Just like daddy!

Decovin is just like Daddy (can you see Bob in the background?):




Decovin watched Bob intensely and then he would mimic him using his "bubble mower" that g'ma and pappy plummer got him. It was SOOOO cute!

Decovin trys to dress just like daddy too:

So I have been looking all over KC for a gently used Little Tikes playgroundish thing at garage sales and on Craigslist.com and was having NO luck. So yesterday, we met mom & dad in the city for lunch...dad's outage at the power plant is finally over...and then we headed to Toys R Us...we found one that was in our price range and tried to get it in our trunk...well, it would have worked but it would have been a long drive home and a little nerve racking...so dad offered to put it in their mini-van and drive it to us...they unloaded it and stayed long enough for a piece of diet-pop cake and then they were off...dad still had some mowing to do before dark.

Bob started mowing and I attempted to start putting together the playground thing...well, it said you needed two people and they weren't kidding...so bob stopped long enough to help put the rest of it together and then Decovin got to play on his new toy! Check it out:

What's up?

I have noticed we are all "slacking" in the blogging department, ok, so maybe just a few of us are slacking...*ahem* Amanda! LOL! j/k! I know you are pretending to be a teacher now, but ftl! Fill us in on the mishaps of school life from the teacher's perspective! There HAVE to be stories there! *wink*

Nothing new here, had a Pampered Chef party last weekend, it went really well, if anyone wants to order anything, let me know before Wednesday!

New video of D for ya...I'm sure you will all enjoy it, if you haven't already seen it!


Good times!

Love to everyone!

Scrappy!

My weekend was fun-filled! Friday afternoon, Mandy arrived and we decided we wanted grilled salmon and asparagus...I had the salmon, but not the asparagus...so we headed to WalMart in the rain to get the remaining ingredients we needed and decided it was not that big of a deal to grill in the rain.

We got back and started preparing our dinner...marinating the salmon and asparagus in EVOO, garlic & onions....YUM-O! Then Mandy made a homemade vinaigrette (sp?) which was delicious on our spinach greens, strawberries, onions, & avocados! :-)

I continued to grill in the pouring rain and just as I finished and turned off the grill...it started to SNOW!! BIG, FAT flakes of snow that were SUPER wet and slushy! It must have gotten at least an inch or two but melted completely by the next afternoon...

Saturday morning we left Warrensburg around 10ish to head to Blue Springs for a Scrap-athon with some of Judy's friends from church. It was lots of fun and I got 3 more layouts done! I am almost done with Decovin's first year! LOL!

Sunday was a lazy day...Bob got up with Decovin and I slept until 10am!!! I must have been TIRED!!! I NEVER sleep that late! Then we got ready and headed to Wal-Mart so Bob could spend the rest of his Christmas money on a basketball goal. He spent the rest of the day putting that together and I started to get things ready for my sister-in-law's garage sale...and ended up playing two rounds of H-O-R-S-E where I won the first game and Bob won the second game. All the while Decovin was playing "Ready-Set-Doh!"...His version of "go" with a tennis ball. :-) It is really cute.

Oh and I noticed today while tickling D that he has a molar tooth coming in...I saw and felt it...I guess he is skipping the "fang" teeth for now...haha!

There's a gloom about...

So today I attended one of my high school class-mates' funeral. The weirdest thing is, this will be our 10 year reunion this year and at our 5 year reunion we mourned the loss of another classmate. Both were killed in freak accidents. I hope this doesn't become a trend. So today was a "mini" reunion for all the wrong reasons. :-( It was nice to see some of my friends from the past.

I hate death though, when someone I know passes on, I tend to obsess about it for a few weeks...I will have random dreams about it, them, or me...and they aren't pretty usually. It especially freaks me out when people I know that are MY age die. That just makes it more real and scary...because you never know...I try to stay positive and not worry about tomorrow, but it is scary, the unknown, the "ever after", the one thing science can't explain to give details about.

Anyway...it was a sad day and I felt really bad for his family. He really was a nice guy...the one from high school that didn't care if he was "cool" or not...reputation didn't matter to him. So R.I.P. Jacob Neal...i'm sure you will be missed.


(P.S. Sorry about the depressing post)

Repeat Offender...

So apparently the babysitter left some fun stories out of her evening with Decovin, Katrina & McKendra...



I guess right after we all left to go to the B-day party, the babysitter said that McKendra started to fuss, so she was trying to comfort her when she hears "splash, splash, splash"...she investigates and finds Decovin is toilet dunking again! I guess he has a thing for water, he doesn't care where it's located! So she puts McKendra in the crib while she washed up Decovin and then Katrina comes barreling in the bathroom stating she has to go! Well the babysitter has to help her up on the toilet...while she is doing this...she hears: "cling, clank, clank, cling"...after Katrina is finished she find Decovin in the room where the crib is with McKendra in it and he is taking his bottle of milk and dragging it across the rungs jail cell style! Oh MY WORD! My son is a handful...haha! Had to share.


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So we finally bought a GRILL! YES! Check it out:

This baby runs on gas! Oh yeah! LOL!

Isn't it pretty?! I just HAD to use it last night too...so I marinated some chicken tenders and some hamburgers and they were DELICIOUS! YUM-O! Weather permitting, I will be back out there again tonight grilling up some steaks! YES! :-)

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Here is a fun video for you...Great Aunt Ruthie taught him this trick! :-)