A woman's weakness?

Because what woman doesn't love shoes . . . right? Buy one get one free that was the deal, so I had to get a pair of heels and boots. Love them!

*Pictures taken Sunday, December 12, 2010*

Colors of Fall

11/01/09 We decided we needed to do a little yard work. And since it was such a beautiful day we took advantage of it and raked leaves.

My handsome husband

Our beautiful Sora

Our beautiful Olivia

Our dog, Saudalor, trying to get in on the action but causing more trouble then helping.

One of our cats, X, we call her that because she is cross eyed. It's so cute. Our other cat is a boy and we call him "O". So we have X and O.

And the beautiful colors of fall

Professor is a Genius

I had to copy this post from my sisters blog site but an email my brother sent me as well. It's amazing how simple these could be.

If somebody is unable to understand THIS explanation, I have serious doubts about their ability to even function in society, much less run our country!

As the late Adrian Rogers said, "you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Professor is a Genius

An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class.

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That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan".

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.

After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy.

When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.

All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that.

Holiday Preparations

This 4th of July Rocky hosted the "All Islander Softball Tournament" here in Boise. So there was a lot of things we needed to do to prepare. One was making lumpia. So here are the girls (Tashy and Putput) helping me out. I didn't get many pictures of all the preparations so these will have to do. But many thanks also to Jeannie, Elisha, Summer and all the boys for helping me!

Natasha aka Tashy & Britanya aka Putput

Um, um, ummm good. Wish I could have actually ate some once they were cooked.

Scrapblog

For Father's Day I made a little scrapblog. Just another cool way to scrapbook on-line. It's really neat because you can email the link or book to anyone you want or even publish on-line for viewing. There are several backgrounds, stickers, tags, etc. to choose from. Or you can even create your own pages. You can add music or videos. Just a lot of neat things you can do.

I thought I would test posting it to my blog site to see how it turns out and I really like it! See Fathers Day post below.
If your interested click on Scrapblog and make one yourself.

Olivia's 1st Grade Program

Olivia had her first grade program in which they got to sing all the songs they have been learning about animals. Thus the title of the program "A Little Bit Zooey"

Olivia patiently waiting

The first graders performing while they sing



Olivia got to participate in holding one of the props.

She did a really good job singing and dancing.

Princess Birthday

Olivia was really looking forward to going to her friends birthday party because they got to dress up as princesses. So she wanted me to curl her hair and put it up. She said her favorite princess is Belle.

So here is her hair all curled up. And of course the look of, "Are you done taking pictures yet? Can we go already?"

We stopped by her mom's to pick up her Belle dress and she changed in the car. This is her all decked out and ready to doll it up with the girls. Notice when I dropped her off she didn't even look back.

Motor Bike

Daddy decided to surprise the girls with a motor bike.

Taking it for a joy ride and getting them ready for bigger toys.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful, beautiful mothers! Here are some beautiful flowers from me to you. Hope you have a wonderful Mother's day!

Oo..Oo..Aa..Aa..

Four little monkey's swinging in the tree, teasing mister alligator. . . "Can't catch me, can't catch me." Along comes mister alligator quite as can be and. . . SNAPPED!!! that monkey right out of the tree.

Well there really wasn't an alligator but these four are definitely little monkeys.

Boys 'n their Toys

Yes, our yard is starting to look like a junk yard. My husband saw a '68 Impala sitting in our neighbors yard & thought it would be a good fix 'er up 'er. So here they are checking it out and gutting it.

Now that the esay part is complete. . . sadly it's been sitting there and nothing more has been done to it. Hmmmm. . . now who is going to do the hard part. I want Rocky to move it into the big 30x50 garage that way they can take as long as they want to work on it and I don't have to look at it sitting in the driveway. Eye soar now and I'm sure once it's complete it will be eye candy but c'mon. Ladies help me out, would you want this sitting in your driveway?

Nieces - Too Cute!

I came in the office as Lexi was laying on my desk watching her mom check her emails. I just had to get a picture because it was just cute.

My little nieces smiling for their favorite Auntie. Right? I am your favorite.

Lexi & Kalin.

Shooting Practice

This is one of Sora's favorite past times...shooting the BB gun. She is always asking if she can shoot the BB gun but she can only shoot it if there is an adult around. So a lot of the time we are saying later because Dad and I are busy doing other things. We're getting better at making time though.

This was another thing the kids did during spring break. Was take turns shooting the BB gun. Sora is getting really good and hits the target more often than not. I think after she has enough practice on this we'll move her up a noch. Yikes!

Here she is teaching her nephew, Tristan, how to load it, aim and shoot.And of course our beautiful grand-daughter, Trina. She had her turn shooting too but Olivia and her were more interested in playing basketball and running around.