Wordless Wednesday

Wait!

I forgot to show you around Carlsbad Caverns!











It's all fun and games until the smell of bat poo hits you!

Are we really going down THERE!!

Evidently we are...

Peace, Love and Rocks.

Too cool for the Caverns...






















Do they have earthquakes in New Mexico?

Okay. Where's the elevator?

Why I Hate School # 52

Band Camp starts in 8 days and 11 hours and I have just had to put my foot down. (With the help of Charlie holding said foot to the floor.) John is now squeeing away on his clarinet in a loud Squidwardesque fashion and Charlie and I are in the living room giggling. He's sure showing us. He's teaching us a lesson alright. He can be totally loud and obnoxious and can wake up the Littles if we're going to force him to practice. E gad, we've got a lot of nerve!


The shame of it is he's been on his best behavior lately. Heck, he's been displaying behavior that is normally reserved for his grandmother. I keep wondering what he's fixing to ask me for. That's awful of me, I know. But in the last twenty four hours he's washed my car, cleaned the inside, vacuumed it, and spot cleaned the carpets. This morning he got up at 7:30 in the A.M. to start getting himself ready to get up for Band Camp. (He usually doesn't make his morning appearance until noon.) Then this afternoon, he vacuumed the living room, Ace's room, his room, Melee's room and Peaches room. Nobody asked.

Then I had to go and ruin it by demanding he practice his clarinet.

School is a few short weeks away and the illusion of a carefree summer is quickly melting away.

Transformers 2. Seen it.

(Spoiler Alert!)

Despite the fact that Transformers 2 was rated PG-13, I was hoping I could still let Ace see it. I was afraid there would be too much violence maybe some language but I really wasn't expecting this...

of course I'm not a 13 year old boy so maybe I misread the target audience. Then a few minutes later we get to see this one...

with a camera shot up her dress, we get to see her underwear and a creepy metal tail come out from somewhere, and then her tongue shoots out of her mouth and tries to strangle Sam as we figure out that the hot college girl trying to seduce him, is actually a Decepticon.

Good clean kid stuff.

Of course in the first five minutes we've already ruled it out for Ace because in the first action sequence a couple of the new Autobots are cussing at each other.

Overall it was a disappointment. I just can't give it a fair assesment because I thought they could have done it in a way, that I wasn't embarrased to watch it in front of my seventh grader.

Harry Potter, don't let me down!

If I Can't Post a Picture, Well it's Just Not Any Fun.

Can't find my camera cord.



Summer is sailing quickly by.



I haven't had one blow-up with the kids.



It's only taken me 15 years to get used to them.



100 degree weather is no good for me.



Sleeping late every day is really good for me.



John and I have been reading books for two weeks.



I have a crush on a fictional Vampire.



I still haven't seen Transformers.



Mostly because I don't want to take the Little's to see Ice Age #6?.



More of my plants are dying in the flower bed.



Disneyland. I'm not over it.