You might be a redneck if...

You have an old motorhome in your pasture that hasn't been moved in years...



And, you have to put a sign on it that says...



"NOT FOR SALE"!

What this must mean is that people have actually inquired about purchasing the motorhome and for some reason, known only to the people that own it, they don't want to sell it. They would much rather it just rot out in their pasture. Maybe they plan on using it for fertilizer!

This motorhome has been in the same spot - unmoved - for at least three years. The "Not for Sale" sign appeared this year. I just thought this was hilarious. I don't know why people would want to hold onto something like this and just let it fall apart. And, they only live about 2 miles from a campground. I say fire that baby up and get thy self to a campground!

Smiles

Sean is not big on smiling. He never has been. But, boy, can he light up your day when he does smile. I was greeted by nothing but smiles last night when I came home from work. We took advantage and had a quick photo shoot. Here are the results. Hope these bring a smile to your face today.

Prayer Request

The son of an attorney I used to work with was killed in a bicycle accident Friday night. He was hit by a car. He was only 13. They were not able to have children of their own and adopted 2 babies from the Phillipines. He was their oldest. I am so very, very sad for them. They are going to need lots of support and prayers to get through this. Please, if you can, say a little prayer for them. Thank you.

And the Winner is......

Sunny.

The drawing was done randomly by placing 6 numbers in a hat and pulling one out. The numbers corresponded with the number of the post. Thank you all for your stories. I loved them all. They were quite entertaining.

Sunny, e-mail me at rharter@wbllawyers.com and we'll see which one you want.

Giveaway!!!

Well, I've seen other people do this so I thought it would be fun, too. I have been working on some "creations" lately. That's what I called them one time and now Clayton is giving me a hard time about my "creations".


I have several purses (okay, more than several) and most of them don't have pockets for keys. Therefore, I am always digging to the bottom of my cavernous pit to locate my keys when I am ready to use them. Well, I have came up with what I believe to be a good solution. These are key rings and they clip to the top of your purse and then you have immediate access to your keys. I have several designs I have created to decorate them. I have one to match each of my purses! I also have made some holiday ones - I have Halloween and Christmas ones. I think I'll show you some and the winner can pick the one they want. I am putting a time limit on this of Sunday at 7:00 p.m. I will draw a winner at that time. I will let you know on Monday who wins and you can e-mail me with your address.


I will pick randomly from comments that I get to this post. I would like to hear a story that you may have about keys - locking them in the car, dropping them in the potty, losing them, etc. Anything that may have to do with keys.


When Clayton was about 2 I was loading both kids in the car to go to daycare. It was about 15 degrees outside. I had started the car to warm it up and when I brought the kids out I started strapping Sean into his carseat. Clayton was standing right beside me but turned to run off. We live on a busy street so my reaction was to close Sean's door and go after Clayton. Well, I had a feature on my car where the doors locked automatically when the car was started. So, you know what happened next. I was locked out of the car and my house and Sean was locked inside the car. My purse, with my cell phone & the extra key I had used to open the car after warming it up, were in the car. Luckily, our neighbor's dad was at their house babysitting their son so Clayton and I went there to call Carl to come and open the car. Needless to say, Carl wasn't too happy. He just didn't understand how I could have done that. That was easy for him to say because all he had to do was walk out to his car and get in it - no kids to worry about. He came and opened the car and Sean was just sitting in his carseat like nothing had even happened. Thank heavens I had the heat on. Of course, I was freezing because I stayed outside by the car while Clayton was at the neighbor's house until Carl got there.


Now, let me hear any story you might have.


Here's what I will be giving away.



These are the holiday ones - the one on the far left is a Dalmation - not holiday but fun.



These are kind of hard to see. The far right one is a flag. The second from right is a cross. I can show individual pictures to the winner.



Here's one on my purse. It's hard to tell what it looks like. I'm no photographer. You can see how it hangs inside the purse. They are even decorated on the back!

Good Luck!

P.S. My friend, Pinkalicious, is having a giveaway, too. Check hers out. You can link her from my blog. She is very sweet and she has the cutest little girl you will ever see.

Wordless Wednesday

Sean catching up on some reading in the car while I stopped at a friend's house.

Sean catching some zzz's.

Holiday Weekend

Well, I can't believe it but summer is almost over. Labor Day Weekend is the official end although we stretch it out as long as we can. We went to a new campground this weekend. It is about an hour from home and it was really nice. The weather was perfect. We went with some friends so we enjoyed sitting around the campfire visiting with them. We met some new friends, too, and hope to stay in touch. Their son has Down's Syndrome. He is 18 and they are facing some of the same challenges we are as far as what happens when they are no longer in school.

The campground was very kid friendly. They had a pool which Clayton enjoyed. They also had tie dying and though Clayton thought he was too big to do it, he ended up actually having fun. There was a basketball court and Clayton and his friend took on several others and, as they told it, beat the best kid in the campground!! Clayton is really good at basketball so I'm sure they did well.

They had a DJ on Saturday and Sunday night. We went to listen to the music on Saturday night and Sean had a great time. He was in his stroller and he was boogying so much at one point he almost tipped it over! You can't see it in this picture but he really had a good time. Some people came up and "Pimped his Ride". They put glow sticks all over his stroller. That is one thing that we have found at campgrounds - people are open to Sean. They don't just gawk at him, they come up and ask questions and are genuinely interested in finding out about his syndrome. Camping has been good for all of us as a family.

I don't want to write too much because I've been told it takes too long for some people to catch up (you know who you are)!! So, I'll just put lots of pictures.

Have a Great Week!

Clayton enjoying one of his favorite things.

Carl doing one of our least favorite parts of camping - dumping. At least he wasn't covered in fecal matter!! If you haven't seen the movie RV, you have to watch it. It's hilarious.

Sean getting one of his favorite things - a foot rub. I can't believe he suckered Bob into doing this, but he did. Thanks, Bob.

Our campsite. There's Rascal, too. He is starting to like camping.

Tie-dying extravaganza.

Clayton perfecting his backstroke.

They had this old firetruck that they gave rides on. We didn't get to go on a ride - too loud - but we got a picture of it sitting still.

Oh, look, there's Mom in a picture. I'm always taking the pictures so usually am not in any, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. But, I had Carl take this one of me and Sean.