When we were at the circus last Thursday, they took a twenty minute intermission to set up the tiger cage, and a lot of people filed out to use the bathroom, get snacks, and what not. Elijah and I stayed put and I was leaning over, talking to him, my head sort of down. Leaning towards my left, towards the direction the people were coming from. From out of the corner of my eye, I see one of Steve’s first cousins.
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It’s storming outside. God’s gotta have a reason for all this rain, but heck if I know what it is. The front yard is already a mess and I’m sure the basement won’t be far behind. It “helps” when the ground’s already soaked and everyone’s gutters are overflowing. Neighbor Lady’s stuff is overflowing and will lead to eventual flooding of my basement, the guy on the other side has a lake for a front yard and the drainage ditch appears to be clogged, there might be standing water over the road. I’ve unplugged the computers but have chanced the gateway’s life on the superficial reasoning that there’s nothing else to do right now. So maybe I’ll take this time to upgrade WordPress here in a little bit.
It’s been over a week ago now, but the Saturday before Easter, I went with my sister and soon-to-be brother-in-law to the Jewel Box and Botanical Gardens in St. Louis to take some engagement photos for them. It’s only early spring, though, so the plants and flowers aren’t in full bloom outside, but inside, things are gorgeous. Here are some of my favorite shots.
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While I was gone this weekend, even though it wasn’t but for 28 hours, it seems my boys had a lot of fun together, and I missed out. First, they were completely unable to cook for themselves and I came home to the dishes all where I left them - all clean, except for a handful still in the sink - and some clues as to what they did eat… McDonald’s, Huddle House, Chinese… Craziness.
They also went fishing Saturday. It surprises me when Steve does something like that with Elijah because, as we all know, Elijah can be quite a handful and the thought of that kid with hooks and fishing knives (and whatever else is used to go fishing with) should strike terror into the heart of any adult. But not only did they go but Elijah was the only of the two of them to catch anything. He caught a good sized blue gill, Steve say about four to six inches in length.
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Remember that baby gun? Well it wasn’t the same one, but today when Steve showed up at my in-laws’ where Elijah and I already were, E asked him if he could shoot the gun. So Steve got out the BB gun and the two of them took a few shots at a soda can. Of course, it doesn’t take Elijah too long to lose interest, however, so they weren’t at it too long. But they had fun. :)
Continue reading ‘Baby Gun, Revisited’
We got some more snow on Thursday, the second snowfall of this winter season. I think we got something like 6 inches. Either way, it was enough that Steve was off work on Friday. He could have gotten to work just fine, but none of the other guys wanted to go in so they just called it off! Of course, the last two weeks have been awesome for work because he’s only been 25 minutes from home instead of 80 miles away. He’s been home earlier, gotten to leave later, and has only bought gas once a week for his truck as opposed to three times.
So, anyway, yesterday we took E out to Steve’s parents to play again. I just prefer to do that, he can actually sled somewhat and there’s so much more room and no nosy neighbors that might be nearby. So he had two rounds of fun in the freezing cold and was mad later when it was getting dark that he couldn’t go out again.
Today when we went out it was afternoon but I had noticed earlier in the morning that it was already warm. Most of the snow had melted but there was still about 3 inches covering the ground, getting icy and slushy. So we played around and made Daddy mad by throwing snowballs at him. In his defense, some of them were pretty rough, being almost fully ice by the time I was done with them. He was mad that I hit him in the butt and got his wallet wet and he finally retaliated and as I stepped backwards, I went right over this foot and a half tall snowball he had made for Elijah to make a snowman. (Of course, we had that and then a foot sized snowball and Elijah had put a two inch head on the thing and then promptly knocked the middle ball off. I said, “Ah! You killed him!” Elijah got all evil and was all, “die snowman, die, muahahaha.” Kinda creepy like. :P) So then I’m soaked, of course, but laying there laughing in the snow.
What really killed me, however, was what is pictured to the left there. Steve loaded up some wood in the wagon to take inside for the wood stove and Elijah was “helping” him, supposed to have been pushing the wagon. What was he really doing? He had one hand on the wagon and the other had a little thin stick from the globe willow tree. He kept snapping it on the wood and making the sounds of a cracking whip. Well, we thought it was funny anyway. Especially because before he started making the noises, Steve said something like it would be funnier if he knew what he was doing. Then he made the noise and we both lost it - he did know what he was doing! Giddy-up, Daddy!
Merry Christmas, everyone, I hope your day is a good one!
It is Christmas Day, the day that we have been preparing for for the better part of a month and the day that has had all the children - especially mine - tied up in knots. Elijah is playing on the floor with the gifts from Steve and I that he opened this morning. It’s funny how it turned out, every one of them is from the Cars movie… five of the die-cast cars, two shake-up cars, and the Mater game (race to put him together before he blows his parts again). He’s having a ton of fun down there! I’m sure his sugar high will come to an end before long…
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Well we did get some snow, only about two inches here, but enough up a bit north of us that they canceled church services for last Sunday. So we went instead to my in-laws and let Elijah play in the snow. He had a blast and took two bouts with inside playtime between. Of course, he was quite upset when it was time to leave and threw his customary fit.
The thing about snow though, is that it makes even the ugly seem beautiful. It makes the winter more bearable for those of us who don’t like the cold so much - it’s so pretty and, of course, fun.
So anyone else out there get snow recently? Surprisingly, this was our first snow of the year. Usually we have a small one in late October or early November. I’m hard pressed to remember a time it waited until mid-to-late December to snow even a bit. Of course, now it’s the end of Tuesday and it’s almost already gone. It’s all muddy out there now. Sunday was the only day we got to play as I was too busy and E got into trouble yesterday and today, yeah, all muddy. I ended up having to run out of town, anyway, and sadly, not coming home with the most important things I’d had to head out for.
So, here’s a video, too, from the snow day. Enjoy :P
Actually, I’m not sure what the deal is but that video keeps lagging and jumping around - let me know if it does the same for you.
I feel like I never have anything to say anymore.
Today I spent pretty much all day up in the TV control room. I had to finish the funeral DVD because I told people they can start picking it up this weekend. Oops, I guess that was kind of a mistake because it took me three tries to get it right. The silly thing was too big for a DVD. Finally I had to cut a little more here and there and a whole song and most of the final song where everyone sang. It came out nice, though, at an hour and 24 minutes. Now I have to throw it up on the website for the family. Not a big deal, now, because I finally got the settings right to put out a hopefully decent quality video in small enough size to put it up without breaking it into pieces which I did NOT want to do.
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