Cooking lessons from my BFF

Put meat in pan, mildly break up, put heat on.

Get in conversation with best friend for approx one hour.

Smell burning and enter smoke filled kitchen.

Suffer mild smoke inhalation while opening windows in 20 degree weather.

Go to McDonalds.
Dinners served.

Thanks friend for letting me witness via the phone, looks like I'm off to a good start.

Saturday self-photos

Aunt Sissa's homecoming

My sister looked gorgeous all dolled up to go to homecoming. I told my dad he better have his gun ready to fend off them boys!

Observations of the Zac Brown Band concert aka the best concert eva

It's crazy late for this old timer at heart but adrenaline has me wired and I don't want to forget a detail of this awesome concert.

First Levi Lowrey is a new fav and will be promptly downloaded and synced to the iPod for a Sunday country cruise. Two guys playing guitars and singing easy going music yet soulful music love.

Blackberry Smoke - singer reminds me of what Tom Petty - my all time fav looked like at a young age, and even sounded like him too. Great opening act and phenomenal guitarist.

I died a little when Blackberry Smoke ended and while setting up for ZBB they played all Tom Petty! It was like it was meant to be.

And for the guests of honor. Oh em Gee. I'm in love with ZBB even more than I ever was before.

Their songs, we love obviously but their covers were amazing. The best being Enter Sandman by Metallica - um these guys know how to rock. A fiddle solo in place of a major guitar riff, never have i ever seen such a thing. Amazing. They also did an acoustic portion that I was majorly fond of.

My only wee bit of disappointment was that some of my favorite songs weren't played, but that's to be expected as my favs aren't the popular ones. Not everyone listens to the CDs song by song like we do. We were just sure that Quiet Your Mind would play. :( Sick em on a Chicken would've been fun. But hey, they more than made up for it with a terrific show, I suppose I forgive them.

I can't wait to see them again and I definitely foresee us taking Wy & Em in a couple years as they are born and raised ZBB fans.

Please come back to Peoria again soon!! Thanks Zac Brown Band!

Clobbering the kitty and big wheels

55 degrees! The kids finally got to ride their big wheels that they got for christmas! They've been literally dying to.

I decided they could ride up to the PO box to get the mail. It was ::such a good idea:: as Emmersyn can't quite reach the peddles so I got to push her 98% of the way!

Anywho, there's a cat with a half a tail that lives up there. The two bars up town feed her as well as the passerby and she is so fat! Emmersyn sees this cat and has a serious case tunnel vision. So much so that she falls all over herself getting out of the vehicle or off her bike. She grabs her face and hugs, squeezes, and smushes this kitty. She meows and talks to her too.


It's totally darling and when she asks me to take her home I have a lot of guilt. But a) our dog would likely eat her and b) I NOT a cat person, probably won't ever be. We used to have cats that Adam used to let outside to play. At the time there was a cat pandemic in our town, strays everywhere. Lo and behold the drug in fleas. My worst nightmare - ever. Not only did I feel like a dirty person but Wyatt and I (before Em was born) essentially moved out until it was under control. I know they are not life threatening but every time one would land on Wyatt I went a little cray cray. LOL

We make lots of visits to our towns cat so she can have her kitty fix but sorry girl, you're gonna have to live in your own for you get one! ;)

Observations by a 3 year old

If you know my dad you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

Randomly while snuggling on the couch Emmersyn says: Grandpa do this.

He gnaws on his tounge while concentrating and got a big kick out of this. Though he says he doesn't do it...denial :)

Kids are very observant

Fresh air!

We got out of our stagnant house today and enjoyed the unseasonal 48 degree day today after work!

We attempted a geocache unsuccessfully but we didn't even care - being outside was good enough for us!

The kids were caked in mud from head to toe and had a blast sliding down a dirt mound! We miss warm days, it was good to see them get a little dirty for a change!