Happy Labor Day From Me And Maxine

Thank you Miss Judy...talk about a good laugh yesterday. :0)

Hoping these will bring on some chuckles today....





Have a great day today..stay safe for all of you in the path of Gustav.
Please, if any way possible..let us know how you are doing via this blog.

PS. From My Heart To Your Head has been mini updated {Labor Day sale} and will be updated again later on today.

I've Never Met A Pit I've Liked...

And then came Molly, Kyle James and Meghan's pup.
OK..so she's really not a "puppy", she's actually middle aged and kind of, slightly, just a tiny bit, overweight..especially in the "pear" area, much like myself. :0/

She's a lover, not a fighter.
She likes treats, so do I.
She drools, I haven't started yet.
She likes to roll in the wet grass, I like to walk in it.
She needs a manicure, so do I.
She likes a good rub behind the ears, I'm cool with that too.
She tries to act young, I have the same problem.
She understands my quirkiness, I kinda like hers too.
She poses for the camera...and that my kind of best friend.



She also likes to go for morning strolls on the dock, about 30 feet from Kyle James' apartment to go look for gators.
We hang out here alot in the mornings..



Word has it there is a bigger then a canoe size Mama gator who lives there {Kyle's seen her lots of times}, but I haven't seen her yet, through, a few mornings a week, I show up bright and early with my camera, grab Molly and her leash and head on down to the docks...but that darn gator has other plans, because I can hear her {yep..gators make sounds} and I can see the bubbles she makes in the water....but that's about it.
Darn her..come on out purty Mama so can shoot you. {Camera shooting..or course}.

We hope you all have a beautiful day today!!

Please stay safe if you are anywhere near the path of Gustav. Our prayers go out to all of you who will be effected, especially all of our Louisiana friends.
Please stay in tough...we will be worrying until you do!!

Take care everyone...Later Gators!!

PS. Your all very welcome for the recipe!!
This past school year Kody and Kolin had it added to their school cookbooks. How cool is that? :0)

Strawberry Shortcake Dessert a/k/a You'll Never Eat S.S In Those Little Yellow Cake Cups Again

Here ya'all go, the one, the only, the original Strawberry Shortcake Dessert.
Once you eat it, you'll never want to go back to eatin' those little yellow cake cups things again...for real.

Just so you know, this is easy..it has to be, I am not a kitchen/cooking person and this makes Sara Lee's "Almost Homemade" show look like work.

This is what you'll be making....



This is what you'll need from the store..

One pre-made angel food cake
A bunch of strawberries
A big tub of Cool Whip {let it sit in the fridge until it's thawed out}
One container of strawberry glaze {sold where the strawberries are}
One block of cream cheese {I know, sounds gross but you'll never taste it..believe me}

This is your prep...

Cut up the angel food cake into bit sized chunks and set aside.
Slice strawberries and set aside.
With an electric mixer, mix the cream cheese and about 1/3 of the strawberry glaze until you get a really pretty raspberry shade of pink, set that aside.

This is how you put it together...

In a pretty big bowl {clear bowls look best...but mine had broke so I used what I had that didn't have leftovers in it}

Layer...

Angel food cake chunks
Blobs of cream cheese/glaze mixture
Drizzle or spoon over the extra strawberry glaze.
Cool Whip
Strawberries

**It really doesn't matter how you layer...it's all good**

Keep going until you get to the top and have used up everything {except of course, for those few pieces of cake and strawberries that you just couldn't help swipe when nobody was looking}

End with the last two layers being Cool Whip and Strawberries on the very top.

Cover with plastic wrap and stick it in the fridge for at least 4 hours.

Take it out, scoop it up and enjoy!!!!

Let us know how you love it and have yourselves a BEAUTIFUL day!!!!

Please Tell Me It's Friday!! :0)

It is Friday..awesome..because I need this week to end like yesterday. LOL!!

We had Kolin's appt. today at Shands..bright and early, and I do mean..bright and early.
BTW..I am in no way a morning person and it was horrible, though the cappachino Karl bought me when we first started out made it slightly more bearable.
But..we got there and everything went smooth as can be.,

They took more x-rays of his popping ankles.
Dr. Bacus saw him, she was terrific and totally impressed by his martial arts skills..even having him demo for her and the other doc's {one of which is into martial arts himself and was way impressed with his signature hook kick}
She tells us that on his x-ray everything looked normal. Her exam went well too.
So..the dx. is that he has air and possibly nitrogen in-between his growth plate and bone, mainly in his left ankle.
As long as it doesn't hurt or swell he'll be OK.

The end conclusion is that we now call him "Rice Krispie" or "Popper".

After stopping off at Sweet Bay in Gainesville, which we've heard great things about {it's a grocery store}, we made it home safe, sound and a little tired.
Well..not Kolin..the kid that never sleeps.
BTW..Sweet Bay is defiently all that and then some.
They have unbelievable meat prices and we totally recommend it.
I mean, where else can you get fresh angus burger meat for $2.00 a pound?

Not much else is going on right now..except that I'm still trying to get this whole yard sale thing together. Talk about madness...yard sales are nuts to get together.
I will be sooo happy when it's over, I really will.
Then..I'll take the earnings and get myself back to Sweet Bay. LOL..love that store.

I'll leave you today with some snapshots of Kolin's b-day from this past Monday.
He isn't much into cake, so he asked for Mama's special stawberry shortcake..his favorite dessert in the world. :0)







Here he was yelling.."No Way..No Way..NO WAY!!!!" as he was tearing the paper off..





Have a great day everyone!!!!!

Fire In The Sky

I love this one, the way it looks like the sky is on fire..



It also looks pretty good on..

View On Black

I can't stay on long tonight, but I'll be back tomorrow after we come back from Shands...Kolin has an appt. for his mysterious "popping" ankles..it's so weird, they "pop" all of the time, but don't hurt. :0/

Kody and I had our magazine interview today and it went GREAT!!
Oct. 1st is the day it will be out.

OK..gotta run and get Kaysha.
We have to leave here at 6:15 AM, so I have got to get some ZZZZZZ"s.

Have an awesome night!!

What Running Out Of Bribery Mountain Dews Looks Like....

I know..I know..it just isn't pretty. :0)

It was a crazy day today...just plain busy from 7 AM till now and it's still not over.

So..serisouly the best I can do is this itty bitty update tonight.

But..I'll be back tomorrow sometime with more news that has pretty much nothing to do with anything really.

Have a great night everyone!!!!

Rock Star Quality

I love a kid that totally get's into what he's doing....





Kolin's b-day went great yesterday and we pulled it off and got him the one thing he's been wanting forever..

The Guitar Hero Aerosmith game with the wireless guitar.

I still have to download the pic's...his face it totally priceless. :0)

Yesterday I had Kolin's conference at his school for the results of his math testing he had at the end of last year.
Turns out that he doesn't have learning disabilities in math like we thought. According to the results, he's just a "hands on" learner and not a "book" learner.
So...though he may take slightly longer to get the end result and his way is not the "norm", he still gets the same end result as everyone else..just in his own way, which they'll work with.

I have Kody's meeting at his school today for his half day hospital homebound and three day a week tutoring.
That should be pretty simple, we did it last year and aside from he'll be staying a little longer this year...everything will be the same.
We hoping after Christmas vacation that he'll be staying for the full day.
But, all depends on.....

1. His shunt and the probability of having a new one placed.
2. Those two suspicous spots found on his latest MRI.
3. His medications and the way they make him so drowsy by mid-day.

Oh....here's the pic's from above without the "Lucis Effect" preset I ran on them..because to be honest here..I love this preset!!!!

I'll show you these incase your completely over seeing everything looking so trippy. :0)





That's about it for the day. :0)

Have a great day everyone!!!