Ladies Day Out

Yesterday, Kris, Kim, Nikki, Grandma and I headed into the city for lunch at the Melting Pot. It was a charity event for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. If you have never been to the Melting Pot - you really should try it sometime. It is a fondue resturaunt that's not only fun, but quite tasty too. Our meal consisted yesterday of salad, cheese fondue and chocolate fondue. Most of our party went with the House Salad. For cheese we did a cheddar, and then other pot was a blend of Wisconsin cheeses. Dessert - was a chocolate, marshmallow, cookies and cream pot, and a chocolate, carmel, butterscotch liquer, cinnamon pot. They were all fabulous and the company was great as well! (we missed Bootie - but she had prior commitment that she held too)

The Taste of Summer

So it begins....the ice cream man!

Grandma's Front Porch

...and Papa's too. I followed the boys outside to get pictures of the ice cream man, and their faces once they had ice cream in hand, and I really thought the the view of the flowering tree from Mom's porch was so pretty - thought I would add it to the blog.

Timeless

You loved it when you were young.....and now they love it too!

Just A Little Sprinkle

Jake took Pepper outside today, and while he filled a bowl of water for her, she stuck her nose in the spray. She wasn't sure what it was, but I think she enjoyed it.

Pepper's Story

So, on Monday the manager at Papa John's next to my store, told me that she had to call the Humane Society and that they had sent out Animal Control, because someone had left a litter of puppies behind our dumpster. They had picked up 2, but one remain elusive.

Tuesday, I went into work, took the trash to the dumpster out the back door. The door was open maybe 5 minutes. I came back in, ran to the bank, came back, did some stuff on the computer and came out into the dark store, ready to open for the day. What the ???? There were pink M & M's everywhere. I thought a giant rat had gotten into the store. There under a rack of new dvds, sat a little brown puppy. I said "Bad Dog" and she took off, hiding behind the new release wall.

Long story short, I opened the store, Larcus, local tattoo artist and good customer, got the puppy out of our wall. Bernadette, another good customer with dog experience checked her out - she looks healthy, but exclaimed - "she's ugly". Two other customers picked her up, one thought that she would take her home, to be with the other 4 dogs she had........until......Tim stopped by on his lunch, and held her.

Casey disappeared just about a year ago, and new addition has come into the family, as fate would have it. The boys and I named her Pepper, for her dark but multi colored coat. Max told his teacher today, her name is Salt.....More to come, I'm sure.

Birthday Lunch

Today the family took me out for my birthday lunch. We went to El Titanic for Mexican food and had a good time........until they put the sombrero on my head!

Fellowship Hour

During Advent and Lent we have Fellowship hour at church after Sunday services. Mom and I volunteered to do this Sunday's Fellowship hour as our church's Thrivent Congregational Co-ordinators. Mom made her famous Irish Soda Bread, and tried my hand at all baked goods green. Pistachio cake, and green Jello poke cupcakes.

Max the Master Chef!

First you need a good cabinet of ingredients!



Then you make a great creation!



Last, you pose for the publicity shot with your great creation and the product you're selling.

Mommy's Store

After picking the boys up from school on Thursday, we stopped at Blockbuster. They picked up a couple of movies - Star Wars (animated) and SpongeBob Pest of the West and PS2 game, and shopped around a bit. Max even made himself comfortable on the game counter.

White Man Group

At the park they had a cool xylophone that the "kids" could play with. Here Jake and Kevin practice their musical skills. Fifi dubbed them White Man Group.

A New Park

Sunday it was in the 70's. (Yes, we had snow days the beginning of the week.) So, we headed over to a park in King's Mountain. It was very cool, a lot of fun activities for the boys to play with/on, and a good time was had by all.

Snow Day!!

We have snow! It started Sunday night after a day of rain, so it was a little slick underneath, all the same it was white, and pretty, and the boys were so excited!!! Zach got up early and was running around like a mad man. Max on the other hand waited till afternoon, not really sure what to make of the white stuff. Even though he's 5 - this is his first REAL snow. (you can't count the dustings we get that disappear with first sun, or the stuff that was on the ground when we hit Chicago in 2005) Anyway - they have had 2 days of snow days, and tomorrow is delayed openning (really???) and it's time we said goodbye to snow and hello to school. Oh yeah - temps for the weekend? 70's!

You're Kidding Right?

We had snow on Sunday night, and it wasn't bad, but if you live here, you don't really plan on it. You don't grow up learning how to drive in it either. This is Mark's car - the Explorer, in the middle of our parking lot, where he got stuck in snow. Don't laugh - it's starting to melt in this picture...........