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Tshirts

2011-05-28T08:16:00.000-07:00

My Christmas/Birthday Wish list

2009-11-17T09:13:00.000-08:00

So, I think this would be the easiest way, for all who are concerned about what to get me, to see what I want. :) If I must think of something I guess I can. *Sigh* Hope this helps, Jon, since you drew my name this year.

Wii Fit
Heart rate/pulse/pace monitor for running
Work out clothes & good socks
Sams gift card
New computer
2nd Washer and Dryer
Washer and dryer hookup and plumbing done
Floodlight installed over my deck
Photo shop
Nikon d3x (but I guess I could settle for the d5000) LOL
Facial
Teeth whitening
Tummy Tuck
A Watch
iPod touch
Kindle
Maid Service
Laundry service
Taxi Service
3-4 inch memory foam mattress topper or new mattress
Drapes for my bedroom
Shutters for my windows in bedroom
Glass around shower
Trim finished
Hole drilled in back of computer desk
Extreme home makeover
New Van
Turn me in to what not to wear
Hand held GPS
Annual Haircut
Charcoal Gray cablenit sweater from Banana Republic or LOft
Black or gray pea coat
Trip to New Orleans to help finish J&K's house
Trip to NC
Trip to TN
What the heck a Trip to Italy
I'll add more later....

I did say wish list

Funny Farm Part 2

2009-06-15T16:44:00.000-07:00

Redneck Swimmin'

Lesson in displacement

Had to refill the barrell. Really great for moral.

High Class Swimmin'

Aunt Anita's Pool

Country Living Swimmin' Hole

OUR POND

Funny Farm Part 1

2009-06-15T07:12:00.000-07:00

Some of our spring chicks

Chuck & Henny Penny

(notice hot pursuit)

CHESTER

HACKAMOR

HONEY

DANNY

Well it's been a while again. So what's new around here you ask?Let me just start back a few months. I love to be outside early in the morning, especially on a spring day. I grab my Bible and step out my bedroom door onto my wonderful deck, and I walk over to my lovely porch swing (thank you Ma). I start to sit on the cushioned seat and realize it is not clean. Apparently our 500 kittens think it's their litter box. So I pull the cushions off and sit on the swing anyway. I open my Bible and start to read. Suddenly I am accosted by those 500 kittens whose 8000 claws dig into my skin when they realize Chester the goat is climbing into my lap as well! By this point, Chester is full grown and has a nice set of horns. Needless to say, I was not going to be able to read on my swing. I ran over to the top of the picnic table to try an evade Chester's horn when I got up, forgetting that goats love to climb. So I nixxed the leisurely Bible reading I had planned and decided to check on our only hen. At this point she had been setting on Tony's work bench in the barn for a month. She quit laying eggs and started setting. Now she does not have a boyfriend ,unless you count Chuck the duck because he counts himself, so she wasn't going to hatch anything even if she was sitting on a pile of eggs. Every morning I would come out to see if she had laid an egg and she would puff up and peck at me just like she was sitting on a big bunch of eggs! I guess springtime does that to some. So, recently a friend of ours heard about our setting Hen, who by now had been setting for 3 months, and brought her 20 fertilized hatching eggs to sit on. So sweet. She's much happier now, and since hatching all of her adopted eggs has gone back to roaming around the yard and laying her daily egg. Which brings us to her new boyfriend. This same friend, whom we love dearly, told Tony he could have one of their "extra" roosters because they didn't "need" him. So, of course, Tony said, "Sure! Charis loooves animals." So she brings us the most beautiful rooster. He is the picture perfect rooster. So hen and rooster were locked up in the chicken coop to get acquainted. Chuck the duck paced around the perimeter, livid that he has been excluded. That was his girlfriend, by the way. Rooster showed us how he cock-a-doodles and the kids loved hearing it. Especially Sunny. Now we sounded like a farm. We sounded like a farm at 1:00 a.m. , 3:00 a.m., 5:00 a.m., and 7:00 a.m., each alarm lasting 30 minutes in duration at 30 second intervals! I'm sure our new neighbors love us, as the chicken coop backs up to their property and my bedroom window. So hen now lays eggs again and Chuck tries to kill rooster when he gets the chance. Rooster still crows all night long. Chester has made the kid's playhouse his hangout, and ponies have driven me nuts! Chicks try to fly out of their box when we feed them. Cats sit below box just in case one succeeds. Some have. Cats happy. To be Continued.....

Profit Increase

2009-04-22T06:14:00.000-07:00

Did anyone see the news that McDonalds profits were up 4%?

Well it's only because we ate there 3 times over spring break.

Gasp!

You're welcome, Ronald.

Kelley Update

2009-03-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

So, Ive had some complaints on my lack of blogging and face booking. I tried to think of some cool stuff to write about, and nothing came to mind. I haven't sewn 100+ outfits since Christmas. I haven't run any marathons or half marathons. I wish I could do all of that. Sara amazes me with all that she gets accomplished. And then there's all the avid athletes. You guys are awesome! We haven't visited any interesting places lately either. Unless you count my mom's house. Now that's very interesting! Nope, I just do the same ole thing day after day. The standard 10 loads of laundry & watching the kids while the others are at school. And, yes, one of those kids is a goat, Leslie. His name is Chester, and he thinks I'm hi favorite when McKinley is at school. For instance, have any of you had a goat help you clean your car out. Well Chester does. I'm out there vacuuming away and her comes Chester to help. He hops in the front door and grabs some trash and comes over to the middle of the van to get right in my face to show me what he's found. I push him out the other side and he hops back in behind me. I shove him out the front and he hops back in through the back. Then he thinks it's a pushing game and starts trying to ram me in my rear when I push him back away from the car. He's so very helpful. Then when I get him out of the way I hear kittens screaming. I'm sure they
are wondering, with their still shut eyes, what kind of place they've been born into. I go to check what all the commotion is about, knowing Sunny has something to do with it. She sees me coming, and has her arms full of all 5 kittens, and knowing she's not supposed to be picking them up, panics and throws them one by one (like baseballs) back into the box! Speaking of kittens, do any of you remember when I said I needed 10 cats to kill the rats? Well we got the 2 cats last year this time. The oldest cat had kittens shortly after. We kept a boy and a stray girl wound up in our yard, So that brought the total to 3 girl cars and 1 boy. Well the girl cats have all found boyfriends. We've had one batch of 5 kittens; all but one are girls! The other two mothers look like they are due any day now. I had told the girls that we were not keeping any girl kitties unless they could pay to have them fixed. So when 4 were girls, they were very upset.

We have 4 kids playing baseball this year. Mauri is playing tee-ball. She looks like a giant on her team, because half the kids are only 3! Since when do you start tee-ball at three? They are all very cute though. Madelyn is playing pitching machine. She's pretty good. It's a little more fun to watch than tee-ball. There are a bunch of little rascals on her team though. :) Brandon is in the minor league. He plays pitcher and 2ND base. He's very fun to watch. McKinley could have started playing middle school softball, but she wanted to play one more year in the little league? She pitches and plays 3rd base. She'll be a good little baller. Needless to say we seem to live at the ball park. Thankfully, someone had the wonderful idea to start all the games at 6:00 on the school nights, so we're not there till midnight. One thing good about 4 kids playing ball at the same time is that you don't need to worry about seats. We just keep making the circle. Tony and I split up and divide babies and keep an eye on all the fields. You can usually see 2 kids from one spot if you stand between the 2 fields. Last time McKinley and Madelyn were up to bat at the same time. The pitches we're not at the same time, though. So it was like watching a tennis match.

Oh, we had another student of the month! Mauri was chosen as the elementary school student of the month! This means that all the girls have made it in the same school year! Brandon is feeling the pressure. Actually, I really don't think he cares. Except that he would like to get checked out for the Kiwanis luncheon and get all the loot.

Have any of you left things at my mom's house? Have you ever seen them again? Well I left my camera, so hence the lack of new pictures on this blog. McKinley came back from my mom's with a pretty new pair of teva flip flops. She said NeNe said she could have them because she didn't know whose they were. McKinley made the comment afterwards that she thought that's probably what happened to her camouflage jacket. These are McKinley's words as she plays out a scene between NeNe and whoever...." Oh, you don't have a jacket.... here's a nice camo jacket...I don't know whose it is.....just keep it." So if anyone left some Rainbow colored Teva flip flops at my mom's house....they're McKinley's now, and not near as new looking. They fit me rather nicely too.

So, is this enough news for y'all? Oh, Brandon and I are going to Jamaica for Jake's wedding. We applied for his passport this week. He thought that was awesome. He looks like he's stoned in his picture. Judah, could you give Brandon some picture taking pointers, or maybe Jake? LOL

This month

2008-12-31T06:24:00.000-08:00

FFF

Everyone helps

Mauri likes this one

Brady measures his

Brandon wanted a tall tree, but it won't fit in our little house

Sunny loves to dress up

So to catch everyone up on our goings on, here are some pictures of the past month.

I surprised Tony for his birthday and took him to dinner. Then we went bowling. The surprise was that some friends met us.

We went to cut our tree again this year, which was very fun. Sunny loved all of her girly chritmas gifts.

2008-12-31T06:12:00.000-08:00

Brady was helping me make chili and he thought this onion was just what it needed. I had left the room for a minute and when I came back to stir the chilli this was what I found.

Second Runner Up

2008-11-15T18:53:00.000-08:00

Mauri was in her first pageant today. She was so cute. I'm going to try and ppost the video when I get it. She was doing really good until my mom and Aunt Sarah waved at her. She of course waved back and then Madelyn, who was sitting on the front row waiting to crown the winner, put her fingers next to her mouth telling her to keep smiling. This made Mauri raise her hands up as if to say "what?". Then she rolled her eyes at her as she finished her T walk, and on her way out, she heaved a big sigh. Typical Mauri. :) It will be fun to watch again. Madelyn was dissapointed that she didn't get to crown her. If you were judging on looks and personality, she should have won. Madelyn had to do all the crowning, and there was one girl who was 11, but she was 5'7". She practically had to sit on the floor for Madelyn to get the crown on. Kappi had to come help her.

Brady wanted his pictures taken with his pretty sisters. We asked during the pageant who he thought was the prettiest, and he said Mauri.

This is Kappi our awesome baby sitter.

The little girl in the middle won in her category.

Madelyn trying to crown the tall girl.

Her most Photogenic photo

Brady's Pumpkin Party

2008-11-12T11:31:00.000-08:00

Brady really wanted to have a pumpkin party for his birthday this year. He loved the pumpkin bread that he had at Aunt Karin's, so that's what I tried to make his cake taste like. It was really good. It had cream cheese frosting. YUM! He had a blast. My friend Mandy, who should be a party planner, came over and decorated our deck. She already had all the decorations! She also brought a tote full of costumes and pumpkin t-shirts for the little ones! I took the rest of my cream cheese frosting, which is just CC and sugar, and made the best pumpkin ice cream.

Go Gators!....or not

2008-11-09T16:55:00.001-08:00

Jake gave this cheerleading outfit to McKinley

when she was a baby.

All the girls have worn it at one time or another.

Beware PETA

2008-10-10T06:25:00.000-07:00

Friday Humor

2008-10-10T06:21:00.000-07:00

Remember When We Could Do This and it Was Cute?

A Few New Pics

2008-10-10T05:57:00.001-07:00

Oscar

2008-09-15T18:55:00.000-07:00

Everyone who knows me knows I'm not crazy about animals. I have a love hate relationship with my dogs. We recently lost Buddy to a snake bite and tonight Oscar was hit and killed by a car. I really had grown to like this dog. He was a gorgeous dog. Anytime I saw other dachshunds

I realized how extraordinarily good looking he was for a dog. He always let me know when someone was here, and every night he would let us know that he had seen his shadow or some tree's shadow. Usually right outside my bedroom window. Just enough to keep it a love-hate between us. Madison loved him though. She really loved him, and he loved her.

Bambi's MOM

2008-09-12T04:44:00.000-07:00

I killed my first deer last night! It killed my headlight.......

McKinley's Jr. High Basketball Schedule

2008-09-10T07:51:00.000-07:00

Sept. 11 @ Baker 6:00

Sept. 15 @ Home 4:30

Sept. 16 @ Ponce De Leon 4:30

Sept. 22 @ Home 5:00

Sept. 23 @ Home 6:00

Sept. 25 @ Home 4:00

Sept. 29 @ Laurel Hill 5:00

Sept. 30 @ Home 4:30

Oct. 2 @ Bethlehem 6:30

Oct. 6 @ Rocky Bayou 5:00

The End of the Tooth Story.....for anyone who has nothing better to do with their time but read a blog about my tooth woes

2008-09-08T08:04:00.000-07:00

Way back at the end of June, I forced my dentist to pull one of my wisdom teeth. It was killing me, and I thought having it pulled right before going camping would be the best option. Well after he tugged and yanked and pried for 45 minutes he finally came out victorious over my monster, 4 pronged wisdom tooth....minus (later to be discovered) the other 4 halves of their twisted evil roots. My dentist said he thought he left one root piece in there, but it was small and shouldn't give me any problems. Apparently these roots are supposed to disappear on their own and never cause me anymore grief. HMMM Nope, they're evil and hateful and decided to stay firmly wrapped around some big important nerve in there. Anyway...after enduring a dry socket while camping and still trying to enjoy some of the awesome food (thank you Ryan, Josh, Doh Doh, Mom, & Tony) Oh and thank you Mr. Jackson(who probably won't ever see this, but someone can tell him he got a shout out on my all important blog) for the medication and superb dental care. Ok, so about a month and a half after the initial pulling I finally started feeling normal. Yea! I had decided I was just going to leave the other wise tooth in there. Maybe I needed it. Well after about a week of feeling better I wake up with a monster knot on the side of my jaw. Those darn roots had caused an infection and were surrounded by a big pool of P*ss. I hate that word. I bit the bullet and went to the Oral surgeon who I was trying to avoid. Heaven forbid I have my tooth pulled while feeling absolutely nothing and getting a fine much needed nap at the same time. Like I said maybe I need those wise teeth. I went to his office, xrays and tooth in hand. Yes, I kept my tooth. I thought the tooth fairy would come., but they don't take wisdom teeth. I had put the tooth safely in the xray envelope(I thought it might be helpful if the Dr. could see the demon he was dealing with). I handed the package to the very nice receptionist girl and went and sat down on their very cushy and posh leather couch and started thumbing through a yacht magazine. (It amazes me how the choice of magazines differs according to your area of waiting. Like if you had the joyful task of waiting at the health department for a school shot your magazine choices would be mostly in Spanish and a 5 month old copy of the ENQUIRER or PEOPLE) Anyway back to my story. Suddenly I hear a scream from the receptionist area.
"CHARIS!!!!! "she yelled. I ran around feeling sheepish and embarrassed knowing why she was upset. "Did you know there is a tooth in this envelope?" she questioned.
"Are you serious?" I said, "How the heck did that get in there?" thinking to my self I guess that was stupid to bring my tooth. No one else must ever do that. Stupid,stupid stupid. You're so weird. She disgustedly handed me my tooth which she picked up with a tissue by her fingertips(it had fallen in her lap when she took the xrays out). Hey, it was clean. I had taken it home and brushed it and scrubbed it and bleached it. It was quite magnificent...for a tooth. Well it turns out that when the surgeon started looking at my xray and the fancy one he took he still was puzzled about the number of roots that might be there. He said to me, "I sure wish I could have seen the tooth. It would give some idea of what I'm dealing with when I go in. Now I took the credit.
"But sir", I said proudly, "I kept the tooth and I brought it with me today for this very reason" grinning somewhat painfully with new found appreciation for my oddness. Anyway he gave me some great stuff and I had a very weird but restful nap and came out minus the nasty roots and my other less impressive wisdom tooth. I vaguely remember hearing and seeing things while I was under. As I was waking, I remembered everything so clearly. It wasn't a painful memory. I just kept replaying it over and over. But when I was fully awake, I couldn't remember anything but knowing I had remembered in my subconscious state. Yes, I know I'm strange, but that's OK. You know my name is Chris without the a.... So now almost 2 weeks from my surgery, I see a ray of light. I'm down to 1 pain pill a day and my TMJ is relaxing a little. By the way, for anyone who suffers from TMJ, there is a massage that treats it quite successfully. So, hopefully this will be the end of my saga. Sara says blogging is therapeutic, and I must say this blog turned out to be.

Our Student of the Month!

2008-09-01T09:49:00.000-07:00

Well Landon, you will be very proud to hear that your cousin McKinley was chosen to be student of the month out of the whole middle school. That must mean she's really smart just like you and your big brother Bryce! Keep working hard. I'll put up a picture of her with her certificate when she gets it.

Sunny's New Dress

2008-08-11T05:23:00.000-07:00

McKinley wanted me to fix her sewing machine this weekend. This is what I wound up with. I didn't even have pattern. I'm so proud of myself. I haven't sewn in 10 years. The hardest part was learning how to use a new sewing machine without having the owners manual. Oh, and making the button holes. I had to take the sewing machine outside, so I could watch kids and sew at the same time. I had all these materials saved here and there in different craft boxes.

An Uplifting Weekend

2008-08-04T13:31:00.000-07:00

This past weekend Ma and Aunt sarah had invited me to go with them to a Beth Moore simulcast. It was so much fun, and she was speaking directly to me. Thank You Ma and Aunt sarah. Tony and the kids survived. He took all 6 of the kids and met his partner at the lake with his family and they tubed all day. He was very sore though.

At the Beth Moore Simulcast

We ate at Ruby Tuesdays

My mom told me to delete this picture, but still having some Barbee in me I didn't.

My mom's salad, Mt. Everbutt

Cheri's salad, Mt Kilawomanjaro

Welcome to McKinley's Spa

2008-08-04T12:45:00.001-07:00

My mom recently took McKinley to get her first pedicure. By the way I think my first pedicure was when I was 26. Just a side note. I'm just sayin'. Any way McKinley decided that was going to be her profession. She came home and immediately set up shop. Here are some pictures. She's now taking appointments.

McKinley's reaction to how rough the bottom of my feet were.

This is the drying station, complete with books to read.

Brandon paid McKinley 5 dollars plus a 15 dollar tip for his pedicure with massage. She wasn't planning on charging him more than 50 cents! He enjoyed it do much, that's what he felt it was worth. She in turn gave him free pedicures for life as long as it was during regular business hours.

It felt so good!

The manicure station

The waiting area

My free pedicure coupon.

Brandon wanted to learn how so McKinley made him her apprentice. Brady was his first customer.

Is 30 the new 40?!!!

2008-08-04T12:25:00.000-07:00

Holy cow! I've never dreaded a birthday ever. I always wanted to be older in age because I looked so young. Maybe I was niaive not to have dreaded my 30th. Now I know all you "numerically mature" folks out there are laughing and thinking to yourselves..."she hasn't seen nothin yet", but it's bad. First I had to get glasses. Then I got plantar fascitis. (probably cause I'm so fat). Then... I started getting PMS for the first time....cramps and all. Beth Moore says PMS stand for Please More Spirit. Holy Spirit that is. I don't know if I need it so much as Tony needs it. My hair is receding and still falling out. My hip gets stiff if I sit on the front porch step too long and I have to limp the first couple of steps before I can get worked out. Oh and the worst most horrific thing of all is...I found a gigantic gray hair in my eyebrows!!!! I've included a picture of it. I knew I had bushy eyebrows but not 'man' bushy. Come on now.

Happy Birthday Mom!

2008-07-30T20:30:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to the best NeNe in the world!

I love you!

.....FYI we also have no pictures of us together...

After a Thorough Reveiw...

2008-07-28T06:40:00.000-07:00

I went back and reviewed the Thanksgiving video footage of our exercise class. Chesed, I believe you are right, that was not your booty. You were wearing looser fitting pants. I'm pretty sure this is another picture of Chara's booty. Doh Doh was wearing the shorts that are shown in her booty picture.

The Results are In!

2008-07-25T07:00:00.000-07:00

These photos were taken during our exercise class over Thanksgiving. Sara's booty was not included for 2 reasons..

1. It doesn't exist.

2. If it did she was wearing jeans, so dead giveaway.

Booty #1 and most bootylicious was.....drumrolll....yes thank you, thank you that would be mine.

Booty #2 and winner for most athletic is ....drumroll...Summer!

Booty #3 and winner for full screen coverage and most anonymous looking is .....drumroll.....Chara!

Booty #4 and winner for most wrong guesses for your booty is.....drum roll.....Brenda!

Booty#5 and winner for least Barbee looking booty in the family is....drum roll...Chesed!

Booty #6 and winner for least jiggles and dimples is ...Drum roll ....Karin!

Booty #7 and winner for most recently improved is.......drum roll.......Doh Doh!

Name That Booty

2008-07-24T06:09:00.001-07:00

NAME THAT BOOTY

Just put your answers as a comment.

Add a name for each number.

Happy Birthday Chesed!

2008-07-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

My Sister is Amazing!

Yes, you are getting old!

Madison Loves Her

She Can Fish

Mario Loves Her

(but he loves me the best ;) )

She Takes Time To Stop and Enjoy God's Beauty

She Has A Good Lap

No matter what you may think, she's actually a very good babysitter.

McKinley Loves Her

She's there when you need her.

She knows how to have a good time.

She loves to have her picture made. ;) and we love her for that.

Madelyn loves her.

Mauri loves her.

Brady loves her.

She has nice legs.

She always looks good in pictures.

She is not a morning person!

She's an awesome aunt.

.....(She has cleavage?)

Brandon Loves you too, I just couldn't find a picture.

I love you Chesed. You are an awesome sister and you inspire me.

Oh, and we don't have any pics of us together so FYI....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

I Blogged

2008-07-11T21:51:00.000-07:00

I just confiscated 3 trash bags full of stuff off my two little girls' floor! They are a bunch of little piggies. As soon as I informed them that I was going to do the same with any of their stuff in the rest of the house, it was soon clean as well. So every night anything on their floor after room cleaning time is over, will also be confiscated. They probably won't miss any of it either.

VBS is over. I kept the nursery with Tony's cousin Cynthia. It was fun. There was a 55 pound 2 year old in there! He was at least 2 heads taller than Brady. I was the lucky one who got to change his pullup. Try hefting that big of a kid up on to the changing table.

Tony's out of town for the weekend hanging out with coach Ricks or Hicks or something like that. Some Georgia college coach from one of those schools. He was in the Facing the Giants movie if that helps identify him. He then was invited to go visit the Atlanta Falcons combine.

Next weekend I'm going to hang out with a bunch of kids 6 and under at a birthday party. LOL

I'm going to bed now. Love ya'll

A Zans for Cans

2008-05-18T18:11:00.000-07:00

"Have you a Zans for Cans? You should." Dr. Seuss

How about a "McKinley for Sanity".

She is the most wonderful daughter a mother could ask for. She is always looking for ways to help. I find her scrubbing dishes, starting loads of laundry, organizing drawers, and taking care of Brady and Madison. All of this she does without me asking. She has a little bit of an obsession with cleaning; especially when she's bored. Now don't get me wrong, she has her attitude moments, but don't we all. I'll be wondering how I can get caught up and turn around and she's already got it done. When we're getting ready to go somewhere, I'll go to pack the diaper bag and it's already been done; complete with snacks, sippy cups, toys, BBs, diapers, and extra clothes. I can always count on her for a hug and a kiss anytime and anywhere. When I'm grouchy, she finds a way to cheer me up. I am so blessed to have such an awesome little girl who is growing up way too fast.

"So, have you a McKinley? You should." ~Charis

I love you baby girl!

Cupcake Love

2008-05-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

Madison had not had anything with chocolate or sugar up to this point. Brady took care of that. Notice the stool. I need to add that all those little holes were full to begin with.

News

2008-05-18T06:22:00.000-07:00

Tony's still passing kidney stones. We're going on 3 weeks now since the Litho. They sent some of them off to the lab and they found that they were made of Sunkist. Here's a pic of some I've collected for your viewing pleasure.

Notice the orange color. This all began 9 months ago. That is what's is kind of funny.

Ball season ended last week. I survived the full day of closing ceremonies. McKInley made Allstars. YAY! ...

Buddy's missing now for 5 days. There is a horrible dead smell coming from under the house.

Mother's day was nothing to rave about. I had a PBJ. The kids brought me a beautiful bouquet that they picked from my rose bushes. I won the award for most kids at church. I visited with my mom and sisters on the Sat before.

I'm getting 10 cats to kill the rats.

Girls Sing at Church

2008-04-28T08:33:00.000-07:00

Ebay

2008-04-24T07:39:00.000-07:00

I really want to include Weird Al Yancovich's song, "Ebay" along with this post, but I don't how so I'll leave a link.

Tony's been bugging me for a while to sell stuff on Ebay. I didn't listen at first because a lot of the stuff was given to me and I felt like I should just give it to someone else. Then I decided to quit ignoring my husband and just try it out. I was also inspired by "AL". Well I've made close to $300.00 in one month! Now you would think I had sold super cool stuff...HA! I'll include some pictures. Used Crocs advertised as still in good shape structurally, do not look new, but clean, SOLD for $13.50 plus $3.00 to Ship (I only had to pay $1.65 shipping ;) ) Used Bermuda shorts good condition SOLD for $6.00 plus $ 5.00 shipping. Baby toy good shape sold for $12.00 plus $5.00 shipping! What the heck! Are these people nuts! I've gotten great feedback from everything too. "Great Seller! A++++++Ebayer! Super Fast Shipping!" really boosts the spirits in the morning. LOL The baby toy I sold cost $18.00 new when I bought it at Christmas time. I almost croaked paying that much, but it was so cute. Madison never played with it.

This just goes to show how competitive people can be. It's the whole "I want to be the winner" mentality that gets me $51.00 dollars for and old baseball glove that had been sitting in Brandon's closet for 2 years!

So if ya'll have some old junk siting around....Sell it on Ebay!

http://music.aol.com/song/ebay/4787232

Ball Season

2008-04-16T14:31:00.000-07:00

Well, we are well into our ball season and I feel like I live at the ball park. Sara, you are lucky to have just recently started and missed some of the cold nights, maybe. Needless to say, this is why I haven't posted in a while. I haven't gotten to see much of Brandon's games because they are usually at the same time as McKinley's. I stand between the two fields and watch one or the other. I usualy watch more of McKinley's since she pitches. It seems like every time I miss seeing Brandon bat. Anyway, it is pretty stressful keeping up with four kids who aren't playing for the 2-3 hour games especially once it gets dark. Brady comes home pretty dirty from playing in the dirt where I stand to watch. I have my little group of baby sitters that take turns with Madison, and the little girls usually run around where I can still keep an eye on them. I'm lucky to see any of the game. Since Tony coaches Brandon he can't help out. Thanks Pops, for relieving me of some of the very late Friday night games. I told my babysitter, Kappi, I was going to hire her one night so I could just sit and watch a game with out worrying where all the kids are. LOL

But both kids are playing well and enjoying it. We only have 3 weeks left whew. I think McKinley is the only one playing allstars this year, but that is still up in the air. Tony doesn't want Brandon to play this year since he just moved up to the minors.

I am so sick of smelling the frenchfries cooking and when the kids get some I find myself eating them without even wanting to. Yuck.

Sorry if this post is pretty depressing; I'm just so stressed out and tired. Any prayers for energy and patience would be welcome. My house is a dissaster from my never being home to clean, and when I am, I'm too tired.

I'm going to try and post some pics.

This one's for Sara

2008-03-09T11:35:00.003-07:00

I noticed Sara's comment on my mom's blog about the Alan Jackson concert. I need to elaborate on that. So here goes.

Way back when I was a young girl of about 11 or 12 years old I remember a summer I will never forget.......

That summer I spent 2 weeks at my cousin Sara's house. At the time, they were living in a "little bitty" ( it's alright to be little bitty) house on a "little bitty" lake. They had an old ski boat. We spent most of our days skiing and listening to Sara's radio. This particular summer, Sara's favorite song was "Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee" by Alan Jackson. Now I put up a hard front with my opinion that country music was stupid. I only thought this because my brothers said it was, so it must have been. But when I was in Georgia.....I had "gone country". My southern accent suddenly came out. I said ain't and I listened to country music. That summer I learned every word to that "way down yonder song". Sara and I had the best tan's and fancied that all the boys on that lake were looking at us. Uncle Norman let us "drive" the boat sometimes and we felt like we looked old enough to be 16 when we were behind that wheel. We wore our fluorescent green and black sunglasses and poofed our bangs up. I can't remember a single summer as vividly as I remember this one. So I have to thank you Sara ( and Doh & Norman for letting me come) for forcing me to listen to that country stuff all summer. I'm a country girl at heart and enjoy the simple things in life. After I got back home from Georgia my brothers teased the accent back into it's usual place and swore if I ever listened to that country crap they'd break my radio, so I went back to just being a country girl in my heart.

But look out brothers...cause she's gone country and if you check my radio dial it's on the country station and if you listen to my kids they all use double negatives and say ain't. And at that Alan Jackson concert, I still knew every word to "Way down yonder on the Chattahoochie". So there!

I love you Sara!

"A+ for originality"

2008-03-08T08:34:00.000-08:00

As anyone with a lot of children knows, we get a lot of comments on our large broods. I get the usual comments quite often. Such as....."Wow, I can't even handle 1, much less 6!" ....or "Don't ya'll have a TV?"....or "You know what causes that don't you?" ....or "So are you going to have any more?" .....or "I would have already had that taken care of"..... or "How old are you anyway"; but this past weekend Tony's friend (whom I have never met) took the cake. They were talking and suddenly he lets out a whoop. I really wasn't paying any attention; or I would have instinctively known what the whoop was about. He reaches around Tony to where I was standing and starts to shake my hand with great enthusiasm and says, "I've just got to shake your hand. You've got one hell of a uterus!". I, caught quite by surprise, was speechless. And he was gone just as quick as he came. After recounting the story to my mother and sister and to several others, I realized, that part of my body never gets any of the credit for all of these kiddos. So good job uterus! You done good.

Classic

2008-02-19T19:05:00.000-08:00

5 Random Things About Me

2008-02-18T13:23:00.000-08:00

1. I hate Mac n Cheese. The smell has always made me want to vomit.

2. If I had the time to become a doctor, I would.

3. I love to cut the grass. I have 10+ acres that I have to keep cut, so that's a good thing I guess. It's probably just a really good excuse not to be doing the dishes or laundry.

4. I would like to live in Guatamala with my family for a short time when they get older.

5. I secretly wanted to be in a beauty pageant when I was a young girl.

Just A Few Cute Pics Of Brady

2008-02-17T18:14:00.000-08:00

To Answer Chesed's Question

2008-02-17T18:03:00.000-08:00

"Aren't you worried that your kids will start to associate math with punishment?"

No, they really don't mind the math too much. It just gets their attention in a more positive way. It also causes them to have to stop playing for a few minutes. That's the part they don't like. The math is more like occuping their "time out time" to keep them from getting into trouble during it.

Slideshow

2008-02-17T07:36:00.000-08:00

I figured it out! It's down at the bottom of the page. OOPs I put the unedited pictures up. Oh well.

Update on "Problem Solved"

2008-02-16T08:24:00.000-08:00

It has definately toned things down around here. I won't claim success just yet, though. Success will be solely dependent on me. Tony has jumped on board too, so that is good. Instead of hearing, "I'm gonna beat your tail boy."...we now hear "Do you want a math sheet?" Sounds a lot better anyway. They actually know they'll get a math sheet in contrast with not being concerned at all about the other threat. LOL Of course some just think it's grand. Madelyn begs for a math sheet, so maybe I'll have to do something else for her.....suggestions welcome...

P.S. I'm working on some pictures, but like I said, I barely have time to type up these inspireing pieces.

A Problem Solved With Math?

2008-02-07T09:02:00.000-08:00

Everyday after I pick up the kids the argueing begins. I know it's mostly because everyone is tired, but It drives me crazy! Someone touched someone and it begins. Anyway, I've decided it's going to stop or at least diminish a little. The usual discipline was not having any long term effects. If they got the spoon, it might last a few minutes. If they got grounded from their TV and computer time, they'd just find something else to do. So, needless to say, I needed something different. I prayed for wisdom and came up with this while driving home with my ears ringing from the whining and fighting. They get One warning ( if I feel they deserve one) after that it's math problems. McKinley gets long division. Brandon gets a multiplication sheet. Madelyn gets an Addition and subtraction sheet. It worked like a charm yesterday, and I've got my sheets all printed out and ready for today. I figure it's a win win situation. Either they'll be really good at math or they'll quit fighting. Fingers are crossed, but I hope and pray this works. If not, I'm going to invest in a case of earplugs.

Super Bowl

2008-02-05T07:38:00.000-08:00

Well, we had some friends come over for Super Bowl Sunday. Tony ordered 100 wings, 3 pizzas, 1 sub, I had already made sausage balls, and she had made rotel dip. They only have 2 small children. PaPa and my dad came to hunt, so they helped eat some of the food. Needless to say the kids have had wings for their snacks and dinner for a while.

PaPa actually killed a deer during the game, so Tony set it to record so they could go look for it. The record timer ended before the game did so they missed the last 6 minutes and the most exciting part of the game. Thankfully Bryan had left his tv on that chanel and was able to rewind it and see what they missed.

Madison's Checkup

2008-02-04T13:46:00.000-08:00

Madison had her follow up urology appt. today. Her kidney is still dialated and working at 50%. She hasn't had any complications due to this and it hasn't gotten any worse, so we are going to wait 4 more months and do a CT Scan instead of a renal scan. The Dr. wants to see the anatomy of the kidney and ureter to see where exactly the obstruction is.

McKinley & Brady went to NeeNee's while we were gone. McKinley got to do her school -work there and I think NeeNee had fun. I had fun having a day off. It's nice to have a substitute every so often.

So I decided to join the "blogosphere"

2008-02-02T17:50:00.000-08:00

I guess this is the adult version of myspace, so I need to grow up. I'll probably have like 2 sentence blogs or have my assitant, McKinley, do it for her english assignments. LOL Do ya'll think that would count? Maybe if I check her spelling and grammer? Any way I've had fun reading all ya'll's goings ons. By the way Summer if you read this, I loved your PaPa shout out. "Go big W"! wid yo 70 som odd b-day! Had to shout it out old school style for my peeps. Waasssupp! Ok, I'm starting to sound like Tony and I'm hyped up on some coke trying to get rid of a killer headache. That's coca-cola by the way. Love ya'll!