One Word

I took this from Laura. I have nothing new to report. I might steal Whitney's idea and post a Top Ten favorites of the Olympics. But now that they are over, does anyone really care? Maybe I'll start a weekly Top Ten of random things. Anyway, here we go....

Object: answer questions with one word ONLY. Not necessarily as easy as it looks! Can you do it?
1. Where is your cell phone? Purse
2. Where is your significant other? youtellme
3. Your hair? curly
4. Your mother? Wisconsin
5. Your father? who?
6. Your favorite thing? sons
7. Your dream last night? sad
8. Your dream/goal? done
9. The room you're in? office
10. Your hobby? reading
11. Your fear? drowning
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? rich
13. Where were you last night? home
14. What you're not? rich
15. One of your wish list items? i-pod
16. Where you grew up? Miami
17. The last thing you did? comment
18. What are you wearing? black
19. Your TV? off
20.Your pet? Jamie
21. Your computer? dinosaur
22. Your mood? bored
23. Missing someone? absolutely
24. Your car? Ford
25. Something you're not wearing? jewelry
26. Favorite store ? Best Buy
27. Love someone? friends
28. Your favorite color/shade? pink
29. Last thing you ate? Oatmeal
30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? Sunday

Hats Off

I have a former co-worker who takes an annual tubing trip with 16 of her closest girlfriends. They are the "crazy hats" club. She has never won.

Until I made her hat last year.

Marsha is single and loves men. So, I decided last year that she should have a hat that was dedicated to her favorite famous men, Tom Hanks, Tom Selleck, Dr. McDreamy, etc....

So, my other co-worker and other BFF, Susan and I came up with a theme. "It's Raining Men". We bought her a (purple) rain hat and made raindrops from pictures of her favorite men and attached them to the hat with pipe cleaner. So, it looked like her rain hat was being rained on by men! It was very clever (sorry, we forgot to take pics last year) and she WON!!!

So, this year, Susan and I decided we needed to make a hat that represented Memphis! So, while we had good intentions, we came down to the wire and had to whip the hat together the day before she left. She said the hat was a hit (I'm guessing it didn't win)! My favorite hat was last year's but this one didn't turn out so bad either. See pics below:

This is a pic of the hat. The "pyramid" is sitting atop the Mighty Mississippi. Elvis is the King (hence the crown). FedEx is flying across. Beale Street and the Tigers are represented!

For those of you who don't know - that is Jerry "the king" lawler

Check Em' Out!

I wanted to leave you two new blogs to read.

The first is my girl Whitney. I love her. She is really very funny and I admire her a great deal. I count her to be one of my best friends.

The second is my friend Tammy who just adopted from China. She put up a video of Gracie giggling. Cute.

School Days, Olympics and Babies Adopted in China

Well, today was the first day of school. That means my little appendage started High School. When I woke him up this morning, he was excited. As we got closer to school, he grew more nervous. He didn't know where to go or what to do and he didn't know who he would sit with at lunch. I pointed to the building about 20 football fields away and told him that is where he was to go first. Then I told him that High School is a clean slate. Start over - find your old friends and make new ones. Every single 9th grader feels the same way. I just wanted to hug him and hold his hand and walk him to class like I did when he was five years old. But I didn't.

But Jake, as we pulled away, leaned out the window and yelled, "We LOVE you, Cole". Cole turned eight shades of red and shook his head. But I did see his little grin before he turned away embarrassed. I love my kids. We live to embarrass each other!

So, then I dropped Jakie off at Middle School and he was stoked to go. He barely let me stop before he was out of the car looking for his friends. Bless it.

I want to call their cell phones so badly - I can't wait to find out how they are doing.

We are going to dinner tonite with Kathy Boo and Jake Boo for a first day of school celebration!!!

On to the Olympics. Are you WATCHING the Olympics? We watched the opening ceremonies and we watched Phelps win his 1st gold of the Olympics on Saturday and his we watched gymnastics and swimming last night.

Did you SEE last night's men's swimming relay? Oh EMMMMM GEEEEEEEE. You have got to see it if you missed it. I was talking to Susan and we were yelling and I was jumping up and down. It was incredible. If Lezak had shorter fingers, France would have one. Find the video. It is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Yes, Jimmy, I said amazing. Because it truly was. If you have not watched the Olympics at all, you are unAmerican.

On of my volunteers is adopting a little girl in China. I'm so happy for her and her husband. They lost their daughter to cancer four years ago and adopted their daughter from China exactly four years later. To the day. God is good. So cool.

Happy Monday!

On Sunday, I made the boys go to the sunflower fields at Shelby Farms and stand in the middle of bee and wasp infested sunflowers so I could take some pics. My intention was to get something sweet for Christmas cards.

Knowing my children as I do, I knew I wouldn't get a straight face. And I didn't. But I love the pics anyway. My kids crack me up!

We have a peacock who lives behind one of the offices in our office park. He is beautiful. Apparently he has been here for about two years. The Memphis Zoo didn't want him, so here he lives.

Brett Favre keeps proving to be an idiot and I'm so disappointed in him.

School starts Monday and tonight is registration. Where did I get a High Schooler? It makes me very sad :(

Hope you enjoy the slideshow!