Pitt

Last weekend my brother Len took the boys to see a Pitt game at Heinz Field! They had a blast....

All I can say is GO PITT!!!!!!

football

Did y'all watch the Steelers last night? I loved all the "stuff" before hand, the concert and fireworks ect. Time to get out my new banner that my sister in Ohio sent to me. She lives in Cleveland and bought it there! LOL. Our rivals!

learning

I've been taking a cake decorating class at the local Jo Ann Fabrics store. Don't laugh but, here's my first "masterpiece"! Okay, it's just a cake......
It would have been much better but we were pressed for time. I had to slap the writing on it real fast at the end. Anyway, it tasted great so that's all that matters!

interview

Here is an exclusive interview with the one and only Jordan McKelvey upon his arrival home from his first day of school in 2 years......

plumbing

Think Tom is throwing in the towel?????

Plumbing problems are no fun. Tom worked on it all day tuesday, My brother Len worked on it for about 5 hours thursday night, and we still have no hot water in the shower! These colder than the artic showers are shocking my body! Len will be back tomorrow to hopeful, help Tom finish the job. Isn't home ownership fun?

it came

So the day is finally here.......It came this morning ............What is it you ask? No, it's not christmas, It's the first day of school for the boys in 2 years!

It's now official, I have a son in high school! OMG! He was too cool for a backpack this morning.Jordan was up before me this morning. He was eating breakfast with Tom when I came down. Tom was off. Actually he was called in to work today but got up this morning and discovered that we had plumbing problems in the bathroom and a flood in the basement.......not a good way to start the day......Anyway, Jordan got on the bus and is now, hopefully, in school. I only cried a couple of times!

camp out

Since the "end" of summer is drawing near, the kids head back to school tomorrow, we decided to have some fun this last weekend. We had a family backyard campout! There was a camp fire where we cooked hot dogs and mountain pies...... just a tad smokey.............

Apple mountain pie and ice cream..........Then we all (yes, even me and my darling husband) slept in tents in the yard. It was fun despite the fact that the kids pitched our tent on a hill and I slept with rocks in my ribs all night. The dog kept escaping rom the kids' tent. Now Jordan thinks this is going to be an every weekend thing!

ER

SO we spent another afternoon at the ER today. Cody bites his nails alot and I always warn him about getting an infection......well this week it happened. Monday we saw the doctor and it was only swollen. ice was prescribed.......tuesday night it was swollen and getting dark under the nail......doctor visit again on wednesday.....antibiotics...... by thursday it looked like this.......

This photo was taken before the intense pain started.....He said to me, "good thing you don't have your camera". "Don't challenge me buddy, it's always at the ready"! LOL they actually sliced open his finger, and she had to squeeze it to get all the "stuff" out of it. This is where the crying like I have never seen him cry before came. I felt so bad for him. it is wrapped now (resembles something obscene) antibiotics are on board. They even gave him tylenol with codeine for the pain. we see his family doctor today. Think he learned a valuable lesson here?

zoo

Spent the entire afternoon at the zoo today. Aunt Martha wanted to go. It was a beautiful day in the 'burgh so we headed out to the African Savannah.......

Cody tried to see if he was as tall as Big Ben, but it turns out instead, he's only about half the size of a female elephant!Lunch was good but what they really want is .........ICE CREAM!!!!!The kids were all having a good time....Touching things that are soft ........and things sort of slimy......Till Jordan came face to face with a maneater.....LOOK OUT! SWIM FOREST, SWIM......

We decided we had time for one last photo op before someone "accidently" got eaten for real. "HUM, don't know how they fell in there".

We took Aunt Martha to the Pirate game on Sunday. She likes baseball and where she lives there is only minor league games. The Myrtle Beach Pelicans. Although I think they are more fun than the majors. They do more zany things to entertain you. If you have ever been to a Pirate game you know that they always have the great perogie race between innings. Well we were playing the nationals so the perogies didn't race against each other they had the perogies vs presidents relay. Somehow seeing giant president heads on people racing is very funny......

This would be George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt.

The perogies won but I have to say the best part was the view of Pittsburgh from the park..

picnic

When is it going to really be summer? Our weather has been really lousy this summer. It's raining again today. We did manage to find a nice day and have a picnic this week. Aunt Martha is here visiting from South Carolina.
We went to the big park in Monroeville. The kids had fun running around and playing, riding bikes, playing tennis. Even the "grown ups" had fun. It turned out to be a really nice day.

camp

We discovered something reasonably new this week......Jordan is a serious camper! He left on Sunday for camp kidzone with our church. The senior high youth group put it on. Sleeping bag? check. clean underwear? check. Getting embarrassed by my Dad? check. The bus was late bringing them home today. We were all in the parking lot waiting when all of a sudden we heard all this honking and cheering, low and behold here comes the bus into the parking lot. Who was hanging out the farthest back window?

Yep, you guessed it....my kid!

The man who was a leader in his cabin told me "he was really good. I enjoyed having him, and boy can he eat!" Huh? Jordan? You've got to be kidding me! So why does he still weigh 50 pounds? ( Okay keep the jokes about my cooking to yourselves!)He also told me that Jordan wanted to keep their cabin flag....as you can see they were team spruce.He had such a good time. He said that he wishes he could come home for a day, shower and get clean clothes and go back. (Since when does he care about clean clothes or showers?)

vehicle trouble take 2

Well it's that time again.........
Cody looked out the window at lunch time the other day and said "Mom, why did Dad leave the truck here today?" Hummm, curious. Seems we are back to climbing under the hood. As you can see he's smiling so he eventually did get it running again. Wish we could walk everywhere we needed to go and didn't have to depend on unreliable machinery!

4th

Our 4th of July picnic was fun. Both of my brothers and their families came. We did burgers and dogs, and everything that comes with that.Little DJ was having fun running around and getting dirty! Every little boys dream.... Madisyn had a Wii showdown with Uncle Tom in bowling......which she won! Go Maddy.....

We goofed off most of the day.......Chasing kids and eating..... (Hey Jun, there's brownies!)

Till Len and Dayne decided to load buckets with water,go into Jordan's room, open the window, and while Lisa and I lured the kids under the window for a "picture", they poured 10 gallons of water on them. This is the only picture I got of the event as Lisa and I were peeing our pants laughing.......

Even though it was overcast there is always time for slip n slide..... All the "kids" went on....
And one big "kid" who ended up with brush burns all up his chest......Then it was time for fireworks.......
Hope everyone had as much fun as we did...........