All In A Day, Right?!

I woke up, and for a few brief minutes, as I was in between sleep and consciousness, I thought "what day is this?!" Soon after, I remembered: short work and school week, only a few scheduled meetings/events, house is in decent shape, kids slept through the night, i don't want to get up, blah blah blah.... and so the day began.
And it is funny to me, as I think back now at the end of the day, what it ended up being....

1. thunderstorms in the early a.m. - which tend to freak me out in my "older age" - thus putting the car in the garage, which meant cleaning out of 1/2 of the poor 'lil building to make room for a vehicle.
2. a great family morning, but jeez, how did it get to be 7:30 am already and I'm just getting out of the shower?! yikes, kick it in high gear to get kids on the bus and me out the door by 8 am!
3. leave work a little early b/c I've lost a filling AND a cap - ouch - and ughhhh...I have to go to the dentist. I'd much rather give birth than go visit him (and yes, I did tell him this, which he found pretty funny)
4. a call from Bryton's teacher, saying "well, we had an incident on the playground, and let me say first off that Bryton is 99.9% innocent." the rest, well, lets just say Bryton's story (which he immediately told me when he got off the bus, innocently) jived with his teacher's, thank goodness.
5. the CO detectors going off in the house, right at dinner time. we'd had a funny smell going on in the house while dinner was cooking, so it made sense once the alarms went off to call the Fire Dept. And yep, our CO level in the kitchen was bad enough to alarm us, so we are ventilating as I write this, and the gas line to the stove has been shut off for a little while.

Soooo...the house is quiet, the dog is snoring soundly in the kitchen, and I wonder what the rest of the week will bring?! Guess we'll roll w/ the punches :)

Playdate w/ Emma

For your reading pleasure

Brian's first buck (he ended up winning a free Lone Wolf stand w/ this submission):
(copy and past the following web addresses into your browser, pls :)

http://www.prairiestateoutdoors.com/index.php?/hunting/article/brian_engles_opening_day_11_2010/

And his 2nd buck:

http://www.prairiestateoutdoors.com/index.php?/hunting/article/rush_hour_buck/

Good Songs

By now, you should know the kid and I love music...so, here are a few of our fav's of the week. You will need to scroll down to find and play the video's if you'd like (after you copy and paste these links...I'm banning youtube right now, so pls bear w/ me :)

http://music-mix.ew.com/2010/08/04/miranda-lamberts-new-video-for-only-prettier-features-some-major-country-girl-power/

http://www.dixiestreams.com/jason-aldean-my-kind-of-party/

Fall "Harvest" 'Round Here....

As I write this, we have 4 deer in our freezer thanks to Brian! Yeah!!! That also means 2 bucks on the wall (yes, our taxidermy bill will be high this year, but if I were Brian I'd want those big guys on the wall too!)
As for Jerod and I...we are new to this sport, and we are both having a great time. Jerod got a doe this past weekend, which was very cool. Shean was out with us too, so we were all in different stands and it is funny how much cell phone texts on silent can help a hunt...or at least keep us all excited b/c someone is usually seeing something at some point.
And so the work week and school week start back up, and it is hard to get back to reality...but it makes us all appreciate the diversion that much more.

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