what's in your sink ..

just because it seems to me that the only kind of dishes that ever make their way into my sink are sippy cups i wanted to tell you about them .. or complain about them or wish for big people cups for my small people ..

maybe the reason that they are the only kind of dishes that i wash are because we eat at my moms almost every night .. but that is beside the fact and doesn't count as a reason that you can use .. in case you were going to say to me .. the reason you have no other kind of dish to wash little miss jenny is because you don't ever cook because you eat at your mom's all the time ..

sippy cups are the kind of cup that rolls under the couch because it was used as a hockey puck .. when your dirt loving son has taken up "indoor hockey" .. and then is forgotten for 6 weeks .. it is not noticed until the rotten milk that is in it is curdled and smells so bad the odor hits you in the face when you open the front door when you come home from a relaxing romantic get-away weekend ..

yes .. i threw that one away ..

so here they are .. all clean and ready to go .. i wonder to myself sometimes .. i wonder when i will let my kids .. or more specifically cash .. use real cups .. the kind without a lid .. the kind that when they get knocked over .. say by a soccer ball that is flying thru the house because for some reason cash thinks that the "don't play ball in the house" rule applies to everyone on earth but him and his dad .. they spill .. they spill their contents all over everywhere .. to dry and become sticky so that lint and hairballs can adhere to them ..

i think that it might be awhile longer .. besides .. look how cool they are .. who would want to drink out of cup with a lid on it anyway when you can drink out of a cup with cars on it !

remember lucky the dog ..

remember lucky .. my mom's and ellie's new dog that they got this last summer .. he is a fun dog .. he has lots and lots of energy and loves ..  i mean loves to play tug-o-war and chase small boys that smell like dirt and sweat ..

see what i mean ..

lucky was on one end and cash on the other ..

thank goodness mom can sew his little arm back on .. so that cash and lucky can play tug-o-war again ..

What Cash did the other day

Cash thought that his rolling stock needed to be run thru the car wash .. So .. Granny got out the hose and the brush .. And let him at it !










See .. All clean .. And then after ..



Thank goodness his little foot is holding him in the chair ..

Happy Birthday ..

happy birthday aunt susie and uncle steve .. i hope you both have a great day !!

basketball ..

Remember this .. basketball goal installation process .. .. and how i questioned jeff on why in the world we needed a mammoth basketball goal in our driveway .. ellie wants to play basketball he kept telling me .. why will she want to play basketball i said .. why would she want a sweaty girl all up in her face and bumping in to her .. yuck .. she just will jeff says .. ok .. i said .. and we installed the basketball goal over a 3 week time period ..

well ..

 let me start with a disclaimer first .. if there is one thing that i dislike more than running out of oreos it's the lighting in gyms .. any gym .. old or new .. it just sucks .. there it is .. i said it .. there is really no way around it .. your pictures look yellow and gross .. so i try to avoid gyms .. when at all possible .. that is why i encourage sports that take place outside in the sunshine during a perfect kind of weather day

ok .. so disclaimer claimed .. moving on

last night ellie had her last game .. yes .. i know i said last .. like all other sports in this world they happen on saturday .. this is not a good day for me so granny took her to most of her games .. then the blizzard came and then we went to KC for the weekend .. so last night was a makeup blizzard game which just happened to also be the last .. got to love monday nights ..

so lets's warm up and practice our shooting skills the coach says ..

what form .. and yes her feet are off the ground ..

when ellie plays sports she is always number 9 .. i remember her telling her soccer coach when we very first signed up that her dad always wears number 9 so that is the number that she wants .. and if she can't be number 9 then the coach will need to call her dad and get it straightened out .. number 9 is good luck .. and little ellie will need all the good luck that she can get ..

ok girls .. are we ready to have fun .. yes coach .. and we going to try our hardest .. yes coach .. good girls ..

raise your hand if you just want to run up and down the court and not trip and fall .. me me .. i do coach .. go team

right after this jeff pulls ellie aside and gives her his version of a pep talk .. forget about having fun ellie .. this is all about winning .. and remember .. you know you did a great job of blocking when the girl is so sick and tired of you having your hands in her face and your body all over her that she gets so mad she screams .. got it dad ..

lets just say thank goodness they don't call holding penalties or fouls are whatever they are called .. and little ellie had one thing that girl didn;t .. quick feet .. no matter which way she went .. ellie was all over her .. all the time ..

look dad .. it's a real medal ..

again .. i say to you .. what in the world is wrong with ballet and lip gloss ..

note .. ellie made a basket .. they lost .. and cash didn't trip and fall at all while he ran around

Skiing ..

Kinda like Beaver Creek ..

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Today ..

Today I drove all around Tulsa and back to the lake with these in my car ..



And I didn't eat one of them .. Besides my mom reminded me that they are so much better when they are frozen !!

And ... Are you ready for this .. I BEAT Emily aka fontsavant at words with friends ..




Amazing .. I know .. And no she doesn't have the flu .. She was at full mental capacity !!

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My sweet friend Trina sent me this Valentine .. I love it .. It is made from a upcycled bingo card !! So clever !!

how to shovel snow ..

during the blizzard i asked jeff if he and cash could please shovel off the front porch and sidewalk so that we could get out .. i asked for a couple of reasons ..

1.  babe does not shovel snow ..

2.  jeff was driving ellie and i crazy ..

3.  cash was riding his "motorcycle" thru the house and he needed to go out and burn off some of that energy

so i got them all bundled up .. rubbed beauty lotion all over cash's face so that his little cheeks would not get all chapped from the extreme cold temperatures and kicked them .. oh i mean sent them out the door .. and then locked it so that they could not get back in .. i know not very nice .. but that's how it happened ..

oh cash what happened ..

me:   is the snow to deep ?

cash:  momma i'm stuck .. help me ..

 me:  no i am not coming out to get you .. it is way to cold .. holler for your daddy ..

cash: daddy .. daddy i'm stuck .. help me

i see that this is going so well .. so i make a call ..

i call my dad .. dad .. can you come and shovel off my driveway ..

thanks dad .. now we can get out ..

cash promised that he would be still and craft with me and ellie if we let him in ..

glitter and such ..

ellie and i took advantage of the blizzard and worked on our valentines ..

Happy Valentiens Day !

hello there fellas .. i have missed you ..

due to the blizzard and other factors that i have no control over i have not been able to be with "my boys" .. bon jovi and jack johnson have missed me .. i know it ..

so the other night i was finally able to run ..

it had been 9 days since i last ran .. i was up to a 8 and half minute mile .. comfortably i might add .. i had found a great pace and could easily churn out my miles ..

i was realistic with myself when i stepped back into my running shoes .. saying .. yes it has been 9 days since i last ran .. yes i know that is is 11 degrees in the garage .. i am pretty sure that i am not going to be able to run an 8 and half minute mile .. i am going to die and stuck wind .. my legs are going to seize up the minute that i start .. there will be no oreos at the end for me ..

i know .. not much of a pep talk .. not very motivating is it ..

then .. i thought to myself .. those girl scouts will be out selling those ridiculous yummy cookies pretty soon .. i better get back into shape so that i can order some thin mints ..

so i did .. i ran .. ran like the wind .. well not really like the wind .. more like a person who has not run in 9 days .. in an 11 degree garage .. covered head to toe in cold gear ..

but .. i can order my thin mints now .. and eat oreos ..

life is good again ..

this is reasors calling ..

i get a phone call the other day .. it goes a little like this ..

hello .. this is reasors calling .. we are calling to check on you ..

me:  oh gosh i am fine ..

reasors:  oh good .. we are so glad to hear that .. it's just that our inventory of oreos is really high so we thought something might have happened to you !

me:  (trying not to laugh because i am about to die of embarrassment) .. i got stuck in tulsa last week due to the boat show and huge snow storm that we had ..

reasors: oh ok .. well we ordered extra oreos for you because we didn't want you to be without while you were trapped in your house because of all the snow ..

me:  you guys are the best ..

you have to love small towns and the fact that they know just how many packs of oreos you buy ..

i have to go now and pick up my oreos ..

snow pics ..