Go for launch....

It's here folks, proof that miracles do happen....

On June 18, 2010, Andy and Dalton embarked on a journey to build a boat, it was a very special time (seriously, this video NEVER gets old..) in all of our lives...

Now...just a mere 2 years, 1 month, and 11 days later...the blink of an eye really (no, not really, how could building a boat the size of a bathtub take over 2 years..I thought about listing all the major world events to happen in this same time...but this list was way to long..) the boat finally had it's official launch yesterday...complete with a champagne christening and all! (pics to come later, those are on our "real" camera....couldn't chance shotty cell photos with such an long awaited IMPORTANT event)

 

In the end you can't argue with success....I mean it does float!! Good work boys!

 

Sorry the photos are so dark...I'll add better ones tonight! 

baby it's cold outside....

Okay, it's actually a billion degrees out....but I have been busy making blankets for the babies to come...

I finished 2 for my sister -- a big and a little (but apparently forgot to take photos)...just in time for their baby to come TODAY hopefully!!!

Then some leftover fabric from blankets gone by to make this little guy for our new baby:

 Not too bad for leftover fabric!  Still have to make another bigger one with new fabric I ordered...

AND

there maybe another one getting designed this weekend for my our new MN niece/nephew...

hopefully a good weekend ahead of sewing and watching the olympics...

in case you have forgotten how excited we get about the olympics..see....here and here

don't worry...we have big plans for this year as well!

high class

My Uncle Kelly recently took a break from googling "cats named pickles" and sending the results to Andy (see context here, and here  and here. and here and here).... to share a link he found on ebay for this lovely antique general electric refridgerator ... with an asking price of $2500. 

Nice, eh? I'm not EXACTLY sure  what his point was....but there was some reference made to the similar antique refrigerator that used to be in his sister's garage that is now my dad's smoker....

I guess now he can brag about having a $2500 smoker...or give someone a really good lesson in opportunity cost.

Those ribs tomorrow better be pretty good...

WHYYYYYYY????

So the giant bouncy ball on my desk rolled off the back the other day....

and landed clear at the back against the wall.

I've been willing it to roll out on it's own.

No luck so far.

What's that?  Why yes, I have spent 100x as long pouting, sighing, blogging, and thinking about this great injustice a it would have taken me to crawl under my desk and get it.

wordizzle from baby j: foodie

So I woke up the other day and I thought, "Why isn't a shame that so many people don't know where their food comes from?"

Then I thought, "Hmmm. I shall henceforth only eat food that I pick myself"

...like these yummy garden peas...

 I also demand that my food be cooked right in front of me....and that there be fire involved.

hibachi rules!

wordizzle from baby j: my new rides

My grandpa is gonna help a brother out by pimpin' out that bus in the background..

 

to be my new tailgating ride, yo!  Here's me in it:....

 He also hooked me up with that fly tractor above --- that's why I'm wearing a seed cap -- but gangsta style.

hang in there....

I was TRAUMATIZED...heading home from church this weekend....

driving along when THIS LITTLE GUY:

CRAWLED around my mirror!!!!!!!!!

 THEN CRAWLED ONTO THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 it was so stressful... on poor Andy too, who simultaneously had to listen to my frantic pleas for our little friend to hang on, while demanding that he take photos with my phone.

but HE MADE IT all the way home without flying off!! 

good work little buddy! I hope you like your new home...

unless you actually rode all the way into church with us, then back home...in which case...

stay off my car, idiot.