Monday, March 24, 2008

easter, easter, easter


What a fun weekend, we had everyone out and this was the first time Kaydence and Tasia have painted eggs. It was a bit messy, but they were so cute. Most excited though, as usual, for the easter bunny to come was Doug Jr. Why does he still believe in Santa and the Easter bunny? We dressed the kids all up for pictures and we forgot all about poor little Alexcia! Hard to believe, as she usually makes sure all of us are aware of her presence. Nevertheless, the other three looked so cute. Took some pictures of my big kids too, although I personally do not find them quite as cute as the little kids.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Ten things I bet you didn't know

So what is new in my world, not too much so I decided to search out something to amuse, entertain, or just plain educate all of you who take the time to read my blog.
Here are ten things I just didn't know:
-All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. (I didn't know this, but I bet Jaden did!)
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber. ( Let me tell you, his father didn't make much money on old Charlie's haircuts, wasn't he pretty much bald?)
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. (Now who would have thought something like that could ever happen!)
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. (What???)
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. ( I wonder what a goldfish giving birth calls her babies father, are little goldfish called babies or tadpoles?)
-It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. ( I know, really, really icky, but interesting don't you think)
-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. ( Is that where the statement , stubborn as a mule comes from?, notice it didn't say can't but won't!)
-To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. ( I can't even begin to comment on this one, but we all know how important those body parts are to a man. And if you don't know, I would like to know where you have been living all your life.)
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" ( So how did they get such a bad rap on Sesame Street?)
-The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. ( Of course I knew this one, but I was pretty sure no one else did... come on, I went to school for six years, I have to use that education for something.)
So there you go , ten things I didn't know and hopefully we are all smarter now.
Now a little about the family. I promised you that this blog would brag about those delightful grandkids who make my world perfect. Just a few Kaydence stories. This weekend he came to visit along with his daddy and sister. AS always, he got to sleep with grandma. In the morning I felt that eyes staring feeling you get when you are sleeping and know someone is staring at you. I open my eyes and six inches from my face is this little boy with a huge grin. He says, "Gramma Lana, your snoring woke me up?" Gee, I love that boy. Then I told him that he was going home today (I always prepare kaydence because he hates leaving) He propped his elbows on me and set his head in his hands and looked at me with those big blue eyes and said " oh no, this isn't good!" No wonder he gets what ever he wants from me! Could you turn down this face?
Well that is about it from me tonight, I'm tired. But next time you get to hear about the other kids in my family, the in-laws or out-laws depending upon how they have been behaving. But since I didn't have room to put pictures on my header I want to show everyone how well my children did in picking spouses so that I could have adorable and perfect grandchildren.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Everybody welcome me to the land of Blogging

Well, finally, I have entered the land of blogging. I have been meaning to do it for ages but ...okay I have no excuse, well... if I think long enough I can probably come up with one. Okay I just did, I am technologically challenged for example I can`t figure out how to get off of this italic type. Okay, Sharae just showed me! This should be interesting!
I guess now I have to think of things to talk about. Okay here is a good one, we (meaning Sharae and I ) went running tonight. Sharae is trying to lose baby fat and I am trying to lose old people fat. Kaydence, my beloved three year old grandson , upon our return, informed Sharae that she was fat and needed to diet! But being the apple of my eye, he told me that I was not fat. I was feeling pretty good about that, until he informed us that he too was on a diet! So much for his theory of what is fat and what is not.
And a little side note for anyone interested, losing baby fat seems to be a lot easier than losing old people fat!
Well this isn`t so bad. I actually am a big fan of the blog. I read not only my friends blogs, but even go on and check friends of my friends blogs. What do you think that says about meÉ okay it won`t make a question mark now...Do you think reading total strangers blogs means one has no life, or that one is just plain snoopy. I guess either way you look at it, its not too positive. Do other people do that tooÉ ( sorry still won`t do a question mark). Anyway, enough of this senseless rambling... at least until next time.
Oh by the way, I was being kind, and hardly mentioned the grandkids! I`m saving it all for next time.