But This is Happy

We are watching "Roseanne's Nuts", which is GREAT.  I love Roseanne, esp. when she tipped over on her motorcycle.  It's me, if I had a lot of money and anger management issues!

This is Sad

What a sad end for a talented musician.  Only 27 years old.  Really sad that she couldn't get her life together.

Chicken Man

Liam drew me two chicken pictures:

I heart these.  A chicken on wheels with flowers!  An evil chicken!  And he draws WAY better than I do.

Two Thumbs Up

Katie and I went to "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" tonight (2nd time for her, 1st for me).  It was great!

The best thing about going to a Harry Potter movie with me?  I NEVER remember the plotlines of the books, so each movie is a brand new story!  I forget all the details as soon as I finished reading one of the books.  It's magic :-)

I did think this movie was very good.  As well as the whole series.  And THIS never fails to melt my heart:

Every time I see tiny Hermione with her giant mop of hair, it makes me so happy.

Manito Park

Liam and Mikey came over for a few hours today (Al was sick and RJ is at camp), and we took Lucy down to Manito.  She was terrible on the leash of course.  Katie, get her back in puppy school stat or Grammy canNOT walk her anymore.  My wrist is dislocated.

The boys, on the other hand, were good as gold.  Liam brought his fishing net and we spent quite a bit of time at the duck pond, looking for turtles.  He snagged a few with the net, so we got to get a good look at the little beasts before he put them back.  Mikey and I played at the playground, and Liam got in a baseball game with a group of kids.  The weather was pleasant, so we picnicked on PBJ's and big pink cookies.

Liam "sharing" Mike's lemonade.  Only minor rage over that.

Mikey looking thoughtful (or maybe this was just after the "lemonade sharing" incident)

We got sick of Lulu chasing every squirrel and duck in the park (well, trying to and being yanked up short), so we walked her back to the house.  Liam cleaned up dog poop and watered my plants for me while I mowed the back yard.  $2.00 well spent.  Mike cleaned up the XBox controllers we found in the garage, so he could take them home to use them.

A nice afternoon for Gramma Laurie, I don't get to see these rascals nearly enough. 

Done!

Just finished Carson's Norwegian Sweet Baby Cap, in the "Carson" colored yarn I bought a while ago.  Easy knit, cute results. This hat is going to be sooooo cute on our Charlie Brown headed boy, with his giant smile.  I'll mail it tomorrow, Mama take a pic for me.  Even if it's wool and his little head-bone is going to sweat like mad while he has it on.

WTF

How did the US women just lose the World Cup?!  Yay for Japan, but still...