A Great Idea

Addie is infatuated with her friend Emma's princess car (Megan, not so much). Last night she had a great idea:

Addie: "Hey Dad, I have an idea. Well, Mom has a car and you have two cars (a truck and a motorcycle). How about you sell your motorcycle, and then you'll have a lot of money to buy me a princess car? Do you think that would be great?"

Needless to say, Dad didn't think that would be too great.

Pictures for Grandma

If you've got it...

...FLAUNT IT!

Megan loves dogs

Happy Earth Day!

I celebrated by burning 30,000 lbs of jet fuel on my way back from Yuma Arizona!

Pyro

After using the scythe to cut down our weeds, I decided to burn the small piles. I almost burned down Onslow County in the process.
Lessons learned:

#1. When the little voice in your head says, "put out the fire now", you probably should.

#2. Make sure your hose will reach your intended burn area.

#3. Life is hard; life is harder when you're stupid.

Sunday ride

Aric's scythe

I'm pretty happy with this new tool. You can see the area I'm working on with the scythe, and how our grass came in. It went from almost completely dead to pretty green in about a week.

Tragedy in the Peterson driveway!

WARNING, EXPLICIT PHOTO NOT SUITABLE FOR YOUNG CHILDREN !

Looks like we're down to just frog...oops.

It's a...

Girl!

Monday Night

Don't you just love it when Dad cooks dinner? Best part, no dishes (drinking mustard is a close second).

Happy Easter

A Sunday Drive

I'm not sure how she got in there, and I'm not sure how she got out. When they're both content I try not to ask too many questions.

Megan Update

Megan's latest and greatest include:
wearing mom's shoes
growling at Addie
talking on the phone "hi, hi, hi, hi, . . . "
hiding in the shower
running away at church
and refusing to eat peanut butter (that's pretty significant around here).

Today's Life Lesson:

Never a good idea to sleep on wet hair.

Addie - Future Bull Rider

Thanks for the Cookies!

When Esther posted that she had a new mixer, we just didn't believe her. We told her we needed some evidence in the form of baked goods. Esther took the bait and sent us a bunch of AMAZING chocolate chip cookies. THANK YOU!

Now Esther, I don't think you know how to wire money to account number 124 2345 23636. No way, I don't think you have it in you, especially large sums of cash, like oh, say $4500.00.

Fact Check

1. We are having a baby in July
2. We do not know the gender of the baby.
3. We will not be naming our baby Reagan or Ronald or Ronnie.

How would they look?

We heard the Manwarings wanted to name thier son "Truman"...that got us thinking...

We thought, I wonder what our kid would look like with the name we have chosen...

Don't worry, Aric's three day weekend is over.

Sunday Night

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FYI...

...we're having one of these in July. Have a nice night.

The Christmas Story Re-told

We decided to ask Adeline about the Christmas Story. We thought, she's recently been in heaven, maybe she'll give us some insights...

Q -So how did Mary and Joseph get to Bethlehem?

A - Eight tiny Reindeer.

Q - What part would you and Megan play in the Nativity?

A - I'll be Mary, Megan can be the donkey.

A Christmas Miracle

Adeline was the last child to get on Santa's lap, but she finally did it.

Megan isn't sure about Santa...

Really starting to get nervous...

Yep, she pretty much hates Santa.

Mike's Farm

There isn't much to do in the winter around here except sit and listen to artillery rounds go over your house. We did however find Mike's farm tonight. They took us on a hay ride behind a vintage tractor through a neat light display. They have a restaurant and a cool gift shop with fudge, mmmmm....fudge. One of our better FHEs.

She walks!

Megan can walk! Heaven help us.

After further review, the moron speaking during the filming of this event asks that all viewers please turn off their sound while viewing. "There you go, ahuh"..... what a schmuck.

Chocolate Monster's Birthday

Happy Birthday Megan the Chocolate Monster! She didn't care about the new set of blocks, but bring on the chocolate cake... and make it a double.

Semper Fidelis

This is a shout out to Justin H. Get some! Merry Christmas. Hope things are going well.

Three CRAZY elves!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1159795796

A couple of years ago when Sally and I were home for christmas, we caught these guys on tape. You have to see this.

Tree farm fun

Here is Addie (and Megan's legs) at the tree farm. We got a domesticated tree, not a wild forest tree like the Manwarings. Go Manwarings, choppin down the virgin forest.