Too Funny!

Okay, I finally learned how to embed videos . . . YAY Me!
Trent- This is what I was telling you about!
This is what MTV should be airing instead of Life Styles of the Rich and Clueless.

Un-Broke: The Seth Green Cribs Edition - watch more funny videos

This is me dragging out my soap box once again

I was completely disgusted over the circus that was Michael Jackson's memorial service. Don't get me wrong. As an entertainer he was incredible. And yes, I loved him during my younger years (I even had something that was nothing less than a shrine to him in my room in the early 80's) And yes, the memorial was very touching and emotional. But when exactly did memorials turn into a ticket selling-promotional hyped-sweeps week worthy media extravaganza that we saw on T.V. the other day. Isn't there something to be said to paying respects to a lost loved one in private??? And who decided it was okay to spend 1.4 million dollars in California tax payers dollars when government employees have been forced to take unpaid leaves because the state can't make payroll. If the 'public' wanted to pay their respects, organize a ABC Special and let them pay to be part of if, but don't call it a damned memorial service!!!! America's priorities are so screwed up, it's embarrassing! (And, no, I don't exclude myself in those screwed up priorities being that Perez Hilton is one of my personal touch stones to reality).

LET'S GET A GRIP PEOPLE!

My father forwarded this email to me yesterday.

I'm posting it in an effort to stir my own focus back to where it should be.

Talk about a real Hero

Michael Jackson dies and it's 24/7 news coverage.
A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news.

You're a 19-year-old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day. Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it. Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway. And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses. And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out. Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.
Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman! Since the media didn't give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.

(this was forwarded via several emails . . . .fact accuracy is not guaranteed)

Okay, I'm putting away my soap box now.

CAN NOT WAIT!

I. AM. SO. EXCITED!

I already have my babysitter on retainer for the 15th! (I'm too old to try to do midnight of the 14th! I'll leave that to the young whippersnapper Potter fans!
(even in my excitement, I still managed a literary reference to Twilight . . . anyone catch that?)And, I totally would have a HP6 countdown on this blog if I could find a damned code that worked!

Just too funny!

Okay, so this is just too funny not to post.

Long story short, Chloe is attending Vacation Bible School this week (no, that's not the funny part). I signed her up to ride the bus, which was very convenient.

For those who know me, you can imagine the look on my face when Chloe comes ridin' on home on the big ol' Jesus bus!

I'm thinking God got a pretty good chuckle out of this!

My 'fondant quilting' attempt

So I decided I wanted to try to make a quilted fondant cake

My inspiration. (focus on the fondant, not the flowers)

Looks easy enough, right? Yeah, turns out . . . not so easy.

Yes, I know. I've got a lot to learn. I'm thinking I may not be able to self teach this one.
It may have looked better if I had the nonpareils (candy pearls) to put on it . . . .but probably not.

But at least my fondant ribbon roses turned out pretty.
I made this for my neighbor Kim's birthday.
She said it tasted good, so that's something, right?

Logan's big boy bike!

This weekend we finally got Logan a new bike.

He was very excited to have a big boy bike and his new flame helmet.
His bike came just in time for our Fourth of July block party parade.
While the block party was kind of a dud this year, the kids still had a blast with all the fireworks Uncle Gary brought.

And then there was the water balloon fight!