Sick Story Alert!!!

Beware - this story is disturbing! We went out to dinner the other night with the fam. The kids had to go to the bathroom, so I took them in all at once. I let the girls go into there own stalls and I took Kobe. Anyways, we go back to the table and are eating and having a nice family dinner when I notice that Teylor is playing with something under the table. "What are you doing Tey?" I ask. She shows me her hands and she has 2 tampon applicators on her fingers like finger puppets. I then asked her (not so calmly) where she got those. She said "In the bathroom". So I asked where in the bathroom she got those and she tried to change the subject. "Oh! Look at those birds!" I don't think so. We finally got it out of her that she got them in the garbage in the stall of the bathroom, then she smuggled them out in her pants pocket!!! Jed was so grossed out he couldn't even finish her food she didn't eat. Man oh man.

The Hilton Code

In light of the movie The Divinci Code, I got to thinking about me and Jed's moronic code that we have with each other. I don't even know how this got started (I think Ike had something to do with it - long ago). It has come in very handy when we are with people who bug, or if we don't want our kids to hear something. When we were in Myrtle Beach, we would be in the car and instead of keeping all of our frustrations inside (heaven forbid) we would just say something like i-dong-i-o-tong (idiot), jong-e-rong-kong (jerk) or our favorite mong-o-rong-o-nong (moron). The sad thing is Jed has a hard time spelling the words right, so it would take us like 5 minutes to figure out one word. Anywho, the other night we were thinking about taking Jessie golfing with us, but we didn't want her to know until we knew for sure we were going (she can be relentless), so I said "Jong-e-song-song-i-e should go gong-o-long-fonging with us". Jessie, who was listening intently said, "you're taking me golfing?" We could not believe that she had broken the code! What a genius! We even told Jody and Dannell how to do it and they still couldn't figure it out, which made for some fun. Anyway, it's a very annoying language to learn and may come in handy for you someday...

Spring Pics

I wanted to take professional pictures of my kids for Mother's Day, but it just didn't happen this year. Instead I used mom's camera and took some cute pictures of them at Grandma & Grandpa's. I love mom's camera! Kobe was being a goof ball, but they turned out good.

Jessie is so pretty, if I could only get her to brush her teeth and take off that black choker! I finally hid it this morning when she was in the shower. She hasn't asked about it yet ...

Oh, so sweet (unless you are Alex).

Kobe found some ants in grandpa's yard -eek. He was a little freaked, but Grandpa took care of them pretty quick. Straight to the garage for ant killer...

Nosy Neigbors

OK- So, I have this cool new garden, right? Well, today I tilled it (yes, I worked a gigantic machine by myself - I'm sure it was a sight to behold) and I realized the biggest problem about my new garden. I made this thing on the west side of the yard. Can anyone tell me why this is a big problem? Today, while I was fighting with the dirt mixing monster, my very talkative nieghbor came right to the fence and watched until I was done so she could tell me how excited she was about me getting a garden! She then has to tell me how to plant it, how to make it look nice and that sometimes, "we need to pressure our husbands to clean up the yard." At that, I was so annoyed that I knew I had to get away from her and I coudn't get away unless I was horribly rude, so I just walked into my house and waited for her to leave. ugh. She stood at the fence and smiled her weird smile for about 5 minutes until she decided I wasn't coming back. I know I am the rudest person on earth, but she grates at my nerves more than anyone else! If my garden becomes a place of constant visits from her, it is going to be neglected and Jed will win. What do I do? And don't tell me to be nice.

Garden Drama

Why is it that I feel like I'm not a good enough woman if I don't have a flourishing garden in my back yard? I signed up for an enrichment night activity for beginning gardeners (I have never had a garden, but thought it might be a good/fun thing to have). Anyways, I signed up and got a call from the Enrichment person saying, "my son needs to do a service project, so he can come dig out your garden with you and then we can have the enrichment meeting at your house and show everyone how to plant the garden." This sounds like an ideal situation for me, not knowing what I'm doing so I agree to it with ENTHUSIASM. I just don't think about one very important detail.... JED. He is dead set against the idea - and as we all know, when he's dead set against it then he's DEAD SET AGAINST IT. He doesn't see why we can't just "buy fresh vegetables at the store like everyone else - it's not that expensive." I really didn't have a good answer to that one. But, I have already agreed to the garden and the help, so I just decide that I will just take care of it myself. Has anyone ever tried to dig out a big patch of grass with a shovel? It is a big pain in the buttox. I have new respect for Dad & Paul digging out those trampoline holes. Man alive. Anyways, so the 17 year old kid that needs to do a service project comes over today to help me dig. Jed is home, but won't help, so it's just me and this poor kid (who didn't want to be there, but was forced by his mom). Talk about uncomfortable!! We got about a fourth of the way done, when Jed comes out to help without me begging or anything! I think he just felt like too big of a jerk not helping (as he should). Then it was even more uncomfortable because Jed made it clear that he was not happy about this. He did make it go way faster though, so I didn't care how mad he was.

So now, I have a big patch of grass gone, and a lot of expectation for this glorious garden. What have I gotten myself into? Jed kept saying - "We're just going to have to put grass back down next year!" Does he not know how stubborn I am? This garden is going to be the bomb if it kills me!