Cool things I saw:

We saw these bottles of wine in Binny's. They are super-scary!!

 

Okay, we were looking at dishwashers. Ours broke and it is the third one that broke and quite frankly I feel like dishwashers leave a gross film on dishes anyway and hand-washing may take longer but they at least come out CLEAN so I don't feel like we should spend the money on a dishwasher, but we were out looking at them anyway. We started wandering around and saw this really awesome (and really expensive -- $4,000!!) fridge.

 

It has an interactive touch screen on the front where you can leave notes:

 

Look up recipes online, watch YouTube, and it even has cameras on the inside so you can see what's in it without opening the fridge!!!

SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!! If I had $4,000 to blow I would definitely buy this fridge!!!!

 

Lastly we found a clone warrior that's a little, um...different than most clone warriors.

Okay that's it, I'll leave you alone now. :)

Another Catch-Up picture day

Now that we've had our little "After-Christmas Cleanup Party" (Actual Christmas stays out until January per my strange husband) I thought, "Hmm, maybe now would be a good time to put up some photos from October on the blog," so here ya go lol.

We all went to see a movie: (Trena was more excited about it than she looks here lol).

 

Here were the photos I took for Christmas ideas:

Alien fanfiction? YES, PLEASE!

 

Joe Hill! I WANNA READ IT!

 

Pretty much anything Star Trek ever...I have quite a collection of Star Trek fanfiction (mostly original series, some Next Generation, willing to read Voyager). Some are bad, but most are insightful and interesting and really add to the Star Trek universe.

 

For the record....I received NONE of these books for Christmas. But I'm posting them anyway because my birthday is coming up soon!! There's still hope! ha ha ha yeah, right.

A really awesome sunset over Caseys. :)

That one time we went to see the Illini play football! <3 br="">

 

Holy wow a phone out in the wild!!! I thought they took all these away!

 

A really good shot of a misty morning thankyouverymuch

Last but not least....our Viktor cat loved to sit in our Nester's lap LOL! <3 br="">

Hooray!! Maybe I'll get November's pictures up before 2017 comes along buuuut I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. I'm super-busy this time of year.

Love you!
AmyG

First "Dear Trena" video and some pics.

Here's my very first "Dear Trena" video!

And now here's some pictures ~ because I'm lame and have no life to speak of.

My kids WERE supposed to open for Jared Yates buuuut weather around here sucks this time of year and that got cancelled. Whatever happened to "The Show Must Go On?" I could've got my kids there...the roads weren't nearly as bad as they were last night (that I had to drive in). But I do agree that the kid's safety needs to come first.

So here's pics:

My oldest on her first day of work: (Back in ...whenever that was)

  

The sad state of our Kmart. :(  Now closed forever and I have nowhere to buy clothes for that cheap anymore.

My kick-butt nails one week!

  

My youngest took up the trombone. He's not too bad, either:

  

Visiting my brother and his wife in Chicago(ish), AND my Hawaiian sister and her husband moved back to Illinois!!

Pink sky at night, sailor's delight (supposedly....I'm sure Illinois skies don't matter to sailors in the slightest lol)

 

I bet you can't guess which superhero is my daughter's favorite....

Did you say Superman?? Close.

Hey, we might as well finish it off with some sky photos:

The corn is down.

 

beans weren't (at the time this photo was taken)

See you next time!

Holiday World part 2

Kid #4 and 3: 

Dad & Oldest:

 

#3, 2 and 2's friend:

 

#5 and 4:

  

At the magic show:

 

D'awwwwww:

 

Getting ready to let littles drive cars:

 

Dad & 13 year-old:

 

Okay, so when my oldest was learning how to drive, I took a picture of me screaming because honestly it was the most terrifying thing ever. She nearly hit like, 3 mailboxes!! So since the YOUNGEST was driving, she insisted we take this picture, because she's weird:

  

Me with a sunburn in front of a Christmas tree in September because why not?

  

My two army kids:

 

That is all. Have a great day.

Holiday World

Here's some random pictures from our last trip to Holiday World over the summer. I really like that place and I hope we can go again sometime.

Photo one: We rode The Voyage but the photo screens were down. I thought it looked pretty and snapped a pic:

  

Photo 2: A scarecrow

  

Photo 3: We're not afraid of no ghosts!

  

Photo 4: My Mr's favorite ride; Raging Rapids

  

My two 18 year-olds:

  

THE VOYAGE:

  

The pirate ship: I have three kids that are terrified of this thing, even though it's just a glorified swing:

  

THE THUNDERBIRD!!! The best 30 seconds you could spend!

Okay that's enough for now. I have more photos I'll post next time. ;)

Have a great night.