4-27-08 Week in Review

Wow, another busy week gone and another week closer to our trip to California to see Ryan's family! I'm so excited!!!! (singing outloud with gusto....."California, hear I come!....")

Anyway, Monday was Family Home Evening (our weekly family night where we have a spiritual lesson, snacks and a fun activity). We ate cookies and played the Wii for hours. (We're borrowing it from Ryan's brother - thanks Mark & Jamie!) Tuesday was uneventful, other than I wasn't feeling super good, but we managed to get our Walton Feed order done! Yeah! (We're attempting to gather at least a 3 months supply of the basics we eat in case of emergency.) Wednesday, I spent the day with my dear friend Tanya who is expecting a baby girl very soon. We hung out at Babies R Us and had lunch. I bought the BEST bib!! It has sleeves and ties in the back! Well worth the $3.99 it cost. I'll save that much in laundry and new clothes, easy! My mom came and took Dade to scouts and took Corben out for some baseball practice. (They canceled practice on Tues due to rain.) He had so much fun with her! Thursday was busy. With a little instruction from Mom I was able to pull together a great dinner for the Elders (missionaries) who were coming for dinner. Pot roast, Salad, rolls and guacamole. YUM! Corben had baseball practice so I missed the meal. We got back minutes after they had left, but Ryan said it went well - thanks mom! Corben's practice went great! They did a mock game and Corben hit a triple his first time at bat! He was so excited. The real games start next week. They got their uniforms. Corben was so excited that he's worn it a few times already! Later, after the kids went to bed, Ryan pulled out a car racing game for the wii. He doesn't usually like video games but car ones are the obvious exception. Let's just say I finally went to bed and when I woke up an hour later I went downstairs and he was still playing. After 4 hours he had almost beat the entire game and was having a blast. I do have to say he's very good at those kinds of games. Friday I babysat my nephew RJ and kept Corben home from school. He was dealing with his CVS (cyclic vomiting syndrome). It's gotten a bit better over the last year so I'm hoping he's growing out of it (knock on wood). The kids were great and all took naps right on time so I was able to go and take some pictures of RJ outside (see previous post). We saw rabbits! I found out that the pile of sticks we've made for the burn pit has been converted into a rabbit hole! Ryan's out side now trying to catch them on film. About 7pm Ryan and Dade headed out for a boyscout camp out and a 10 mile hike Saturday morning. Corben and I stayed up late playing the wii. (My sports fitness age was 77 and Corben's was 60!...I'm so old....I OBVIOUSLY need some practice.) We had a lot of fun. Saturday, while the guys were out walking all along Falls Lake Corben and I were readying the house for company. The boy's grandma (Mom-mom), Aunt and cousin drove down from Maryland to visit with them for the weekend. It's been several years since we've seen them and it was so great to catch up and see how much all the kids have grown. Tyler (my nephew) has turned in to quite the young man. I really wish we all lived closer! Later my mom and Mark & Jamie stopped by so we had a full house and we loved it! Today I woke up (did I ever sleep?) not feeling well. Sylvie had kept me up most of the night and it was a rough morning. The boys were out with family and I was sick so we decided to keep it close to home today. Ryan made me breakfast and then took Ella outside for some fun in the yard. (I love our yard.) Well, that's it for today, I'm going to go take some medicine and try to feel better. Have a great day!

Pics of RJ

I have been very blessed these last few months to have the opportunity to spend time with my nephew, RJ, at least once a week. You can imagine that my house is pretty crazy on those Fridays, and you would be right, but this Friday the girls both took a nap so RJ and I headed out to get some play time and I took pics! (Of Course). So, for all the family that hasn't had a chance to meet our sweet RJ I thought I'd post some of our adventures outside. Love ya!

For Grandma....

I'm posting this because my grandma was very upset at a family member for throwing something away before letting her see it. What could it be, you ask? Well, I'll tell you. It's my family member's gallstones. GALLSTONES?!.....Yes, gallstones. I know.... ANYWAY, so my family member got her gallstones out several years ago. There was three of them (the doctor's kept one.) and they're about the size of big marbles. She kept them, that was until recently when reading through an organizational book on cleaning out your house she came across the line, "Throw away your gallstones!". Can't be much more straight forward than that! So, of course, said family member couldn't just throw them out before she had a chance to.....break them open and see what's inside! (Haven't you always been curious?) So I get this call from my family member, "Christy...you have to see this. It is so cool! It is just so cool! I cracked open my gallstone and it looks like a geode! It has all these layers and they're all sparkley! It's so cool. You have to come over and take a picture for me. I wonder what makes it sparkle like that? I mean, what was going on in my life during those first layers?" (They're the sparkliest.) - My family member is so awesome! So, what did I do? Of course, I went over and took pictures! And guess what, they really were sparkley! Very sparkley! Kind of cool. Okay, so now you're grossed out, but at least you've learned something. I bet they didn't teach you this stuff in science class! I mean, how many other crazy families do you know that take pictures of this kind of thing and post it on the web for their Grandma? Just us! We rock! (Or at least Gallstone! Ha ha!)- For a more detailed view, click on the pic!

4-20-08 Week in Review

This week was beautiful! The weather was fantastic so we spent a good deal of time outside playing and taking pictures. The girls are so good about letting me chase after them with my camera. It's always a lot of fun for me. I actually got a hairstyle into Ella's hair. (I really want to get to the point that she'll let me do this on a regular basis so she doesn't end up looking like Tom Petty!) A third of the pics I took have her trying to pull her pig tails out but I put them in tight enough that they lasted all day and even through a nap! Our neighbor saw me outside with the girls and came by to visit. She took Ella for a walk while I hung out with Sylvie in the yard and introduced her to all the edible possibilities she has yet to try.


The boys got to spend two more days with their dad before he heads back to Iraq until Jan of 2009. I hate that they don't get to spend more time with him but they had a blast while they could. He took them to go play laser tag and they loved it. He brought them back Thursday (they missed a couple of days of school) just in time for Corben's baseball practice then he stayed to watch before heading out. He'll be back in Iraq by next week.

Wednesday the Chimney Swifts moved in. What is a chimney swift you ask? It's a very noisey, annoying, and protected bird that likes to make it's home in the chimneys of silly people who don't have caps on their chimneys. (We're not some of those silly people, ours blew off in a storm and we haven't been able to get a tall enough ladder to get it back on.). Anyway, they move in and make nests and you're not supposed to burn them out because they're protected. Problem is...THEY ARE SO NOISY!!! They chirp and screech all day and all night (especially night). It used to scare Ella. It sounds like we live in a jungle or something. Oh well....

Ryan left Thursday night for an all weekend fishing trip at the beach. Friday my sisters-in-law and I went out for a night of bowling (I bowled a 40 - yes, I was trying.) and then dinner. My ankle is still bothering me so I may have to go get it checked out, I'm sure it was affecting my bowling :P. Saturday was a long and busy day. My Aunt Kathy lives in Carrboro and invited us to go on a Farm Tour for the day. It was from 1-6pm and there were over 30 farms all over the area that opened their doors to visitors. We went to 5 of them.

First we went to the Chapel Hill Creamery.








They had lots and lots of cows and we got to see some calves. They showed us how they milked the cows and how they made the cheese and then there was a tasting table. Corben got a little crazy with the taste testing. He was a little grumpy at me that I hadn't brought cash to buy him some more to take home. It was YUMMY!! Guess we'll have to go to the farmers market soon!

Next we went to Perry-Winkle Farm and Duck Run Farm.
There was a pony, tons of flowers and vegetables, chickens (who found Corben quite captivating), a rooster (who did not like that the hens all liked Corben so much and spent most of his time puffing up his chest and squawking for the hens to get back inside), and quite a few ducks that they use for eggs. There was also this really cool clean up station called a "useyerfoot" (www.useyerfoot.com). Corben liked it as much as the animals and even got his hands dirty on purpose to use it over and over. (I finally made him leave with muddy hands.)

Our next stop was a mix of two very famous farms known as Braeburn Farm and Cane Creek Farm. They had New Zealand cattle, pigs & piglets, goats, donkeys, chickens, vegetables, dogs, horses, and some of the most beautiful land you've ever seen! They had fresh meat for sale - again, no cash on me...poor Ryan. It was out in Snow Camp, NC. I highly recommend a drive through that area, it's BEAUTIFUL!!

Our last stop of the day was at Celebrity Dairy out in Silk Hope (that's out West 64). They had cheese and preserves for sale (we picked up some Strawberry preserves) and a ton of animals. They had goats and llamas, chickens and a very proud peacock. Corben had a blast. Some of the newest goats would try to nurse on your knuckle.

It was a long day, but it was a wonderful time. Thanks, Aunt Kathy!! We love you!!

Next, the kids and I headed to Family Dinner (our monthly Schnegel gathering) to celebrate Erin's b-day, eat desert, and play games. It's always tons of fun. Finally we headed home and after some begging from the boys I let them stay up and watch Star Wars.

So now it's Sunday afternoon, we're watching my brother Adam's kids for the evening and Ryan just got home from his fishing trip. He caught a mahi-mahi! YUM! Well, that's it for today! Have a great one!

Chivalry, Where Have You Gone???

So, in an unprecedented attempt to make some storage space and amaze my husband with my carpentry skills, I decided to go to Lowes all by myself and buy wood and brackets to put up a new shelf above our washer and dryer. Little did I know that somehow that thought was so visible in my face that no man would dare offer to aide me in fear of ruining things for my husband. Just as I pull up both children promptly fall asleep. Normally this would have deterred me and I'd have headed home but NO, I was going to do this. So, I rested the sleeping Ella (25 lbs) on one hip, head on my shoulder and swung the not so light carrier with 20 lbs infant Sylvie onto the other arm and headed in knowing I looked like Wonder Woman. I find a cart, pull it out from the line with one foot and swing the carrier across the back. With Ella asleep in my arms I pushed the cart one handed through the huge warehouse back to the lumber section. I got quite a few looks of wonder and pitty as I carried on. The lumber section was full of burly men. I must have looked quite capable as I "thumbed" through the massive piles of heavy lumber one handed looking for just the right pieces. I finally found the 2 I needed, one being about 8 feet long and high up. I had to move the carrier (one handed) into the high seat in the front of the cart to fit the lumber in the back. I then lowered the large piece of wood slowly from the high shelf and then hoisted it up on the only free shoulder I had. I slid it into the back of the cart and without skipping a beat headed over to have it cut. I then maneuvered my super long cart to find the brackets on the other side of the store, to the register and out the door into the parking lot. I first loaded up the sleeping toddler and then set the carrier into it's place. I opened the trunk and slid the long lumber across the back seats and turned to find a very huge, very built man standing behind me...."Ma'am, can I help you with that cart?" at which point he rolled it two parking spaces over into the cart parking and walked away. And who says chivalry is dead?!

Something new....

Yes, I've decided a change is in order. Not because "Dark Dots" is any better than just plain ol' "Dots". But Dark Dots makes my pictures POP!! LUUVV IT!!........so now, for those observant folks of you, you've noticed that it's 11:24 on a Thursday night and Christy is up blogging about dots. Why you ask? Because my husband is on a FISHING TRIP to the beach and I can't sleep. (It may have been the entire row of Oreos I ate or the accompanying handfull(s) of peanut butter M&M's. - He's not here I can eat them ALL!!) Anyway, the truth is I should sleep better when he's gone because it means I get to sleep in the center of the bed. See, my husband was a long time bachelor before meeting me and sleeping for so long alone left a big dip in the center of the mattress. Now that Big Dip :P (I'm just kidding, it was an obvious pun - I luv him alot!) finally asked me to marry him and that's when I discovered that his mattress made you roll to the center no matter which side you sleep on - great for cuddling, not so great when you don't want to cuddle, you have a baby in the bed, one of you has got gas/bad breath/the flu, etc. So, on the very rare occasion that he's not around in the middle of the night I get to snuggle in to the cozy spot in the middle of the bed (that still dips despite several layers of blankets beneath it - anyone want to donate to the new mattress fund?) and sleep like a log. Yeah....I think.

Ryan says "BLOG THIS..."

You (Christy) should buy all the components to make your snack mix so I (ryan) don't get stuck with all the junk. --- Now my reply:

For anyone who reads my blog they will remember the blog called Ryan's Got Jokes in which I MADE MY OWN SNACK MIX and HE ATE IT!!!

Enough said.

4-13-08 Week in Review

PICTURES HAVE BEEN ADDED....YEAH!!!

Well, we had a great week! (disclaimer - I wrote this over the course of two days and tried on the first day to sound like it was really the second day so when the second day (today) came and It was time to finish up there where new things to add thus the seemingly disjointed rants at the end of a couple of the following updates.) Moving on...

Okay - 2nd disclaimer, blogspot is not letting me load up all my pics to this blog so it's looking kind of sad. I am working on the problem. Okay, moving on again...

Ryan - Ryan got the garden in the ground! Yeah! This year we are growing everything you need to make salsa (tomatoes, green peppers, many hot peppers, spices, etc.), squash, zucchini, cucumbers, carrots, radishes, onions, pumpkins, cantaloupe, flowers and a few other things I can't think of. Bring on the rain! Ryan also got our "new" Camry mostly running (It only ran backwards when we got it.). But 36 miles per gallon backwards is much better than anything we're getting on the other cars going forwards! Oh, Ryan just reminded me of something else....so we're at a friends house and they pull out the Wii. So Ryan's playing Tennis and hurts his shoulder. He claims it was because Jim threw a curve ball at him and he wasn't expecting it. My husband is getting so old! Ha ha!! Good thing I love him so much!

Christy - I gave away all my clovers then ended up going on a huge clover hunt this week as there were MANY folks who requested some. Luckily, I have a knack for it.
People who requested clover:

1. An avid collector of clover
2. A cheer leading team going to Nationals and then on to World competition (40 clovers)
3. A lady who's son and his best friend have life threatening rare disorders. She's framing a picture of the two of them and surrounding it with clover (30 clover)
4. And 3 for a man who's mom had her eye sight turned worse after surgery, his girl friend was just diagnosed with psoriasis, and he just got robbed at gun point and got a broken nose.

Dade mowed the lawn on Saturday so I guess that's all the clover for a bit (actually I found abunch of little baby 4-leaf clovers that were too short to be mowed down - I expect that makes them SUPER lucky!). At least it's not taking up space on my book shelf anymore!! I did make some more headway in the computer room. I spent a day and a half scanning all the family photos that have been sitting on these shelves for years waiting to be archived. My poor scanner is tired! It groans now and has gotten a bit slower, but I'm the same way so I can't complain. I found pictures I'd never seen before and in one of the pics from 1982 I saw a family friend with a video camera!! I'm going to try to look them up and see if they actually have the video. That would be so cool!

Dade - Dade started new classes in school this week. He's taking a roller blading class, a personal fitness class, and a painting class. That's 2 PE's! It's going to work out well though because he's going on a Pioneer Trek the beginning of the summer and they've encouraged all the kids to start an exercise regimen. Every year the youth from our church commemorate the journey of the early members of our church who traveled across the US to find safety in the Utah Valley. The youth give up all modern conveniences, dress for the time period and push and pull home made handcarts with all of their belongings along mountain trails for several days. The experience is highly spiritual and very physically demanding. I'm glad he'll be getting all this exercise to get him ready. He's also been working in scouts this week to make a home made catapult. He got his report card Friday and made 4 A's and 2 B's. He's really a very good student and I'm very proud of him! A woman came by Saturday to pick up some clover and commented on the amazing manners of the young man who answered the phone. He's really growing up fast. So fast, in fact, that I'm traumatized! So we go to buy him wrist guards for roller blading class and they have only 2 sizes - Child and Youth. So, I, of course, go for Youth because he is one and even though he's super skinny I'm hoping they won't be too big. Well...they're way too small!! Is he not a youth? Who are they to say that he's an adult because he's not! I find it extremely unfair that the marketing industry is deciding for parents when their children can advance to the next level of grown-upidness (yes, I made it up). There apparently must be another size that they failed to shelve called In Between (I just figured out the whole "Tween" label). It seems all the time lately I'm singing that song from My Turn on Earth that says, "I'm not ready...." Anyway, despite Target's marketing need to convince my son that he is in fact something more than a Youth I refuse to comply and have lovingly convinced him that he simply has big wrists that hopefully his future wife will love as much as I do.

Corben - Corben started baseball this week!! Yeah! He's on a local team called the Diamondbacks. He's never played before but is expecting to go Pro. He struggled a bit with getting to the ball during the first practice and needed some extra help with batting but the couches were GREAT! and very encouraging. They gave him some great suggestions and promised to work with him first at the next practice. He had so much fun and I'm really looking forward to this season! (I took pictures the whole practice so the coach has asked me to take pictures the whole season...fun!) Saturday Corben was out there in the yard practicing his swing and getting to the ball. I know he'll do great! He also got his report card today and got three 4's and two 3's!! A lot of teachers don't like to give out 4's but Corben is really a great student and I'm thankful his teacher doesn't hold him back. Corben has a Baptism Preview tonight that he's going to. Children in our church can be baptized when they reach the age of 8 years and so they're having a get together for all the children who turn 8 this year to let them know what it will be like and to help them get ready. Corben is really excited. First thing he said in the new year was, "This is the year I get to get baptized!". I sure do love my wonderful kids!

Ella - Ella is starting to talk in full sentences....of gibberish. But it shows that she's closer still to getting those real words out. She'll talk to you for five minutes never using the same made up word twice. She's also really into her picture books right now. She'll sit forever flipping pages pointing to each item and wanting me to repeat it's name. She'll sign the ones she knows and say the word if she can. She's really good at pointing to the correct object if I ask her to which shows she's really understanding a lot more than she's able to communicate.

Sylvie - Sylvie's had a rough week with teething and Ella picking on her. She's been really fussy all week but it hasn't slowed her down! She's pulling up on everything but sometimes cries if she can't get back down. Her bottom two teeth should be coming through any day now, I'm hoping sooner than later. She's almost completely weaned to a bottle except at night. I miss the close time but she's not spitting up anymore and that makes me HAPPY!! (Her, too.) We got the pics from the wedding we went to last week where the photographer kept taking pics of her. Isn't she cute! And isn't the baby in her lap cute too? - Oh and her husband.... :) - Okay I'm kidding, but seriously this little girl is in trouble. So I'm watching a movie last night with the family and I look over beside the couch to see this little creature standing in the hallway (I say creature because there's nothing in our house that small and humanoid that can stand unaided.) and low and behold to my utter shock it's not some creepy dwarf or something but my just-turned-7-month old smiling at me nearly a foot away from any stable structure which may have aided her rebel advancement. I am not amused! Must I cross-stitch it and frame it above each of their beds? STOP GROWING!! No need to worry, I am taking the threat very seriously and have paid off Ella (in goldfish) to pull Sylvie down any time she sees her pulling up on something! (Ok, so she started doing that on her own, and at first I told her it wasn't nice but now I'm like, thanks Ella! Finally, somebody on my team!) Sorry, we have rules in this house (no choking, no dying, etc.) and one of them is definitely No Learning to Walk before you're old enough to understand the word STOP!! (Side story - When Ella first pulled up on the couch oh-so-long-ago I called Ryan to tell him how his little girl was growing up and he said, "Did you spank her?" I don't think he's ready for them to grow up either! - and no we don't really spank our kids. - end of side story)

So that's our week. Nice weather sure helped out too! I truly am thankful for such a wonderful family. Heavenly Father has truly blessed me. Oh, yeah, and I have great friends too, all of you. Peace out!

4-6-08 Week in Review

Well it was a great week!! The boys were out of school for Spring Break which timed perfectly their dad's leave from Iraq. (He's been on his 2nd tour there since Sept.) They were able to spend Tuesday through Friday with him. They went to the movies, the science museum in Durham, got new shoes (Yeah!), and spent the night with their Grandparents in Fayetteville. It's such a shame he only gets a little time off, but the boys are sure glad he was able to spend so much of it with them.

The girls and I just spent the week hanging out. I got my hair cut and colored on Tuesday. I haven't had my hair colored in 13 years but decided to get some highlights to better show off the new hair cut. It's really cute. I was actually able to get Ella's hair up in a style for all of 20 minutes on Wednesday! That's a record. I distracted her by letting her help me in the kitchen. She was having a lot of fun. I also got Ryan pretty good for April Fools day! (see previous post)

Adam's wife, Jessica, and their two little ones (R.J. and Makenzie) came over on Friday and Adam joined us after getting off work a bit early. I love that they live so close!

Sylvie started pulling up on things a little more regularly this week, tried to cruise a bit on furniture, and even let go once and tried to stand. We have recently weened her onto formula in an attempt to help with all of the spitting up and discovered that soy formula solved the problem. Seems she may be lactose intolerant. Anyway, it's been so nice to not deal with vomit all day!! YEAH! Ella is still not talking much..well she talks, it's just not in a language I understand yet. Anyway, she is signing more and more. She started signing "Please" this week. I love it! She's also figuring out that if she calms down and quits screaming she gets a lot farther with me and her dad. It's nice to see she's understanding the things we're trying to teach her.

Ryan headed out late Friday night to go fishing with his brother and a friend. They were out until the wee hours of the morning under a bridge on the Neusse River. Ryan caught two catfish. It just happened that a thunderstorm came up right as they started so they at least got a great lightning show.

We had a very busy weekend. Our church holds a world wide conference twice a year that lasts for 2 days. It's broadcast via satellite so we're able to watch the 4 different sessions on television, which is so nice. In addition, Ryan and I attended a wedding and a birthday party on Saturday. We took Sylvie along to the wedding and she was quite the hit. The photographer took quite a few pictures of her and she got many compliments on her sweet nature and big smile. Ryan ate it up. Sunday we had a friend and her son over for the morning session of conference and then headed over to Ryan's brother, Mark's house for the evening session and a barbecue. They recently adopted a cat named Crookshanks so I took the opportunity to make them a cake!! (See previous post.) It was a hit and quite yummy too! All in all, it was a great week, a bit rainy, but fun.

Kitty Litter Cake

Well, I was viewing a friend's blog last week and found pictures of a kitty litter cake she'd made for her dad's birthday! I laughed 'til it hurt and then instantly was trying to come up with an occasion to make one for someone. As Luck would having it (my lucks been turning around), my sister-in-law and her family decided this week to adopt a cat!! So Sunday we came over with our cake and a little toy for the new cat. It was such a hit!! Of course, when I told my mom what I was going to do she wasn't as excited as I was (she hates "bathroom jokes") so for her sake I'll try to at least keep the way I talk about it low key and let the picture speak for itself! Anyway, Ryan went a bit overkill on the kitty mess but he wanted to make sure that there was some for everyone!! My brother-in-law had just changed the kitty litter and said that the cake sure wasn't very appetizing but he, like everyone else, ate his share. There was hardly any left! YUM!! Now for all of you who are now trying to come up with an occasion to make such a cake, I'll give you the recipe!

One large (disposable) aluminum lasagna pan
One small kitty litter container
One brand new kitty litter scoop

2 cake mixes (your favorite) - I used yellow & actually 1 cake mix would do fine
1 package of pudding (your favorite) - I used vanilla
1 package of vanilla oreos
green food coloring
tootsie rolls

Bake cake mixes according to directions in the large lasagna aluminum pan. Top with pudding. Blend oreos in the blender until completely ground up and cover top of cake to make kitty litter. Hold aside about 10 - 12 oreos and ground them up with green food coloring to sprinkle in for a more realistic kitty litter. Melt tootsie rolls in the microwave for at least 15 seconds and then shape them into the "kitty stuff" and place on cake. (About 10 looks pretty realistic) For a more realistic look roll them in some of the kitty litter. Refrigerate or serve right away. (If you don't refrigerate this cake right away the pudding starts to wick up to the top making the kitty litter and "kitty stuff" look wet which, for some, may be too realistic.) Ryan added some little kitty foot prints, we set the lasagna pan in the kitty litter container, added the scoop and it was done!! It's yummy, too!! Enjoy!!

Just for fun...

So, I got this from a friend and it was fun.

278 words

Speedtest

HA HA HA!! Okay....so I cheated.....I used my toes too!! Just kidding. Actually I did make 71 words per minute (with long fingernails) but after my friend Kristy somehow came up with 191 (She's pregnant and I think the baby helped! - actually she attributed it to piano lessons) I decided I couldn't be outdone. So, I'm attributing my amazing number to HTML lessons...HA!! Have a great day everyone!!

I win!!

So, in complete retaliation for eating all of my M&M's and in the spirit of the day Ryan entered the bathroom today to find THIS on the counter.....
Mean? Maybe - BUT for the 3 minutes I let him believe it (I'm so nice - I could have milked this one for months!!) it was GREAT!! He was trying to keep his "game face" on but you could see it...there, in the eye twitch...HA HA! He quickly figured it out (guess I don't have the "glow") and then he wanted to know how it was possible that I got a positive result! I told him Ebay.....not true but I looked it up just a minute ago and there are positive pregnancy tests up for auction!! Need to make some extra cash on the side? Tammy? Jamie?? Not that I would condone that....but ANYWAY...I apologize if anyone is upset that I would make such a joke of such a blessing but with all the blessings at our house lately we have "not room enough to hold it"! - Maybe in a few months... :) Happy April Fool's Day everyone!!