Matzo balls, chicken nuggets and vegetarians

Well I officially decided to go back to my vegetarian lifestyle after a five year reprieve. I feel more like myself deleting animal flesh. I am not saying I don't like it, in fact I do, it taste fine and I even managed to eat steak and crab with little barnacles on it, but it wasn't me. I am back to the way I truly believe I was created. After 15 years of vegetarianism and five years away I am back and I feel better than ever. Actually I am doing a whole food raw food diet inspired by friend who may travel with me to Ethiopia. She is doing it and feels great! But tonight I cooked Matzo balls and chicken nuggets, it is one of those dinners that don't even make sense. I was too tired to actually cook the carrots and celery so I just said we are doing raw it is better for you. But if I were getting graded for presentation I would have failed miserably. I doubt I cooked the Matzo balls the right way and it was not a hit to say the least. Gary who will eat anything said it took a couple of bites to get used to. Not exactly a shining dinner moment, but at least we have food and the way the gas prices are going up who knows, 3.77 a gallon!! At least the kids loved the Tyson chicken nuggets.

Abby's new word is "propriated" she says things like, "mom is it propriated to scratch my name in the soap?" (appropriate)

She also told me she liked my fat belly and I am so comfortable like a giant walking pillow. Nice. Thank God I am loosing weight. It is not propriated for me to be so heavy.

Mason taught Judah how to count to 7!!! we couldn't even get him past three but somehow Mason was able to reach him and in just a week had him counting to seven!!! I am so proud of both of my sons, the teacher and the student. Mason has a gift and a special way to relate to Judah. Poor Abby is in need of a sister currently she wants to play stuffed animal birthday party and Mason is making a myriad of strange noises and smacking Judah on the head with his animal.

Do You Speak English??

So on this nice spring day we were at the park in the below picture. A lady came up to us and we began to chat, she of course asked if all my kids were mine. I of course said yes and looked away to field any further questions. Then she continued on, "oh, cause those two look....." I stopped her before she could say "like each other, and he doesn't" "Yes they were born here and are biologically related, my youngest son was born in Ethiopia, and we are going to get our daughter in a few short months as well"

She looked at him and said really loud "DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?"

Judah just looked at her with a strange look and said yes, then she looked at me and said

"Does he speak English?" I said yes.

Then the topic changed to something else, I don't know.

But later I was laughing with Judah as I pushed him on the swing, I told him next time someone ask him that he should start to just babble with intermittent clicks and strange noises. I am so bad.

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One very nice spring day!!

Well after a scorching 110 degrees we had an unexpected, beautiful day of wind, clouds, thunder! Currently all the windows are open and the kids are just enjoying the weather. We went to the park and played all morning it was so nice. We played tag and while we were running around Abby stopped to inquire about my bottom, she was very serious about it and mildly concerned. I thought I had sat in something but when I was able to catch my breath she looked at my bottom and said "yep it is shrinking" I guess I should exercise more. :)

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Goodby to my friends

While we were at our previous church the Lord led us to a really great family and they have become like our family. They recently had to leave, to be stationed elsewhere I am happy they are not going straight back to their home of Singapore but rather Alabama so goodbye doesn't seem so far away right now. These are the kind of people you just love. Two years flew by so fast and now I am left with memories. I hope we can visit sometime soon and I know we will be going to Singapore in the future or at least meeting somewhere in the middle!! Love you guys with all my heart!

The beach in San Diego
Every birthday party
Singapore Chile crab
Watching our kids change in the 2 years we had together
Gary trying to learn Mandarin
Never getting around to Ethiopian food
Bar B Que pork
Sunday school
Sitting together at church
Never getting around to getting your pictures to you
I promise I will
Your support of our family with this adoption

You guys have been so good to us in every way I know our friendship no matter the distance will continue to grow. Love Kim

The Famous Playground that Gary built

The playground has a cool tire swing, major heavy duty it will make you sick as a dog if you spin too long on it.
this is the completed deal, we used rubber tire chips to put underneath, since Gary built it so huge and we needed something soft to pad a big fall. The base alone is over 6 feet. There is a Jacobs ladder, disk swing, tire swing, two saddle swings,monkey bars, rock climbing, ladder, trapeze bar with a buoy ball that we can switch out for the swings.
We had Mason's birthday party so that is why there is streamers hanging from the monkey bars. There were about 15 kids romping on this thing. It held up nicely.
A happy mom with someplace for her kids to finally play other than the previous cactus garden.

Play Ground Gary built, no order

Eric and Gary taking a break, haveing a manly cup of tea
Mason trying out the new rock climbing wall
It was so beautiful and stormy, we had to cover the wood though as it hadn't been protected yet
This all took place around Christmas of 2007

Playground, no order sorry

Gary and his dad trying to fit the base together
Gary and his brother in law working into the night
Abby testing the slide, you can see it was muddy and cloudy out but that didn't stop her.

First part of playground in no order

Well this is the truck that delivered the slide.


The slide that was too small so it is extra steep not to mention that Gary greased it with Armor All so it would really be slippery.
This is some of the first part of the assembly. My husband is so talented, he didn't have plans or anything, he built this dog from scratch. He just looked at a picture and was able to put it together in his mind and save us a ton of money.
After we removed the cactus from our backyard we begin mapping out how big the set would be and how we would lay it out.

Prince Caspian

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Well I just saw the latest release of The Chronicles Of Narnia. I thought it was good, a ton of sword fights a lot of death but no blood, in fact I don't think small kids would grasp the fact that people were dieing. The scariest part was about 30 seconds when the evil witch was trying to tempt the kids into letting her free. That part made me uncomfortable because of the witch craft, but other than that good prevailed and the hidden symbols of God and faith are beautiful as in the first movie. There was however a lot of destruction and war and I wandered if that was a good idea for Mason who seems to be prone to that kind of thing. I still think it was better than most Disney movies where rude humor and adult content have to be added. We saw the previews to Kung Fo Panda and of course there was the flatulence scene. Really? do we need it?

Well if I can get my big butt of this computer there is a million things to do. I have to get the bedrooms done before my darling Nettie comes. The floor needs to be mopped. The bathrooms need to be cleaned. Life is busy to say the least.

The next blog post will be tonight and I will unveil to the world the handy work of my husband. Drum Roll Please............

The play set he built!!!!!! stay tuned.