A Various Thursday

I made $15.70 in recycling today - that is in one week. I think it is great...free money, except for my time.

Got many things done on my list today.
Stake Primary meeting tonight!
Baked chicken and rice from the cooker and rolls for dinner. (Not chicken and rice.)
Will need to record Survivor!

Taking Batting Practice

Griffin is in T-ball - BUT now the coach pitches 4 balls to the batter. If they do not hit the ball, then they get the T. I thought I would help Griffin with some batting practice. This is it yesterday:

I think he is pretty good!

P.S. Christopher, right now Griffin is playing with "the city" that I gave to you when you turned 3. He says he LOVES it!

It's a Bear Over There

I guess the Cornwall's (of Monrovia) had a bear sleeping in their tree. They got a video. Here is the post if you are interested in seeing it:


http://cornwalls.blogspot.com/2009/04/quite-morning.html

Where'd it Go??

My this day went fast!

I did get many little things done from "my list"
grocery shopped
made dinner; fettuccine with dry chicken (oops, too long in the crockpot)
made several phone calls
enjoyed Chase's letter
watched Zak high jump
walked around the track a couple of times
watched Griffin do T-ball
Took Griffin shopping for a new shirt! He REALLY wanted to do this!
collected many plastic bottles for recycling
I didn't prepare for my art lesson tomorrow!!
I did watch some of the Dodgers...they lost!
I did watch 24
Did some dishes
Enjoyed some Twitter
Petted that cat! He begged me.
Texted with Tatia
Enjoyed a shower
Now I will enjoy a spot of reading and let's hope some sleep!

Hankering for some Chicken?

I learned this at:

thefreebieblogger.com

On Tues, April 28th you can get a FREE leg and thigh and 2 tortillas and salsa. It works upon REQUEST. The offer ends at 8:00pm

So just to recap:

Free Chicken on Tues

Ice Cream on Wed for .31 cents at Baskin Robbins - I guess I blogged about the ice cream on Paynes Far and Wide.... check here

Stand Up For What You Believe!

Have you all heard the controversy about the Miss USA pageant? Miss California, Carrie Prejean, was asked about her feelings on same-sex marriage. This was her response:

"We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised."

I am guessing that when she spoke, she new that she was going against what the Political Correct thing to say. She spoke from her heart and gave her true feelings.

Keith Lewis, who runs the Miss California competition, tells FOXNews.com that he was "saddened" by Prejean's statement.

What?? He totally missed the BIG issue here! She had the guts to go against peer pressure and the pressure to WIN, she stood her ground even though it was not the popular, cute, or best answer. She is the perfect example for having the strength of our convictions EVEN when it is hard. If more people were like her, the world would be a better place.

A Free Bag!

I got this FREE BAG from Whole Foods today!

Just click on the link below and you will see a place to get coupons for various things, this bag included!
http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090422-tows-coupon-downloads


Also going on today:

• I watched Griffin and Kylie at their school's "Broadway Show" performance. They both did very well! Griffin sang songs from Mary Poppins and Kylie did songs from Thoroughly Modern Millie.

• Then I went to recycle! Finally, no line and I got it all done.....$15.30! My best week ever!

• Next was to pick up my FREE reusable bag from Whole Foods. I like free.

• The weather....about 64 degrees! Griffin is still begging to swim. I think he is crazy!

• Zak has a track meet at PCC today at 4:00 - go see him pole vault!

• I have dishes, laundry and all sorts of sewing project swirling around in my head. My sweet friend, Holly is getting me in on a boutique in LaVerne on May 8th & 9th.

A Half Filled Pool

After two days of sweltering 100 degree heat, we have the pool clean enough that we can now fill it up. Griffin had a GREAT time playing in it today while it was being filled with water....hose water, cold, cold water. Today the temperature was a very livable 81 degrees.

Griffin played in the pool for about 1 hour!

While Griffin swam, I cleaned up leaves, leaves and more leaves. I tried to take a picture of my very sweaty self...really, I was dripping sweat. I accidentally took a 2 second video...and sadly, you can't even see the glistening of my face:

After Kylie got home from school, she and Griffin went swimming again! Sorry, no pictures of that. Kylie then went to a softball game, she did well, but the team lost - you can't win them all. At 7:45 that night, after dinner, Kylie begged to go swimming again! I had to say no as it was time to shower, then go to bed!

Here is Kylie playing catcher....taken with my cell phone. The umpire had a hard time.

Jesus Saves

You know one of my FAVORITE things to do is capture pictures of people I don't know. While "picking up and dropping off" yesterday afternoon, I passed by this man a few times. Then I realized I had my camera and took his picture.

Nice of him to pass on the message.


**Extra points to the person who can pinpoint the location where this man was walking!

3 Pictures

Here is Griffin yesterday, (Tuesday), playing T-ball in 100 degree heat!

Delicious cookies I made the other day...yes they were that good.

These clouds were so beautiful! I noticed them as I was leaving in my car, I called home and asked Kylie to please take a pictures of them. She did a great job! This was taken about about 10 days ago. Since then we have had rain, wind, freezing (I had to get another blanket on my bed) and so hot I couldn't sleep.

Should I go into photo journalism?