The Manning Family

While out tonight, I noticed two personalized license plates and had some thoughts regarding them. The first one was an old lady whose plate said : "msbhvn2" (translation for those of you who don't speak license plate language: misbehavin2) This could only mean one thing...that somewhere her husband/life partner was driving msbhvn1. Trust me, if you saw her, you would NOT want to know that she may or may not be "misbehaven"!!! The second one I saw stated this: "hotbunz" I read this and then noticed it was a middle-aged balding man driving the truck. I'm not sure if it was a joke, or if he was advertising, but either way....creepy and grose. While pondering the two plates I saw on the way home, I remembered that I, too, fell victim to the 'oh-so-cute' personalized plate once in my life. It was when I turned 16 and got my first car. Before I tell you what it said, please keep in mind that I drove a teal dodge shadow with pink swooshy stripes up the side (VERY COOL!). It read this: 'KORTI-Q' This was short for 'Korti-cucumber', a nick name my family had always called me growing up. My Question is this: WHY DIDN'T ANYONE STOP ME FROM DOING THIS? Mom, Dad, Alesha....why would you let this happen. Every time someone asked me what it meant, they started by saying 'What does Korti-O stand for?' and I would have to tell them it was a Q, then try to explain the cucumber...which had no explanation. The moral of this story is don't do it. Even if you come up with "2THFIXR" (TOOTHFIXER) because you are a dentist...DON'T DO IT!!

Yes, it is Jessica Simpson! She totally calls me all the time and wants to hang out. I keep telling her that I am busy with my kids and other friends, but she just doesn't understand! Anyway...she did her concert after the D-Backs game, so of course Sara got us "VIP" passes down on the field to get up-close and personal! It was a blast. I also got to catch up a little with my long-lost friend Beckie and her boys. It was a great night, and my "real" friends and I had a blast!

I have been feverishly trying to fix my computer so that I could post these pictures. Needless to say, it is still not fixed, but my nice friend Tiffany let me use her's in the meantime. Well, all of the pictures speak for themselves.I have posted both before/after pictures, so anything ugly you know was before!! The house was HIDEOUS before we started with some really "colorfull" paint choices, but I think we have made some great improvements. It was three LONG, HARD weeks worth of work, but OH SO WORTH IT!!! I couldn't be more thrilled with it. We are all settled in with a few "misc." boxes left to unload. (we could actually really do without all of the "misc." stuff that is in those boxes....but i'm sure we'll find a home for all of it!) Thank you to all of our friends and family who worked so hard to help us. It is such a great feeling to be ralaxed and settled into a home we can enjoy for many years. Ps...we LOVE our pool and are trying to enjoy every last minute we have of this warm weather. We are ready for visitors...hint hint...so anyone and everyone come visit us!!!

Well, I have many before/after pictures of our new home. PS...we bought a new home. I would LOVE to post them, however, my computer is not working very well these days and won't let me download any pictures from my camera. We also went camping this weekend and have a few great pics from that trip as well. Too bad none of them will be posted until I figure out what is going on with this big piece of crap!! Stay tuned.....