My Family Is The Bomb-Dot-Com

Four Generations of Buxom, Bodacious, Brunette Broads!

Abbey, Amy, Alaina and Ardella (the "A" theme was no "Accident")

Fortunately, each generation got a little taller instead of shorter!

Every Girl Dreams of Her Handsome Prince and It All Starts With Dad!

Jay and Amy

P.S. Thanks to my sis-in-law for the awesome digital scrap book layout of me and my dad!

Any Excuse To Have A Party

So....we decided to let the girls have some friends over to hang out and celebrate Valentine's Day. Since I don't have triskaidedaphobia, we picked Friday the 13th as the big night.












The house was decked out in the usual Valentine fanfare, including lights, porch railing adornments and a wreath for the door.


Soon, everyone was enjoying heart shaped pizzas and strawberry sodas.

Dinner was followed up by the traditional party games.

The "Roll the Orange With Your Nose" game......

The "Tell a Secret and Pass it Around the Circle and See How Ends Up" game....

The old standby, "Tie a Balloon To Your Leg and Don't Let Anyone Pop It" game......

All the girls seemed to have a great time. No tears, no cat-fights, no backbiting, no visible injuries and everyone was returned to their parents in the same condition as they had arrived.....a successful party in my mind!

Soon, it was time for a movie and bed on the living room floor with Sophie, who got to spend the night!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Hooray! It's date night

We recently took the opportunity to get semi-dressed up, have a "grown ups only" night out and went to the VA employees dinner/dance with my girlfriends and their husbands. These are pictures of some of my favorite people of all time and some of the best co-workers I've ever worked with. Enjoy!

Glenda, the Good Witch and Nick the Wizard

(though she's a good witch, I've seen her break out the flying monkeys)

Janet, the Queen of the Red Team and Mike the Contractor

(they both work at the VA, federal double dippers!)

Jean "What's my Indian Name?" and Blake the Patron Saint of Tolerance

(she's also a "real" princess.... just ask her, AND she has the tiara to prove it)

Amy, Nurse of Goodness and Grace and Brian the Handsome

(hey, it's MY blog and I can blog what I want to, blog what I want to......you would blog to if it happened to you)

Amy, Glenda, Jean and Janet....Awesome Nurses and Really Cool Chicks

(91 YEARS of combined nursing experience!?!?! Maybe we ought to try and cure cancer!)

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

---Marlene Dietrich

Bathing Beauties

This past weekend we went to the Holiday Inn and spent the night. Brian's buddy got us a screaming good deal on the room rate since he works there (thanks Curt!) and we had a great time.

We told the girls we were going to have a mini-vacation right here in town. They were skeptical at first, especially since they knew we weren't going to "do" anything.

They changed their tune when we told them that the hotel had a swimming pool and hot tub. The girls took a friend and spent the afternoon in the pool splashing around. They ate chicken nuggets and fries at poolside and then we ordered a movie and had a pizza delivered. We slept in and then went to church the next morning.

Life is Good