thomas the tank engine mural

i painted a thomas the tank engine on gordon's wall as a birthday present because he LOVES thomas. i'll talk and post more about it later, but i'm soooooooo tired. i have more pictures and videos (this video the color is kind of off from the glare of the window but it still looks okay. i think i have a better one.) of it too but for now this will have to do, it took FOREVER to get this to flip and load and everything. anyway, here it is. lemme know what you think. :)

i'm home!

i have so many posts i need to update, but i'm exhausted from the almost 7 hour trip home. yes, thats right. 7 hours. 4 were in chicago. dumb traffic. it was awful. but i got some cool pix. and some not so cool pix. i took a ton just out of boredom. lol. anyway, i'm going to post one other post tonight, just because i know several people have asked to see it, but i'll do more tomorrow. hope you all have a great night!

i totally forgot the oompa loompa song!

the ones that i write when alex wrecks the car. i forgot to post it for this accident. here ya go!




Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do, I have another puzzle for you.Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-dee, If you are wise, you'll listen to me...

What do you do when you isn't nice? Just send her driving out on some ice.She slam her brakes as she comes to a stop,Smashing a pole, sending her car to chop shop.

Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-da, If you are nice then you will go far. You will live in happiness too, Like the Oompa Loompa doom-pa-dee-do.

ugh......

i was playing ball with gordon and crammed my thumb into the wall and my nail exploded. it hurts. its got a bandaid on it now. but gordon hates bandaids, so he keeps trying to take it off. lol

this little piggy went to the market....

or it was a market..lol

remember that piggly wiggly i was talking about??
piggly wiggly soda machine!!

piggly wiggly receipt!

ok, ok..so we've already established the fact that i'm easily amused, right?

gotta love that new car smell! (part one)

thats right..after several test drives and lots of negotiation, linda and tim got a new car! its so awesome. i can't wait to ride home to indy in it! :)


they got a 2009 dodge journey. its freaking sweet!

here are SOME of the pix i took of it......

tah dah!

the middle seat

storage under the back passengers' feet on both sides!

this is the key for it..its so cool. apparently they're making these keys for lots of the newer cars now, but i've never seen one. i was easily amused by it.

one of the doors. from the inside. they all have cup holders. and the rear windows roll down ALL THE WAY!
middle dash compartment

the front seat...IS a storage compartment!

one of my favorite features! it has two different power outlets....one thats like a cigarette lighter and the other one is a 115 V AC outlet...just like home! thats my camera battery plugged in there. haha. it was dead. :(

middle seat of the middle seat folds down into cup holder and storage

bathtime for gordon

i got some cute pix of gordon the other night when he was taking a bubble bath...

i love the rubber duck in the corner of this one...and look how long his eyelashes are!

woohoo! the water is sooo cool! o.O

turned this one sepia, thought it was sweet

this one too. bubbles!!

this one's my favorite...especially his hair. :D

super cute
striking a pose!

all done!

wow..i feel dumb

i totally have been using blogger wrong. i made it so much harder than it had to be. i feel really dumb. as tech savvy as i am, i should have figured it out a LONG time ago. hahaha. my blogs should be coming quicker now. and cooler. now that i know how to do stuff. and here i've been messing around with HTMLs this whole time. rofl.

jelly belly factory part two: the train ride

ok. so. before you start looking at pix on this post, i must explain....they are NOT good. haha. you're not supposed to take pix from the train ride. and i did. but. i didnt get to see any of them til later. i didnt want to get caught taking them. so i had my camera sitting on my lap. with the flash off. and i randomly would push the shutter release. so...many of them are out of focus, because we were moving, i didnt focus on anything, because i didnt look at what i was taking a pic of and the flash was off. but i'm gonna post them anyway because they're funny. some of them turned out okay..lol. ENJOY!

me and linda...and our jelly belly hats...we had to wear for health purposes to keep the factory clean. haha. some people were angry they had to wear them.

candy is falling from the ceiling!

its really blurry, but that pic of the statue of liberty was made entirely out of jelly bellies...some people have wayyyyy too much time on their hands. :)

some cute pix of gordon and his hat.

i would hate to do inventory here...

look! up in the sky...its a bird! its a plane!...NO! ITS JELLY BELLY!!

tim, gordon, and linda before the ride

its the jelly belly movie screen!

this next series of pix are all more pix like the statue of liberty one...all made of jelly bellies. it was pretty cool. once again, sorry for the blurriness. i dont remember the exact time that they said it took to make one, but it was ridiculously long..

abe lincoln

ronald reagan....they talked about him a lot...apparently, he had a lot to do with the popularity of jelly bellies. he loved them.

george washington

ben franklin

some famous indian....squanto? crazy horse? anyone know??
american gothic...in jelly bellies...haha, grant wood would be so proud! rofl

dr. martin luther king jr....and we went on mlk day! i thought that was cool

the other king...haha. elvis, of course!

princess diana

amelia earhart


bald eagle

rock star dog

we were at walmart the other day and at the walmart out here they have a dog groomer. and this dog has a mohawk! hahahahaha. its a little rock star puppy!

shirl's

there's this place here called shirl's...its an ice cream parlor. pretty good stuff. we went there one day last week. yes, in the subzero temperatures, we're eating ice cream..because we're super cool like that!


this is the junior cone..its so tiny! perfect for gordon...





this is linda and her regular sized cone...










apparently gordon had other plans...haha



tim and his chocolate dipped cone

another cute one of gordon...after linda switched the cones back. lol.

sorry tim, hadta post it. love the glasses. :)

gordon's ice cream mustache. awww..