Long hair. Short Hair Crazy Texas crazy hair!

My husband aka hubby lover man, is such a trooper. He poses for all sorts of pictures I am sure he would rather not. It is because he loves me and knows I love taking the pictures. This one was to admire my hair do. See? ...

Here are some more....

Haha. Extensions?

Crazy curls.

straighty straight in the car.

Bubble fro, covering real fro.

Pig tails. I swore I wasn't gonna do it after 30. I guess I was wrong.
(P.S. if any of you who knew me when I made that rule were wondering, some times when I go out with my girls (as in teenage daughters) I put the glimmery glittery type stuff on, too. Ha! Yah, glitter after thirty should be a no go, but what evs. Some times it is just fun. Just like saying what evs is.)

I am a song writer

Some of my best:

"Poop poo in the potty and you'll have a great day. Poop poo in the potty and you'll have a great day."


"Soaping up my boy, soaping up the boy, getting clean's a joy, soaping up the boy."

"Gimme a C-O-D-Y what's that spell? Cody! What's your name? Cody!"

"We come here to brush our teeth, brush our teeth, brush our teeth. We come here to brush our teeth each morning and each night..."

These are songs all my kids know and love. Hahaha. But what evs. They work. I'd love to let you hear the tune but I am not singing here on the computer. Maybe I will record and album of these short functional songs with my girls singing them. Ha! Team Mantor video coming soon. Hahaha. Yours for only $4.99. Order today and I will take one dollar off. Hahahahahaha!!

For you Jay-dawg

Some holiday hoopla-la pictures!



Monster Truck Jam!!!

For Christmas Cody got Monster Truck Jam tickets. We had a blast. Husband has been talking about going since I met him. It was an awesome surprise for him. It was also the most "totally American" thing Linda has seen/been to /experienced to date.

It was nice and cold (rainy & wet, too) and we had to walk a bit. But once we got inside it was nice. Cody Little pulled down every one's chairs. He was loving it. The excitement, the crowd, even the noise. I could not for the life of me get him to keep ear plugs in!

I don't know how many of you have ever been, but it is loud!! And super fun!!

I know we all had fun! Then my poor little man got sick. A fever took over his little body. And he fell asleep.

It was almost over so we stayed. You can see from above I finally did get that ear plug in but he had to be asleep first. Ha.

I hope you all enjoyed your holidays and the New Year so far! We love you!

Christmas Morning!

 

Aren't we Sexy?!?
The kids had a blast!

Oh Christmas Tree Oh Christmas tree...

Your saggy branches depress me...

We last had the girls here on December 3rd. We picked up our tree on December 2nd so the family could decorate it together. We had some massive tree drama. It fell over at least 3 times. Cat, Cody, crooked base. Ugh! We finally used flag stones to help it at the base and anchored it to the wall with twine and a screw.
We got it up and got it decorated. Oh so pretty. It was full and lovely. And had a random assortment of ornaments from my childhood and beyond. Some donated to me, some I bought, and the most random ones came from the left over stuff (no one else wanted) of Grandma Graves' holiday things. We had fun choosing what to put on the tree and making it pretty.
Slowly over the next few weeks the branches began to sag. The weight of the decorations and lights coupled with little Cody and the Cat effects have been proving to be too much for the tree. I am pretty sure the cat named Mouse thinks this is a huge new toy for him. Bella thinks it is a place to hide from Mouse. And best of all, it seems little Cody thinks the tree is a place to try and hang or throw your toys. (Which I think is cute, funny and clever, but sad for the tree.) 2 days ago he threw is jacket at it. That was all our poor tree could seem to handle. The front lower half was flat. Totally saggy with a huge hole and flat. Yesterday Big Cody and I tried to turn it. This did not work as we soon found out. The side that had been facing the window was even worse! Not flat just totally almost bald. (Thanks Cats, for that, ugh!) So after Cody left I had to do some serious tree fixing. I called one of my friends from church and was so close to borrowing a small table top tree and dumping old ugly 4 days before Christmas. But as I sat and stared at my sad dead saggy newly naked except the lights Christmas tree, I decided to see what I could do to let her last 4 more days. I did some major tree repair and revamping. I think she turned out ok. Here is to hoping she will stay together for 2 1/2 more days.
Oh Christmas tree, O Christmas tree, your repaired redecorated look pleases me...Sigh.