It's Raining; It's Pouring

Yesterday's rainstorm was a big one. We live close to a drainage canal and when it over flows, our streets flood. This is what it looked like in front of our house, but some places were worse. The kids went out and rode their bikes around thru the water. Jim and I went out a drove around a bit. And we drove by the kids really fast and drenched them with a wave!

We saw lots of downed trees and even saw a lady kayaking down the middle of the street. Luckily it subsided pretty fast.

It was all a huge adventure!

I am back!

You probably didn't even miss me but I was locked out of my blog! My password would not work since Monday. Not sure what was going on but I have it all worked out and am up and running.

Stay tuned!

A last minute run to the cabin

Jim had to shoot up to the cabin yesterday to prepare the pontoon boat for a big rainstorm that is coming in tonite. We had it ready for hot weather and had never changed it over for rain. I was feeling bad for him because he got up at 4 am to go up there. But then he came back with these pics and I didn't feel bad anymore! I was jealous. It was a beautiful day up there! And he even managed to get a few hours of hunting in!

Apples Apples Everywhere

I should have taken a pic of all the apples! We had 215 caramel apples for a fundraiser at our house. And we needed to sort them into the individual orders (between 10 and 40 in an order). It was crazy! Then all the people had to come and get their orders. And then.....we had to go deliver all our orders.

Wheew am I glad that is over. But it was worth it. It raised about $400 for Gracie's soccer team.

Check out the apples: http://www.debritochocolate.com/apples.php

And let me know if you want one next time we do a fundraiser. They are $10 each and WELL worth the money.

Science

Gracie came home from school one day this week wanting to do an experiment. She is hanging lima beans in the window in three different bags:

1. Wet paper towel
2. Soil
3. Soil and water

She has made a guess as to which one will sprout first. She thinks the one in soil and water will sprout in 36 days and the one in the wet paper towel will sprout in 41days. She is not sure the plain soil one will sprout at all.

Should be interesting.

Stay tuned.

Fall Cleaning

Lately I have been irritated because our life seems to be a mess. We are not as organized as normal and I feel a little out of control. So this weekend, I have been cleaning and organizing....and throwing out a bunch of CRAP! Here are pics of the pantry, the cabinets under the stairs and my CLEAN fridge! I took EVERYTHING out of the fridge and cleaned it all. It is so much better. Then I went and bought $300 worth of groceries and filled up the pantry and the fridge. I feel much better about things.

And....I found the moths! They were in a new bag of brown rice.

Only in the Silcon Valley.....

Yesterday I saw a homeless guy with a blue tooth hands free cellphone device! He was hanging out with a bunch of other homeless folks with all their stuff in shopping carts and there he was with a blue tooth in his ear!

I totally did a triple take!

How to....

How do you get your hunterman, rugged husband to love your little dog?

You dress your doggie in camo!

Here is Ahi in her new winter coat. Don't laugh, its all about utility - she needs it in the snow!

A day off...

I am taking Friday off because I am just beat and overwhelmed. I have to do a bunch or work for the girls soccer team on that day and then I thought I might spend some time just on ME! Maybe a pedicure, maybe a massage..... But then last nite, I opened my pantry and a bunch of moths flew out at me!

I guess I am spending my day off cleaning the pantry and ridding it of pests!

New Haircut

This is one of Drew's best buddies and my "adopted nephew", Jeremy. He gets his hair cut by Stylist Extrainaiire, Kim, the same gal who does our whole family's hair (and a lot of our friends). This morning, Kim sent me this pic of Jeremy's new haircut on my phone! It is the same hair cut that Drew used to have....before he got the "teen idol" floppy hair style.

Jeremey looks totally handsome....and older!

Mom update

My mom and dad are trying to get home today. Right now they are stuck in the DFW airport because their plane had a mechanical problem.

She is in a lot of pain and totally doped up on vicodin. She sees her shoulder doc tomorrow to get an assessment of how bad it really is.

The good news....it has not effected her appetite...she is eating Mexican food, while waiting for their airplane!

yum!

We had a great dinner last nite - I wish I had taken a pic.

We had open faced grilled cheese on herbed cibatta bread with sauteed mushrooms over the top. I used one slice of havarti and one slice of munster on each sandwich!

Sandwiches were served with tomato and roasted pepper soup!

YUM!

Tonite is tacos and it will be a disappointment compared to yesterday.

Tomorrow is tortilla soup which could be another big winner!

She is down again....

If you are a loyal reader of my blog, you will remember the picture of my mom around xmas time with her really bruised shoulder. That bruise was caused by a fall and eventually led to surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff. She is still going to rehab trying to recover.

I just got a call from my mom who is vacationing in Branson, MO and she has taken another spill and this time she has broken that same shoulder! She was just leaving the hospital and will be coming home to see her shoulder doc - who happens to be the same one that I saw.

My poor mom!

EDH

Spent part of the weekend in El Dorado Hills at my brother's new house. He and his family moved up there in June and I am embarrassed to say that this was our first trip up there to visit. And the sad thing is, we couldn't all make it because Drew had a soccer tournament. So Gracie and I went alone.

We had a fun time watching my nephews play soccer, picking apples and hanging out.

EDH is beautiful and the weather was perfect fall weather.

Made it home by Sunday afternoon to see Drew's last game for the weekend (they won after losing the first two games).

Now its back to work!

Chiweenie Coma

On Saturday morning while I was out running the dogs, Jim got their food ready and put out their bowls. Upon returning, Ahi ran into the house and immediately started scarfing out of Daisy's bowl. You wouldn't think that was a problem, but Daisy's bowl contained her medicine for urinary incontinence! And it contained a dose for a 70 pound lab NOT a 10 pound chiweenie!

The medicine is a antihistamine which effects Daisy by making her thirsty and eliminating the incontinence. For Ahi, it put her in a chiweenie coma -- it made her super sleepy! And every once in a while she would lift up her head and smack her lips like she was thirsty! She basically slept all day on the couch. And then at 11pm when the meds wore off, she ran around the house like a wild animal!

Chiweenieasaurus

Here is Ahi's Halloween costume! The rare nearly extinct chiweenieasuarus!

Happy 10th Bday Gracie

Here she is eating her birthday blueberry pancakes off of our family birthday plate!

Hillbilly Visit

Auntie Patty and Uncle Dave are visiting from Kentucky. Uncle Dave spent the day with us hanging out on our couch. We had a wonderful day! Ate some caramel apples, played Uno and made Gracie's halloween costume.

Birthday Pies

We are celebrating Gracie's 10th bday and Grandma Kathy's 65th bday tonite. Grandma and Grandpa made spaghetti and meatballs and we made these pies. One is apple blueberry with a crumb topping and one is ollalieberry. YUM!

Grandma took Gracie out today to get a fish for her birthday. They could not get the fish today because the water had to sit and be de-chlored. So tomorrow we will run out and get a black gold fish named Abraham.

It's a holiday....of sorts

Today is International Hug a Vegetarian Day!

I am at home waiting.....