Back To School

11 Months old Collin

Riding Shotgun

Now look at that right ear!

It is still standing at attention, don't ya just love it??

Bentley Boy is great company.

First Day Of School 2010/2011

Shelby will be in Kindergarten this year.

She was very ready for school to start.

She doesn't want to take dance this year.

So she is going to be on a little swim team.

She sort of taught her self to swim this

summer and that is all she wants to do is swim.

Reagan will be in the 3 year old Pre School class.

She didn't want to go to school this morning.

She wanted to go to big girl school with her sister.

She still has another year before Pre-K.

Her cousin Mackenzie will also be in the same class.

Watch out Ms. Charity!

My niece, Leah, cut her hair yesterday.

She really wanted it as short as Shelby's

but I think this was short enough.

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I'm still running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.

I can't see it calming down until after the Labor Day weekend.

We still have relatives in town from the

funeral and will have for another week.

We've had some really good times with our extended family.

I hope to get back to my regular blogging and

visiting yall soon. Probably another few weeks.

Miss yall.

Pop Pop's New Tattoo

Compliments of the GRAND~girls!

(Could it be any uglier? I really wish they would have put a little forethought in to the design! And thank goodness for washable markers.)

What?

Can someone tell me what

happened to summer and how it

got to be the middle of August already???

Back in the Real World

Woo Hoo!!!

Dad Griffis

Clemon H. Griffis passed away this afternoon,

August 12, 2010 he was 78 years old. He will be missed by many.

Love you Dad.

Matthew 25:21 His lord said unto him,

Well done, thou good and faithful servant:

thou hast been faithful over a few things,

I will make thee ruler over many things:

enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

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I miss yall.

I finally get telephone service and

Internet tomorrow afternoon!! Whoo Hoo!!

Give me one more week and I'll be back with you.

Stay out of trouble and try and stay cool.

I'm Outa Here!

Taking a bloggy break.

Don't really know how long I'll be gone.

Gotta get some things done around here and still no Internet.

I'll miss you, my boggin friends.

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Photo Friday

Michigan Barn May 2010 Just surviving the Dog Dayz of summer. Just not around a computer much these days,

Okra and Tomaotes

What to do with fresh okra?

I was given a mess of okra last week, oh what a gift!

I put it with the okra I had from my garden.

Then I sort of came up with this recipe.

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In my head it started out somewhat like that great

Poppin Squash Recipe I got from

Katherine Mt Smokey Mt. Cafe.

But ended up differently but oh so yummy.

I've made this three times in the last couple of weeks.

Fry up a few pieces of bacon.

Remove bacon from pan, crumble and save for later.

Throw 2 cups chopped Vidalia onions (or sweet onion) and

saute until they start to get translucent.

Add two teaspoons minced garlic and cook a minute more.

Add 4 cups chopped okra and saute about 5 minutes.

If you have fresh tomatoes add 3 - 4 cups.

If not, use two or 3 cans of petite diced cans of tomatoes.

If you want to add little spice, add a can of Rotel tomatoes.

Add one or two tablespoons of sugar.

Add two chicken bullion cubes crumbled.

Stir all together and cook until okra is tender.

In another frying pan saute a pound or more smoked sausage.

Add bacon and sausage to tomatoes and okra.

Serve over a bed or rice!

I've been craving this everyday this week.

Shutter Love Tuesdays

This weeks theme: Weddings

Got a favorite wedding picture you'd like to share?

Go here and join the fun.

Great Picture

I 've always loved this picture of Dad Griffis, my F.I.L.

It was taken at my youngest son, Travis and Jordan's wedding.

I think I love it because he has a great smile on his face.

He doesn't smile a whole lot.

The Sweetheart and I were with him last night when he suffered another stroke. He had a quadruple by pass two weeks ago and was really doing pretty well. They moved him on Tuesday of this week to a wonderful Rehabilitation hospital, Brooks. They ended up taking him back to St. Vincent's last evening around 5:00. They got him moved out of the ER around 11:00. He finally fell asleep around 12:30 this morning.

Around noon today he had a turn for the worse and they had to put him on a ventilator and moved him to CCU.

He's holding his own tonight.

They told us to come home and come back in the morning.

It's been a really long day.

Due to 3 dogs and the idiot AT&T people for not running the wires above ground like we have begged,

We Again Have NO Internet service

or phone service at our home.

If you need us use our cell phone #'s or work #!

Just don't even ask me how MAD!!! I am about this!!

It was the STRAW that broke the camels back!!

Ella's Crack(er) Story

This is Tauna, my Evil Twin and Ella's niece Susan.

You have got to go here and read the cutest story on Tauna's blog!

It is a small world!

Naughty or Nice

My EVIL TWIN, Nurse Tauna, who lives in the Arctic Tundra of Idaho

bestowed this little meme upon me the first of the week.

I am always a day late and a dollar short

or either I'm just to hot to think straight.

That is how it has been this week!

WAY TO HOT!!

(I hate these things because I'm just so boring, I bore myself)

#1: What is the silliest prank you've ever played on someone?
When Harrison dropped off Reagan (3 yrs old) on Tuesday morning she had a "Mina" aka Pacifier wrapped up in her shirt hiding it from me. I broke her of that Mina while we were on spring break with the girls and their parents weren't around. I dared them to give it back or even mention it to her when she got back home. Well, she has done real well. When she had her tonsils out a few weeks ago her daddy bought her a new one!
(I could choke his guts out, in a nice way of course.)
Back to the story, I got it away from her and turned around and acted like Bentley Boo Dog got it from me then told her that he ate her Mina (pacifier). She was mad at him and wanted him to give it back. I told her he couldn't that it would just come out in his poop. She whined a little and not 10 minutes later she told me Bentley had to go bathroom he needed to poop. She watched him all day hoping she could some how get that thing back. I asked her what we would do with it if we found it, she said we could wash it!!! Now, that is wanting that thing BAD! That night she told both her mama and daddy about that bad dog. Next day she asked me if he went poop and I found her "mina". She was willing to get it back any way she could. I know that wasn't really a silliest prank but that's the best I could do and I'm evil like that :)

#2: If you could go on a trip anywhere out of this country, where would it be? I'd go to Scotland with Tauna and then make her go to Ireland with me. Italy always looks nice in the movies too.

#3: Who played an influential role in your life? Both my parents, in different ways. I'm a lot like both of them.

#4: Are you OK with your spouse being friends with an ex? Um, never had to think about that one so I guess I just don't know, probably not so much.

#5: Favorite candle scent? Yankee candle, pineapple tropic

#6: Next movie I'm excited about seeing. No earthly clue.

#7: You must have one word to be banned from the dictionary and no longer spoken or used. What is it? I HATE hearing anyone use the Lord's name in vain! But I wouldn't want it banned from the dictionary. The word to ban would be the f bomb.

#8: Do you have a relative in jail? I don't but the Sweetheart does. In fact he has a few more that I wish were there too.

#9: What crazy fads were popular when you were in high school? Platform shoes and hip hugger pants with a wide white belt with your shirt tucked in.

#10: Have you ever been mentioned in a newspaper or on TV?
Yes, my baby announcement and my wedding announcement and a few other times.

If you are finding yourself looking for something to blog about then take this little naughty or nice test and blog on!