StAr WaRs...nothing but STaR WaRS...

remember that song? Bill Murray dressed in that blue sparkly jacket singing on SNL? too funny. i wish i could remember the rest of the words. heck, maybe i'll check out YouTube.

anyway, Ft. Worth Science Museum (btw, their site sucks--can't find anything) must have some serious connections...they have the Star Wars Exhibit there until Sept. 3. so, of course, we went! not sure who enjoyed looking at the ships more, Michael or Mike. :)

it was cute though, to watch the two. and i had fun trying to get some good pictures with everyone walking by and everything in glass cases. they had the ride the hover-craft thing but Michael was too short (you need to eat, boy!)

here are some pictures from our 4th of July, too:

sittin' in the car...waiting for the show to start.

it was worth the wait...pretty good display.

EMP and PPS

I've discovered that owen is an EMP (early morning pooper) and my sister is a PPS (Penoir Poppin' Sleeper).

and we haven't taken a picture of all the family yet and joanie has to leave this morning so we'll all be lookin' pretty rough this morning for our family portrait. but who cares?

michael is having a rough time. he misses his dad. he's trying to have fun with his cousins, but yesterday was rough because he didn't want to swim and everyone else was. he was 'too cold'. i told him that he needed to eat some more for some insulation. he's so darn skinny! but when we got home, the boys went in the hot tub and then they went out back and made some s'mores. i asked michael to ask his uncle jim to set up the telescope. but jim said no because it was so cloudy. michael got pretty upset and i told him that he wouldn't see anything anyway because it was so cloudy. then michael said, "but we could look at the houses." peeping tom. i told him that we couldn't do that. :)

pellow fights, movies, and food (as usual)

just sitting around recovering after a pillow fight (or pellow fight, as michael says). we had a great dinner tonight. baked chicken with tomatoes, mozzarella and fresh parsley from momma's garden.

we're heading down to laura's tomorrow. dude, dar, charlie and jared are heading down from ny saturday. haven't seen my bro in a few years, like 3 i think.

went to the movies today. took michael to see surf's up. it was cute, i guess. owen sat through the whole thing too and didn't make a peep! mom said that he probably made a lot of peeps...in his pants! "oh, karen!" she says. we just asked michael what he remembers from the movie...the only thing he can recall is, "like a trash can full of poop." nice. thanks, hollywood.

yumm...that ww fudge bar i just ate was very good! and only one point! i'm trying to get the computer to recognize my memory stick because i have a picture on there i want to put on this post but it's not working for some reason. bum! i guess i'll have to wait on that one.

my mom is mad about the 'googley-eyed mother' picture in the previous post...so be sure to check it out! :)

later!

bowling, arbying, dancing, and painting...

ma was the bowling champ with a 145. i came in second with a 110 and michael in third with an 86. but he did get a strike! first ever.then it was off to arby's...
a little dancing in the kitchen to mom's musical fridge magnets (momma and i always danced in the kitchen when i was growing up)..

michael painted this masterpiece pretty much all by himself. it's called "forest with a dinosaur with an eyeball in it". grandma showed him how to make the mountains and the trees and, with her lead, he did the whole thing!

this is my first attempt (well, actually second...i ditched the first 'beach scene') at acrylic painting. not too terribly bad. it was fun!

it was a good day yesterday. mom is off to her silver sneakers fitness group this morning. too funny. michael is still sleeping (with all his electronics--portable dvd player, radio and headphones, and scooby-doo flashlight) and owen, who has been up since 5:30 am talking, is now fast asleep in the bathroom in his bouncy chair. wow. i hope that doesn't mean he'll be up now at 4:30 when we get back to central time...really...when did this start? yikes!

so, i'm just hanging out typing on my blog, organizing some pictures and updating some things on momma's puter. i think i might run out of room on my portable drive with all the pics i've been taking.

maybe i'll go scrapbook now. of course, as soon as i get settled, everyone will wake up!

howdy tuesday...

took owen to the doc this morning. four shots and one weird rotavirus drink thing...that he got maybe .001 mils of . anyway, he weighs 15 pounds, 7 oz. and is 26". michael was supposed to get his blood drawn (?) and they couldn't do it because they said they have never seen veins so little on a 5 year old before. they said i'll have to take him to the lab where they'll have smaller needles. so...



our weekend went well, if you subtract the 10 inches of rain that fell on us (and it's still raining!) we had about 12 hours total of sun from friday to monday. i got up on skis for about two seconds then didn't really get to try again because sunday, when it was sunny the entire day, i had to sit at the camp while everyone else who didn't actually camp and brave the weather hogged the boat all day. and michael, mike, and i didn't get to go out until later that evening. but we went out on the tube...bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy...fun! my neck hurt though afterwards...but michael had so much fun. and i cracked up watching his face from the boat when he went on the tube with mike. too cute.

i can't believe all my posts are gone...all those cool comments from all those cool ladies whom i barely know...very cool. and all those awesome pictures i had up. i'll get started again with a few from our weekend.