This 'n That

Hope everyone is having a fantastic week. Just a few things that are on my mind:

We had a busy weekend...Tim went to the game on Saturday with a friend, while I stayed at home with the kids. It was an interesting game to say the least, but I am very glad that Alabama pulled it out. Everything will start buzzing around here on Thursday when all the rv's show up, ESPN will be here for "Gameday" on Saturday...I can't wait. Tim is taking his dad, who is a huge Georgia fan, to the game...ROLL TIDE!

Sunday, we got to see some wonderful friends of ours, Leah and Craig, that came in town for the game. Leah was actually our adopted student, for three years, through the college ministry at our church. They got married in May and Riley was a flower girl in their wedding. We have absolutely fallen in love with their family. Her sister, Abby and her boyfriend, are now our adopted students. They love our kids and actually ask to babysit. I have a hard time resisting that.

It is consignment sale time, once again! I have gotten over 200 items priced, tagged, the clothes hung on hangers and dropped off...whew! It is such a good feeling to get all that stuff out of the attic and closets so someone else can buy it and I can make some money. I am working the sale once again. I think this is probably my 14th sale to work. It is a lot of work, but a lot of fun also.

I have been planning Walker's birthday party. He wants a pirate party, so I have really gotten into the pirate theme. I came up with a pirate name for each of the guests and made nametags in a piratey font, of course. By the way, there are some very interesting/weird pirate web sites out there. Some people play the pirate roll on a daily basis...I don't understand it. Anyway, I also made pirate invitations by tea-staining the paper, and burning the edges. I rolled them up and tied them with twine. I must say they were too cute! I still have a lot to do...the party is less than two weeks away. Oh, the things you will do for your kids!!

I am trying a new crockpot recipe, tonight. When I fix a roast, I usually put it in the crockpot with potatoes, onion, and carrots, some onion soup mix, and water. This time, instead of using beef, I am using chicken. I put carrots, onion, and potatoes in the crockpot, along with Dale's marinade, and water. We'll see how it turns out. A friend of mine did this in the oven and brought it too us after Owen was born, and it was very good.

I just read that the digital smiley face is turning 25 years old. :-) O.K. Call me stupid, but I didn't know that it even existed. I mean, I have seen people put :) at the end of sentences and thoughts, but I didn't know that was a smiley face. OOPS! My faithful readers probably think that I am absolutely crazy. I'm really not, just out of touch with technology. I think it is very cute...good job Mr. Fahlman...you are very creative, I must say!