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Ring Ring

J has created an address book with all the phone numbers of his favorite people in it. I told him he could use our phone anytime as we have free long distance and and he has been calling them on a regular hour by hour basis for the last two days, planning trips out here, requesting orders, and many other things I'm not even sure about. Luckily he hasn't thought of you yet Allison!

S asked me to write down a phone number for him yesterday and it takes him about three minutes, but he dials it number by number. So. He's also been calling people on an hour by hour basis. Not so many requests on his part though. He mostly just wants to talk about snowboarding. At least to Oma. Oma, and K, their cousin, seem to be the top two. And our neighbor, M.

S just came up to me and said, "Mom, I got dressed. Army, army [shirt & pants]" with a look of am I going to get in trouble? I say, "You wore those yesterday, didn't you?" With a big grin and a look of relief that I'm not going to make him change, he says, "Yeah."

It's Back

The cuteness is back. Actually it was there all along I just haven't been blogging it lately.

Yesterday coming home from... somewhere I had the radio on and "Our God is An Awesome God" was playing. I changed it to another station, but from the back I hear J singing, "Our God is an awesome God, our God is an awesome God." and in a few minutes S chimes in with, "Does God make the trees? Yes or no?! Yes! Does God make the houses? Yes or no?! Yes! Is God the sweetest God? Yes or no?! Yes God is the sweetest God!" and many more phrases he came up with completely on his own to his own tune. They even did their duet for Daddy and again today.

J has been teaching us all he's been learning about from Sunday School and it floors us. "Did you know God is everywhere?" he asks. He had quite a few really deep questions for me the other night. I answered them the best I could then wrote them down to ask his Sunday School teacher who might actually be able to give him answers from the Bible.

B keeps saying we must do something right. That's my prayer.

Container Gardening

I started my streak on container gardening. We'll see how it goes. I found a huge planter at Costco and some pretty flowers and tomato plants at the Natural Gardener (their website crows). I ended up with pink snapdragons, bright yellow and orange zinnias for the boys to plant, patio tomatoes, basil, purple petunias, blue calibrachoa spring flings, purple trailing vines, and I honestly couldn't tell you what else, though there was some white in there. I also found a beverage tub to make into a planter for the boys zinnia seeds. Anybody know if metal is good for a container?

New Decor and Pretty Gifts

Outside this time. I never realized outside could be considered just another room of the house until now. I gained an extra room by this gorgeous little seating area that is so peaceful and fun to eat lunch on or read a book or just bask in the sun with my ipod sitting in its speakers playing soft music.


The decor on my verandah.


My mosaic seating area.


The cafe table on the verandah.


Spa baskets I made for SIG and my SIL on B's side.

The Cute Stuff

So I've decided enough with this beachy cute style that I absolutely love and have working on attaing more fashionable items. At Forever 21 I ended up with light and summery white embroidered pants with a tie that fit just perfect and a turqouise v-neck tee and three pairs of dangly earrings. I could only find pictures for these two.

At Fast Forward I found a bikini. Couldn't find the picture there either, argh. It's turquoise with an embroidered brown edge and embroidered flowers on one side of the top and the back of the bottom. It's that halter top style which leaves some FUNKY tan lines. All for lookin' good though : ) .

Last night I went to Burlington Coat Factory which I had no idea was such an AWESOME store - it sounds like, well, a coat factory, but it's far from. I found my first two pairs of high heels and my first pair of espadrilles. Shocking I know. I come from a beach town though so we are a cult of flip flops.





And my last fun but totally random item. A chocolate brown boho skirt similar to this one. I have a shirt like the one in the pic too. With my new chocolate espadrilles, that would be a cute outfit.

WhosSpace MySpace

Please tell me. Am I missing something? Because I just don't get it. I've been searching MySpace for online profiles of people I once knew or who knew me and I can't believe how many are on there!!!! Full names, half names, pictures, whatever. I am able to identify them somehow someway. That is pretty cool I have to admit. BUT I have absolutely no desire to do anything at all with mine though. I'm not sure if it's just me again but that whole thing seems pretty darn complicated to customize and I really don't feel like sticking all my information out there for just anybody with a myspace to peruse. What's with all the comments on the FIRST page you see and having to scroll waaaaaaay down to add a comment. Reading some of these it's like listening to half a conversation. "Hey Dude what's up?" "Yeah Saturday night. Let's do that." "You're so funny!" Drivin' me freakin' NUTS!!! Oh and one paragraph about the person is supposed to sum up their life. That's my wordy self talking. Oh and don't get me started on the one picture sums me up. Why is it all the pictures on there are so pretty? People we are NOT that pretty in real life. Their school search SUCKS. It always says "School not found." and then you have to go look it up by city and by golly there it is, just as you typed it.

The few people I was actually close to at some point and know currently who have profiles up there feel the same way about myspace in some form or another, still they have theirs up there for their friends. Maybe I just haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet. Can somebody out there explain to me the fun in it?

Or maybe I'm blog spoiled. My own personal page, no half ass conversations, no pretty pictures. Just me. Just the way I like it.

A little googling and here's a site that talks a little about a few things I didn't even cover, liked the herding instinct and the friends factor. Oh and the "1996 Internet called and it wants its cliches back." commenting on the bad graphics, font colors, and layouts. Love that line.

And this one just makes me laugh. Okay maybe I should just change the title of this post to the Myspace Hate post, but really that's not what it's intended to be... too much any way :) .

On Tornado Watch

Our first one since we've been out here. Now I know why California is so conducive to a life style all about the self. You don't have this weather to freak you out and keep you in shape every few months!



We've been watching Serenity - spoiler in white here so highlight it to read it that scene they show you on the site is one of the very last ones in the movie. It is a very good movie especially if you watch the Firefly series on DVD beforehand. Since about five minutes into it when the first flash of lightning or multiple flashes I should say hit and the thunder shook the house. Did NOT help the freak level of the movie at all I must say. The lightning doesn't scare me but the thunder sends my heart a pounding. It's still going strong. Now I suppose we're off to open up the blinds so we can watch the lights while we lay in bed.

Oh great. B just freaked me out by saying God forbid anything should happen while we're here or ever, but if it does our closet or the boys closet would be the safest place to be. He's putting on Sky High for a moment so at least our minds will be on something else than Serenity while we go to sleep. Good idea.