deal for me. LOL  I did remember to save my previous template coding and then attempted to just plug it back in w/ this new template.  Of course, life doesn't work quite that easily.  

 

I did manage to get most of the things back in their proper places but my verse of the day isn't showing up for some reason.  I've tried to figure out what I did wrong by looking at my saved html code?  Nope!  I cleverly tried to fix it by going to the verse of the day site and looking for the code to add to your blog.  Smart aren't I. roflol  But, that didn't even work.  I couldn't find the code!  Not so smart afterall. ;-)

 

I even changed my song.  This song will stay here until my kids figure out that I've changed it and plead (aka whine) for me to put back the old song.  They really, really like that song.  If you don't remember the song it's Casting Crowns "Who am I?"

 

I hope you all enjoy fall!  I need to rummage through my pictures of when my kids were younger and we lived in a place that actually had fall.  I can just remember crisp cool days and cold evenings.  Beautiful colored leaves falling down all around and the smell of smoke from bonfires wafting through the air.  Ahhhh.  At least I have the memories. :)