love Lisa's facebook Ian party pictures....especially the captions!

Aunt Katie is a favorite of Ian's

Mommy Snuggles

Okay...I am touching this and no one is yelling at me...

Umm... what am I supposed to do with this?

Ok, I think I'll eat a little now.

Why do Mom and Dad want me to touch this?

Daddy, this is FUN!!

My first birthday present.

the hammer toy was a favorite.

Bath time to get all the cake out of my hair.

4 generations - 3 beautiful ladies & a very handsome young man.

went to Humeston to watch Kate's favorite boy play basketball....

I love this school.....looks like a medieval castle!

a while back, Katie & I heard scurrying behind the trashcans in garage. I instantly thought possum.

there was some screaming, and some poking around with a rake, and nothing. later on, I swore I saw a tail going around the corner from in garage to under porch when I was shutting overhead garage door. so, mouse poison under porch to join mouse poison in garage. kind of forgot about it, although Sasha reminded me from time to time with her insistence of going under the front porch like something is there for her to chase. Saturday: big dead mouse in basement. Today: big dead mouse in garage. they're kind of pretty. the mice at work are all gray. these have white bellies. but I don't want any of them making nests in my hair while I sleep. I read that Little House on The Prairie where something is in Pa's hair or beard or somewhere and he throws it against the wall and when they wake up: dead mouse. ewwwwww........

Baby Ian's Birthday Party!

his momma had it planned to the T. perfection! theme, cake, decorations.....I am so proud of her! and he was the perfect little host. lots of snuggles and laughs and smiles! and presents! oh my! His Aunt Katie, her boyfriend Kale, Uncle KJ, Great Grandma Janet, Grandma Norma, Godmother Jessica, Godfather Tyson, cousins Anniston & Corbin, Great Aunt Lisa, Grandpa Kevin, & Grandma Deb joined in the fun.

To clarify to our Walmart customers what has happened at the store today: We did receive a bomb threat, the store was briefly evacuated, the store was cleared for re-entry, and we are once again open for business. We welcome all customers once again to come in and save money and live better.

Bethany Walmart facebook post today...

this story needs another picture...but will start it here.

last week, I am driving to work. don't want to go, have to go. get to stop sign by old Mercer State Shed (which is really closer to the new Somerset Community Building/maintainer shed ) and the stop sign has been spray painted. who loves graffiti? this gal! who has a cell phone? this gal. so, post pic on facebook. I think it says NACHO. weird, but everyone has the right to self expression, right. although defacing a stop sign would seem to be illegal, as it could distract drivers. still worthy of a picture. I like to document my little world. it's my thing. example....hundreds of pictures of interesting trees and falling down old buildings I drive past.

so......Katie tells me it says VAGINA. no way. no way. I look at it again, tilt my head. yep. VAGINA. hmmmm. so, the stop sign at Ravanna also has graffiti. (haven't got a pic of it yet.) what do I think it says? DIE. harsh. thought provoking. but after the NACHO/VAGINA moment of truth, I tilt my head waiting for traffic to pull out on 136 to go to work. and what does it say? DICK. wow. So, I text Katie. she says this makes sense. and yep, it does. I kinda want to cruise around and look at other stop signs, to see if the story continues. who? why? when? the world will probably never know.

still living on 'severe cold medicine'....sleeping a lot....

Kevin was watching football all day Thanksgiving...I started what I thought was a new book between naps...time travel, Jack the Ripper, a tortured rich boy, my kind of thing, right? the Map of Time by Felix J. Palma started feeling like déjà vu a bit in.....then at page 95, it clicked. I had read this before. and I loved it. I loved the style of writing, the whole idea of time travel to fix a mistake...BUT this was in the stack of books Koren sent home with me....books I had loaned her. time to move on to the next book in my stack....(sigh)