Food 4 Thought Friday

Food 4 Thought Friday

Breakfast

If you were given one extra hour everyday - how would you use that time?

I would say and hope that I would take that extra 1 hour and spend it with my family and letting them know how much I love them.

Lunch

What is your favorite season and why?

I love spring and fall. It would be hard to choose.. I love spring with all the flowers coming up and smells of spring. Finally warmer temperatures and more time outside. I love fall with all the leaves changing colors to the bright reds, orange and yellows. Exspecially out here where I live now it is so forresty there are sooo many trees and when all the leaves change its so georgous.. An autumn wonderland, and a relief from the hot blistery days of summer.

Dinner

Are you a tight squeezer, a delicate hugger, a back patter, a hand shaker, or a hands off completely person?

With my family and good friends I am a tight squeezer but with those I know and are just aquainted with a delicate hugger and for those I dont know or are new I'm a hand shaker or hands off depending on how the other person is.

Midnight Snack

Have you ever gone skinny dipping? If so where?

Well not purposely but when we were visiting my dad once he suggested me and steve going and sitting in his new hot tub while they watched the kids.. We declined because of not having any swimsuits with us and he said who needs suits so we ended up hot tubbing in our birthday suits.

Recipe for this Week (instead of your recipe for life - what is it for just this week?)

Set just 1 extra small goal that is seperate from the rest that is something you have been wanting to do or get done for some time but havn't had the time, and accomplish it.. We tend to have so many things we need to get done that our list keeps adding up that we never get to accomplish the other things. For example if you are like me and have at least 10 years worth of scrapbooking to do instead of trying to find a time to sit down and work for hours on it and get several done which isnt likely to happen now with 4 kids take the time to just get 1 page done. It can be managable if we break things up a little and look outside the box. hope that makes sense. I'm not the most eloquent with words.

Thanks Jodi for the Food 4 Thought friday!! If you wanna play go here!

Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!!

Our trip to the Philly zoo was a great time except for the fact that I was really tired and a little sore.. I think I way over did it on my work out friday and I didn't get much sleep that night so I was really wiped out Sat. With walking for 6 hrs in the heat it just about did me in.. By the end of the day my back was just killing me.. It was a fun time though. It was so fun seeing Natalie our cousin and baby Madeline. She is so cute we could have just ate her up.. All the kids wanted to do was mawl the baby... Well Ok me tooooo

I think the kids favorite parts were these

these

and of course these.

They had a really cool exhibit of diffrent kinds of bears too..

The kids had alot of fun going into the kids petting zoo and getting to brush the goats. We even made a couple trips in the paddle boats around the big pond they had. Im surprised we were able to get everything in in 1 day.. The kids were a little bummed because we didnt let them ride the camels and horses and go in the hot air balloon or go on the train, the lines were so long and we were trying to get everything in before it closed. We got a pass so we will have to go back again to do more of the rides.

Alas we made it back to our own zoo with our 4 wild monkeys all tuckered out..

Yeah It's Friday

Today was a killer.. I did my long run today along with my full body weight lifting and i think I darn near killed myself.. To read more about it check out my running blog here. Seems with all that going on the whole day was shot and I didnt do much of anything else.. We are going to the zoo in the morning so I wanted to get my weights and long run in today since I wouldnt be able to tomorrow... Tonight we had a cub scout fishing trip and barbeque for all the cub scouts and their familys. It was a great time.. Austin could hardly contain himself. It was all he could talk about all day... He caught 7 fish and dummy me I even brough my camera but do you think I took any pictures NOOOOOO I was to busy helping all the kids bait their hooks and cast their poles and get tangles and snags undone.. It was a fun time anyways.. I am so excited to go to the zoo tomorrow.. We are meeting One of Steve's cousins and her new baby there so it will be alot of fun.. Hopefully we will see alot of these

They seem to be my kids favorite thing to see. I definently will bring my camera and get pictures this time..

Food 4 Thought Friday

Breakfast

Are you a morning person or a night person?

Definently night... I come alive about 9:00 at night and dont usually go to bed until midnight and then I wonder why I cant get out of bed in the morning.

Lunch

Do you like to shop? If yes, for what? Alone or with others?

Depends on what its for.... I hate to grocery shop but i do love to go with friends and shop for anything else..

Dinner

What is something that really motivates you?

Hearing or seeing other people's storys.

Midnight Snack

What is one thing you look forward to each day?

Waking up and seeing my kids, and tucking them in and kissing them good night every night.. As much as they drive me crazy my life would be nothing without them...

Thanks Jodi for the Food 4 Thought...Go here if you want to play along...

Is it time to go back to school yet?

AAAGGGHHHH my kids are driving me crazy!!!!!!! I so cant wait for school to start... 2 more weeks yeah!!!! I swear its a fight fest from the moment they wake up until they go to bed.. I am so worn out.... Tonight as they were supposed to be saying their prayers and getting into bed I was talking to my hubby on the phone and bathing the dog in the kitchen sink and all I can hear is screaming and yelling and its usually Logan and Jessie and within seconds hear they all come running down the stairs to come tattle as they are crying and screaming as if I could bath the dog, talk to steve and hear them try and tell me their sides of the story through their screaming and crying all at the same time....


I guess Logan hit jessie with a pillow and tried to shut the door on her so jessie picked up her long stick horse and clubbed logan across the back with the stick part leaving some nice welts and marks across her shoulder and back. I have so had it with these two. They are like oil and water. They constantly find things to fight over.. Its like this morning Jessie says ha ha logan I got a pink vitamin and you didnt. Then the screaming starts.. It's like that all day long over the dumbest things.. I feel its constant screaming in this house. Our jessie is such a little fighter. They say the middle one has to fight for attention and things I guess its true.. Tonight Austin was teasing her over something and she comes swinging around with her fists ready to pop him one and I have to grab her and say for the umpteenth time today that we dont ever raise our fist to anyone or hit as I am just cracking up inside and trying not to laugh... Normally Im so mad I could just beat her but today it was so funny the look on her face her eyebrows creased in and this pout across her lips and this look like she is out for blood and if she gets a hold of him she is gonna kill him. And with both her arms up with tight fists it was hilarious.. I wish I could of had a picture.. She is so tough and I know she could probably kick her brothers butt too if I would let her.. She is one of those that she has such beautiful features and looks that I am sure we will have the boys lining up at the door but if they do anything to make her mad she wouldnt think twice about popping them one.. She is our tomboy there isnt anything she wouldnt do and she is not afraid of anything. She is going to be the one that keeps us up at night..


Anyways today we had this strange looking bird thing come into our yard and was driving our dog mad. I tried to sneak out and get a picture of it but didnt get any real good shots.. I am thinking it was either a wild turkey or a vulcher.. I am not sure.. Anyone have any ideas?? Its hard to tell from the picts but it had a blackish body and a red head but no little gobble red thing hanging from it.
















Hey I think I was right on both accounts I just found this pict on the net of a turkey vulcher.. I think this is what it might have been..




I found out why it was in our yard. A ground hog or rock chuck or something like that was hit on the road by our house and someone had thrown it up on our lawn so this big bird I think was planning on having it for lunch... I am so glad we found it though because I was going to go get on the riding lawn mower today and that would not have been a good thing to be cruising along and end up running over this varmit.. It's roughly the size of a small dog. Looks something like this...Maybe just a little bigger.







Well thats about all the excitement I have had today. I am glad the day is over..