Great day......

We took the boys to the park last Saturday because the weather was GORGEOUS!! T-bri joined us, We picked up some KFC on our way, and we had a great picnic. The boys played soccer with Eric and Bria. Aragorn is really pretty good at it, maybe we'll enroll him and see how he likes it. Rohan, had another sport in mind as he kept running and then falling onto the ball to grab it with his hands (I'm thinking we'll out him in football) the boys then ran over to the playground for some more fun. Rohan did the rock wall all by himself, he's a little monkey that one, but he must get that from Eric, because Eric climbed one too. As a typical Colorado spring day goes, the clouds rolled in around 3, and we packed up to go. But, on our way out we had to feed the ducks. I loved doing this with the boys, my mom used to take me to Washington Park when i was a kid, and i have great memories from it (except that 1 unfortunate time the goose got my finger) that kinda trauma sticks with you. It was a wonderful day, we all came home tired, sunkissed and happy. I hope that was just the start of a great spring and summer for all of us.

2 heads are better than one.....

Naughty, naughty

Ok yes, this was taken in church, and yes he's playing a video game, (he was in with the grown ups instead of the youth, had to keep him seated somehow) BUT i love the photo.

11 things you will NOT be taught in school

Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2 : The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: They called it opportunity. Rule 6 : If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room. Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. *This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. *Do that on your own time. Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Speak up & Be heard.......

I am a HUGE food network fan. I LOVE it, i will watch it even when i can't actually watch, i use it for background noise. I have learned a lot from different shows, by different chef's/cooks. On of my favorite chef's to watch was Ina Garten her show is called "The Barefoot Contessa". I never made anything off her show that i actually liked, BUT i liked her show, i liked how she seemed real, and yes, snotty, but she gave no excuse for it. She had worked her way up from the bottom, married young (and is still married) and i just liked her. That all changed last week when i came across this article. http://www.tmz.com/2011/03/24/ina-garten-barefoot-contessa-make-wish-child-cancer-leukemia-cooking-chef/ This article states that Ina Garten informed the make a wish foundation, that she was too busy to cook a meal with a boy that had requested to cook with her. He had asked her last year, and she turned him down. He accepted that, and asked again this year, but her team responded with a "definite no" ... once again, citing scheduling conflicts. This little boy had watched her with his mom while he received treatment for Leukemia. In my mind, this was UNACCEPTABLE. 1 time is to many, but twice back to back, is beyond comprehension. How could this women, someone that i had made special effort to watch, and loved be so cruel???? So i did what i do best, i took to posting. I posted to my Facebook page, and twitter, i sent her an e-mail, and i sent food network an e-mail basically telling them all, that she is a horrible person and should be boycotted. I didn't use foul language, or call her names, i simply stated a fact based on what has been communicated. I was AMAZED at the responses I have received. So far on every outlet i have posted i have gotten nothing but support and agreeing with me. Today i received 2 e-mails from complete strangers telling me that i am great for speaking out. And i just found out that the website POPEater posted my comment. You can check it out here. http://www.popeater.com/2011/03/31/ina-garten-make-a-wish/ Sometimes, when people do wrong, the pen is mightier than the sword. Ina, i hope you read everything that has been said. And i hope the next time someone asks you to do something, ANYTHING, you jump at the chance. Never forget that it's the "little people" that make what you do happen.

Glee ( Darren Criss ) Hey Soul Sister Preview

I love this video for what it brings back for me. If you watch the video at the 1:11 mark you'll see the girl in the audience tell her friend on stage to smile. This was always the biggest issue for me as a performer. Whether i was on stage performing, or modeling in front of the camera, my mom was constantly telling me to smile. It's not that i didn't want to smile.....I forgot how. You get so caught up in what your doing, trying to remember the next step, or the next line, you forget. When i saw this it made me miss being on stage. And having her in the audience. I hope the boys take on some sort of activity that requires them to be on stage, at least once, i want to be in the audience telling them to smile :-)

The big pull.........

Well i did it, i finally had 2 of my 4 wisdom teeth pulled on Friday, and let me tell you what, OUCH!!
They only did the 2 on my left side, i would have liked to have had all 4 done, but i guess they don't do that unless needed, so i had to settle for the 2. I was in a lot of pain Friday night, and into Saturday, but i followed the rules to a T (no smoking, no drinking through a straw, no solid foods) until, well, today actually. I wanted to avoid at ALL costs dry socket, because as i understand it, there is no worse pain. I did have some swelling in my face, but nothing major, in fact most people at church couldn't even tell until i said something. I am not looking forward to getting the other 2 pulled, but i know it has to happen. I do have to say though, this journey of getting my teeth all healthy again has been an eye opener for me. I will from now on take MUCH better care of my teeth, and i will make sure the boys (all of them) do too.

I did get a warm fuzzy though when the dentist told me she liked my smile, she said it was very pretty :-)