Indiana Jones

Last night Jim and I went on a group date. It was a lot of fun. At the end we all went and saw the new Indiana Jones movie. Some parts were funny, but I wouldn't recommend spending the extra money to go and see it.

But the coolest part was at the very beginning. There is a car full of collage aged kids weaving in and out of army vehicles. I was looking at the background and it looked very familiar. Then I saw George O’Keeffe mesa!!!! They were filming the road right after abiquiu and Ghost Ranch; that flat stretch before you get to the little amphitheater!

At first I felt really silly telling Jim that I KNEW that place but in the credits it said NM! How cool is that. I guess that make me famous right?

Answer to the movie quote: Disney's Bedknobs and broomsticks

Happy Birthday NJ

Today is NJ's Birthday and she is turning the big FIVE. She is excited to be old enough to ride the bus and go to school in the fall.

We celebrated her birthday on Sunday. For dinner she asked for Mac & Cheese, cottage cheese and apple sauce. A different kind of meal, but Hey! you only get a birthday once a year. Why not have what you like? For her cake she asked for a lemon cake with lemon frosting and she picked out cherry nut ice cream.

For her birthday she got a new bike and had a hard time waiting until today to go outside and ride it.

Today we did have a little get together with some friends and they watched the movie Barbie of Swan Lake. AND my mom was worried that I would make my girls into tom boys. One things for sure they come out with their own personalities and she loves princesses and my little pony's, but she can play a mean soccer game! So I'm doing alright.

This last one is of Banana. Because NJ has a new bike Ban has inherited NJ's old bike. This is of Ban showing of her new gear.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NJ!!!

Flowers

I wanted to show everybody my beautiful flowers. There is a picture of my Bleeding Heart bush that is in the back of our house and the tulips are in the front.
But nothing is as beautiful as a gift from the heart, brought to me by little hands. Natalie loves Dandelions and she always makes a bouquet for me. It makes me feel important that she is always thinking of me and in her little way saying she loves me. It's what being a mother is all about.

Friday

I am so glad that today is Friday. This Saturday is the Dodgeville's junk day. That means you can put out whatever you no longer want and the garbage man will help you get rid of it. I think that it is kind of funny, because I see people driving around looking at other people's junk and taking things they may want. It's like a garage sale, but a garbage or junk sale. Two Saturday's ago it was the towns yard sale day, and I guess now it's "Get rid of all the stuff you didn't sale day." How does that saying go, "One man's junk is another man's treasure."

Last year I did put out a few nice things that I no longer wanted, just to see what kind of person would go through and take the stuff. Needless to say, the stuff was taken. The things we do for entertainment. I think that I should have gone into psychology. Hum. I wonder if I need to pay these people for my experiments, or at least let them know that they were volunteers.

"If there's one thing we like it is volunteers! Eh Birdie." Movie quote. Do you know what movie it comes from? Chelsea may know!

Also I put up another picture of Jared and Hannah on Jared's cool snowmobile. See the smoke in the background? It's running and Hannah wasn't scared at all! Jared has made a snowmobile fan out of her. This one is for you Jared.