2012
Morticia and Gomez
2011
this one is with Kyson. . . .
2010
Monday, October 27, 2014
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Halloween Pics to Get You Itchy!
At least when I see pics of Halloween, I get itchy to get makin' somethin'.
Last year, it got a bit much to keep up with my pics on here, so here we go again...
CJ, the bus driver, noticed someone new at our house.
It was ON....
The next day
we added
another visiter....
a 6'0 DaddyMummy
When cold
days come, what's
a mummy to do?
Find a coat that fits. Kinzie was happy to see her
brand new one getting used.
The next day was rainy, so head for cover...
Now, it was time for "the set up"
This is the DaddyMummy...
Then there is the MommyMummy...
and the elf hat for no reason.
Here is the old fashioned ipod for a distraction...
While the real Mommy takes over the Mummy...
I could only tell this was ME,
because of the reflection in the window behind me. (the
shorts I was wearing.)
Here
is the scene.
We all know what happened next...
An extra warm day in October
calls for
beach clothes...
The next day I felt inspired by the front page of the newspaper...
cops sneaking into a house.
My Grandma's house.
And, someone went to jail...
my cousin, haha.
I had a nameplate on the shirt, but for reasons specific to a peaceful Thanksgiving Day, I will leave it off for the blog. :)
The next day,
this was inspired by someone making
a very rude remark to me on a public domain,
Facebook...
The witch used to
have a nameplate on her cape that read:
HELLO
My Name Is
_ _ _ _ _.
(name left off to protect my innocence...)
lollollol!
I took it off for the blog picture for reasons already mentioned.
:)
(But it was FUNNY!!!!!)
Time for a birthday party...
This was inspired by my kids
always leaving their guitars on the floor!
Headhunter:
can you see the shrunken head on a stick?
I have won a LOT of costume contests with this one...
Pumpkin Heads:
The day of the first swim meet....
The day before
the day off of school
for the opening of the deer hunt!
Kinzie kept asking me
all month to make one look like the bus driver.
So, the last day (Halloween) was a tribute to CJ, the bus driver.
He always wears a hat like this one when he drives the bus.
The Grim Reaper
was for a preview for what was to come later that night.
Most kids walked by the grim reaper not thinking he was real till they touched him..... here is one such visitor...
This
is
any given
Saturday
when the
bus wasn't going
by...
I told you last year how we "owned" the trunk-or-treat.
Here it is again:
black-light glowed against the baby mummy
and the skeleton
and a pile of bones in the car.
A strand of lighted bones in there as well.
The cauldrons
added nice lighting for the
Indy Man
handing out candy out of an
Indiana Jones hat (from Disneyland).
So cuuute!
Are you itchy yet?
I have been for at least 2 MONTHS!!!!!
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
"I Can't Take That Snoring!"
Said my 5-yr-old about her 9-yr-old sister.
They share a room, and Kams is trying to talk me into letting her sleep in my room.
LOL
"I can't take that snoring."
Me: giggling, cause she says such maturish, cutesie things sometimes out of nowhere.
"No! Seriously, Mom! You need to get her some of dat snoring medicine dat I see on TV, dat is white and is shaped like a U........." voice goes up at the end, because she is not done trying to convince me that the medicine will cure her sister.
"It works, it really does!"
LOL
Monday, October 13, 2014
They called US!
The first time anyone in this "newly assigned ward" has called us about scout advancement.
Kort's new leaders scheduled him a Board of Review just for HIM.
That means he has now advanced the 2 badges he should have advanced 4 months ago if he had a leader that gave a dang and passed things off. (Certain things in this scout group cannot be passed off except for with the scout group. If the leader does not have the group do those things. No one in the group can advance. Which is the case with the certain leader I have complained about.)
They even told him all he needs is a leadership position to advance to star. Where were these guys a year ago.
(Oh, yeah. A year ago, we had a Bishop that did not give a dang about scouts. Several of us complained about the 11-yr-old scout leader several times, but no one cared and no one did anything about it. We have a new Bishop now. He cares about scouting.)
We have actually been in this ward for 3 years, so we're not really that new. We've been here long enough that SOMEONE should have been calling us to set up Boards of Review for Kort. I had to hunt down a day and time for his first one.
So, now he is a 1st Class scout on his way to Star.
Luckily, they finally have a 12-yr-old Scout Leader that cares about his calling. I hear it's been years since this ward has had one. (New Bishop, remember)
Kort even has a hike/campout 3 days after his birthday!!!!!!!
Kort's new leaders scheduled him a Board of Review just for HIM.
That means he has now advanced the 2 badges he should have advanced 4 months ago if he had a leader that gave a dang and passed things off. (Certain things in this scout group cannot be passed off except for with the scout group. If the leader does not have the group do those things. No one in the group can advance. Which is the case with the certain leader I have complained about.)
They even told him all he needs is a leadership position to advance to star. Where were these guys a year ago.
(Oh, yeah. A year ago, we had a Bishop that did not give a dang about scouts. Several of us complained about the 11-yr-old scout leader several times, but no one cared and no one did anything about it. We have a new Bishop now. He cares about scouting.)
We have actually been in this ward for 3 years, so we're not really that new. We've been here long enough that SOMEONE should have been calling us to set up Boards of Review for Kort. I had to hunt down a day and time for his first one.
So, now he is a 1st Class scout on his way to Star.
Luckily, they finally have a 12-yr-old Scout Leader that cares about his calling. I hear it's been years since this ward has had one. (New Bishop, remember)
Kort even has a hike/campout 3 days after his birthday!!!!!!!
Thursday, October 9, 2014
No pressure for No. 4
I have 3 sons who earned their Eagle Scout Award while they were 12.
My last son is 11. Can he do it, too?
No!
Scouts has been pretty pathetic in our newly assigned ward.
When he got into the New Scouts, the leader was not even holding scouts
.
The only two boys already in the group had football practice on the "ONLY" night the scout leader could hold scouts, so they took two months off from having scouts.
Then, when baseball season started in the spring, he took two months off to coach a Little League baseball team.
What the Freak? Right?
Not to mention all the other times he cancelled for one reason or another: sick, no assistant (without even calling my hubby to see if he could fill in after we had told him several times that he could), busy (without even calling my hubby to see if he could fill in), etc.
I was warned by another scout's mom that there would be campouts planned, and then the guy would just not show up. NO WAY! That's not possible.
But guess what? It happened exactly like that. He told the boys on a Tuesday to be at the church on Saturday morning. Then, they'd call him to see why he wasn't there. He forgot!
Pathetic! (He was in the calling for about 8 months with my son.)
The next leader was a father of one of the boys, (which is almost the only way to guarantee a good 11-yr-old leader). His first quote was that there would NOT BE ANY cancelled scouts meetings.
Then, he had to work the next 3 weeks on the night of scouts and had to cancel.
He did actually care about getting the boys' books up to date, and getting them to pass off certain things, but the guy had to work on the night of scouts a lot. He got released after just a couple of months, cause he just could not fit it in with his work schedule.
Now, we have probably the best guy in the ward doing this group of scouts. And the 2nd best guy is now the assistant.
What the Freak?!!!!!
My boy has only got 2 weeks left till he turns 12!
So, so, so, so, SO VERY FRUSTRATING!
All my boys were Stars by now.
My 11 yr old has not had a scoutmaster conference or board of review for even his 2nd class or his 1st class. He got his Tenderfoot (thanks to me) 10 months ago. (Just so you know, the next level after 1st class is Star, so my other boys were 4 MONTHS ahead of where this one is now.)
Just to put into perspective where my frustration level is: the scout leader from a year ago has a son that is just getting into this 11-yr-old scout program. His son will be benefitting from our ward's BEST LEADERS and getting what he refused to give to MY SON.
Hubby used to be over 11-yr-olds a few years back, and he regularly had several of his scout group clear to STAR before they turned 12. Like 8 of the 10 scouts were to a Star! It is really NOT HARD! All he has to do is just NOT CANCEL for 2 months at a time.
So, here we go. Kort has NO chance of getting his Eagle before he turns 13 like his brothers did.
I hate it when something important to me is just taken so flippantly by somone who has nothing at stake, like a son in the program to give him motivation.
It is just out of our hands, and it just ticks me off.
PS I spent several years busting my butt to help eveybody elses boys through scouts, and now it's my turn to receive the favor, and the "turn-abouts-fair-play" did not happen for me.
All Kort has left to get his Star is serve 4 months as a leadership position, and do some service projects. That is it. Well, besides to have a Board of Review for the other two advancements.
Pathetic.
My last son is 11. Can he do it, too?
No!
Scouts has been pretty pathetic in our newly assigned ward.
When he got into the New Scouts, the leader was not even holding scouts
.
The only two boys already in the group had football practice on the "ONLY" night the scout leader could hold scouts, so they took two months off from having scouts.
Then, when baseball season started in the spring, he took two months off to coach a Little League baseball team.
What the Freak? Right?
Not to mention all the other times he cancelled for one reason or another: sick, no assistant (without even calling my hubby to see if he could fill in after we had told him several times that he could), busy (without even calling my hubby to see if he could fill in), etc.
I was warned by another scout's mom that there would be campouts planned, and then the guy would just not show up. NO WAY! That's not possible.
But guess what? It happened exactly like that. He told the boys on a Tuesday to be at the church on Saturday morning. Then, they'd call him to see why he wasn't there. He forgot!
Pathetic! (He was in the calling for about 8 months with my son.)
The next leader was a father of one of the boys, (which is almost the only way to guarantee a good 11-yr-old leader). His first quote was that there would NOT BE ANY cancelled scouts meetings.
Then, he had to work the next 3 weeks on the night of scouts and had to cancel.
He did actually care about getting the boys' books up to date, and getting them to pass off certain things, but the guy had to work on the night of scouts a lot. He got released after just a couple of months, cause he just could not fit it in with his work schedule.
Now, we have probably the best guy in the ward doing this group of scouts. And the 2nd best guy is now the assistant.
What the Freak?!!!!!
My boy has only got 2 weeks left till he turns 12!
So, so, so, so, SO VERY FRUSTRATING!
All my boys were Stars by now.
My 11 yr old has not had a scoutmaster conference or board of review for even his 2nd class or his 1st class. He got his Tenderfoot (thanks to me) 10 months ago. (Just so you know, the next level after 1st class is Star, so my other boys were 4 MONTHS ahead of where this one is now.)
Just to put into perspective where my frustration level is: the scout leader from a year ago has a son that is just getting into this 11-yr-old scout program. His son will be benefitting from our ward's BEST LEADERS and getting what he refused to give to MY SON.
Hubby used to be over 11-yr-olds a few years back, and he regularly had several of his scout group clear to STAR before they turned 12. Like 8 of the 10 scouts were to a Star! It is really NOT HARD! All he has to do is just NOT CANCEL for 2 months at a time.
So, here we go. Kort has NO chance of getting his Eagle before he turns 13 like his brothers did.
I hate it when something important to me is just taken so flippantly by somone who has nothing at stake, like a son in the program to give him motivation.
It is just out of our hands, and it just ticks me off.
PS I spent several years busting my butt to help eveybody elses boys through scouts, and now it's my turn to receive the favor, and the "turn-abouts-fair-play" did not happen for me.
All Kort has left to get his Star is serve 4 months as a leadership position, and do some service projects. That is it. Well, besides to have a Board of Review for the other two advancements.
Pathetic.
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