Rain will not harm you, keep your clothes on...

So, one week ago (last Thursday) we had some special guests for dinner. SHE and her lovely family were here. Yes, here in my home. It was so very nice. I did laugh when Chrissy said she was lecturing her boys on the way here about not talking potty talk... as if Poop isn't my kids favorite word! (Their new poop-related vernacular is its own post... another day.)

Anyway. Kids are happy, husbands are chatting... very nice. You see either one of those could have been the friendship buster. Oh, stop looking at your computer all a-gog. You KNOW there are people who you are friends with, but your husbands don't click, or the kids fight every time they are together, and hence... the friendship suffers. Sad, but true.

Well I am happy to report that Sean and Chrissy have been where only the closest of friends have gone and lived to tell about it...
Brad and Allison, Lorena, Jen, and sadly, I think even you Kim, (yes YOU, the blog stalking one... LOL) you know what I mean... here it is:

Everyone is happy, playing, chatting, we are like a durn Norman Rockwell painting. As the menfolk finish up the grilling (sorry Betty Friedan, totally a "Boy-Job" at this house) a storm rolls in and it is pouring. I mean POURING. After getting all kids in, draining the rainwater off the grilled meat treats, I hear laughing... I see Felix pointing... I peer around the corner...

And there is my little Emerson... buck NAKED!
"EEK! What are you doing?"
He looks at ME like I am the one who is crazy and says, "Dat rain got my clothes all wet."
Like, Duh, mom, why else would I be stripped down to my bare butt in the middle of this room full of new faces? Seriously, the kid was looking at me like why would you NOT take off wet clothes?
I looked at Sean and Chrissy... knowing it was a defining moment... would the bare buns marr the potential for future cookouts and such???

Would they ever be able to get past the fact that apparently, rain inspires nudity in our home???

I breathe a sigh of relief when I see them doubled over laughing.
PHEW...
Plus I let Sean win at Poker, so now they have to be our friends... hahahahaha....
and the pictures:



Now, this week marked an important event in our home... it was our Wedding Anniversary. We are not anniversaryish kind of people. There are no $100 dinners, renewing of vows, etc. I did try and convince Micah that I needed a new ring, but once he realized where the comma was in the one I liked, he laughed. Quite heartily I might add.

Well, I thought we were doing our typical celebration. (um, meaning nothing.) We did haul out the old wedding video earlier this week and watched it with the boys. So funny to see those big bangs, skinny butts, and old friends.

BUT... then Micah hauled out the big guns...

It was our last small group night for church and I thought he brought his guitar for all of us to sing. Nope, he asks the group to indulge him, explains that it is our Anniversary and whips out a huge rose bouquet. (mind you the number of roses was our number of years married even! He had them delivered to our friend's house where we meet too... planned AHEAD, that always wins big points with me!) Then, he asks me to come sit by him and sings my song for me. It is a song he wrote for me a few years ago. He would never admit it, but it is an amazing song, I totally think he could sell it. So he sang it, there, for me, in front of lots of people, after saying many nice and sweet things about me.

Everyone give the collective "Awwwww". Yep, he is THAT kind of husband. I have said it before and will say it again, I so don't deserve him, but I am so glad I have him.
Thanks Micah, I love you!!!


Here is my latest LO for Unpubbed... Gotta love the orange dye in tangerine Italian ice!


And this one is for Memorable Seasons:

Heat takes Ant's Life... News at 11

I am here, I am alive, despite the heat that is even forcing ants to seek shelter in my home. I am a bug hater all around... a Bughatermaximus really. Even though I hate them, even I, was a little moved by the fact that the poor ants were seeming to come in my mudroom door to get relief from the oppressive heat, only to die right there once they got in. Ok, I wasn't really that torn up, it saved me from having to smush them.

So, last week Lincoln officially graduated from kindergarten. I was one big, gigantic, tear. It was really hard because his school is closing. :( I started the tear fest when another mom told me how sad her daughter was about going to a new school and she got all teary eyed...

I said "No! Stop!! I am a sympathy crier!!"

But, alas, it was too late... my tear ducts knew what was going on and began their morning long journey. Mass snot production also ensued, and I went through two packs of "puffs to go" tissues and even had to steal some more from the classroom too... I was pathetic. think I cried out so much of my body's water supply I didn't have to pee for two days. Poor Micah, I am quite certain it was not a prideful moment for him...

"Yeah, see her, the one with red eyes and a handful of snotty tissues? That's my girl!!"

Sorry bud...

So, he is done, the halls of his wonderful little school are empty, forever... and it is a real loss to our family and many others. And that is all I am going to say about that...

Summer is here, and that means I am kicking myself for not trying harder to get rid of the Alden Jiggle sooner... when will bloomers be back in fashion? I mean really, you can suck your gut in, but unless anyone has some new breathing trick for me, you cannot suck in hips, thighs, or the buttockial region... back to the weights I go...

I have some scrappiness to show... so hold on to your hats.

This is another Mini-Mini Book... it is for an on going challenge over at Memorable Seasons, where there are on-going summer challenges fraught with prizes, so head over there. ;0

The size of this is only 2½ in. high by 4in. wide. I will show the rest of the pages as I complete them.

The above two are the cover and the inside cover.

page one...

And one with some of the new MME papers...

This one was for our latest Famer over at Unpubbed... Don't forget to lift Nicole to win her prize kit too!!

Ok, off to bed...