Happy Birthday, Honey

Posted on August 24, 2010 by thebluehutch

Honey had a birthday on August 16.  It’s really the worst time of the year to have a birthday in our family; I kinda hurt for the guy.  August is the worst month of his job; competing only with May.  School started back the next day.  It’s just a hard time for a birthday.  I TRIED to make it a bit special. 

I got up and went to McDs to get a BIG breakfast for the man

and then attempted to get the kiddos to sing “Happy Birthday” with me. K “showboat” B sang every word loudly.  She was really into celebrating with her Daddy.

Little ran out of the room screaming that she didn’t want  to sing

and Bubba fled to the back porch because Little’s screams “hurt his ears”.

Just a typical morning at the Blue Hutch.
After a day at work, which really was a day of being fed a variety of food from multiple sources, we opened gifts, oooh:
and then headed out to see the movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.  (Honey’s birthday month – Honey’s movie choice.)  The movie was a brilliant concept, great filming, and a seeming attempt to cause as many seizures as possible from noise and lights flashing.  Officially: Honey’s birthday movie made me feel old.
Happy Birthday Month to YOU, Honey.  I love you.
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The Cahokia Mounds

Posted on August 23, 2010 by thebluehutch
Our sweet friend, Linda, did it again.  Last week she took TWO of the kids on an outing and showed them new and adventurous things.  We love Aunt Linda!
The funny thing is where she chose to take them – the Cahokia Mounds.  It’s an old Indian site and when she told me it was Archaeology Day I thought she had lost her mind.  I just couldn’t see my kids getting into that.  Score? Linda – 1  Mom – 0  They had a ball.
There was coloring of necklaces with feathers.
They learned how to “hunt” and throw spears (nice, Linda).
They were given a bag of artifacts to clean.  This was Little’s favorite part.  (Bubba loved story time.)
There was so much to do that they never made it to climb up the mounds.  I think that’s probably okay . . . and leaves something for another time. 
They got home at 6:00PM with McDonalds in hand and I can honestly say I haven’t heard that much of a report from ANY outing my children have ever been on.  What a joy.
Thank you, Aunt Linda.  Thank you!
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Sizzle on Saturday

Posted on August 20, 2010 by thebluehutch

Remember this post on Janet Evanovitch’s novel Sizzling Sixteen? Remember how I was number gazillion in line? Well, today I went from number 85 to 1!!! That means 84 people got sick of waiting and went and bought the book . . . or something.  Anyway, I’m off to the library tomorrow . . .yippee!!!

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