SWEETHEART DANCE 2008!

I don't have kids to post like so many of you do, but I love all my nieces and nephews as if they were my own....so here's one of my girls!! This is Sophie. She's 14 or maybe 15 - it's hard to keep count after they hit 13. She's off to the Sweetheart Dance at school. She had a date, but I didn't ask if I could post the guy's pic too, so I'm playing it safe and just showing her off.

Sweetheart back home is actually a Sadie Hawkins dance..the girls ask the boys. Of course we had our girlfriends ask first - "Debbie is thinking of asking you, would you go if she did!" How guys do that on a regular basis I don't know! I remember one particular dance, I think it was my junior year and I was with my BFF Margaret. I went with a guy named Neal and she went with John. We tended to collect every momento and we were both eyeing the table number in the center of the table. Now mind you, it was probably a piece of colored heavy paper folded in half with a number in fancy writing - but darn it, we wanted that for our bulletin boards and scrap books. We ended up tearing it in half. I bet if I look hard enough at my parents house, I'd find that table number. It's fun looking back!




Don't let her beauty fool you - she's quite the ornery one!!

A NEW WAY TO WEIGH YOURSELF....GUARANTEED WEIGHT LOSS!!

My good friend Kim Short sent this to me and I thought it was pretty funny!! I'm thinking I like this new way!

MINISTER TO COUPLES: SEX EVERYDAY!!!

I saw this article and it really struck me as funny.....
(Rhonda - do you think Bruce might preach on this any time soon??!!)

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MINISTER TO COUPLES: SEX EVERYDAY!!

YBOR CITY, Florida (AP) -- A southwest Florida church issued a challenge for its married members: Hanky panky every day.

Relevant Church head pastor Paul Wirth issued the 30-day sex challenge to take on high divorce rates.

"And that's no different for people who attend church," Wirth said Sunday. "Sometimes life gets in the way. Our jobs get in the way."

The challenge doesn't extend to unwed congregants, however.

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I'm glad to see that they didn't offer this to the ENTIRE congregation - only wedded congregants!

Do I dare ask if any of you are up to the challenge??!! :o)

ICE ICE BABY

My family's currently buried under two inches of ice. Illinois got hit pretty hard in the last few days. I love ice storms - they are so pretty, talk about glistening. Of course they are pretty dangerous, which is why the whole town pretty much shuts down!

When that happens it's warm brownie, hot chocolate, and yahtzee time. That's what we used to do ALL day when we were home from school during ice storms. And pray that the electric lines don't break and we lose electricity!! Brrrrrrr.

It's kind of hard to tell from the pictures, but the trees and streets are covered in a thick layer of ice.

THE 'HOW TO' FOR TODAY.....

Google is our home page when we log on and everyday there are a couple "How To's" - how to bake the perfect cherry pie...how to sew this and that....all sorts of how to's. The How To for today was "How To Get Pregnant." Infertility issues have been our problem for the 12+ years we've been married, but I thought, hey, maybe I'll learn something new.......

So I click........

"How To Get Pregnant"
STOP ALL CONTRACEPTION

Oh man.............so THAT'S our problem!!!!!!!!! :o) So I wasn't supposed to take a birth control pill the same time I was taking a fertility pill??

I couldn't help but crack up. I just think that's hysterical!!

PRETTY PICTURE OF HOME!!

It snowed last week in my little town of DuQuoin, Illinois. Mom and dad always send me pictures of it knowing how much I miss the midwestern winters. We have lots of pictures throughout the years of us standing in the yard, sometimes the snow was only at our ankles, sometimes to our knees and higher!!! We didn't always know how many inches fell, because our gauge was how we looked when we stood in it. My weirdo dad actually offered to pose naked in the front yard for a picture once the snow stopped falling to see how much they got - I passed on that one thank you very much!! (you should thank me too!!!!)

My parents live across the street from the Illiois State Fairgrounds, which is acres and acres of beauty. Here is a picture of a cute little bridge at the fairgrounds. We've taken many pictures there. When we had snow days from school we all headed to the fairgrounds for an entire day of sledding!! So many memories - so much fun!!