Rice Family

So, I can't wait for the Twinners - they're lame-o!  At least Megan is back.  Gotta love her.  Stinkin' organic fruit her children expect! Pah.  My kids don't know what organic is .  No big surprise there, I know :)  Ok.  Above this post is a widget that is a wish list - for those of you who need ideas as to what to get my kids, there it is. I want a pottery wheel.   Just sayin'.  Megan informed me "Yeah right.  Ok."  So ,maybe not this year, I don't have anywhere to put it now in any case.  I would like clothes, shoes, and jewelry.  I need some cute stuff.  A nice pair of jeans.  Some dresses for work (skirts are good too).  And might I remind you, I have both Christmas and Birthday coming up - combo gifts work just peachy :) ok, I'm done begging for stuff - unless you need a J list also.  I'll have to work on that. We are going to Kansas for Thanksgiving, plus a wedding for my cousin...

Um, what is going on sisters??  I need to know what is going on, yet none of you are friggin bloggin!  Where are your priorities? I suppose I could call, but what would everyone else do?  And if  your answer is :  they could call too,  think about how little you would get done because everyone was calling ALL the time and all you could ever get done was re-telling your stories to all those callers.....just think about it. Let me know what you decide. Oh, and just for good measure, I am not going to blog again until all of you do...and I would like to mention, I have some awesome stories that need to be told, so get your blog on.

We were grocery shopping the other day, and M went with me to pick out some hamburger.  Next to the hamburger there are the more interesting edible parts of the cow.  I decided to show M the cow tongue...her expected response - "Ewww.  Gross."  Just after J came back with E we showed them as well and as we were standing off to the the side, M all the while saying  "ewww...gross", a guy came up behind us and selected a cow tongue, so I showed M:  "See, he likes cow tongues.  I told you some people like to eat them."  She screwed up her face and looked at the guy with a 'are you crazy?' smile.  I decided it was a learning oportunity and asked him how he cooks/eats it.  He was very kind and stopped and explained it all to us and emphasized that it was very good. M is still unconvinced, but J thinks we should try it.

 This is the car we made for E's costume - he loved it...as did M! M & E - M is Rapunzel, E is  a car!

Well, Colorado is giving us a nice welcome to winter. We had a weather warning on Tuesday saying that Wednesday we would have 8-16 inches of snow. I'm pretty sure we got somewhere near that much. At least a foot. And it was wet HEAVY snow, which means a lot of trees breaking, lots of damage, and loss of electricity - I had no internet yesterday, and we lost power temporarily today. It was beautiful though. This weekend it is supposed to be 60 or some such. Go figure. Look here to see some pics - not mine, but pics none the less.

Love you Grams!  Miss you Like CRAZY!

 Home-made Playdough, courtesy of the Toney family - came in powder form!