Annie & The Cracker

Here's the video I tried to post yesterday. Annie always cocks her head when we say the word "go." Just so you know...we torment her a little with it. Just a little.

Mystery Photo Revealed

Sidewalk Chalk

Mystery Photo and a Giveaway

Here's a mystery photo!

AND, my friend Kat is hosting a giveaway on her blog

Sunshine and Lemonade,

so go check it out!

Fun With Annie - Camera Critters

Our sweet Annie loves to go swimming, and you can see the joy on her face.

And, here's a short clip (22 seconds) of me messin' with Annie, feeding her a cracker and getting her to cock her head at the word "go."

Feel free to join Sunday's Camera Critters meme with a picture of any critter you might find willing to model for you. hehe

The longest post in the day of my life.

Or did I mean the longest day in my life post? Or both? You be the judge. My day started off like this...


Yep, the big green monster (my ten year old Land Rover) has fallen apart on me again. If you want to read a much more entertaining story of my car troubles, read my previous post "I don't speak car." Anyway, yesterday's trouble began when I was in the car taking my boys to school. We only made it one block from our house.

Then I spent all day at my part time nanny job, where I spent eight hours taking care of these little adorable hooligans.

I get off work the same time the boys are finished with school for the day, so we had a brief hour to hurry home (or, have someone give us a ride home) where my mom had left HER car for me to drive temporarily. We then had to gather all the baseball gear in the bat bags and head out to baseball games.

Both boys had games last night. Remy's was first. Here he is in the outfield...I don't think this position is called "baseball ready." hehe I think his eyes need to be open and his glove out in front of his body...and in a ready crouched position...

Then he was up to bat. Here he is "on deck", practice swinging while he waits his turn. Good batter form. His right elbow is up, he's looking where he swinging and he has a good stance.

Now he's up at the plate..and this is NOT a good batter's stance. Elbow's down...and he's not looking at the pitcher!!
Despite that, he made it to first base. Whew. I can now breathe again and unbite my lips. Unbite, I'm not sure that's a real word...you get the point.
He makes it to second base...wait a minute, this is not good "baseball ready" form again!
Ok, there we go, much better. Good stance, he's alert and ready to run home.
The next batter hits the ball, CRACK, and Remy's off....running to home base. He'd kill me if he knew I shared this photo. His facial expression is priceless...

And, yes, he made it home!! SCORE, Remy!! My picture of this was too blurry, so can't share. Then, we all piled back in the car and headed to a different baseball field for my older son's game. Remy's games are a quick affair...less than an hour long. Donny's on the other hand are an hour and forty-five minutes long! So, while I'm really into them, and really enjoying them...I sometimes get distracted by the sky...and it was just about sunset and I saw some really amazing clouds. Lots of whispy things going on...
Then the sun started going down (ok, wrong terminology, I know, the Earth rotates, so the sun doesn't really go down...we're moving away from the sun, but you know what I mean)...and the clouds look darker. Very moody looking.
See, there's the sun going down...moving away...shoot, we're the ones moving away, it doesn't move at all.
Then, wowser, some pretty soft colors show up! I don't know how that happens...well, ok, scientifically I learned how, but it's still amazingly pretty...

and then bam...the magic really happens. Look at that dramitic lighting! As you can see from the power lines or telephone lines, I'm kind of far away...

So, here's a close up....wow, huh?! AMAZING lighting. I'm loving it (and watching Donny's baseball game, of course, how could you imagine otherwise?!)
It was a close game, but our team won! It was super exciting. They're getting really good at this age, lots of double and triple plays, amazing team work. Really fun games, despite all my cloud pictures, I promise!! And, here's Donny right after the game for the team pow-wow. He's flushed, he tired, he's exhilerated, ,all at the same time.
And, then we make it home and the little munchkin, who played nonstop on a playscape with other kids during his older brother's game, crashed in my bed...with sweet Annie!


Adorable, aren't they?

And, please, voting is still going on through the end of today (Saturday), so if you have time (and more than one computer to vote from!) stop by Darcy's blog Graphically Designing and vote for me!! It's super easy, takes less than 30 seconds! And, you should check out her work. She has designed some awesome websites, and I'd love for her to do mine!

Graphically Designing Giveaway

I have some ideas about a new look for my website, and I need Darcy's amazing designing skills to help me implement them. So, if you have a chance and are so inclined, please, please, please stop by her website, Graphically Designing, and vote for me!

I've been noticing her work for a while. My friend Kat's blog Sunshine and Lemonade was done by Darcy...as was Susan's Short on Words and Valarie's Valarie Lea from Tennessee. I am super impressed with her work! It's so eye-catching, creative and fun. I wanna a blog like that!!!

A Testoserone Battle in the Great Texas Peepee Wars

Some great wars in history have been started over beautiful women, such as the infamous Helen of Troy.

Other wars have become great epics on the big screen, a battle of good versus evil.

Then there are the age-old battles, such as cats and dogs...

Well, the battle in my house has NOTHING to do with any of the above. It's a simple battle between father and son...started by testosterone.

When hubby awakes this morning and ambles into the kitchen to start his morning coffee...he isn't going to be able to find his coffee maker...but will instead find this lovely little note...

I'll be back later with an update.

AND, don't forget to head over to Darcy's Graphically Designing website to vote for me, if you have a chance! I want to win her blog make-over!