"Flashlights in the Clouds"

Sophie started crying in her room shortly after I put her to bed tonight and I was not surprised because of course--the storm rolls in, always at bedtime. This concerns me because I have some True Blood, season 1 to catch up on! I picked her up and told her that she could sit with me for a little while. She was explaining something to me that I could not understand, but I finally figured out that she was talking about the lightening and I had to video it.

Carson's B-Day

We had the whole fam out for Carson's First Birthday on the 14th. It was great fun and it reminded me again of how fast time flies with children. He had a Hollywood theme because as you know, he is lucky enough to reside in California. Speaking of California, I still haven't tasted the supposedly sweet Nectar of the In n Out burger. Not that anyone cares, but I am getting kind of antsy. In other news coming from California, Bonney bagged her first client for her company! Yea!

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Best Thing I Ever Heard

On Friday night after getting home from work, Sophie said the sweetest words I've ever heard. She put her chubby hands on my face and said, "I'm so glad you're home."

Back to the 80s--Part 4

For all of you purple eye liner wearing wanna be model/fashion designers out there.

Legoland

Trey and Wyatt recently visited the other set of Hodges in California. Aunt Bonney was able to procure tickets to Legoland and the rest is history. Aunt Bonney might be the only normal one in this group...

True History

Once again, I allowed Wyatt to stay up past his bed time AND eat Girl Scout Cookies while watching another movie. This time, the movie in question is a little more legitimate. Wyatt watched The Raiders of the Lost Ark--one of my all time favorite movies. The melting faces at the end are awesome as everyone agrees! Anyway, Indiana Jones is threatening to blow up the Ark to keep the bad guys from opening it, and the bad says (this is all pre-face melting) that he won't blow it up because, "We are all just traveling through history--this IS history." This was Wyatt's repsonse:

"He doesn't want to destroy true history. You can never destroy true history. That would be a bad idea."

Yes, I guess it would!

1980s Part 3

My obsession in the 6th grade was Tom Cruise. I saw Top Gun 3 times in the theater, and I can still quote the whole movie, and I can sing all the songs from the soundtrack by heart. I even cut out the movie ad from the paper and saved it. How weird. I wonder if any of those theaters are still in business?

Totally 80s Part 2

I don't know if anyone recalls the Member's Only jacket, but I had a pink one (of course). They were de rigueur in elememtary school. No picture exists of my jacket, but for those of you who did not have the pleasure of wearing one, this is what it looks like:

Also de rigueur were the buttons. I also came across my buttons collection--the Smithsonian wants it, but I just can't give it up. I wore all of these on my jacket--except the political button--I got that when I volunteered for the campaign much later!

Guess where I got those buttons? Spencers!!!

Totally 80s

Well, I found some things this weekend from my wonder years and I decided that you all might get a good laugh. In particular, I found some diary entries (about 10) that really speak to the depth of my character. Here is the first installment--enjoy.

What is this "T. V." you speak of? I thought I should also include a pic of myself in 1983.

All Kinds of Wrong

I took Wyatt to scrapbooking with me scrapbooking like two months ago (I know, I know, but I am having him put his baseball pictures in an album). He mostly used the Cricut die cutting machine for an hour and then he was DONE. On the way there, however, he had a startling discovery. As we pulled into the church for the crop, he said, "The scrapbooking is here? That is just all kinds of wrong! Those two things don't go together at all." Maybe odd, but "all kinds of wrong?" I have no idea where he got that one.