Jeff's idea of "Daddy Daughter Date Night"

It was Allison's turn to have a date night with dad. She picked Chinese food for dinner of course... because that is her favorite. (At least it used to be.)

So Jeff found a new Chinese buffet that he heard was good.

As they went through the line, Jeff spied a nasty looking squid (NOT Calamari)

- gooey, tentacles and all.

He told Allison he'd give her $10 bucks to eat it. She refused.

$20 - no

$30 - no

A new outfit at the mall?

Here's the tentacles...

Here's Allison playing with them

Here she is eating them...

Here's Allison almost puking!

Here's Allison in her new outfit from the mall!

Got to love those nights out with dad!

It happened!

This isn't a good picture, but Jeff finally put up my pot rack!

I now have a bit more cupboard space for all those other things I seem to collect over time.

Yeah for handy husbands! (It only took him a year - hee hee!)

Book of the Week

The Boxcar Children was one of my favorite books as a child. Sammi just finished it and liked it as well. This is a great read for elementary age kids. I also read it out loud to my 5 year old.

This is a series, but I liked the 1st one the best. Happy reading!

You can get it here for cheap!

All together

This weekend, all my brothers and sisters were here for my sisters wedding. Here's a picture of us all together with the newlyweds.

I thought I would post it and give you a peek at the Thomas family. Here we all are!

In order from left to right;
Brent, Eldon, Glenn, (new brother-in-law) Clark, Melanie, Melissa, Heather, and Linnea

The "Blush"

This is Meredith. She is the cute mother of 2, a great decorator, and a very good friend.

But there is something else you may not know about her...you see,

Meredith has a "Blush" on my brother Eldon.

What is a "Blush" you ask? Well it is a Blog/Crush.

I knew she read my brothers blog regularly, but I just didn't know how far it had gone.

Late Saturday night, Jeff and I invited ourselves over to Meredith's house for a bit. (I brought cinnamon rolls, so they let me in) I proceeded to give Meredith a run down of my day and my sisters wedding.

Somewhere in the conversation I mentioned my brother Eldon, and she perked right up and I noticed her breath caught in her chest.

"Eldon?" she said. "He's here... in MESA?"

Then she got all silly on me and I snapped that picture.
I have tried to reason with her, that it will never work out.
But I am afraid that as long as Eldon keeps blogging, she will just keep on blushing!

Get out and walk!

We were headed to my parents house for dinner today, and we couldn't take the suburban because it was out of gas. So we crammed the kids into the back of the truck and off we went to grandmas house.

That was the longest 30 minute drive of my life. What did we feed these kids? They just wouldn't stop pestering each other. They giggled, poked, tickled, cried, made rude sounds, and more, the whole way there.

Finally Jeff and I had had it! We kicked them out of the car a few blocks before we got to grandmas and made them walk the rest of the way.

We thought it was a good idea until we turned the corner and someones irrigation was overflowing into the street. They had fun splashing their way to grandmas house.

Aren't we the meanest parents ever... hee hee hee!

Flashback

Did anyone else have a "Kevin Bacon" flashback while watching high school musical 2?