Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

What a great day family, fun, and food life doesn't get any better.

Sweet Baby James

December 22, 2008 is the day my youngest son, Sweet Baby James got his drivers permit. Can you believe it he is driving a car. I took him to the DMV to get it and of course I left him drive home. He wouldn't let me take pictures inside so I could only take some when he was done. They did have to take his picture twice because, they said he looked a little tense on the first one. So now every time he hears the keys jingle he is front and center asking "can I drive you some where?"

Food

Yes my man caught food for the table today. Look at this nice stripper he got. I'm not sure how I will prepare this one the other week when he caught one and I baked it in lemon juice with lemon pepper seasoning. It was great:+)

It's RED

Every year I buy some poinsettia's at Christmas time because they make the house look so festive. They usually die within a few weeks and in the trash they go. I wonder if they all grow in the local landfill? Well the one from last year just won't die. It has been sitting on my kitchen counter for a year now. Some days it looks near death but the next day it looks alive again. I mean this poor thing doesn't have much soil left in it. It has been green since all the red leaves fell off months and months ago. Today as i was having my morning coffee i looked over at my green girl and she has two red leaves can you believe it. It's like the girl knows it's time to get dressed for the holiday season. Hopefully by Christmas day she will be all dressed in her holiday best.

Hallelujah

Yesterday my man went out to retrieve the mail, on the way he stopped to talk to the neighbor who was out. After this conversation he came in the house dancing. He was just beaming with joy I thought he won the lottery. No even better he said, the Russians are moving out!!!! Yes it's true they are moving he said, I asked why? He said that the house is too cold for them they can't afford to heat it. We both laughed, they are from Russia for heavens sake "the tundra". What ever. Hopefully the next renters will be more sociable.

Smell

It is Thanksgiving day and the house smells so good, I can't wait to dig in. Here is the menu for the day. Turkey, potato filling, macaroni and cheese, cauliflower with cheese sauce, sweet potatoes, carrots with brown sugar, corn, rolls. For desert pumpkin pie, pumpkin roll, cheese cake, apple Carmel pie with pecans. Now is your mouth watering? Only an hour and 15 minutes to go:+)

Another ungy dress

OMG!!!! Did anyone watch Dancing With The Stars last night and see the dress that Samantha Harris was wearing? Who dresses this women. She is an attractive women but in that dress last night she looked like she was abducted by a gold alien and it was still hanging from her shoulder. Good thing the season was over last night I don't think I could take another bad dress.
On another note we are in PA now for the Thanksgiving holiday. So last night I slept on the old futon with the wood stove on full blast. Needless to say I didn't sleep well at all. I hate when it is so hot and everyone else loves it. Maybe I should sleep on the patio tonight. So now I am getting ready to go to my favorite place THE DENTIST (not). Then I will hook up with some friends and drink away all the pain that he will inflict on me. HAPPY THANKSGIVING:+)

Pumpkin Roll

I did it I made pumpkin rolls today. I used to always buy these because I was afraid to make them. I could never understand how they rolled them up with out breaking. BUT a few days ago on the food network I saw someone do it. It looked simple and yes it was simple. So now I'm not only queen of the kitchen I'm queen of the pumpkin rolls. Now I will dazzle everyone at Thanksgiving dinner with my pumpkin rolls. After we are all done stuffing ourselves until we feel sick, I will bring out the rolls and they will look so mouth watering that even though we could not take another bite of food, we will!!!!!!!! Thank you food network.

Gasoline

Yesterday I filled up my vehicle with gasoline. What a happy time it was. I have not felt that good about going to the gas station in years. Thirty dollars is all it cost to fill my tank. I was over the moon. The price per gallon here in lower Delaware was $1.87 yesterday:+) I know it will not last long and by the summer it will be $4.00 per gallon again. But until that time I hope all the oil men of the world are enjoying their swim in the crude oil they have in inventory.

Update

So much has been going on since my last post. I will try to review all the important things. First of all the fashion police really need to get on the stick. In the last week i have seen two women in the news wearing the worst dresses ever. First Michelle Obama what was she thinking on election night here is a women that is going to be a trend setter and she wears an ugly dress. next last evening on DWTS (dancing with the stars) Samantha Harris had on a dress even uglier the Michelle Obama. What is this world coming too when women in the spot light don't dress for success?
Next my children had report cards this week. One did well the other did not I'll let all of you who know me decide which is which. and that is all I'm going to say about that.
Now for the good news. My goddaughter is having a baby:+) So i guess that means I'm going to be a grand godmother. So now my BFF Nin and I will start canvasing the local stores for summer maternity clothing and baby items. I have already purchased a Halloween onsie for the little one.
Now for the depressing news. We have put the Jeep away for the winter so that means that summer is really over. I held on as long as possible. The days are shorter and colder and I have not had shorts on outside for a while:+( I hate to wish for time to go faster but please hurry summer of 2009.

Punkin Chunkin

Lisa & Sarah at the chunk
Air canons

Member Team Chunky

My pick for best hat this year

Lisa & Sarah in the best attire

Well it was that time of year again. When people from all over the world get together in lower Delaware too see who can throw a pumpkin the longest distance. This year we have a new world record, 4,483.51 ft. For those of you who who are not mathematically incline 1 mile is 5280 feet. So these pumpkins are flying close to a mile. The world record holder this year is Young Glory a fellow Delawarean. So the bragging rights have come home to Delaware. Anyone interested in learning of this tradition you can go to http://www.punkinchunkin.com/ Also what is amazing is these people don't do this not for money most of the money collected goes to charity they do it for bragging rights. This year we only saw one misfire. That's when the pumpkin goes backwards into the crowd. If this happens everyone yells heads up and you better take cover. It hit a car and put one heck of a dent in it. And let me mention what a beautiful weekend it was in lower Delaware for this event. The temperature was in the high 60's. So enjoy the pictures as much as we enjoyed the event.

Sweet 16

Chris,James, Patrick

Matthew in bed


double picture ignore

Sweet 16

My babies

Today my boys turn 16. Can you believe I have 16 year old boys. They are growing up way to fast for me. So for their birthday weekend, Friday they had a sleep over with some friends. Then Saturday they slept at their friends houses. And today their actual birthday they spent with their mom and dad. We had a nice relaxing day. The phones were ringing all day with wishes for their birthday. We went out for dinner and then came home for ice cream cake. You know when you kids are babies everyone says enjoy it because they grow up too quickly they are right. I hate that times goes by so quickly. Enjoy the pictures.

Homecoming

James


mom James dad

This weekend was Homecoming for CHHS here is lower Delaware. James was really involved in it. He worked on a float all week long and attended the dance with his friends. He had a good time. Also Ninny and YOvonne came to visit this weekend. We shopped all weekend it was just like old times. The weather turned to fall this weekend. It was in the 80's on Thursday, then on Friday it got chilly. So I guess summer is over. I was even forced to put on a pair of jeans on Saturday. But I still have on flip flops no real shoes yet:+) James is actually smiling on the pictures since he got his braces off:+)

Baskets

This past week I went to O HI O to see where Longaberger baskets are made. I saw all kinds of baskets, big ones, small ones, green ones, brown ones, and I also saw a building shaped like a basket. I met 2 of the 12 longaberger children. # 12 and # 4 (they all have numbers). I also purchased a few baskets. While in the factory you can also make your own basket, I chose not to do this because it looked like to much work for me, and I was on a mini vacation. so now my life is complete because I saw the Longaburger(Longenecker) homestead:+)

Wild Weekend

Football Man
Cigar Men
Just A man

This is "My Man"

The weekend was so busy. We went to PA for 24 hours. Everyone got to see Rene and Marcus. We had Aunt Maryann's retirement party. Saw the family, went to the Hardware bar and I'm tired. Now Jack went to pick up James my dad is driving half way to drop him off, he had to stay up to get his braces off today. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today we went shopping AGAIN, I don't know how Rene is going to get all this stuff home his suitcases will weight 150lbs, instead of 50lbs. Yesterday Jack took Marcus and Rene to see the Ravens football game. It looks like they had a good time.

More Fun

Drinking on the back patio
To much to drink
Drinking in Ocean City
Lisa and Marcus
Marcus napping in the car

Yesterday we took Rene and Marcus to OC. The day before we went for Margarita's and jack had too many we had to drive him home and put him to bed. Last night we went out to dinner at the Road House Steak joint. Today we went to Dover shopping to get Victoria's secret for Stefanie. Tomorrow Aunt Lisa will take them to PA with her and we will go on Friday after school.

Here

Marcus (The Man)
Marcus again
Yes Marcus again
Marcus (Surfer Man)

Yes Rene is here

We have visitors from Germany for the next 10 days. Rene and Marcus are here visiting. We had a great day at the beach it was 90 degrees. Now all the men are sitting around watching football.. Aunt Lisa comes tomorrow to visit for a few days which is good because I'm the only female here. Tomorrow Matthew also has his 1st day of 10th grade since he has missed the first two weeks of school.

Light at the end

Yes there is light at the end of the appendix tunnel. Matthew had a Dr's appointment today. he still has to keep his staples in until next week. BUT he can return to school on Monday:+) Today we also told Matthew that he can not take driver's ed until next semester which is in November. He needs to have so many hours in and because of his surgery he has already missed to much according to the laws. He is not a happy camper right now, but things happen which are out of our control. So I still have to keep playing nurse and pack his wound everyday. So now James will be driving before Matthew, and we will have to listen to the complaining until Matthew is driving. Being a parent is the hardest job ever!!!!

Home

Matthew came home from the hospital yesterday (Saturday). Thank goodness I couldn't take one more night on the hospital cot. he is doing pretty good, getting around. the visiting nurse came today to re-pack is wound. Now I will do it tomorrow. It is a really nice cut as far as cut go nice and straight. Grandma came today for a few days to help with Matthew. Hopefully this week will go well and he will be able to start school next week.

First day of School

james off to 10th grade
James
Matthew 1st day of 10th grade
James and Mattew

Well our first day of school was exciting this year. James when off to 10th grade on the bus all alone for the first time in 10 years. Because Matthew was in the hospital. He had his ruptured appendix removed the night before. Life is always interesting with children. Matthew if doing fine and should be home in a day or two.