Photobooth Tuesday

It's actually Tuesday and I'm posting the photobooth. i'm going to try to get back in step with my weekly tradition. Hopefully next time it will be someone other than Red.

Comic Life

Macs are cool on so many levels

Random pointless

Yet fun

Levels

Hy made this the other day on a program called Comic life.

Alien of Love

I usually do Photobooth Tuesday but I have a few things I want to post so I thought I'd pop one in. It is a source of entertainment to check my photobooth archives every couple of days for some good laughs.

I thought I'd share.

Tagged

I got tagged, not blog tagged.

Well, my couch got tagged. By the Juice.

Doesn't it look legit?

Luckily it's chalk, but I think she has some street skills

Quit your whining

All I hear on the radio is doom and gloom. It's all around, and if you listen to any sort of politic rhetoric it is that America is in the worst state it's ever been.

WRONG

I finally heard something good for a change on NPR's Talk of the Nation. A reporter wrote an op-ed piece that gives you something to think about.

We're not that bad off. In fact we're better off than we've ever been. Yah, some things suck like gas prices and the war, but really--we're not hurting that bad.

If you care, Check it out HERE.

We're just a bunch of complainers.

We all just need a good dose of perspective

Story teller

My friend has been reading a photography book and she told me about how it suggests that pictures should tell a story. I've heard that before and I do it, then I forget.

So, the other day REd found my binnoculars and decided to star gaze. It was super cute so I pulled out the camera. I couldn't decide whether to post this on my photo blog of here, so I just decided to put it here.

What I like about these photos is that they are super grainy because of the High ISO I had to use, and that they are dark, because it was getting dark. Not technically correct, but they tell a story.

Photobooth Tuesday

I used to do a photobooth blog entry every week, and then I quit for a while. But now they are starting to get good again, so I think I might do it.

For those of you who don't know what photobooth is, it's a program on a MAC. I have an iMAC and the camera is built into my screen. The kids just sit down, turn the program on and they can take photos or video and do different effects.

It is Red's favorite thing to do. It's nice, because she will sit down and do it forever. The other kids like it too, but she is the only one who knows how to run it.

So every once in a while, I open up photobooth to check for the latest entertainment.

This was my favorite. She just talks to the screen and has herself some good new-fashioned fun.

Check it.

No Oven this summer

I stole this idea from my friend Kindy.

It's hotter than haties in AZ and I don't want to heat my house up even more so I'm going for . . .


A NO OVEN SUMMER


That's right. I'm not going to cook one darn thing using my oven. Except for an occasional batch of cookies.

So I need your help. I've come up with categories that I listed things under that can be either grilled, or cooked on the stove top. Here they are:

Grill

Pasta/Noodles

Sandwiches

Salad

Mexican

Chinese/Other Ethnic Foods

Crock Pot


So I listed everything I knew how to make under these categories. As you can see there are 7 which will give me a different meal for each day of the week.

So for you help---I want your ideas/recipes. Do you have anything you love that doesn't require an oven? Have you cooked anything from the food network that you can link me to? Let me know what you have, so I can have more of a variety.

So you can post things in the comments like links or ideas you have, or you can e-mail me.

Or both.

e-mail me at:

emailjillcandland@gmail.com


Thank you.

Filling time

It's Friday and we don't have much to do around here. I told them summer officially starts on Monday, because that is when swim lessons start, and we have them all month. So I'm enjoying my week of doing nothing, hanging around the house, and accepting my messy house as a place where kids are having fun, and staying out of my hair. That's a first.

So Red asked to play on Photo Booth. I love my MAC. They were entertained for a while between photos and video. This is the most interesting of the bunch.

Anyhow, check out the video, it's not all that interesting, but it gets entertaining towards the end when Red combines her two talents.

Things you should know about this video:

1. Everything Red talks about is made up--we've done nothing today.

2. It's worth watching once to pay attention to Red (the redhead), then watch it again and pay attention to The juice (the blonde).

3. The Juice is a random kid. P.S. to Molly ---Can you name the movie that Josie is singing/quoting?

And the winner . . .

. .. .is


Ashley Rogers!!!!


Congrats Ashley.

The actual total for the gas on our trip was $445.81

Unfortunately for you, due to the fact that I spent all of my money on gas, there is no prize.

However, you have won 5 minutes of uninterrupted eye contact from me.

11:44 pm snack

I thought I should go back to blogging my snacking. Check me out--a healthy salad.

And that is a tomato from my garden (pots). More on that later.

Gas contest!

Not a passing gas contest . . . just to clarify.


So as you know we went to Utah last week. The price of gas of course is OUTRAGEOUS. And therefore, our trip ---gas wise--was expensive. So I thought I'd hold a little contest to see if anyone can guess how much we spent in gas. Here are the details:

Our vehicle: 1994 Chevy Suburban

Miles travelled in the suburban: 1,350

We drove it to Utah, then we parked it and drove Hy's parents car: 1990 Honda

We drove that car to Ogden and back (from Provo), as well as to Salt Lake and back, and then to various joints around Provo.

Then we drove the suburban home to Mesa.

The lowest price per gallon we filled up with is $3.49 The most expensive was $3.63.


So how much did we spend in gas for this trip?

26.2

Why in the world would anyone want to run for 4 hours straight?

I have no idea.

But Hy did, and I'm proud of him for it.

Unfortunately I looked off just a mili-second before he crossed the line. I think i was watching someone pass out, and when I turned back I had missed the perfect photo-op. But I still got him under the clock, just not what I had envisioned in my head.

Hy ran the Ogden marathon last weekend. It was fun to go and watch all the people crossing. Some were still smiling, some were throwing up, and some were passing out. I was there early enough to see some qualify for the Boston marathon and that was exciting for them and for me to watch.




Here is Hy with his finishing medal, and his bloody nipple. OUCH.

Randomly enough he has decided to do it again, and go for a tri-athalon. Not the full ones, one of the smaller ones. But good for him.

Looks like I get to watch more passing out, vomiting and celebration. Woo-hoo!

Look who's 4

Today is the Juice's Birthday. At least she thinks today is her birthday. Actually it was last Friday. But we were in a hotel room in Ogden, Utah because Hy was running a marathon the next day. What a lame birthday that would have been. So we just pretended that it wasn't that day and we told her it was today. So when she woke up we said "You're 4 today". Then Red said: "No, she's already 4, I heard you tell Jami and Jarin (our friends in Utah) that she already had her birthday--she's already 4". And we just kept ignoring her and saying "Today's your birthday!!!" The poor middle child, already getting shafted.




So anyway, she started off with a donut cake--what could be better? Our kids love them. Then if you are a slacker parent and do nothing else for the rest of the day--they don't seem to mind because they had an awesome breakfast cake. Hy worked last night and is sleeping today so we have nothing planned. Luckily my good friend Darcy is taking her girls to see Whorton Hears a Who, and so we're going with and I told them it was for The Juice's birthday. They think it's great. She'll get a birthday dinner with cake on Sunday at her grandma's, so she's not totally shafted.

This girl is the best. She's happy with anything. So funny and sweet and super fun. She's a party--at all times, even 6 a.m. when I don't want to party. I love her so much. I can't believe she's 4. Happy Birthday Juice!

Moron

Red: Mom is moron a bad word?

Me: Well, it's not a bad word, it's just not a nice word.

Red: Because The Juice just called me a moron


Me: The juuuiiiiicccceee (as she is walking into the room)

The Juice's face:



The Juice: Well . . . .

Me: Where did you hear that word?

The Juice: Well, I um ... I just made it up.