Scumb...or...Idjitt

I bet your about ready to ask me, "What on EARTH is IDJIT"! Well, I'm not telling you right now,and the way this post turns out I might not end up telling you, you might just end up guessing. I'll just tell you about last monday night. OK, so my Mom went to a Mom's Night Out through the CHEC group, and we were left with my Dad. Which is not a bad thing at all. Usually some of the most interesting and fun nights end up being when my mom is gone and we are with my dad. For instance: playing hide and go seek (in the dark), having "backwards night" (eating your pizza backwards, wearing your PJ's inside out and backwards, eating desert first and then pizza, etc...), watching movies, tickle attacks,...you get the picture. So all this to say, that night, I called two friends to find out the rules on a game called Scum. I called the first person and then I explained the game as best as I could to my siblings who kept interrupting me and telling me "that's not how we played it at the so 'n' so's house" so I called the next person. This helped a lot, but all that work for nothing, because after that they didn't want to play anymore (they got tired of me being on the phone I guess). So my wonderful father came up with a wonderful idea (and off the top of his head like a snap of the fingers)! He sat up and said "OK, were going to play idjit". You should have seen our puzzled faces at that moment, asking, "What is idjit? Did you make that up?" The reply was just a geeky smile and a "you'll see". So we played the game, it actually turned out pretty good, making it up as it went along. If you would like the directions on how to play idjit you can call my dad. I'm running out of time now for posting and I'm tired so I need to say goodnight to all. How is it that I'm always posting at night?

What is a friend?

What Is A Friend?

A friend is somebody

Who knows you and likes you

Exactly the way that you are.

Someone who's special

And so close in thought

That no distance can ever seem far.

A friend understands you

Without any words,

Stands by you

When nothing goes right.

And willingly talks

Over problems with you

Till they somehow

Just vanish from sight.

And whether you're neighbors

Or live miles apart,

A word from a friend gives a lift

To your heart and spirit.

That shows you once more

Why friendship is life's dearest gift!

- Author Unknown

I'm so glad God provided us with friends. I have some awesome friends that God has given to me. He is so good to care for us in little areas like this. Only God truly knows our needs, and He knew that we need friends sometimes to laugh with or have a shoulder to cry on, or just a friend to talk to. Sometimes even your siblings are your friends. I'm still trying to be a best friend to me siblings first and then my other friends. :) There is just something different in talking to my sister vs. one of my friends.

Thank you God for giving us good friends to laugh and cry with.

Pictures of the last few months.

Ohhh, my goodness what a long time it has been since I've posted. I feel kind of bad because I haven't been keeping people in touch. :( It's funny though I 'll take pictures at different places and be thinking in the back of my head I'm going to put this on my blog when I get home. Then It just gets busy or I forget to do it. So if you don't mind I'm just going to put a bunch of pictures on here and explain them!

This one was taken on our way back home from Uvalde (90 mi west of San Antonio) when we went to see my Mimi and Paw-paw.

This is my Mom's mom. She is the best Mimi in the world! Love you Mimi!

This was also from the same trip. Its a cute little cottage, I just had to take a picture!

Sorry this one might be a little gross, but, we all thought it was interesting. These are baby spiders.

These were taken at my quilting class last month.I'm quilting at the Jarvis' house and I'm having so much fun and it has been a great skill to learn, very difficult, but fun!

This is a beautiful quartz rock that came from a much bigger one that was about 10in. in length and about 10-20 pounds. I went to a friend's house and we smashed the rock into smaller pieces this one was my favorite one. She kind of pulled me out of my comfort zone (My friend Mary is working on turning me into an outdoorsy type of girl).

This is the last picture and one that I actually took today. This is what I did today at the Jarvis' house. I hope to have a picture of my progress with quilting each month. Well goodnight to all. I'm getting sleepy. =o 'Tis time to go to bed. Hope you enjoyed the pics. I will work on updating my blog more often than once every few months. :)

Have you ever canned peaches?

I hadn't, untill a week and 1/2 ago. :) My sisters and I went to some friends house and canned peaches. We had fun boiling the peaches. We boiled them for about, 1 minute. Then we let them soak in cold water for about, 10 seconds. Then we did the fun and slimy part of getting the bad parts and the skin off.Then we cut up the peaches and scraped some of the red stuff out of the centers. It was so much fun canning peaches! This was my first time. I hope I'll remember how to do it, because this would be a very helpful thing to do in the future when I have a home of my own. Well, goodnight, It's getting late, I need to go to bed. Bye.

Loco means crazy!

I'm just about done with the hallway!!! It does get tiring sometimes but as I have said, it is fun! We finished up with the garage sale. I despise east TX humid heat. It was 102 degrees here and we were outside! I think we all got a little dehydrated. :( I'm sorry, I am thinking on the negative side of things, maybe I should be thinking on the positive side of things, huh? We did make some $$ (it was all donation). It was hilarious to see my mom try to speak Spanish! She would say "everything is donacion. Me and my sposo (hand motions during the hole thing) have ocho ninos! response from some "oh oh oh". One couple that had one child walked off laughing saying something like "blank blank blank blank loco" (I couldn't understand everything but my mom and I busted out laughing because we both new what loco meant (it means crazy). So that was our garage sale experience. He, he, he. P.s. I barely now Spanish myself.