Chocolate Waffles Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

So we did the customary Father's Day Breakfast In Bed thing this morning. It went well, other than the fact that Olivia was the only one who would get up to "help" me. Riley actually did put the frozen OJ and water in the pitcher (I stirred).

We made waffles, with Catherine's oh-so-delicious Caramel Syrup, OJ, sausage & strawberries. Yum, yum, opened the cards, opened the box of See's Candy.

Then I went in to cook the rest of the batter. We'll stick the leftover waffles in the freezer for a quick waffle fix later.

While I was cooking said leftover waffles, Matt wanted me to look up the movie Super 8 online for him.

Then I got sidetracked because there was a link to Thor. Sooo... of course I couldn't concentrate until I'd looked at the glory that is Thor.

Then I saw a link called Top 30 Hottest Actors... well who could pass that up? Right? I mean I wouldn't want to be ill informed. That could be pertinent information that I might NEED! Not to mention I had to ascertain if this list was indeed correct as I would hate to have erroneous information flying about the internet. By the way it WAS erroneous as Gerard Butler was nowhere on that list, but most of the cast of Twilight was. ...Egregious.

I began to smell something funny... at first I thought maybe it was psychological considering the poo I was looking at in that Top 30 List. Then I decided it was real.... what could be making that smell? ... what was it? .... oh. crap.

I tried to trick Riley into thinking I'd make a delicious chocolate waffle, but apparently her nose works really well and she was not fooled at all.

I can't keep up

Sigh. I really kind of stink at keeping this thing up to date. I realize I've missed a lot of things that should go on here. Some of the problem is Facebook. I post pictures on there, but forget that only some of my family/friends are on Facebook. So, sorry to those of you that have already seen these. But here goes.

Sammi had her 5th grade Daddy/Daughter Hoe Down a couple of weeks ago. And sadly Matt had a late meeting he couldn't get out of so he couldn't go. When Riley found out she got all excited and said, "I'll take her! I'll wear my fake mustache and go as Mr. Mustache Man!" And... she did. Hehe. She even put a tie on (after the pic was taken.. and it was a Gryffindor tie too).

Sammi's friend Kristina went with them since her dad couldn't go either.

What a sweet sister... when she wants to be.

Memorial Day Weekend

We got to go to St. George last weekend for a little vacation. A lady Matt knows offered us her condo to stay in which was very nice.

We went down with our friends the Pulleys. It was a good time. We went to Zions Natl. Park, Gunlock Reservoir, Sand Hollow Reservoir, and played on the red rocks by the Dixie sign.

The only bummer was that Riley got a horrible case of eczema after playing in the lake. Poor kid, her neck, face & arms were all swollen and red. Now that the swelling has gone down you can see multiple little red splits and cracks in her skin. It looks really sore.

When I got home and downloaded the pictures we took I started messing around in Photoshop and ended up tweaking them... a lot. Duh. Out there with all that beautiful rock.. and I end up doing a lot of B&W's and sepias. Hehe. Oh well. They look cool. And I'll still post some without editing.

I love what this filter did to Sammi's face and eyes. The eyes were in deep shadow before.
Cute shot of Olivia.

I liked this picture a lot. I actually came up with 14 different "looks" for it, then narrowed them down to 3.

She was trying to avoid the camera. (As usual)

I really like this picture too. Her legs crack me up, going in both directions.

Sometimes I can't decide which version I like better...