And You Thought Your Kids Were Cute…
By Robyn | July 23, 2008
Here’s my baby!!
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Birthday & The Man!!
By Robyn | July 22, 2008
This Friday is my husband’s birthday. I know, I’ve talked about it incessantly over at my cake blog…but the bad thing is, his 9 day vacation period ends tomorrow and he is back at work on Thursday. So tomorrow is our big family day to show the man that we think he’s the best!
Nothing about this birthday is easy! You all know he’s a professional Chef, who likes gourmet food, hates cheese and works way too many hours. The kids and I are going to pick up his gift on Thursday while he’s at work, and then give it to him before work on Friday. The cake will come at the end of the day when he gets home–and voila…Happy Birthday Sweetheart! So tomorrow it is up to us to do something fun.
Now if it were my birthday, I would easily be swayed by these fabulous little Macaroons! I love normal macaroons–but throw in the cute colors and fillings and I’m game! But my man is a little harder. Did I mention he doesn’t like chocolate?? Well, except for Brownies…he’ll eat a pan of those on his own. So maybe the “Brownie Sampler” will do for him. I’ll let you know how it goes!
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WORST MOVIE EVER!!
By Robyn | July 22, 2008
What a horrendous waste of money!! I have to say, we were looking forward to this one. My kids even wandered the house flashing their best Wall-E imitation voices. From minute ONE—-we get more and more Global Warming NONSENSE stuffed down our throat! From the first scene, humans are the fat, selfish villains who have destroyed the world. PUH—LEASE!!! I am writing this post in red because it is the opposite of green. I am NOT green! I do NOT recycle! During “Earth Hour” when everyone turned all of their electricaI items off—I turned all of mine on, and turned the car on in the driveway with the air conditioner on! OK, so maybe I didn’t go that far…but that is how hugely I am AGAINST everything that the whole Global Warming community hold so dear! In fact, I’m probably the poster child for “Anti-Green”!!
That said…I love this Earth. I am thankful everyday for the amazing creation that it is. I also know that this earth has survived for thousands of years. Meteor showers that can kill off civilization. Ice Ages. Volcano eruptions (including a vocano that hasn’t stopped erupting 1 day of my life). But now you are going to tell me that this earth will be destroyed because I refused to stick my hand in the toilet to clean my child’s cloth diaper and instead dressed all four of them in disposable? Are you freaking kidding me? I throw out my Diet Coke cans instead of recycling them! If the bagger at the grocery store tries to give me ‘paper instead of plastic’…I correct him—how in the heck am I supposed to handle four kids and non-handled paper bags…thank you…NO! I was once asked “Why not recycle, just in case the wacko’s are right”? To which I heartily answered as I tossed my soup cans (unwashed) into my garbage can…”Because if you give these idiots an inch, they’ll take away everything!”
So, about Wall-E…I’m going to continue to shop at Costco…I’m going to continue to pay monthly for satellite TV! And I will continue to tell my children to smile on Earth Day while their teachers try to load their heads with mind numbing BUNK…and to just let the info slide out the other ear! There isn’t a human being on this earth who could do more damage to it than Mother Nature…and if she hasn’t managed to end civilization, my aerosol hair spray isn’t going to do the trick!
Here is one very SMART man’s take on all of this crap! Amen, brother!
***As anyone who knows George Carlin should know…this clip is NOT for children, or the faint of heart!!
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This Is For Grams!!
By Robyn | July 17, 2008
A moment to “sell” the FLIP camera…I have to say–I filmed 4 different videos and then uploaded them on my computer. The FLIP programming took the four little Wii segments, merged them into one video, and then added background music–all by itself! It’s amazing! That said…If you aren’t grandma…this video will be too long for you!
This is Barrett boxing Jake on the Wii. I had to capture it because when Barrett wins he jumps and cheers and dances, but when he gets knocked out he collapses face down on the couch. In the video, he just leaves the screen for a bit—but once his guy gets back up, he suddenly reappears and continues boxing. I’m not sure if I shouldn’t have called this “Manic/Depressive Barrett”!!
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Vacation Begins!!
By Robyn | July 17, 2008
Tomorrow is my husbands first day of vacation. He has a week off now and then a week off later in August. We had many ideas for this time off. A trip to the East Coast, Cooperstown, Mackinaw Island…just somewhere fun to head with the kids. We were supposed to head to Biker Week in Sturgis, ND and then head down to see Mt. Rushmore, but I’m kind of glad that one isn’t going to happen.
For this first week we will be sticking around town. Tomorrow we are going to the Monster Truck race at the County Fair. Friday I would like to hit the double decker tour bus (like on The Break Up). Over the weekend we will be heading to a vacation home in Lake Geneva, I’m mostly excited about tooling around town in a golf cart…they are my favorite things EVER!
For the second week next month we will be heading north to Jellystone–I actually wish that one was this week as my 5 year old speaks of nothing else! It would be nice to nip that one in the bud!!
What are your plans???
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