A not so typical grocery store outing

One day there was this cute lady driving her blue pick up truck from the grocery store. She was on her way to her last and final stop and thought, “hum… it will not be good if I leave the meat in the truck while I go to Kroger. I will stop by the house and put it in the fridge and continue on my way to my last and final destination.”

The pretty lady pulled into the garage, unloaded the meats and cold things, fed the dog and was backing the truck out, when ALL OF A SUDDEN… WHAM! The garage door lands on the bed of the pick up truck. Without peeing in her pants, the lovely lady jumps out of her truck to find that, in fact, the garage door has landed on the bed of the truck. She uses her strong muscles to push the door back up and proceeds to pull the truck back into the garage to asses the damage. THANKFULLY, no damage was done to the truck at all nor to the garage door.

The little lady said to herself, “self… you did not push the button to close the garage… mike was not coming up the street and trigger the door… what happened?” Well.. the precious lady called her understanding husband, who was still on his way home, to let him know that there was something wrong with the door and while on the phone….

… low and behold… discovered that she had shut the emergency release cord in the truck door!! So when the absent minded lady back out of the garage, it disengaged the door and caused it to come crashing down!!

Moral of the story… Do not close the emergency release pull in your door - it will cause the door to fall…tie up the emergency pull so that this event does not occur again… and always go to the bathroom before you leave the house, just incase some crazy event like this happens again - you will not pee in your pants =)

 

Luckily no one and nothing was injured in this crazy event and while I may have one more gray hair growing on my head… this should not happen again!!

Homemade Pancakes

I don’t know about you, but we grew up making pancakes from the box that you added eggs, oil and milk. Now, you can hardly find one of those in the store… mostly the mixes are just “add water”. And they don’t taste quite as good.

Here’s a recipe (courtesy of my sister) for making pancakes at home. It’s simple. It’s ingredients you have in your house and (of course) it’s yummy! Enjoy

Ingredients

• 1 1/4 cup flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 1 Tbsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• 2 Tbsp oil
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Mix together dry ingredients.
2. Then add wet ingredients.
3. Stir until blended but do not over stir. Allow mix to rest for 3-5 minutes.
4. During resting time, allow pan to heat to medium. Melt a tbsp of butter on pan.
5. Use a 1/4 cup measuring cup to scoop out the mix onto the pan. Allow edges to bubble and pull away from pan. Flip. Cook another 2 minutes or until cooked through. Enjoy.

Recent Update

Sorry its been a while. I have enjoyed each of your posts and appreciate the humor and pictures for sure =)

Here’s a little of what’s going on in our lives. We have all our lillies blooming and even the Gladiolas started coming out. They are now in full swing and are beautiful. Avi enjoyed some time supervising the grilling and snuggling with me on the sofa for sure. And we even have 4 little finch eggs in our bird house!!! soo exciting =)

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Michael’s most recent softball game was a win!! It was the first tournament game and the boys did great. They won about 24 to 10 or so? not really sure but it was by a mile and we’ll play again next week (potentially up to three games) to finish out the tournament.

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Mike went fly fishing with our friend Bryan and caught a few fish =)

 

 

 

And we even had Kristen and Aaron come by and visit last night! We played pirates dice after a nice pizza dinner and then ate fresh homemade mint oreo ice cream and played the wii! It was a lot of fun for sure and great to see them both =) and grace of course!

Over the last few weeks and weekends

Here are just a few things that have been going on the last few weeks and weekend. Enjoy =)

I had a tie dye party for my 9th grade girls … excuse me now 10th grade girls and we had a blast. My shirt turned out great and I hope theirs did as well. I have almost got the last of the dye off my fingernail. This happened over Memorial weekend! needless to say, if you want to tie dye… wear the provided gloves =)

 

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Here are a few pictures from our flower this year. The pictures aren’t the best, I was grabbing the pictures quickly this morning at 7am before running out the door and the thumb drive kept filling up!

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Our little Avi being crazy at the park then really calm later that weekend at home =) My favorite is the one with a few dogs in it and she’s crouched down daring the other dogs to chase her.

 

Then Megan came out last weekend and we had a great time walking the neighborhood, doing some (successful) shopping to find her a dress to wear to an evening wedding! You should have seen how many dresses we took into the dressing room. Kristen you would have been proud at the efficiency which which we had her in and out of probably 30 dresses! Then just a nice time relaxing, chatting and such! So glad she was able to come

 

Just thought yall would want to stay up to date on what’s going on. I finally was able to remember to bring the pictures to work so I can blog during some free time.

Biking skills update

Just thought i would update yall on how the biking is going. Last time I left you, while the blog was mostly about my awesome Michael, I was a mess on a bike. We have since biked nearly 20 miles without major incident. I got my bike shoes in and they really make shifting a lot easier which sounds weird so let me try to explain. W/o the shoes, I felt like I wasn’t keeping up with the bike. Now, with the shoes, I feel like my body knows better when to shift because my feet will spin pretty much regardless forcing me to figure out when to shift. (hopefully that was understandable).

Our first trip was out Turkey Creek Road to Boyd Station to Martel. It was a beautiful ride with rolling hills and scenes from river to farm land. This road is a bikers haven and had tons of road cyclists up and down it which is nice b/c then the cars know what to do better and don’t ride too close or rush you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our second trip was the bike course for our Triathlon. Its a very “technical” ride in a neighborhood and requires lots of hill climbing and sharp turns. Our tri will require 2 laps around this course. The first lap we just wanted to get a better feels for it so we took it a little slower. The second lap we tried to get up closer to race speed and work on our shifting. Because it is hilly, it requires more shifting and if you don’t hit the shifting at the right time, your stuck climbing the next hill in a higher gear and burning out your legs. Well I made it fine (for my first try), but Mike blew out his tire, so he had to walk a short distance back. (this is actually our entire tri course map!). You can click on the map to blow it up bigger and see the running course and the pool and stuff.

We took our bikes in to get a tune up on Monday and to have them fix Mike’s tire. We asked the guy there to help better fit me to my bike, so he watched me ride around a little. I came back around to have him adjust my seat some and forgot to unclip one of my feet and totally fell over under the bike right there in front of him and Mike. Nothing was too hurt, just my pride, so I laughed and got up. At least it was fairly uneventful and in seriously slow motion. Just my knee is a little banged.

Well as the saga continues of our biking adventures, I hope you enjoy the funny moments and celebrate with me the high times.

Love yall!