Since 1949...

Is it just me or when you go to make your family a healthy meal that includes minute rice, do you end up with this same problem? EVERY time I make rice it ends up everywhere! This company has been around since 1949, they are the inventors of minute rice! They recently changed their box which I instantly thought "yeah! problem solved, no more rice every where" but no, that wasn't the case. I think they just made the problem worse. I just don't know what to do. Try a different brand, not make my family rice for dinner, invent a rice pouring machine, write a letter to Minute rice...or just deal with it. I am at a loss...someone H E L P!

I almost forgot!!!

...the cutest picture ever!

Just some cute pictures

yes, she is wearing Converse All-Stars, apparently they are "cool" again.


She loves her Uncle "Blah Blah"

My first wedding...

Photos, that is...Our friend's Daniel and Alisa got married on Friday and I was fortunate enough to be the photographer. I have always loved photography and people say I'm good, but I was soooooooooo nervous. It was a very small, informal wedding and they are friends so they were totally cool about everything but I was still super nervous. The pictures turned out great though, at least they are happy and that is all that matters! I did learn a lot from the experience and hope to do some more in the future...when my dad is out here and can be my assistant. :-) Here are a few pictures from that day...

creepy toy and a cat

This may look like your average baby toy that plays sweet music and makes your child giggle, but let me warn you, it is not. This is a creepy toy that plays when it wants to in the middle of the night. Please don't think I am crazy, I may be, but we aren't talking about that. This toy is triggered by motion, this toy requires someone to move it to make it play that sweet music. Yet, while we are lying in bed last night, we heard this sweet music and it scared the poo out of me! A fluke you may say? Well, it played itself 4 times before I went to turn it off!!!! To make things even more creepy, it didn't wake Courtney up. Everything wakes Courtney up!!! CREEPY!

I say "a cat", what I would like to say is "a dead cat", "a cat no longer in my site", "a cat we once knew"...you get the drift.

Courtney and I left this morning at 8 for a Bible study (Beth Moore, awesome!) and we returned around noon. I parked the truck, got the baby out and proceeded to enter the house as normal. This was no normal day though, this CAT was in my house! It's our cat but I didn't care at that time. Apparently Mr Sneaky ran in when I left the door open to grab Courtney's milk this morning. That was so not cool. He thought it was I bet, but I did not. You see, I do not like cats, I do not like animals, I like babies, not animals. Paul likes cats, Paul likes animals, Paul likes babies too, but Paul likes animals. This is his animal and his animal made our house stinky! I was freaking out, I was on my knees feeling the floor, feeling the carpet, sniffing behind the couch and the tv...I couldn't find it, that smell was everywhere! I started having visions of putting our house for sale, no for "give away" because of a nasty smell. I can't live in a house with a nasty smell.

So far, we think the house was smelly from him, just him, no pee pee. Paul came home a few hours later with Blaine and they both claim to have no sense of cat pee pee in my house. I figured I was just used to it, do you get used to that smell?!?!? So, for tonight, lets just hope he didn't pee pee in my house! Final verdict will be in tomorrow night when I get home...

Bad kitty!

Paul's 1st Post

These are my 2 latest additions to my model collection. Everyone should recognize the General Lee. Ethan asked me to build that one for him. The other orange car is the first car I ever had. It's a 1969 Nova. I built this model once when I was about 13 or 14 and have been trying to get the kit for a year and it finally came in. This is probably the one I am most proud of. I had fabricated a bunch of parts and it seems to have come out better than the others so far. I tried to do all the modifications I tried when I was a kids but could not do, so please act interested for a few seconds. Today I sat around the house while Annie was sick dying on the couch so I had the day to play with Courtney and she actually helped me build it and paint a few parts. A couple times I caught her grabbing it off the table swinging it while she brought it to me in the living room while it was drying. Annie is raising a little prissy girl, but she definitely has my blood in her because she can spot a race car a mile away.

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Brain toot toot. I have been on here almost every day and just can't come up with any thing to write. Weird! I'll give it a whirl though...

Courtney has officially turned into the biggest ham in the world! I get the camera out and she is all smiles, too big of smiles some times! Daddy captured this first one, this is her favorite place to sit. Yes, she is sitting in the fridge. What a weird-o, I know. Whenever I open it, she goes and sits there. The other day she was talking on my phone, went and sat in the fridge and was done talking so she proceeded to put my phone in the door shelf, next to the ketchup. Boy, I'm glad I was there to see that, can you imagine trying to find a phone that is in the fridge? (My mother-in-law can :-))

Here is smiley at KDO in the wagon with her friends. The little girl next to her is Carlee and is so darn adorable too! Little Will is in the back, just hanging out and then there is Selah, just chillin'.

Another picture at KDO, what a goof!


In other news; Blaine (my brother) comes home tomorrow!!! He graduated from AIT today and is officially an Army Soldier. I am so proud of him and can't wait to see him. He has not been home since Memorial day weekend and that is just too long! We are not sure what he is going to do yet; if he'll ship off to war or what. So please pray for him and his safety in whatever he does.

Right now I am listening to a sermon suggested by Angela and I'm hooked! I tell you what, New Spring Church out of South Carolina (maybe North, I'm not so good at geography). Anyway, it is awesome. Their site is www.newspring.cc. This is a great pastor who preaches on modern culture issues and really relates the Bible's teaching in ways that really make sense.

Ok, I can't type and listen. Bye-bye