Treadmill dudes...

I know this has been around for a while, but I'm in the mood for it again so I must post it!
Here It Goes Again by OK Go...Enjoy the dudes!
(pause my tunes to the left if you're going to watch this)

First off, you see gum on the street, leave it there. It isn't free candy.

Max is off to Reno, AGAIN, for another visit with his buddy, Taylor.

Woohoo! He even got to ride in a way-cool NBA plane!
Hey Shontell, I told him to wave to you guys after he passes through the seven levels of the Candy Cane forest and through the sea of Swirly Twirly Gum Drops, then lands on the runway.

He just looked at me like I was weird.

Why can't bad memories just fade away gracefully?

OMG, I just totally revisited our 2002 car accident all over again!
3:36 p.m., just 5 years, 9 days, 17 hours, and 54 minutes after OUR accident, I'm at the turn light on Sandhill, our lights are green, cars start heading through the intersection and a cab coming down Tropicana plows in to a little SUV, and rolls it into oncoming traffic and up on to the median. The SUV is totaled but, miraculously the 2 people in the vehicle are walking around. At least there wasn't a death, like in ours.

Why does this stuff happen to me? My same accident almost happened to me again about 6 months ago, AT THE SAME intersection as our first one, but going the opposite way, AND the car that ran the red light was was even white, just like the one we hit. What's with people and heading through red lights like they don't have to pay attention? Honestly, JUST like 2 months ago, I finally was able to start driving through the Trop/Eastern intersection without having a panic attack or bursting into tears and now this happens and totally rattles my trauma again!

I'm so sick to my stomach right now. Ugh.

And the clock starts ticking again...5 years, 9 days, 17 hours, 55 minutes...56 minutes...57 minutes

Meghan lost her first tooth AND got her ears pierced!

This girl is growing up wayyy to fast for me! She's the last of our "babies" and it's getting harder for me to deal with! She's turned in to a little girl over night. The last couple of months have been filled with learning to swim under water in the deep end, riding a bike with no training wheels, losing her first tooth, then the second one a couple days later, and NOW getting her ears pierced (she didn't even flinch). ACK! June has been a busy month! Thank God it's over!

My Tooth

My tooth fell out and left a space

So big my tongue can touch my face,

And every time I smile I show

The place where something used to grow.

I miss my tooth as you can guess,

But now I have to brush one less!

I'm a pirate!

Ooo, this is cool. The real pirate they're referring to, Calico Jack Rackham,

is our relative. Click on the link and find YOUR pirate name.

My pirate name is:

Black Jenny Rackham

Like anyone confronted with the harshness of robbery on the high seas, you can be pessimistic at times. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.part of the fidius.org network

The song has already been sung!

Cast yer vote for the Pirate King...

I saw this flag in the camp store at the beach and the pirate blood in me told me I HAD to get it. The only thing cooler would have been if it were the crossed swords like Jack Rackham's colours! We flew it each day on our easy-up...so cool! People didn't mess with us, Arrrrrrrrr!

Hoist The Colours

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Yo, ho, haul together,

hoist the colors high.

Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

The king and his men stole the queen from her bed

and bound her in her Bones.

The seas be ours and by the powers

where we will well roam.

Yo, ho, haul together

hoist the colors high.

Heave ho, thieves and beggars,

never say we die.

Some men have died and some are alive

and others sail on the sea–

with the keys to the cage...and the Devil to pay

we lay to Fiddler's Green!

The bell has been raised from it's watery grave...

Do you hear it's sepulchral tone

We are a call to all, pay head to the squall

and turn your sail toward home!

Yo, ho, haul together

hoist the colors high.

Heave ho, thieves and beggars

never say we die!
http://www.imperiuminferi.com/hoistthecolours.mp3

K...if you haven't camped at the beach, I TOTALLY recommend it. It's one of the BEST vacations ever! ('specially when great friends come along!) We're basically chill from sun up to sun set (except when we HAVE to make a run to Target or BEVMO!). The kids make "sand cities" for hours, surf, tube, dig, look for shells, or just chase each other up and down the beach .

So cool, and talk about relaxing.

It ROCKED!

Jon made it this year...woohoo!

Meg "turfing" as she calls it ... Max & his buddy, Taylor

Coppertone girl with and without marshmallow

Ian & Olivia sand fighting

Seaport Village on the way home

HAD to get a picture of someone with this giant chicken!

Johnny Won, Again!

Yay, my man won at the MTV Movie Awards for
Best Performance as Jack Sparrow.
Dead Man's Chest also took Best Movie!
Savy, luv?