Ross



Proof that I'm not entirely useless when it comes to making breads.




<><><><><><>        Baby Carleen and twin Carl held by siblings.

The twinsies.


<><><>  Here we have a scene from It's a Wonderful Life.          Hi Lily!  I mean, Grandma Carleen.                                Love the peacoats! <><><> 

No wonder my kids like playing in the dirt so much.  Hereditary.

 

<><><>                                                                  9-10 years old <><><>                                                12 years old

15 years old

  


17 years old

Awww, Mom and Dad at prom.  Love the papper mache.

 Does anybody else think this new way of uploading pictures is a huge pain in the butt? What a nightmare!  I'm giving up, what this publishes as is what it's going to stay as.  (crosses fingers and hits the publish post button)

I just don't understand!

    While walking through the great land o' Walmart after class I had the misfortune of running into what could possibly be one of Idaho's more ignorant people. Normally I would be nice, but I really wish I'd gotten into a fight with this jerk, so being nice is out the window. He was big, disgustingly fat, ugly, sloppy and smelly. Take that you ignoramus!
    He was also yelling obscene words at this poor terrified 8 or 9 year old girl as she was trying to walk out of the store with her mother; I'm not sure if he was her father, or just a random freak.  Either way he needs to be sent to China for a caning.  And if that child had been mine, someone would have been arrested that night.
    This whole scene was so abnormal that at first I didn't fully grasp what had just happened; that and I had a head cold and felt awful. Then as this horrible person started wobbling off it hit me what had just happened. I watched as this poor little traumatised girl walked out of the store with this look of "What did I do" on her face.   She looked so beat down and almost desperate with confusion and sadness.  It broke my heart.
     So my question is, how does someone reach this point of ignorance and stupidity? Any ideas? Can someone simply be so self absorbed that they can't see how they are treating other people?  Does he ever stop to meditate and think about his behavior and if he would mind being treated the same way he finds acceptable to treat others?  I'm still kicking myself that I didn't stand up for that little girl, it just happened so fast that I didn't have time to react. Plus my husband would ban me from shopping for life if I had gotten hurt.

     Personally I'm wondering if getting attacked would have been worth showing that little girl what a real adult acts like and that we all don't allow poor defenceless girls to be treated like that.
     Plus, beyond bullying a defenceless child, does he not understand how uneducated and stupid he sounds using that kind of language? I HATE foul language with a passion. I relate swearing to trailer trash, couldn't even pass a 3rd grade class kind of people. Ooooh, I need to stop thinking about that looser, my blood is boiling just thinking about it!

They played three games so I'm happy it was a nice day.  But three games!  It was a long one.  I ate an entire medium Dairy Queen blizzard by myself.

Ross struting onto the field.



I would be lying if I said I didn't enjoy watching him show the young guys how to make playing baseball look good.

Lefty up to bat.



And he thought he wouldn't really need the sliding shorts.  This was his first hit.

Finally, let me draw your attention to the red hat he's wearing, it's Ethan T-ball hat.  Yeah, he's got a small mellon.

Little L's first official race!



Oh, the love handles!  But I had to put this picture up, Brett loves it.



After the race.  Ethan finished with Brett at 7 minutes and 20 seconds!  His goal was 9 1/2 I think.

...I'm not sure exactly, but it was exciting.

Isn't he impressive!  His first one mile run and he did it in 11 minutes and 20 seconds!



All my spawn and me; and Brett of course.

 I pushed the stroller and ran with Lauren; Brett ran with Ethan.  Lauren was a champ and ran the whole time, minus the shoelace tying inccident, but we don't count that.  Go Ross family!

Proof that I didn't always look like Josephine Dirt.

Wook at the wittle baby! How cute!
No really, how cute! I wanted to eat him.


I used the clippers up the sides of his head about two months ago, those wispy baby hairs get on my nerves. Then I trimmed up the super long hairs on top. It looked like he was attempting a comb-over for a while.

Tyler is:

• walking
• saying mama and dada
• waving hello/goodbye
• surfing down the stairs on his belly
• still mostly nursing but loving all the food testing he gets to do
• in the negative 5 % for size
• blowing kisses
• giving me big slobbery kisses on the lips!(my favorite)
• very capable of pulling out the power cord to my lap top while I'm doing my best to ignore him and do my school work, this is probably his best talent right now
• very loved by his momma
• about three weeks off from his 1st birthday; incidentally I have 7 pounds of pregnancy weight to lose before then, not likely, and then I have to stop calling it baby weight. Poo.

Why yes that is a single side Dutch braid, thank you. I've been practicing. And check out that adorable bow my sister-in-law Ashlee made! Lucky for us we had the perfect outfit for it.
Her first Kindergarten breakfast.
That is also a Disney Princess backpack. I died a little inside when I gave in and bought it for her.
Oh, my baby! All grown up.
And my other baby already grew up. Do you see what's on is desk! Real life text books! I am still in shock. Can't believe it. Lately I've even been catching him reading his Hardy Boy books in bed at night. I silently squealed with delight the first few times. Not out loud though, I don't want him to know how cool I think it is.
They were both very excited to start school this year. Both had their outfits picked out and laid on the ends of there beds the night before and both had their backpacks sitting by the door ready to go! They are so funny. Lauren has been in school now for nearly a month and her only regret is that she can't go every day. I was worried about her having a full day every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, but apparently I worried in vain, she's taking it like a champ and still comes home happy.
My biggest question is if they are getting enough food at lunch since every day they come home acting like they're starving.
We had meet the teacher night for parents a couple weeks ago. The only thing both Ethan and Lauren's teachers had to say were they didn't have anything we needed to work on, the kids were great, stay on task, and are capable of doing all the things academically that they need to. Ya! I feel like an accomplished mommy now.

All about me: I also have been in school for a month now. I'm doing well, but my time is a bit limited, thus the month and a half gap in between posts. Technically I could have found the time I'm sure if I really wanted to, but it's just one more thing I've got to do on the computer. Today however, I wanted to, so here I am. My essay is written and just needs to be tweaked before I email it on over to my peer editing group, so I'm feeling accomplished today.