Gotta love Halloween in the bible belt. Trick-or-treating a day early (on Saturday). Just. So. Wrong!!!!!
How do you fix a jack-o-lantern?
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with a pumpkin patch
When is it bad luck to meet a black cat?
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when you're a mouse
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Having Some Fun Now
The saying is supposed to be busy as a bee, but I think it needs to be busy as a Baldwin.
In other news...my baby girl got a job! She is the cutest little worker at Zaxby's. While she may be the smallest (they don't make shirts small enough to fit her) she is the biggest rock star and is earning compliments left and right!
It finally happened! I finally did it! I got to go geocaching! It was neat-o fun. We mostly found urban caches. I felt kinda sneaky snooping around in parking lots and messing with light posts and looking in trees and bushes back behind buildings and in parking lots. I don't know that I'll ever look at a light post or stop sign the same way. It's almost like a secret underground society of people that do this, hiding and finding things in the most unlikely places and maybe even right under your nose. I must say, I'm pretty good at it (once my friend showed me some of the tricks) but the thinking creatively and looking for things out of the ordinary, I can do that! I'm hoping I can convince my friend to take me again sometime. Next time though, I'm pretending I'm a ninja.
Last weekend we went to Dinosaur World. It's kinda cheesey but SUPER awesome! This place is meant for kids maybe 9 and under but it's our new favorite place. The kids got to dig for fossils in a giant sand box using plastic beach toys. Dev was the biggest guy there - including all the dad's! It was great! When he was on the slide on the playground, when sitting at the top getting ready to go down it, he could almost reach the bottom if he stretched his legs out! He may be tall and bigger than all the men in the park, but he's still my son and knows how to have fun!!!!
Fossils found by my oversized paleontologists!
Are you listening to me young man?!
Fossils found by my oversized paleontologists! 
Are you listening to me young man?!In other news...my baby girl got a job! She is the cutest little worker at Zaxby's. While she may be the smallest (they don't make shirts small enough to fit her) she is the biggest rock star and is earning compliments left and right!
It finally happened! I finally did it! I got to go geocaching! It was neat-o fun. We mostly found urban caches. I felt kinda sneaky snooping around in parking lots and messing with light posts and looking in trees and bushes back behind buildings and in parking lots. I don't know that I'll ever look at a light post or stop sign the same way. It's almost like a secret underground society of people that do this, hiding and finding things in the most unlikely places and maybe even right under your nose. I must say, I'm pretty good at it (once my friend showed me some of the tricks) but the thinking creatively and looking for things out of the ordinary, I can do that! I'm hoping I can convince my friend to take me again sometime. Next time though, I'm pretending I'm a ninja.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
It's the Perfect Day
It's 10/10/10. Perfect score from all three judges.
It's also National Zombie Day. Did you eat brains today? I hear they are high in fiber. And they are supposed to be good in scrambled eggs but since Zombies can't cook...
I've figured out a solution. I think that we should be able to call the numbers on a license plate and be connected to the driver of that vehicle so we can tell them they are being stupid or to get the bleep over and quit hogging the lane or to step on the gas jackass! Seriously, all our road rage problems would easily be solved if we could link to the person, (but not by cell phone), by their license plate and tell them a quick sentence like - HANG UP AND DRIVE YOU TARD! Now you are thinking to yourself that you are a hands free state but not all states can be like you, and not all states want to be like you. Gosh, you're state is so self righteous. Plus, like half your state doesn't even drive, they use public transportation or other means of transportation so you don't have as much of this problem as the south. People in the south LOVE their cars and for the most part, they all drive fast and just fine. It's the idiot commuters that go really slow in the left hand lanes that we should be able to punch in their license plate and link to their vehicle so we can thank them for wasting our oxygen. Or to introduce them to the little blinky lights on the car called turn signals. If I thought I could get away with it, I'd drive in the HOV (high occupancy vehicle) Lane aka: Carpool Lane but I don't think the officer would buy that me and my bad attitude make for two occupants in the car.
It's also National Zombie Day. Did you eat brains today? I hear they are high in fiber. And they are supposed to be good in scrambled eggs but since Zombies can't cook...
I've figured out a solution. I think that we should be able to call the numbers on a license plate and be connected to the driver of that vehicle so we can tell them they are being stupid or to get the bleep over and quit hogging the lane or to step on the gas jackass! Seriously, all our road rage problems would easily be solved if we could link to the person, (but not by cell phone), by their license plate and tell them a quick sentence like - HANG UP AND DRIVE YOU TARD! Now you are thinking to yourself that you are a hands free state but not all states can be like you, and not all states want to be like you. Gosh, you're state is so self righteous. Plus, like half your state doesn't even drive, they use public transportation or other means of transportation so you don't have as much of this problem as the south. People in the south LOVE their cars and for the most part, they all drive fast and just fine. It's the idiot commuters that go really slow in the left hand lanes that we should be able to punch in their license plate and link to their vehicle so we can thank them for wasting our oxygen. Or to introduce them to the little blinky lights on the car called turn signals. If I thought I could get away with it, I'd drive in the HOV (high occupancy vehicle) Lane aka: Carpool Lane but I don't think the officer would buy that me and my bad attitude make for two occupants in the car.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Considering It
I think my bad eyesight is affecting my ability to kick butt in air hockey. That alone is enough to make me seriously consider going to the eye doctor. If my kidlets weren't going to be leaving me to join the academic world in the next couple years, I would get an air hockey table. Although, I could probably afford one better after they leave and it would be something fun to do when they come home to visit me... I'm obviously looking for any excuse to get a table. My love of air hockey is juvenile, I know. And...I. Don't. Care. So there. Hmph!
It's definitely fall. It's actually cold today. I had to close the patio door and turn the ceiling fans off. waaahhhhh! I am excited though, it's October which means Halloween which means pumpkin bread and pumpkin muffins and super yummy pumpkin pie! It also means trips to the pumpkin patch and getting lost in corn mazes and seeing zombies in the haunted house. I've got to find a guy to go through the corn maze with. I do NOT have that innate sense of direction. The only corn maze I went in I wandered around (with a map of clues) for about 2 hours and ended up exiting through the entrance. I never did get through the entire thing. It was rather pathetic running around in circles the entire time. I think I saw the entrance about 4 times and finally started to get tired and thirsty so the next time we stumbled upon the entrance, we exited. It's also time to dig out the kids' favorite Halloween book - Big Pumpkin. It has to be read with different voices for different characters. I love making one of the monsters have a high pitched girlie voice. I'll have bedtime story time for my 16 and 17 year olds.
It's definitely fall. It's actually cold today. I had to close the patio door and turn the ceiling fans off. waaahhhhh! I am excited though, it's October which means Halloween which means pumpkin bread and pumpkin muffins and super yummy pumpkin pie! It also means trips to the pumpkin patch and getting lost in corn mazes and seeing zombies in the haunted house. I've got to find a guy to go through the corn maze with. I do NOT have that innate sense of direction. The only corn maze I went in I wandered around (with a map of clues) for about 2 hours and ended up exiting through the entrance. I never did get through the entire thing. It was rather pathetic running around in circles the entire time. I think I saw the entrance about 4 times and finally started to get tired and thirsty so the next time we stumbled upon the entrance, we exited. It's also time to dig out the kids' favorite Halloween book - Big Pumpkin. It has to be read with different voices for different characters. I love making one of the monsters have a high pitched girlie voice. I'll have bedtime story time for my 16 and 17 year olds.
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