Nerds With Birds

After we got that tiny felt board last weekend at the garage sale - the kids were so entertained by it. That gave me an idea and today I decided to attempt it…so I made Cody and Emily a giant (1 yard) Mario felt board :) They love it so I’m happy with it. I still need to make Mario, Luigi - but my attempts were awful so I’m thinking about how to go about it *L*

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1. 4 Magic School Bus Books & 2 sign language flash card sets - $1.25
2. A Kids travel book, Capsela (remember those?!) kids national geographic magazines & a 3CPO Toy - $2
3. Mario Cart toy & Mario Figure guy toy- .25
4. 2 spyro toys - .25
5. A super hopped up with big fat wheels trike for Cody (pic to come!) -$15
6. 6 i-quest games -$3
7. Little People Farm (with all the original accessories) and a old camera (I had both of these when I was a kid) - $3

Grand Total of $24.75

Basically a kids garage sale day  :)

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TerraCycle Inc.

<taken directly from their website>
TerraCycle is trying to eliminate the idea of waste. To do so, we must find great uses for objects that used to be considered waste. And best of all, you can raise funds for your favorite charity by helping us collect waste. It’s easy and shipping is free.

you get paid .02 for each used juice pouch, energy bar wrapper, yogurt container or cookie wrapper you send them. They also had one for 12oz soda bottles for .05 each but it was already full. Interesting concept….

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My contests..I went ahead and re-uped my OLS membership for the year :) So I should start playing again :) I miss having fun stuff arriving in the mail everyday…So I played 81 contests tonight and won…

Congratulations from SUBWAY® restaurants!
You won a FLAT EARTH® Crisps!

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Welp…it was another nice day today. So we went garage sale’n (since we had some good finds last week)
The loot?

1. A suntan mister $1.50 - to be used for cooling off the rabbits
2. an old fashioned ice cream maker (bucket kind) $5 -Jay wants to make ice cream
3. a nice big gun case/rack thingy for the wall $15 - I needed a good place for my pellet gun ;)
4. 7 choose your own adventure books .75 cents - remember those?!
5. automatic hose watering timer thingy $2 - to water the garden for a set time in the AM instead of just when I remember *L*
6. Felt princess story board & 2 kids books $2 -Emily LOVES the felt board thing
7. 12 golf balls $1 -rabbit toys *L* - walter likes it, the rest can care less
8. Garden hose caddy/rolly thingy $1 - always good to keep your hose in one place ;)
9. Laser printer w/cart. & tv antenna $4 - the printer works great
10. 2 nintendo mario toys .50 cents - Cody was in heaven with the mario toys :)
11. a groundhog day flip number clock $1 - OMG I love it!

Grand total : 33.75

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The funniest things sometimes. Emily has been quite the chatterbox lately. Ok so to be honest she never stops talking *LOL* but sometimes she has the funniest off the wall things/words. So I thought I would share a funny one with you. She calls Kiwi’s (yeah the fruit) “Kiwi Pickles” no matter how many times you correct her, she will call them kiwi pickles *LOL* and anything that is referring to time, money, or a number is “a million ba-zillion” *L* Cody has his moments as well. Now to anyone who knows me - you KNOW I am not the cook. I actually started a fire in the kitchen in Houston trying to boil water…so needless to say I don’t cook. I decided a few days ago that since we had so many eggs I would make us breakfast burritos. So there I was cooking in the kitchen for all of 15 minutes *L* and they looked good - I was proud *LOL* I gave Emily hers and she dug right in but when I gave Cody his he got mad. He wanted to know why I left him alone. For the life of me I could not figure out what he was talking about until he added “so how did you go to Sonic and back so fast?” *lmao* he never would believe that I made them *hahaha* Oh I almost forgot - the kids needed new crocs so we went to bass pro and found something better - Polliwalks. They are just like crocs except they are shaped like an animal and leave animal tracks when they walk. Cody picked out the green alligators and Emily wanted the yellow ducks. They are adorable!

(Life) Well pretty much same ‘ole really. The kids have been sleeping in until 9am *L* better than 7 I guess but I remember sleeping until noon as a kid ;) Jay and I and a few friends went garage saling last weekend and found some fun stuff. I got Cody some mario cookie cutters and I picked up an i-quest w/4 games for a dollar. Jay found a craftsman push mower that he loves and we got a great deal on it. So I’m thinking we might have to do that again!

(Farm) Well we added a box turtle to the bunch - although he does live outside in the flower boxes. We added 6 baby ducks that were born on 5/30 and acquired in Fordland. Yesterday I candled the duck eggs in the inky and none were fertile so I don’t know what the deal is there. Each of the female ducks have started new clutches and so I’ll let them do their thing and hope for the best. Next week I’m expecting 2 sets of rabbit kits. The pigeons have laid another set of eggs and have been sitting on them since 6/9.

(Garden) Growing good - nothing to harvest yet but getting close. There are a few tomatoes that have started and I saw 3 peppers on the pepper plant. The cucumbers have taken over that entire side and I have about 10+ that have started growing and should be ready in a few days.

(Movies) Well we bought the Tremors pack and Cody loves those movies. We have also been watching Indiana Jones and he really gets into them. Emily can care less about either one of those *LOL* I watched P.S I love you and cried throughout. I LOVE that movie :) It’s a total chick flick! *hahaha*

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1. Horton Hears a Who - So cute - a city lives on a speck and the speck is found by an elephant. Hey you’ve read the book - you know the story ;) It’s a good kids movie. 9/10
2. Daddy day camp - Cuba Gooding Jr. meets kids camp. It’s just like daddy day care. 5/10
3. Hatchet - WTF? A horrible cajun bayou freak killer movie. 5/10
4. Dan in real life - good movie about a dad raising his kids alone 9/10
5. Over her dead Body - funny and entertaining 8/10
6. The seeker - not what I expected. A weird searching for symbols kinda movie 5/10
7. Bee Movie - Cut kids movie! You can be anything you want to be! 10/10
8. The Invasion - actually I liked this alien movie. 10/10
9. Chicken zombies - Laughable - just hillariouly stupid! 7/10
10. Awake - wow, super insane story and great twist! I LOVED this movie. 10/10
11. Wind chill - two college kids stranded on road and see ghosts - decent I guess. 7/10
12. White noise 2 - nothing like the 1st - which I liked better BTW - must kill if you save… 7/10
13. Kaw - okay I am officially afraid of ravens now *L*reminded me of “the Birds” 8/10
14. I know who killed me - Lindsey lohan a whore and a writer. Weird twist. 4/10
15. Waitress - cute movie about marriage/divorce/pie 9/10
16. Sydney White - college girl who wants to be in a preppy frat but finds something better. 6/10
17. The quiet one - christian slater goes on a killing spree at work - strange movie. 9/10
18. License to Wed - hilarious. Robin Williams is a relationship tester. 10/10
19. Lake Placid 2 - pass the CHEESE! How awful could they make this? The whole this is CGI’d and badly at that. It has horrble acting, horrible plot - I enjoyed the first one but this one..terrible! 2/10
20. Heartbreak Kid - funny at times. It’s a wedding/marriage gone way wrong. 9/10
21. Fido - zombie pets. I am biased because I’m a zombie movie freak. 10/10
22. I am legend - cancer turned virus w/will smith. I wish it added more to the story line though 10/10
23. 2012 doomsday - religious propaganda “but do you know god?”2/10
24. Into the wild - kid travels to alaska and tries to survive on a bus (true story) 10/10
25. We own the night - Cops, Drugs and family - never a good combo. 8/10
26. Flawless - Demi Moore as a diamond thief 7/10
27. Game Plan - really cute football dad movie w/ the rock. 10/10
28. Nancy Drew - uh kids movie lame for me 3/10
29. August Rush - great movie w/ a musical genius child. I hated the ending though. 9/10
30. The brave one - A tragedy creates a killer. Love this movie! 10/10
31. 3:10 to Yuma - Great movie. Reminds me of tombstone (not the plot just the scenery) 10/10
32. Good Luck Chuck - super funny! Dane cook is a dentist who has a spell put on him as a kid that once he sleeps with someone, the next person they will find be their true love and get married. 10/10
33. No reservations - cute cooking love story movie. 9/10
34. Why did I get married - odd movie with Janet Jackson 7/10
35. Resident Evil 3 extinction- good - but similar to the last (aren’t they all) 9/10
36. The comebacks - lame - terrible parody of other funny movie 3/10
37. Rendition - homeland security gone bad 3/10
38. Micheal Clayton - George Clooney a hitman? 9/10
39. Farmer John - doc about farmer losing farm,growing organic 10/10
40. 30 days of night - vampire movie 8/10
41. American Gangster - denzel washington as a ganster - very long and sloooowww movie 6/10
42. Captivity - trapped in a house and tortured - crazy twist 10/10
43. Grindhouse - Deathproof and planet terror - I guess i just don’t get these movies. I didn’t care for the “aged” look of the film or the story line of either one of these movies. 3/10
44. Across the universe - wtf musical / forest gump wonky movie 1/10
45. Juno - hilarious teen pregnancy 10/10
46. Day of the Dead - fast moving, fast infecting zombies..blah 7/10
47. Lives of Ian stone - blah! weird multiple personality thing 6/10
48. The Machinist - talk about having something bad on your conscience! 10/10
49. Resurrecting the champ -reporter not following up - good movie! 8/10
50. Lars and the real women - young Hercules! I loved him back in the early 90’s *L* this movie was sooo funny - I loved it! 10/10
51. Charlie Wilsons War - based on a true story - 6/10
52. Cloverfield - another blair witch except with godzilla *LOL*5/10
53. 27 dresses - the reason I got married in Arkansas *LOL* basically a chick that is always a bridesmaid never a bride. 8/10
54. The golden compass - where is the religious backing? I guess I didn’t see it. Still a strange “kids” movie. 8/10
55. Water Horse - an ok kids movie about a loch ness type creature. 6/10
56. Vince Vaughns Wild West Comedy Show - some of them were funny and some weren’t so good. 7/10
57. Strange Wilderness - more vulgar than I thought. Actually didn’t care for it but it had a few funny parts. 6/10

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Dang I havent been garage sale’n in forever! A friend of mine from Signing class was going and so we decided to go to. We had so much fun! The van was full of our stuff and theirs *LOL* Good times!
The loot?

1. A free TV stand - freakin awesome! It’s in our bedroom now
2. Hermit crab cage - $1 - it was cute and cheap *LOL*
3. Hamster habitrail cage & 2 kids books $5 - you can never have to many cages
4. 3 Mario Cookie cutters, I-quest w/4 games, Singing Starz karaoke - $3 - the BEST finds ever!
5. 5 pairs of jeans - $4
6. Craftsman push mower - $15 - Jay has been wanting one of these so bad!
7. wireless router - $5
8. fan (for the tv) $1

Grand Total : $33

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