Like mother, LIKE SON?

Baylor evidentally learned this at school. When he did this it cracked me up. It was one of my favorite things to do when I was his age. I was very flexible and loved to show my family how I could put my toes in my mouth while doing the "birdnest" ( what I called it). Baylor can not quite put his toes in his mouth, but I am impressed.

Basement update

Our basement has been trucking right along. We (and when I say we... I don't mean me) have passed all inspections, installed insulation, hung drywall, laid tile and today we started the trim carpentry.

Here are some pics...

Let me say, I have a new appreciate for people who do this for a living ( and just do it on the side). We did not hang our insulation our friend and builder did. But we had some left over and we decided LAST MINUTE that it would be a good thing to do to add the leftovers in the interior walls for sound and heat and air. So we put the rest in one night after all the kids went to bed rocking along to the music from my iPod. If we did not have fun dancing as we hung it, it would have been pure torture. ( Mental note... never hang insulation again)


Here is the door corner with the drywall up.


Our bathroom floor tiled.

The trim. A trick we learned from our original builder and friend. You hang the two pieces of wood trim like this and then paint all of it (including the drywall between) with trim paint and you have the illusion of a huge piece of crown moulding.

Menu Plan Monday

I am going to try this today... it may never happen again.
*** Note- I am not a beef or pork eater so they are heavy in chicken and turkey and I always try to make it kid friendly. Nothing too fancy here.

Monday- Turkey Italian Meatball Subs (thanks Trisha)
Chips
Pasta Salad

Tuesday- Foil Pack Taco Chicken
Spanish Rice

Wednesday- Grab and Go before church

Thursday- Chicken Parmesan
Salad
French Bread

Friday- Turkey Bacon Cheeseburger Roll Up
Smiley Face Potatoes

Connect 4

This just cracks me up. Eliza was fussy while I was taking care of some kitchen clean up so I tried to bring out something to occupy her. She always dumps this out when she gets a hold of it, but I set it up tonight and showed her you could put the chips in the slots... AND SHE DID IT! ( again I sound like I am yelling... Macie the dog wanted in the action, the boys are playing Wii, and I am drying jackets with zippers in the dryer... do I ever get a video where you can just concentrate on what I am videoing?)

Wordless Wednesday!

Blogroll

Since I have a favorites button... I want to add some of the blogs I stalk *ahem* I mean read. But, I am not sure of the blogetiquite... do I need to ask first?

So, if I read your blog (or you read mine) and you think it would be fun to be added to my blog roll, let me know.

If you think it is a scary world out there and you prefer not to enter into it EVEN THOUGH you own a blog, let me know and I will not add you.

A girls weekend

So, this weekend I had some time away to have fun with some friends. We chose a very deserving guest of honor this year and surprised her with a "birthday" bash like no other.
We headed out about 3 o'clock on Friday and headed up to Center Hill lake where we stayed on a house boat. But let me tell you, this was no ordiary house boat. This was a 4 bedroom, 2 bath house that happened to float (even though you did not feel like you were floating). I tried to find a picture on the internet to show you what I was talking about, but nothing did it justice. I have already invited myself back for some summer time fun.

Among other various surprises, we all got tickets to see

It really was a good show. The dancers were amazing and just watching them, I was out of breath and they continued for like 90 minutes of continuous dancing.

Mr. Wayne Newton was one of the stars there. Mr. Newton did not dance and honestly he tried his best to sing. I know he is one of the great all time entertainers, but I do believe his 15 minutes may be coming to an end, for no other reason than his apparent health issues.

Helio and Julianne were the big couple. The danced a number or two and really wowed the crowd.
Monique was a true part of the show. She danced her dances with her partner, but she also hung in there and danced with the professionals on a few dances. She did great. I was impressed.
I hate that all the pics I have are of the stars. Sadly, I forgot my camera as I grabbed things to head out the door. So I will have to steal some pictures from friends and post later. It was a great weekend. The only part I would have left out was the running through the streets of Nashville to our "free parking"in temperatures that were in the teens. I could have done without that. I probably could have said no to a little food too, but come on... it was a girls weekend and what girls weekend would be complete without the junk and sweets!