All the signs point to....

So what does this mean?

I place my oatmeal in the microwave and cook it for 90 seconds. I pull it out of the microwave and place it on the stove. It is really hot. I reach for an apple on the counter and see a fly swoop down and land on the oatmeal...... and instantly die.

Eat Your Veggies!!

The setting: Gavin, Max, and myself are sitting at the kitchen table eating supper. I have made a meal of barbecue beef ribs with a tangy, brushed-on, sauce. I also cooked some broccoli with a cheese sauce. The ribs took me 3 hours to make. I first boiled the ribs for 2 hours and placed them on the grill. I combined several ingredients to make the sauce and cooked it for 10 minutes on the stove before brushing it onto the ribs and grilling it.

Gavin: What is this?
Me: Barbecue ribs
Gavin: What animal does it come from?
Me: Cow
Gavin: What part of the cow?
Me: The back
Gavin: Why the back?
Me: I don't know
Gavin: How did the farmer get it off of the cows back?
Me: He had to kill the cow first.
Gavin: Do farmers have guns?
Me: Some do, but the farmer doesn't shoot the cows.
Gavin: So how did the farmer kill the cow?
Me: *sigh* he probably cut the cows neck.
Gavin: What does the cow do before his neck gets cut?
Me: What?
Gavin: The farmer goes "walk, walk, walk, walk, walk," and then cuts the cows neck. What did the cow do before it got its neck cut?
Me: Oh. Probably nothing. The cow probably didn't know that was going to happen.
Gavin: *pause*
Gavin: I want to be a farmer when I grow up. Except I just want to grow broccoli.
Me: Good idea.

I think tomorrow we will have vegetable soup.

(Of course Max only at the broccoli)

This man is an idiot.

The man in this picture should have an idiot tattoo on his forehead. Unfortunately I couldn't get my camera out fast enough to get a pic so this will have to do. This man was smoking his cigarette while pumping gasoline. Beware of him while pulling up to the pumps at WalMart in Altoona. He might be your grim reaper!!!!!

Bend it like Beckham

Gavin has found his niche in the soccer community. He LOVES it and even when he is standing on the sidelines he is running and kicking and bouncing around.

Only Max....

Only Max could get himself into this predicament.

Monkey see

Max tried to copy Gavin's finger sucking habit.

110 Trombones lead the big parade...

Pleasant Hill had a big parade going on over Labor Day Weekend. The kids managed to fill their sacks up with lots of candy. There was an incedent, though, that happened in front of us that was scary. A pickup truck pulling a flatbed trailer with people on it, stopped abruptly. One older woman was sitting in a chair on the trailer and the when the truck stopped she kept going and she fell off the flatbead truck hit her head/neck/shoulders on the pavement. Dad called 911 and the ambulance and other emergency crew had to come and take her to the hospital. I hope she is okay.

Shelley's Wedding

The boys got there groove on at Shelley's wedding reception. Yes, even Ron was out there dancing. (I know....hard to believe.)

There's a storm-a brewin...

This is from a few weeks ago, but I thought it looked neat. We didn't actually get any rain from it. The storm went to the North of us.