Movie Quote!!

Okay, no helpful picture this time. Just the quote and good luck to you all. I am hoping that this time it is a little harder. Here you go!

"Great idea, what's your major, town tramp?"

"No mom, the town already has one."

The Money Pit

Note the lovely light still hanging, given by H (thanks Heather!) It might not last much longer.

Yes, we are still living in our home!!

These before pictures show the need to remodel!

Okay, okay, okay!! For those of you that know me there are three things that I can't live without: Diet Coke, DVR, and %$# in that order. However, I have an obsession that has taken over my life now and everyone that I come in contact with has to listen to me talk about it. That new obsession is my KITCHEN!! I am in the middle of a well needed kitchen remodel. At least anyone that knows me will agree that it is well needed. So I am going to take you all through the exciting process no matter how boring it may seem. I may have polls to ask your opinion on what you all think I should do. So it could be up to you to make my kitchen beautiful. To explain to the ones that are not completely familiar with my home. I have a kitchen and a formal dining room. I am getting rid of the walls between the two rooms and making them one big room, kitchen. It makes my only stairway obsolete so I am opening a secret stairway in another wall. Pretty Cool actually!! Here are some pictures. Enjoy!!

Kate's Growing Popcorn!!

You are all going to think that I am making this story up, but I promise you it is all the truth. About a month ago Kate came up to me and asked if she could go and plant something in the yard. I asked her what she was going to plant and she informed me that she thought that if she planted some popcorn kernels that she could grow some corn. I tried really hard not to laugh. I smiled and told her to go ahead and knock herself out. Well, this is a picture of Kate and Sarah (my niece) in front of Kate's popcorn stalk!! She planted two popcorn kernels and now I have corn growing next to my basketball hoop! Who would have thought (other than my 7 year old) that you could grow corn from popcorn? I love being proven wrong by my children on a daily basis. I just love that she really thought that she could grow corn and then corn grew in my yard! I am amazed everyday when I see it grow taller and taller. We can't wait to cook it up with some chicken. I have had to tell her though that we already own a cat and a dog, I am not buying any chickens to go with the corn.

Oh, I know that one!!!

I have friends, Yes, I have friends. Only a couple. But, they tell me I am funny. I always have to remind them that nothing I say is original, I obsessivly quote movies. I have always done it and love doing it. So I am going to have a section on my blog where I will put in a movie quote and you all try and quess what movie it is from. You will have to write it in the comment section. I will not accept calls (for those of you that I know are looking at my blog and not commenting!!) I will try and put the movie clip on the blog at the end of the week and then you will see who was right. I don't know how many clues to give or not give so for the first week you get NONE!! Just the quote. Good luck!!

Movie Quote #1:

"I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen."

P.S. No cheating, that takes all the fun out of it.

Want Some Candy Little Kid?

Okay, so the pictures on the first day of school are out of focus of my kids and that is horrible of me, but the real reason for the post is to tell you all about what happened when I took my kids to their first day of school. I am one of those mothers who's own mother did nothing but embarrass me or try to when I was growing up; however, she would always say, "hey, look on the bright side you can do the same to your own kids some day!" Like that made me feel any better when she was dropping me off for Junior High and yelling, "Kissy, Kissy, I love you Emily!" out the window. It is amazing I am as mentally healthy as I am.

Anyway, back to what happened when I dropped my kids off at school. I don't really drop them off. I of course have to go into the school and introduce myself to the teacher and tell what an adorable child they are getting in his/her class. This is what embarrasses my children so badly. I love it. So I drive to the school and attempt to park my car across the street, parallel park. As you all know my 5'2" frame requires me to guess a little on the length of my car, so I might have "tapped" the car behind me. The crossing guard sees me do this and I am so embarrassed because I think that it is his car. I say nothing as my kids are laughing their butts off we get out of the car. Marshall then says loudly, "Well, Mom he deserves it for driving a Mercury!" I grab Marshall so quickly and tell him to be quite and I look at the crossing guard and ask him if it is his car and he says YES!! I apologize and tell him thank goodness for bumpers and walk off.

Moral of the story: I suffer through all of those years of humiliation only to go through child birth so that I can humiliate my own kids and in the end they humiliate ME!! I can't win.

The DAC (Has it really only been 10 years!!)

Is it Ryan, is it Payne Stewart? I can't tell the difference!!

As many of you know my husband put together a golf tournament for himself and his friends from high school. It is called the DAC (the Damn Amateur Classic). This tournament has been an obsession with him and his friends. For those of you that know about it you understand. For those of you that don't I am not even sure that I can explain. He organized it 10 years ago this year, so to commemorate the occasion they decided to go to Pine Hurst, North Carolina for the tournament. According to Ryan it was a religious experience! However, I have met all of these "men" and I would beg to differ. But, in Ryan's defense golf is to him as cooking is to me!! So, who is to say. Here are a few pictures of the blessed event!

Fun Summer!!

This is Marshall's attempt of putting on his own sunscreen. It makes me hurt just to look at it. He is doing better now, but he had no idea and told me that his back hurt and asked me to look and see if he had something on his back. I laughed so hard and grabbed the camera just so I could show him what it looked like. It's classic!!

Before I get into the kitchen remodel. I thought that I would show you some adorable pictures of my kids and some of the things that they have done this summer. No summer is complete without a trip to the BEACH!! We went with my best friend Judy and her family this year. FUN was had by all!! We were lucky and got to visit with Katie and Taylor also.

"How" long did it take me to get a Blog?

Okay, so if you don't get the "how" joke... that is me trying to be funny with the whole Chief thing. Okay,okay, I'll stop. Here we are finally, on the web. I feel that I need to apologize up front for the posts that will be done. I am completely obsessed with my kitchen remodel. I will keep you all up to date as to what is going on with the construction. Even if you don't care. I have wanted to do this kitchen remodel since the moment I peeked into the windows of this wretched money pit I lovingly call HOME!!