#2 Day of Thankfullness-I'm playing Catchup!

I think one of the things I'm most thankful for is... Yes, you guessed it. My husband. Its not a secret that I think he is all around wonderful. The most supportive, kind hearted, smart, wise person I know. What I'm thankful for today is his sense of humor.


An example of this would be a couple of years ago I got it in my head that I was going to make sock monkeys for all my nieces and nephews. At the time there were 7 nieces and nephews I wanted to make sock monkeys for and I decided this about 2 days before Christmas. Needless to say, I made myself crazy. There was crying involved as I sewed into the wee hours of the morning trying to get these silly sock monkeys done for children I had already purchased presents for. The husband patiently told me that he would give a big fat resounding NO if I ever decided to do this on such short notice (I'm prone to over-commitment), but its what he did the next morning that really gives you a picture of what it is to live in our house. This is what I came downstairs to.

blogging monkey

Guitar Monkey

Joy of Cooking Monkey

Video Game Monkey and Praying the Rosary Monkey

This sense of humor is so appreciated as it makes our house that much more joyful There are always silly, goofy things we are doing for each other. They say laughter is good for the soul, and I know it has done my soul good. Oh and by the way, its been requested that I make another batch of sock monkeys this year...

Chinese New Year Parade

On Sunday I took my sick self out to China Town in Philly for the New Years Parade. It was pretty interesting to say the least. The parade itself was 6 or so dragons going around from store to store looking for these. Yes, thats a big long chain of fireworks with a head of lettuce on top.

Once they found them the dragons would dance around


When the fireworks start going off they "watch" them then eat the lettuce

I have no clue what this all means, but it was pretty interesting to see and a great way to take advantage of the 60 some degree day.

The hubs spending quality time with a dragon.

Weekend Goodness

We went over my brothers house to babysit my adorable nieces this weekend. It had been awhile since we'd seen them so we were soo happy to do it! They are both ridiculously funny. At one point we asked my niece Gracie (5 yrs old) who her favorite uncle was, of course she said Uncle J. So being the loving sister I am I called my brother and put him on speaker and asked her. She pointed at Uncle J but said Uncle Wil, the little stinker :) We read them books, ran around the house, went on a treasure hunt, played eye spy, played red light/green light, played dress up and generally had a very busy weekend, lol.

Meggie wearing the tutu I made her

My pretty princess

She asked Uncle J to read her a book

but didn't like the view sitting next to him

Me and my Gracie, I look surprised here about something!

Meggie cheasin it up for the camera, love the pig tails!

Fun Freebie

So the hubs is one of those smart people and because of this works in a smart people field. Well his company just switched offices and was getting rid of a TON of things. He brought home a bunch of computer equipment and while explaining their very specific uses my brain exploded due to non-understandiness. One thing that he brought home though I am interested in, it's a VERY nice projector, one that basically turns my family room into a movie theatre. He's working on setting it up for a nice rainy day movie for after we are done our chores. The cat is in heaven because right now it is projecting his computer screen on the wall and let me just say that pointer that was moving across the wall is VERY tempting to my little kitten cat. He just jumped 3 feet up in the air to attack it and slid down the wall. Seriously I'm in tears its cracking me up.

We were out and about all day, had to get brakes for the hubs car, pick up his front forks for his motorcycle, check out wood flooring for our house, stop at Lowes to get stuff for Christmas and a pedestal sink for the downstairs bathroom. We found Teak flooring that we're going to put in the Kitchen, Hallway, Living room and Dining Room. We have to wait till January for it to come in though. Thankfully my family is going to help with installation so the price won't be too bad.

My Christmas adventure this year is going to be soap making. I was having a hard time finding Lye anywhere but after some searching online I realized that Lowes sells it as drain cleaner. The hubs doesn't understand how drain cleaner will make soap I told him its like a chemical peel but cheaper, LOL I'm horrible I know.

Some Good Dinner

Last night I was soo close to ordering out, I was just tired when I got home and didn't feel like cooking. I stopped at my sister in laws house and took in some of the cuteness that is my niece. The pit stop fueled me on and gave me the boost I needed to make some dinner. So I made some roasted potatoes, chicken and asparagus.

We had a lovely dinner with a stimulating dinner guest, Kitten Cat Snuggle Fluffy Pants III (we're trying to rename him because his name now isn't safe to say in front of children, he got the name from his love of jumping on the dining room table).

The hubs was REALLY happy I made asparagus.
I also made a Cranberry Lemon Cake from A Hippie with a Minivan's blog and it was goooooooood

Happy Halloween

Check out the hubs and my pumpkins for '08.

As you can tell we have some fun with these :)

Mine is Frankie and Jason did Mac. 

Hope everyone has a safe and fun day, I will update after the PARADE!!!

Wooooo Go Phillies!!!!

Happy Birthday Daddy

So my dad is coming over tonight for a birthday dinner, so as is customary I made him a birthday cake last night. As you know my birthday cakes aren't usually the normal run of the mill type jobs, I like to have fun with them, and if you know my father you know that this one is especially appropriate.

The hubs and I were happy to have two really good friends over last night helping us with this tremendous undertaking. My friend Lisa kept singing "I think your tractors sexy" song and lets just say that after about 2 hours of cream cheese icing intake we were having a good time. There may have been another cake decorated with a plastic Captain Kirk and something about a sexy starship written on it but I'll just leave that to your imagination.

A Hint

This makes me laugh :)

I just realized today that how most people act in a photobooth is how the hubs and I act all the time; silly, goofy and completely schmoopy!

The last pic cracks me up, I look awfully proud of myself and the hubs just looks stunned :) LOL!

Its a hint cause I used my new toy to do this little collage.

Fun in New Castle DE

Pic of Hannah taken by Dirkey on 8/23/08

Did you guys know that if you google "fun in new castle de" is comes up as no results... well it did on Saturday when I googled it from my phone.

Pic of Park taken by Dirky on 8/23

My SIL, we'll call her R-sis, and I were planning an adventure down to a big antique show down there on Saturday. It ended up that the hubs and his brother were able to go as well, so we all jumped in their minivan and headed on down.

Hannah and Pongo Boy, who is coincidentally a girl, taken by Dirkey 8/23

We got within about a mile away and they had one of those banners up that goes across the road. I started reading it and realized that the Antique Show was SUNDAY, yeah we drove that far away (over an hour) for something that was the next day.. grrrrr... We were determined to make Lemonaid out of the sour lemon situation and had ourselves a picnic and hung out at the cute park the Antique show would have been in had it been the right day. We had Homemade Hummus and Pitas, Cheese and Crackers, PB and J, Fruit Salad, Homemade Sugar Cookies.

Picture of some mini pb and j sandwhiches that were assembled by your favorite Dirkey 8/23/08

After we had lunch we had to burn off all those calories so we did some exploring.

Pic where Hannah reminds me of a pirate 8/23/08

And some Shoulder Riding... Ok only Hannah did this because if anyone else did it would cause some serious injuries

Pic of Hannah and Her Daddy 8/23/08

The hubs and I took the opportunity to take our famous self-portrait or as his brother likes to say our "myspace shot"

Dirkey and her hubs 8/23/08

After the park we went to the Christiana Mall for some tax free shopping, and ended up just window shopping.

It was a great day, made even better by some awesome company.

R-sis, Hannah and J-bro taken by Dirkey 8/23/08

So now when someone googles Fun in New Castle De they'll see us and our
Fabulous, relaxing Frugal Fun Day

Weekend Update Pt 2- The Wedding in Pictures A very wordy wordless Wednesday

So I mentioned before I went to my cousins wedding this weekend. It was a pretty classy wedding but you never know what will happen when you invite the family Dirkey to something classy, its very possible you might get this
more than likely you will get this.. yes its my mother swearing that she's only had two drinks... yeah.. as my cousin Kate said "were those two drinks, two bottles of vodka?!"
As is the case most times, the hubs and I took the oportunity to look ridiculously cute and in love (you can just call me squinty!)
My nephew Mason and his idol, Jason a.k.a. the hubs taking adorableness to a whole new level
It was great to see family that I don't normally see; my uncle, aunt and cuz from Colorado. I absolutely adore my cuz, and want to invent some type of tube that would connect Jerzy and Colorado so I could see her more or have her to dinner.
Yes, yes I lost track so we were at a wedding. The bridesmaid dresses were adorable, the church was awesome. Here is a pic of the girls walking down with an extra bonus of my moms camera
I've mentioned before that the hubs is a twin, but I'm surrounded by them here is my aunt the Mother of the Bride (looking absolutely stunning) being escorted by her twin brother.
Ahh the most important people in attendance my cousin, the gorgeous bride and the very very lucky groom. May they always look at each other like this.
Then on to the party it was held at the Larchmont Yacht Club which was just beautiful and very fitting to a cousin who has always had a love of water and sailing.

We were all treated to a full moon over the water. It really was a gorgeous day all around.

Probably the most awesome video on the internet

This is my friends little girl (almost one). I LOVE how she stops dancing when the music stops.

Today's Post brought to you by my inner 4 year old

and this website... artpad



Umm yeah, only 7 more days till closing!!! Made some celebratory chocolate chip cookies and did some laundry, yeah I'm domestic and stuff, it comes with being a homeowner.. :)

Google search

someone searched
"holy cow happy birthday myspace comments"
and found my site.
Somehow I think they missed the mark

This made my day

Pictures... :)

So I was sitting here thinking of my Gels, so I went to check out her myspace and I found this..



and it made me smile.
Even though it kinda hurt me when she didn't wear my gift down the aisle, I can see now that she DID like it.

Determination

Update

If your shoes are talking to you (falling apart) stapling them together, DOES NOT WORK.
Little tip from my blog to your life.

DUCK!!!

Tamara and I made this...

then I became the two headed ducky monster... grrrrr

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