Mother's Day

We've had a lot going on with trying to get the house ready to sell.
That's a lot of work, and thus,
no time to blog.

Nice Mother's Day.
O'Charley's.
Yum!

And, my present arrived in the mail yesterday.

Can you hear me screaming?

I am.
Can you hear Mike screaming?
He is.
(Only his scream is more of the painful type.)
He must really love me.
I know he's a closet Celine fan,
he just doesn't know it. :-)

Old Testament Festival

The end of the school year is drawing to a close,
and Carlie's class celebrated with their Old Testament Festival this past week.
I must say,
it was very cute.
All the kids decked out as OT figures,
then reading their paragraphs about each.

Check out Moses below. What a hoot!!

Carlie was Ruth.
I bought a cheap sheet at Goodwill
and constructed her costume out of that.
Turned out pretty good,
and since Ruth was poor (until she married Boaz),
it didn't have to be anything fancy.

Cruising Part Two

I guess since we are one month out from our cruise (time flies),
it is really pretty pointless to post these.
But, it would leave out our favorite place we visited which was Costa Rica.
If you ever get a chance to go,
I highly recommend it.
The family we met who owned the rainforest farm
we toured were just fabulous people.

And, Grand Cayman was once again fabulous.
Despite the fact that there always a few hiccups and irritations
(like being one number away from winning a free cruise in BINGO- grrrrrr),
I still love to cruise, and it is my preferred way to travel.
(Music by TobyMac, again)

Southern Caribbean Cruise 2011

It took forever and a day to get the photos off the camera,
fit to a slideshow, and uploaded to the blog.

I didn't bother to edit them.
My photography skills are so awesome, I don't need to anyway.
Ha!

With over 500 photos total, I had to cut it down to 87 to fit the music.
*Sigh*

This means Part Two of our cruise will come hopefully by the end of the week.
I could use some song suggestions,
or I'll have to resort to Jimmy Buffett.

This video shows pics from Haiti, Colombia, and Panama.
I didn't get many pictures in Panama
because most of our time was spent on a very bumpy bus tour.

Opening Day

In honor of opening day (GO CARDS!),
and because I don't have my cruise pics ready to post yet,
I am giving you my top 5 all-time favorite baseball movies.
If you haven't seen them,
I highly recommend checking them out.
Drum roll please...

5.

Filmed in Evansville, IN
and a friend of ours was an extra
(in case you didn't know)

4.

Loved this movie as a kid as well as the tv show

3.

Just a great, classic movie

2.

How can you not be a Yankees fan after watching this movie??

1.

Hilarious.
Classic.
Best Baseball Movie- EVER!
Joe Boo.
Bob Uecker.
Before Charlie Sheen went all whacky.
GO TRIBE!!
**This movie does have offensive language so you may want to rent the edited version.**


Let me know if I left any out that are worth watching.

Upcoming Movies

There are two movies set to hit theaters soon,
one in April and the other in September.
If more movies like these were made,
we would probably go more often.

The first, Soul Surfer, is based on the story of Bethany Hamilton,
a champion surfer who lost her arm in a shark attack at the age of 13.
Carrie Underwood plays the part of Bethany's youth leader.

The second, Courageous,
is from the makers of Facing the Giants and Fireproof.
The actors in Courageous are all members
of Sherwood Baptist Church in Georgia.


So, watch the trailers and mark your calendars.
If these movies are supported, more of them will be made!

Is it March Already?

I really haven't had a lot to post about. I've just been packing boxes to clear some clutter in the hopes of moving closer to Carlie's school at some point.
Every time I pack a box, we seem to have even more stuff.
Don't know how that works exactly.
I think the kids just keep dragging out "new" toys they haven't seen in ages.

I've also been getting clothes ready for the trip, buying, exchanging, returning.
Looks like the kids will be dressed 10x more stylish than we will be.
So it goes.

After hearing fantastic reviews from my esteemed professor at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies (where I am working on a PhD), we started watching this...

I'm not really sure if I like it or not.
The music is pretty cool though as are the fashions.
The lead character

is a total pig!
Leads quite the double life.
I can't think of one redeeming quality this guy has.
Come to think of it, not one character on this show really has any.

We have only seen the first three episodes,
so maybe things will change and half the characters
will kick their cancer stick habit and develop some morals,
but I'm not holding my breath.

Vote for Debra

Sorry for the long delay in posting. Busy, busy with the cruise planning. It is quickly approaching... aahhhhhhh!

My sister has entered a contest thru More magazine. If you could take the time to register and vote for her daily, she might buy you a subscription like she did me! Ha! It only requires a username and password, and you can opt out of receiving anything from them.



You can find her contest entry here.

Thanks! And, I'll let you know if she wins!

Countdown 27 Days

Despite the warmer weather we had this week,
it's not as warm as Costa Rica's 82 degrees.

I'm sure glad I watch Diego so I know what these little animals are.
In case you don't, it's a sloth.
Looking forward to a rainforest adventure.

Let the Countdown Begin

The high today is supposedly going to reach 18 degrees.

And, it is going to snow.

AGAIN!!

Guess what?

It's sunny and 86 degrees in Cartagena today.

37 days till we leave for our cruise.

It really can't come fast enough.

More pics of ports of call to come as the countdown continues...

Daddy Daughter Dance

Carlie's favorite day of the year arrived on Saturday.
It was the Y's annual Daddy Daughter Dance.
She had been talking about it for weeks and was very concerned leading up to the dance that Daddy was not sure what he was going to wear.
Luckily, he figured it out.

I made sure to pick up some flowers at Costco so he could give them to her.
And, now we don't have to spend outrageous prices on Valentine's Day.
(Not just a hat rack, people.)

I'm only a few weeks away from my own Daddy Daughter Dance.
The annual trek my Dad and I make to downtown St. Louis to see the Aces play their One and Done game in the MVC Basketball Tournament.
Every year we have high hopes, only to have them dashed (usually by halftime.)

I'm not concerned with what he is going to wear.
My main concern is what kind of food they will be serving at the pre-game Alumni Club gathering.
And, once again, when my Dad is embarrassed to be wearing his Aces sweatshirt after the game, he can throw on his Duke Basketball polo.

Send Me My Refund

TAXES = DONE

(Glad to have that out of the way)

That's 1.5 Hours I'll Never Get Back

No, I'm not talking about the State of the Union. (I know better than to waste time on that.) I'm talking about this...

The entire movie took place in the first 45 minutes.
Once the "is she or isn't she a Russian spy" was revealed, the rest of the movie was just dumb.

I certainly hope "Inception" is better than this because it's on the way.

Snow!

With what greeted us when we woke this morning, we had to get out and enjoy!

(Words taken from Snow: by Roy McKie and Philip Eastman)

Snow!

Snow! Snow!
Come out in the Snow.

Snow! Snow!
Just look at the snow!
Come out! Come out!
Come out in the snow.

I want to know
If you like snow.
Do you like it?
Yes or No?

Do you like it in your face?
Yes! I like it any place.

What is snow?
We do not know.
But snow is lots of fun,
We know.

(I think I need some snowpants.)