Seriously...

Pacer..leave my books alone.

It's not funny.

Brookie

I already posted this on facebook, but I needed it here so I could remember it because it is so Brooklyn and it makes me laugh.

I was spending the day in my morning workout attire doing chores so I had a nice little bun in my hair. Brooklyn kept trying to comb it. She would talk in her high pitched pretend princess voice and kept saying things like, "It's okay my darling" and "Turn around my darling" and "Hold still Cinderella."

I really wasn't in the mood for hair combing because it hurt due to it being pulled up so I kept yelling at her and she kept reminding me to hold still. Finally after about the third episode of her coming over to comb it I told her to get down and go find a doll or a barbie or something to comb instead.

So she says (very dramatically), "I can't and I have to go now because you are being all crazy Cinderella to me."

Then she stomped off like a true prima donna.

Updates

Josh and I are still both in school.

Work is still plugging along.

The kids are still growing.

I think that pretty much covers it.

Last week I got this major craving for pumpkin pie. Who says you have to wait till Thanksgiving to have pie? So I gather up my pumpkins. Got them all ready to bake. They were beautiful! And they smelled beautiful. And it was my first attempt at cooking real pumpkins so I was a little bit excited.

I scooped out the goods and pureed it. Then I went to working mixing up my pie crust. Then I got really ambitious, and hungry, and decided I'd make french bread too to go with dinner since I had all the bread ingredients. So I found me a delicious recipe with amazing reviews that everyone just loved, and whipped up a little bread on the side.

Then came pie filling time. I pulled out my spices getting more and more excited as I smelled everything coming together. I popped it in the oven and let me tell you...it looked awesome! (except for the knife slice I had to make to test the middle)

I remember thinking..."I've had a great day today. I just love baking and I'm going to blog about it later, and I can't wait for my pie and my dinner and blah blah blah." So I went all out and made my own whipped cream.



Then dinner rolled around and I finally got to "savor" my hard work.

It only took one bite to realize something was wrong. I learned my lesson the hard way. Tin can tasting cannery flour makes for nasty pie and nasty bread and a pretty nasty mood after spending hours in the kitchen. What a wasted day.

Farm Time...

Nothing like baby animals to make the toddler smile. She didn't want to leave. Hence the grumpy face coming up.
Pacer was thrilled to wear the milk headband. Can't you tell? Anyone else notice my eye wrinkles? This picture made me feel old!

Sometimes I feel really bad for Josh. He goes to work all day and I get to play.

Funny

My professor posted this in class. I though it was funny...




In Japan, Toshiba has replaced the impersonal and unhelpful MS Windows error messages
on its notebook computers with its own Japanese haiku poetry...



A file that big?
It might be very useful. But now it is gone.

The Web site you seek cannot be located but countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return.

Aborted effort:
Close all that you have worked on. You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies so beautifully.

With searching comes loss and the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

The Zen that is seen is not the true Zen - until you bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces your expensive computer to a simple stone.

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream, but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky, but we never will.

Having been erased, the document you're seeking must now be retyped.

Serious error. All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

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3 years old!

Ahhh....gone are the days of brand new mom with one cute little baby...arriving are the days of old mom with a three year! Brooklyn had a great birthday. She just reminds me of all things girl. She is so in love with princesses, looking pretty, dancing, getting married...the works. She is hitting a really sweet stage. She tells us she loves us multiple times throughout the day with a big cheesy grin on her face. Every time I ask her why she wants something she answers, "Because I love you!" whether it makes sense or not. It is such a contrast to her sassy second personality that shakes her finger at you and puts her hands on her hips when she is mad. We get a good kick out of her...or at least I do haha. She really knows exactly how to work over her daddy. I blame him for teaching her how to tease :). It has nothing to do with my sassyness haha. Here she is...our sweet little Brookie.

My Garden

Today for the first time I ate a vegetable that I grew myself. I was pretty excited! Check out these beauties!
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I must say I'm a very neglectful gardener. I kind of got bored with it after a month or so when the squash bugs killed all my squash plants! So it's a little overgrown with weeds, grass, whatever. But finding the green beans today (yes I barely found them and hadn't even noticed they were producing) was good motivation. Maybe I'll get out there and tend to all of my plants a little better, because I definitely like the eating part!

Health Care Bill

Don't let it pass....I wrote my representative today. Took five minutes. Will it make a difference? I think so.

Giveaway

http://whippycake.blogspot.com/2009/10/giveaway.html

Check it out!