Tasty and fragrant frailty of delicacy!

It's good to see most of us posting again. It appears we all had a nice Christmas. My brothers and I finally got the guts to tell our parents to come visit us for Christmas (since we've been splitting the day between our parents for 12 years, which has made me hate the holiday). Soooo, me and Jay had a quiet little Christmas at home with Liesl. I actually forgot to get her a gift, but I figure that she won't hold it against me, and I do buy her stuff all the time. She did, however, suck on a gift from my dad until it opened.

But I did find a good gift for her one-year birthday. It's a Chinese-made grocery cart. And, like "All Your Base," has some very amusing translations. It also uses at least three different fonts in. . . get this. . . ALL CAPS! Read on.

Product Name: SUPER SHOP

Descrption 1: Collect all these exciting new set!

Descrption 2: High quality, Funny cookware sets, It will give you infinite pleasure!

Descrption 3: Special for you of children design.

Descrption 4: The best cooking companion for all day long playing.

The best, however, is the box for a fake product. The picture is of a bowl of corn flakes.

Product name: Tasty Pine Cracker

Product: Tasty cookies

Motto: Tasty and fragrant frailty of delicacy

Description: The fragrant frailty is tasty, and guarantee you on eating to still want to eat, nourishment plentifulness, old and little all fit, welcome taste!

Jay and I figure "Special for you of children design" probably means "Made especially for children". But we also think it could mean "Designed by children". And what about "fragrant frailty"? I think they looked in a theasauras under "delicate" and came up with "frail" and decided that would work. And is "plentifulness" a word at all?! And, who in the world would eat a cracker made out of pine?!

Anyway, we've laughed at it a lot.

Chelsi, all those gifts are wonderful. You are so spoiled! Let me know when you're ready to read "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands."

Hollie, I wish I could laugh that much. Sounds fun to me.

Amelia, you are quite the little photographer. Why are we switching blogs again?

In other news, Liesl eats rice cereal once a day now. She is also using a high chair for that. And, she rolled over from her belly to her back-- on purpose-- the day after Christmas. She thinks she's pretty great, now, but she's growing up too quickly to suit me. But we love and adore her. She is still so snuggly soft and sweet.

Well, love you all. It's nice hearing from you!

Merry Christmas Darlings...

Happy New Year too! Oh how I love Karen Carpenter. So, sorry I haven't been keeping up lately. It seems, however, that I'm not the only one. I hope everyone had a magical Christmas. What did everyone get? We got soooooooooooooooooo much! I guess that's the one benefit of marrying into a divorced family. My favorite gifts were the following: some gorgeous crystal and pearl jewelry from Spence, a sexy, tiny little 7.2 mega pixel camera from my family, a HUGE jewelry box to hold all of my gaudy bling from my mama and daddy, a 7 man tent from his mom and step father, a karen handbag from his mom, a swiffer sweep and vac from my g-ma, and....drumroll....A MAGIC BULLET (brother and sister-in-law)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not talking about one that kills warewolves, I'm talking about the mini food-processor/smoothie maker. I have wanted this thing for at least 6 years now. It's my favorite infomercial. We got it because Spencer's brother and I share a bond in that we LOVE the Food Network. He picked it out because he's always wanted one and he knew I'd love it. YAY! Don't worry, I've used it 6 times already.

Listen to me, rambling on about my presents. My Christmas was wonderful, even without the presents. We attended my mother's house for Christmas Eve...it was so fun. We slept at Spencer's mom's house though...it was really hard to leave my family on Christmas Eve. Then it was great to get to be a part of new traditions with my other family. The best part was watching my three-year-old neice. It was wonderful to see Christmas through her eyes. :) I wrote Spence a story and painted pics to go in it...that was great to see him open too...I made him cry, which is ultimately my goal in all my gift giving endeavors. We gave my two 6 month old neices these toys that shoot balls into the air after they drop them into a tunnel...it was the cutest thing ever to watch them play with it. They were so facinated! I like giving gifts even more than recieving them! Ps. If you're looking for a killer couples gift, go to lovopoly.com You can make your own customized game sheets for Monopoly. My sister-in-law bawled like a baby when she opened it.

Elsie and I graduated. It was actually a lot of fun, mostly because I had my Els. The week after finals I read four novels. It was FABULOUS!!! I can't wait to scrapbook and paint!!!! I think I might even start teaching ballet again! I'm so excited. I'm not going to lie though; I will miss it.

Well, speaking of free time...I was going to do this before Christmas, but I didn't have time, then I lost the book. So, now that it has been found, I would like to introduce you to Merry Christmas Amelia Bedilia for my lil' Amelia.

Merry Christmas!

Sorry I have been lax in checking and reading the blog. Besides work, I have taken care of the majority of the christmas shopping for my family this year because my mom was going to school and working full time. Then I had to finish this teddy-bear afghan for my brother and sister-in-law (they're expecting a baby in March. Hurray another nephew!) I thought I was going to be done on Saturday but its a block quilt and when I put the blocks together it was too small so in a frantic panic I've worked on it all weekend (whenever they were around) and I finished it last night at midnight. I am so happy. But tired. Very tired.

as my brother would say: Merry Freakin' Ho Ho

My younger sister and I both got games last night (we open one gift on Christmas Eve, our exchange gift). So we played Balderdash, and then Apples to Apples. During Apples to Apples I was laughing so hard I stopped breathing, and my older sister was afraid I was going to pass out. That didn't stop her from making funny commentary however. It was good to laugh so hard but my head hurt the rest of the night and today my stomach muscles hate me.

fiddly bits and happy christmas

hello. this is amelia here. i'm posting as granddaddy west because recently i switched my various blogs over to the new blogger (speaking of: new pointless hobby) and so my regualr login is all changed and this is just easier than figuring out how to post as me.

as soon as blogger will let me, i'll switch our dear old blog over as well, if nobody minds. it could use some shaking up. maybe i'll design it a new header bit too, while i'm at it.

anyways. i've moved home and abandoned shae... it's pretty weird. i do miss my job out there, but i am looking forward to whatever happens next for me.

everyone have a great christmas and throw some snowballs at somebody for me. :)

Merry Christmas everyone!

Hey, y'all! I guess we are all quite busy. Life is good here. Liesl is growing up quickly. She's such a funny baby. She has this really irritating squeal that she uses when she's impatient or bored. We've started feeding her rice cereal, too. She's still too young to sit up on her own or roll over, so she's still pretty immobile. I like that because I don't have to child proof quite yet. Soon, though.

Jay is on vacation. Another year and he'll be graduated. I can't wait til he has a regular job and no homework. If you can call active duty regular.

I actually called Dr. Laura a few weeks back. She was a jerk to me, too. My goal when I first started listening to her was to find a reason to call her. Now I did, she's lost her charm. But I still listen to her on occasion. I don't listen to Rush so much either. I got sick of the radio.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to you all! Congrats to Chelsi and Elsie on graduating!

xo-jeri