Equal Time

Edgar found out that Clawdia was on the blog so he demanded equal time. Here's Edgar..............

Ice Cubes in the Drinking Water

This is our cat Clawdia - she can't figure out what ice cubes are. She did this until they melted, making it even more confusing. Stupid cat.

Kyle Graduates!!

Kyle Graduated Sixth Grade!

He's off to JUNIOR HIGH!

Congratulations Son, we're proud of you!

Get Well Soon Vicki!!

Our Sweet and Dear Friend Vicki has had a heart attack. She is scheduled for surgery tomorrow. Please keep her in your hearts and prayers as there is no sweeter, gentle, caring soul on this earth as her. We love you Vicki!

The BB Gun

The patch on Kyle's eye after being hit in the eye with a BB gun.

Kyle's Sidewalk/Driveway Art

Kyle's Chalk Drawing on the Driveway.

Some of my favorite things in random order

Kyle giggling
Warren dancing when there is no music
Edgar
My sisters
Chocolate milkshakes
Judy making that cat noise - when a cat sees a bird outside
White roses
Bras that fit
The bacon at Cracker Barrell
Caesars
Good hair days
Tom collins with Tanqueray gin
My Harvard hoodie
The New Adventures of Old Christine

KT Found

Phew!

KT Call Home

We are looking for our friend Katherine "Kate" Tomlinson ("KT"). She was last seen in Regina, Saskatchewan and at the time of this writing she has been missing for one week. Regina Police found her daytimer in a hotel room. Katherine Tomlinson - if you see your name here - or if you have heard from her please, please call your friends or your sister in Ottawa.

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Congrats to Mark!

Warren's best friend, Mark, just won $20,000 in the lottery. Congratulations Mark, go do something nice for yourself!

The Joys of Renting

So we rent our townhome. Kyle has lots of friends, is close to the school and we know all our neighbors. Never had any intention of moving until we could find the house with the pool. Every month we send our big ole rent check to our landlord so he has it by the 1st. Imagine our surprise when, this week, we got notice that the townhome is going into foreclosure. Mr. Landlord took our rent money and, well..didn't pay the mortage with it we know that for sure. No word from the bank yet on when we have to bounce. There's another one across the way that we may move into so it doesn't distrupt Kyle's life (again). Poor kid has moved too much.
Universal message to landlords - let your tenants know if there is a possibility of the Sheriff bolting the doors closed. Thank you.

Check it Out

Because you should check this out

Eye Update

Kyle's eye is back to normal. After sleeping at 60 degrees, wearing a metal patch for most of spring break - he can see out of it and it's clear and looks fine. We were truly blessed.

Mama's are always right... it's all fun til someone loses an eye.

BB Guns!

This is a BB gun. NO CHILD should OWN A BB gun.

On Wednesday, my child Kyle was shot in the left eye by one of his friends with a BB gun. Only by the grace of God did he not lose his eye, he was lucky - many children are not. There is never a need to arm your child with a BB gun or Air Gun. This friend's mother told me "he is never allowed to use his BB guns (yes gunS) without me around." When my son was hit, she was at work.

BB Guns are NOT good toys for children.

Things That Happen After 4:20?

Okay, so this woman in Annapolis, MD claimed to the police that she was sexually assaulted. Police suspected that "something was wrong with her story" and that the claim was unfounded. But - when they were interviewing her they saw that pieces of fudge kept spilling out of her pockets. Police head over to "Uncle Bob's Fudge Kitchen" and found the door open and shelves ransacked. Apparently while stealing the fudge, she'd take a bite and if she didn't like it she'd throw it on the floor, if she did like it she shoved it in her pockets. She ended up going into the bathroom of the police station and tried to flush a bunch of the stolen fudge down the toilet - which resulted in clogging it.

Fudge.... yepper...fudge...

August!

I know - LONG LONG TIME!! But let's move on...

Freaky things in Florida I tell you. I think that strange people (not including us of course) move to Freakville because they think they should. Check out this story:
http://www.news4jax.com/news/13812785/detail.html - toads and lizards and parakeets, oh my. Now how does that scenario even come up in a conversation? "Let's go honey, grab a lizard first".
16 days until school is back in - but who's counting...

I'll be back.

I'm Baaaaack

Sooo long since my last post! My apologizes - hope I didn't lose you. Things have been so hectic here it's been hard to take a breath. We are having beautiful Florida weather right now (sorry to all y'all that have SNOW). Yesterday we spent the day at the beach for the first time since we moved here. What a nice beach! We had a great time, saw some beach volleyball teams that were on tour and now suffering from extreme sunburn. Yep, sunburn in April!

This week Kyle stars as the lead in his school play "The Emperor's New Clothes" - showing Thursday and Friday night this week. I'll try to take lots of pictures. Reality hit of the work he has put into it when I dropped in to Wynn Dixie earlier today and saw a big poster for the play on the front window of the store. Guess we need to really rehearse some lines this week! Kyle is the "king" and we ordered him a super cute king costume on line. Hey - where does one shop for a "COSTUME" when it's not Halloween - why on line of course!

Well have a good week! Watch for "play photos" soon!
xoxo

Don't Drop the Soap!

NORTHWEST FLORIDA BUSINESSMAN SENTENCED TOFOUR YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR TAX FRAUD

Pensacola, Florida - Gregory R. Miller, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced that Roy P. Snowden was sentenced today on conviction for five counts of Evasion of Payment of Income Taxes and one count of Conspiracy to Defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Snowden admitted during his November 2006 plea hearing that he was a businessman engaged in a variety of marketing and investment-type ventures, including a magazine distribution business. He had most recently been manufacturing and selling “Java Jo’z” drive-thru coffee businesses. The indictment and factual basis for pleas further proved that his wife was named president and director of the Ft. Walton Beach business, though the indictment alleges she had little to do with its operation.
Snowden admitted that he failed to file accurate and timely income tax returns from 1992 through 1997, and was subsequently assessed taxes by the IRS. After the tax assessment, Snowden admitted he transferred businesses and placed assets in others’ names, and created corporate entities which he used in part to transfer and hold money and property out of the reach of the IRS.
Senior United States District Judge Lacey A. Collier sentenced Snowden to 48 months (four years) imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and to pay a special monetary assessment of $100 per count of conviction. Judge Collier further ordered Snowden to pay $1.16 million restitution to the IRS. To date, Snowden has already paid over $900,000 of that restitution to the IRS.
The investigation was conducted by IRS Criminal Investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Heldmyer.

Our Bennegan's Experience

So very rarely do we ever go out for dinner on a Saturday night but we made this "family date" to go out tonight. We decided on Bennigan's, which is close the house. We arrived at 6:45 p.m. and waited 20 minutes, even though we could see empty tables in there. After being seated the gal we thought that might be our waitress unfortunately had that disease where she couldn't see new people at one of her tables looking at menus. We finally after another 15 minutes or so flag down this waiter and he says "oh, you're not my table I'll tell your girl". It was the girl with the eye disease that somehow couldn't see us! So I order a glass of red wine, W a cocktail, and K orders a rootbeer float. Oops, sorry, there's no rootbeer - even though it's on the menu. He gets the "Pepsi float" which consisted of a Pepsi with a blob of ice cream steaming down the glass. Get this, our appetizer platter arrived BEFORE our drinks. That's right, 20 minutes later she brings me a glass of wine in a brandy snifter! And there was about as much wine in there as if it were brandy in there. I said "this isn't a full glass of wine" - but waited that long and needed a drink by now! Why no wine glass you ask? They were "dirty"! ::what?:::(By the way, when my next one came in a wine glass I poured it into the snifter to see the level, I was served a 1/4 of a glass of wine. Then the meal. Since K ordered mini burgers and we ordered this huge appetizer platter we decided to share the steak and shrimp platter. It comes with a baked potato but we substituted french fries since we were sharing. The expeditor throws it on our table. A plate, with a steak and some shrimp. No potato, no fries, no steak knife, no extra plate.. just this lonely platter. Waitress finally meanders by and says "oh, no steak knifes. Comes back, sorry they are dirty too, no steak knives. How about some A-1 W asks.. she comes back, sorry we're out of A-1. She gives us the bill as says we took 10% off because of the A-1. BECAUSE OF THE A-1!?! They deducted $3.25 from our bill! The manager authorizes this HUGE discount but never looks us in the eye as she passes our table a kajillion times. As we are getting up to leave some guy is yelling at the waitress out loud about how they are staying and how bad it was and what a bitch the manager was. We just kept nodding and telling people waiting - while our section was near empty.. run while you can..run.. Bad Bennegans..never again!

Update: Bennagans called us then sent us a gift certificate for $40. Todate: still unused.