Sunday Skies

When we arrived at church this afternoon for the rehearsal of the children's musical I took these picture of the clouds over and around our church. They were just beautiful.

Center Pull Ball & Other Stuff

Okay...I may be behind in learning how to do this but I finally did. Yesterday I learned how to make a center pull ball with the yarn I was going to use. It was quite easy. In fact I think I'll do it from now on because it makes the yarn so much easier to use. Here is a picture of it.

Last Tuesday before the rains came and cancelled Sam's soccer game he made a make shift fort out of an umbrella. He was so proud of it and wanted me to come and look. Of course, I had to get my camera first. Since it was getting dark he also had a flashlight with him.

Today Sam had his sixth soccer game. They won 2-1. So that makes their record 4-2. They have their make-up of their make-up game this coming Thursday but Sam won't be able to attend as he is attending his last Pack meeting with his Tiger Cubs. He's a bit disappointed but he'll live. His last soccer game will be next Saturday.

After his soccer game today we took him over to Lowe's to their children's workshop. He got to build a Herb Planter. He did really well and we already have Basil and Oregano planted in it and it's sitting in our kitchen window. He did so well that while they were waiting for the potting soil he and his best friend helped the lady that was running it build hers. And of course I took pictures.

Friday's Feast is Served!

Appetizer: Tell about a time when you had to be brave.

I really can't think of a time where I had to be brave. Now we will have a time coming up where Sam will have to have a small surgery and I know that I'll have to show him and act brave for him.

Soup: Which upcoming movie are you excited about seeing?

Well that is a no brainer question for me. It would have to be Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Count down is posted to the left.

And of course there is also Shrek the Third.

Salad: Name an item you try to always have on hand.

At this time of year and living where it is hot and moist it would have to be two things. #1 would be sunscreen. #2 would be bug spray.

And of course I try to have my camera with me at all times as you never know when you will want to take that picture and don't want to say, "Gee, I really wish I had remembered to bring my camera along with me."

Main Course: Imagine the most relaxing room you can think of. Now describe it!

Quiet. Soft colors. Big squishy pillows on either a couch or a bed. Large french doors over looking the ocean. Flowing curtains hang to the side of the open doors. Me there with loved ones having a good time or just me relaxing.

Dessert: On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being highest), how spiritual or religious are you?

To me one is always working to get closer to God. I would have to say that I'm still a child. I'll put myself on this scale at about a 7.

Updates On This And That

Sam's soccer game last night was cancelled due to the downpour of rain that we received here. They rescheduled it for tomorrow evening but then again I don't know if that will happen or not. We have a 50% chance of storms tomorrow evening. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Of course the rain that we got was nothing compared to what everyone in MO and KS received. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that is going through the flooding. If you haven't been watching this on the news click here.

Well my first sock had to be started over because I didn't like the length that I had chosen for it. Luckily I hadn't gotten that far along on it. I'm hoping to finish my first one soon so that I can start the second sock and then I can say that I have finished my first pair!

Guess I better get off of here and go tuck Sam into bed for the night. He's had a pretty busy week and it's only halfway over.

Lambs are Miniature Poodles!?!?

Click the picture above to read an article written by Virginia Wheeler of The Sun Newspaper of the UK. I saw this on the blog Knit This Too and had to share it with everyone.

*Update...Thanks to Marigold for letting me know that this was actually a hoax pulled on the newspaper.

Sam's First Night Game

Here are two pictures that I took at Sam's first night game. They won 2-1. So now their record is 3-2. They have another night game tomorrow night then just two more Saturday games. The first picture I took of Sam throwing the ball back in and the second one was of the sunset after the game. As usual you can click on the pictures to make them bigger.

Sunday Skies

Beautiful day today. Right now it is almost 5pm and it is 87 degrees F and there is a feels like of 93 degrees F. The highest I saw it as far as the feels like was 96 degrees F but there is a nice SE breeze blowing today around 10mph.

Soccer

Here are the pictures that I took while the professional photographer was taking the pictures that I am going to purchase. I'm hoping that the ones that she took of him individually were of him smiling (with teeth showing) and not like these. If so...oh well...they still look good. I king of like the one of him leaning forward. Here are also a couple I got of the whole team. He is on a great team this year and has a wonderful coach. So far after only 4 games they are 2-2. The last two games they won with the score being 5-1 and this past Saturday 5-2. They are very proud of these last two wins mainly because they have finally started working as a team and have been listening to their coach. Sam plays goalie for the first and third quarter and then is a reliever in the second and fourth quarters. Sam has a his first ever night game this Monday and Tuesday. Then two more Saturday games after that. Then the season will be over and it will be on to baseball. Which Andy will be one of the assistant coaches along with his current soccer coach being the head coach. Sam, of course, is pretty excited about this. So in the evenings not only have we been practicing blocking the soccer balls as I kick them to him but we have also been practicing hitting the baseball. He's getting pretty darn good at that too. In fact the other evening when Andy and I were both outside with Sam and working on his hitting I took a turn at hitting and I hit a ball right back at Andy and hit him on his glasses whacking them out of alignment. Oops!

Friday's Feast is Served!

Appetizer: Name something you would not want to own.

I do not want a pet spider!!!!!! Can't stand them and I hope that Sam doesn't ever want one.

Soup: Describe your hair (texture, color, length, etc.).

My hair is brown with high and low lights in it. Past my shoulders and cut in long layers.

Salad: Finish this sentence: I’ll never forget ___________.

I'll never forget the day that we saw Sam for the first time. We went over to his foster parents house not knowing what to expect and there he was. The child that we were going to adopt. He was such a beautiful baby. I got to hold him, play with him and feed him that day. Then we had to leave and wait almost a full month before I could hold him again. That was probably one of the longer months of my life.

Main Course: Which famous person would you like to be for one day? Why?

I honestly can't think of one person that I would want to be for a day right now....but can I have the money that they would make in one day and not have to return it??? Now that would be nice.

Dessert: Write one sentence about yourself that includes one thing that is true and another thing that is not.

I am a very happy person most of the time and I am 6 feet tall.

First Sock Update

As promised here are the more up to date pictures of my very first sock. So far so good! I'm really enjoying working on this as it seems to be going pretty quickly.

Travelling Scarf

Here is an update on the Travelling Scarf project I'm participating in. What is turning out to be a really nice outcome of this project is that I'm trying to learn a new stitch with each one I work on. So it is not only fun to see each scarf that comes through but I'm also learning at the same time. I really can't wait to see mine once it comes back home.

Here are some pictures of the last two scarves I've worked on. I took two pictures of each. One showing the whole scarf as it is now and then one closer up on the area I knitted. As usual...just click on one to see a close up image.


These two pictures are of the second scarf I worked on. I learned how to do a basket weave type stitch and it was fun and easy to do.


This was actually the first scarf that arrived here and it was the one that took me the longest to work on. I started it at my parents house while I was up there with Sam on his spring break. It was a more difficult stitch for me to learn but it was fun and I'm glad that I took the time to learn it.

Catching Up

I have finally started my first sock. I started it last week and Sam's soccer practice and I've been mainly working on it at his practices. Maybe I'll call them my soccer socks. Of course true to me being me I am already changing the pattern even though I've never done this before. I want to make it an ankle sock. I'm further along than this picture. I'll try to remember to take another picture of it later today. I'm already making the heal flap.

These two aren't the greatest pictures but I wanted to show you how close the B52's practice to Sam's soccer practice. It's fun to watch them flying around here every day.

This last picture was taken last week after the above soccer practice. I was the "leader" for the meeting and I had scheduled a tour of the local fire department. I was told it would last roughly 30 minutes which meant that I had to come up with something to do with them for another 30 minutes. Well to my surprise the tour actually lasted the full hour and it was just great! In fact the boys got to see the fire truck to out on a call to rescue a dog that had gotten up into an attic and had fallen down between the walls. Then not much later the ambulance was called out. Luckily they were able to go into the ambulance and get a tour of it before it was called out. This fire department is located across the street from Sam's school and is also a training center so we get to see them practicing putting out fire's quite often. Which of course Sam loves to watch. It was a wonderful , very exciting and informative meeting.



In just a little bit I'll be off to my last bible study. I'm kind of sad to see it end. It has been a good one. I'll try to summarize it later. We are talking about keeping this group going and picking out another study to do.



As usual...remember that you can click on the pictures to see them bigger.

Dare you to look at some beautiful pictures!

I was looking at some random blogs this evening and I came across one titled Antarctia. It was listed in the Blogs of Note and it is not an active blog but...WOW! If anything just look at the pictures.

Sunday Skies

It's a beautiful day here. Right now it's almost 3 in the afternoon and it is 86 degrees (F). Sam is outside playing and have a lazy afternoon. I might just go join him.

Sad Day

Tragedy hits St. Louis Cardinals. Josh Hancock was killed in a car accident. Click here and here to read more about it. Picture courtesy of St. Louis Post Dispatch taken by Chris Lee/P-D.



Joshua Morgan Hancock
April 11, 1978 - April 29, 2007

Air Show

Well as promised I'm finally getting around to posting about the air show that we went to last Sunday. This has been a dream for me to be able to go to one and it finally came true for me! Not to mention for my son also! All three of us had a wonderful time while we were there. We rode a shuttle from the local mall to the base as it was less hassle than taking our car. We were the second shuttle to arrive and we were able to get primo seats right in front of the barrier and also right in front of the Thunderbirds! We stayed all day and saw pretty much everything there. Instead of listing all of the static displays go here to see the list and also links to each individual plane. To see a list of all the performances that we watched go here. I would also highly recommend you going to the Thunderbirds site and watch some of the video they have there as it will give you more of an idea of what we watched.

Now here are just a handful of the pictures that I took. I was amazed at how well some of these came out as our digital camera is now 6 years old. Not to mention how fast these planes were flying! As usual you may click on the pictures to get the bigger view.

OotP

Okay...I really can't wait for Order of the Phoenix to come out! Here is the most current trailer if you haven't already seen it. Before playing it here on my blog just pause my music player at the bottom of the page.

Friday's Feast is Served!

Appetizer: How fast can you type?

I can type around 90+ wpm. At least that was the last time I had it tested and it's been awhile.

Soup: What is your favorite online game?

I really don't have one as I don't do much online gaming. I do like doing puzzles and word searches online though...does that count?

Salad: On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 as highest), how intelligent do you think you are?

I guess it really depends on the subject at hand. SO...I guess I would score myself around 6-8. This is really a hard question for me as with some subjects I'm really good at and others I stink.

Main Course: Name three of your best teachers from your school years.

First of all I would have to say it would be my parents...but if I had to pick just teachers (and I'm assuming that this is applying to just K-12th grade) my top three would be my band and choir teachers from high school (Mr. Cochran and Mrs. Lerner-Sexton), my 7th grade science teacher (I can't remember his name but he sure did make learning science fun and probably why I like most sciences) and my 6th grade teacher (I don't remember her full name as we all called her Ms. B).

Dessert: What are your plans for this upcoming weekend?

Not much. Sam has a soccer game on Saturday and that's about it.

Sam's Find

Yesterday afternoon while I was fixing dinner Sam came running into the house yelling, "Come see what I caught". To my surprise Sam caught a beautiful moth. After researching it last night I found out that it is a Polyphemus moth. This is a giant silk moth and it gets its name from the large eye spots on its hind wings, referring to Polyphemus, the Cyclops of Greek mythology, who captured (and was eventually blinded by) Odysseus in Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey.

Sam used part of a 2-liter bottle and his bike helmet to capture it. This moth had a wing span of roughly 5 inches. Sam was VERY PROUD of his find and couldn't wait to show it to everybody. So this was the best way for everyone to see it. Remember that you can click on the pictures to see them bigger.

Here is Sam proudly showing me his find.

We are now outside (after admiring it for some time inside) getting ready to release it. As you can see with it's wings out it couldn't even fit inside the 2-liter! What a beautiful creature!

It sat on the ground for quite a while before it finally flew off.

Sunday Skies

Need I say more? Well actually...I'll update tomorrow about the wonderful day we had today at the Barksdale AFB Air Show.

Contest

I want to take a moment of your time to tell you all about a contest that I stumbled upon. While looking at all of the Friday Feasts out there I ran across this contest on Christina's Shoebox and wanted to share it with you. Take a minute to check out the 5 Minutes For Mom blog. They are giving away a nifty Philips digital photo frame!

Friday Feast

Appetizer
What is your favorite kind of bread?
Any bread that is homemade would probably be my favorite. I do have a soft spot for banana nut bread.

Soup
When was the last time you bought a new pillow?
I really don't remember the last time I purchased a new pillow. Sad I know.

Salad
Approximately how many hours per week do you spend surfing the ‘net?
Oh gee....do I really have to answer that one? It really does vary week to week but it still is probably too many.

Main Course
What’s the highest you remember your temperature being?
It was in the 104 region and I remember that my parents had to come and get me and I ended up having strep throat. I think that I was at some church district event but I'm not sure. The main thing I remember is that my throat hurt terribly and I was so hot.

Dessert
Fill in the blanks: When I ____________, I _____________.

When I am with my son I can't believe how blessed I am to have him in our lives.

Harry Potter Character Combatibility Test

You scored as Albus Dumbledore. You are very wise, observant, and analyctical. You have a very "well-organized" mind, which makes you function in a calm and fair manner. Though you get angered easily, its rare of you to ever act our of temper. You are constantly seeing the good in people and are naturally forgiving because of it. You're easy to please and a great person to learn from. Sirius Black 63% Albus Dumbledore 63% Hermione Granger 59% Bellatrix Lestrange 50% Ron Weasley 50% Harry Potter 47% Oliver Wood 44% Luna Lovegood 41% Remus Lupin 41% Neville Longbottom 38% Percy Weasley 38% Severus Snape 38% Lord Voldemort 38% Draco Malfoy 3% Harry Potter Character Combatibility Test created with QuizFarm.com

What Planet Are You From Quiz....

Fun Quiz.

You Are From Mercury

You are talkative, clever, and knowledgeable - and it shows. You probably never leave home without your cell phone! You're witty, expressive, and aware of everything going on around you. You love learning, playing, and taking in all of what life has to offer. Be careful not to talk your friends' ears off, and temper your need to know everything.

What Planet Are You From?