morning entertainment

one morning last week before the holiday weekend started for us the kids and i went and sat outside and had breakfast .. cash saw this as an opportunity to showcase his new pool tricks .. ellie and i sat and watched .. actually ellie drew and i drank my coffee .. cash thought that we were watching .. we were kinda ..

cash is warming up .. he tells me that every athlete stretches before they start .. i am not sure where he heard this .. not from me .. now if he would have asked can i have an oreo before i "workout" then that would be me ... but not stretching .. 

this is the land on your pockets jump ..

the i can almost fly jump ..

the i can almost fly jump from the rock .. this involves a whole other skill set .. not the same as jumping from the side .. it has a much higher difficulty ..

the can opener ..

ellie and i were very impressed with his jumping skills .. and to think that it is so early in the "pool tricks" season .. i can't wait to see how this develops .. 

she's naked ..

since i can't sleep i thought that i may as well get up and post and eat one of ellie's krispy creme donuts .. ok .. i ate 2 of them .. but really who can resist at 4:30 am .. 

we paid a visit to the bqbird yesterday .. that is her new name .. i think i might have to get a new license plate for her .. anyway .. i hardly recognized her .. she was naked .. when we walked into the shop i saw this all silver looking car and thought .. ummm .. where is the t-bird ?

well .. it was her !!

she what i mean .. remember when she left she was white .. well .. kinda white .. more like really old white .. the fellas have sanded all the paint off of her .. they did make the comment that she has never been repainted or had any body work done .. that was nice to know i thought ..

they took the lid off of the trunk .. that and the hood needed a few touch ups ..

see .. no hood ... or headlights .. they have taken off all of the chrome as well 

they have taken out the back seats to .. pretty gross in there .. evidently there was a family of mice living in the head liner ..

the motor .. it will be painted and all pretty to when it is done ..

ellie is so excited .. she is just sure that i am going to take her to school in the bqbird .. 

a bq driving her bbq to school in the bqbird ..

i kinda like the sound of that ..

i am pretty sure that great grandmother spielmann would have liked that as well 

oh .. and the best part .. ernie .. one of the wonderful fellas taking care of her .. it seems that he knows my dad .. from way back .. when they were kids and used to do things that kids were NOT supposed to do .. of course cash and ellie want to hear all about this .. 

i told them next time .. 

oh .. and .. all i can say .. is that these guys are so on the cookie list !!!

well .. the sun is coming up .. may as well go and put in some training miles for the marathon .. or i mean run off the 1.. i mean 2 krispy cremes that i had .. 

dang donuts .. 

mother nature .. got to love her

ok .. here you go .. i was going to post these on facebook but for some strange reason this is way easier for me to do .. don't ask why .. i don't know why .. this is just easier .. 

jeff was up and out of the house by 6:45 .. not only did he have lots of clean up to do at the shop but he also needed to check on a few things for some customers and friends ..  

jeff is standing with his back to the vintage looking across the cove .. those  are the docks and boats .. from what i understand the dock is not longer attached to the arm which attaches it to the shore .. so this mess of boats and docks is kinda just floating around on its on in the cove .. 

looking across the cove 

that boat is on the shore 

giggle giggle shhhhhh ..

last night we had a sleepover .. actually our first sleepover ..

 the girls made a pallet on the floor of the living room .. 

they laid there for hours and giggled and giggled .. i love this sound .. there is something about little girls and their giggles .. sweet laughter .. laughter that doesn't know about the big girl world yet .. 

i can see it in my head .. their little glitter polished fingernails cupping around each others ears telling jokes and secrets .. talking about wishes and dreams .. about their dolls and babies .. 

they would giggle giggle and then you would hear them say shhhh .. this went on until 1 or so .. 

when i got up at 7 to get ready for work i went into the living room to check on them .. 

just sure that they would be zonked out .. 

but they were already up .. dressed and ready to go .. they went outside and played some more .. 

at 7 in the morning .. 

all i can say is .. they will so need a nap this afternoon ..

around the house ..

the dry cleaning that i picked up .. last week .. is still hanging up in the utility room .. waiting to be put away .. maybe next week ..

cash's fun carhart white shirt .. it has orange cheetos marks on it where he wiped his hands .. i am hoping the tide with bleach will take them out .. 

the butterfly cash made at "school" .. and just in case you were wondering .. no it can't fly

flip flops .. on the kitchen table .. because and this is the best part .. i swept up all the dust bunnies that have been procreating in my house this last week .. when i made the all call to pick everything up off the floor so that it doesn't get sucked up by the vacuum this is where the shoes landed .. not in the flip flop bucket or .. a closet .. but the kitchen table .. really .. is this normal .. is this where shoes are kept at other peoples homes .. i am wondering .. 

ken .. in clothes .. it seems that the trauma of all the barbies jumping out of the pool when he jumped in naked has upset him and he can no longer sleep in the barbie bucket with the other barbies .. so cash brought him into my room with his barbie pillow and blanket .. i asked him why .. why does ken need to sleep in my room and not yours .. his response was .. because he snores and he keeps me up at night .. so can he please sleep in here with you .. sure i say .. why not .. so now not only do i have to sleep with a snoring jeff .. but also a snoring ken .. 

jeff's new work shirts that need to go to vinita so they can be monogrammed 

and a soccer ball .. in the kitchen .. when i woke the kids up this morning and told them to come on and  eat breakfast cash brings this with him .. ellie makes her way to the bar to sit down and eat breakfast .. cash brings the soccer ball .. ellie looks at him and says .. what are you doing .. cash says .. i am going to stand on this and eat my breakfast .. ok cash .. whatever you say .. so he does .. he stands on the soccer ball ... of course it wobbles back on forth because you have to balance on it .. but somehow he manages to eat his mini wheats .. his strawberries and drink his milk .. all the while he is standing and balancing on the soccer ball .. he was almost done when he crashed .. the ball rolled out from under his feet .. his chin hit the counter .. he bit his tongue .. he dropped the strawberry he was getting ready to put into his mouth and he fell on his pockets .. great .. now i am going to have to deal with a bloody lip and a bleeding tongue .. and it is just 7:30 in the morning .. really cash .. why can't you sit in a chair like a normal person .. he pops up and says .. no worries momma .. i got it .. ok cash i say .. oh and by the way your lip is bleeding .. that's ok momma he says .. it will stop .. see he says as the wipes his bleeding mouth across the sleeve of his shirt .. yep your right cash it stopped .. he picks the strawberry up off the floor .. hops back onto the soccer ball .. pops the strawberry into his mouth .. says all done .. gets off the ball and goes and gets dressed .. 

just a normal day .. right .. ???

barbie swimming party ..

wednesday we went swimming .. more like .. jeff floated in the hot tub trying to replace a bad light bulb and the kids jumped in .. shrieked because the water was so cold and jumped out .. ellie ran into the house for a bit and came back out with her barbies and ken and their pool .. 

it is a perfect day for a barbie pool party she said .. 

and what about ken cash said .. can he swim with barbie ..

sure ellie said .. 

dad can i have a orange pop .. sure cash 

you know .. barbies and orange pop go together like peanut butter and no jelly sandwich's 

i will say .. barbie and her friends sure have the tanning pose down .. 

yes my grill is uncovered .. and yes my grill is hot and yes my children are playing by it ..

i know don't tell anyone please .. 

so .. now enter ken .. when ken came outside he had on his swimming suit ... 

i had gone back into the house to fetch the hamburgers to throw onto the hot grill that my children were playing next to ..

when i come out this is what is going on..

cash had stripped ken down .. totally .. naked ken on my pool deck by my hot grill .. 

so i asked cash .. why is ken naked cash ..

he says to me .. ken likes to swim naked with the barbies 

cash .. i think that you need to go down to the sandbox and scoop sand ..

you will notice that there are no barbies in the pool .. 

ellie shrieked when ken jumped in naked .. all the barbies jumped out !!

i am going to have to talk to ken about swimming naked .. 

 you will get the rest of the story tomorrow ..

 but right now i am tired and want to go to sleep .. 

so until then .. 

you can just wonder why

1) ken is naked and 

2) is in barbie's swimming pool .. 

after the storm ..

after the storm was over on thursday night and the kids and i came out of the pantry we did a quick check to make sure all the pool furniture was accounted for and there were no cushions floating in the lake .. dad called and told us to check out the rainbow .. so speedy quick the kids and i headed to the front yard to see .. and not only was there one rainbow .. but two !!

it was quite a sight to see .. everyone got out their cameras and started taking pictures ... cash took about 100 .. just in case anyone else might need one ..

then i remembered that i needed to make cupcakes for ruth .. her birthday was on tuesday and she requested chocolate cupcakes with mint icing .. 

so speedy quick we whipped up a batch of cupcakes ..

it was a busy night .. 

high winds .. storms .. sheets of rain .. thunder .. lightening .. panic .. and baking .. 

my bird has flown the coop

ugly john came on thursday with his fancy car hauler .. cash would have loved this part ..

ugly john and jeff got her all loaded and tied down ..

ugly john said that we can come and visit and check on the restoration process .. 

and yes i will take my camera ..