Teenagers

Ever notice that hanging out with teenagers is like being schizophrenic? I don't mean to undermine anyone with this illness, but being around teenagers is kind of like talking to yourself. I mean it. I've had my brother and sister visiting with my mom. Matt is 16 and Melissa is 18. Granted Melissa is kind of quiet anyway, but c'mon!!! Anyway, pictures as always.

Trip to Woodland, WA

Backstory:

My mom and dad spent a week in Texas with Amy and Jerry in Texas and on their return flight, they stopped over in Portland for 3 days. We decided to take and few days off from work and take a road trip. It was awesome! The kids always have a good time at Ryan and Nonnie's. They basically live on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. It's actually pretty close to Mt. St. Helen's. Anywho, it was really fun. We were able to stop in Boise and stay the night with our good friends, the Ortons. We had dinner with some of our old trailer park friends. (Backstory to the backstory: we used to live in a nice little trailer park in Moscow ID when Buck was going to school.)

Here are some of the pictures that ensued from aforementioned trip...

Catch Up Time...

Evie is now a proud 4 year old. Here are the things that make Evie, well Evie, and why we love her for it!

1. She loves sweets. I mean, LOVES sweets. She will eat most anything, but her favorites are sweet treats.

2. She likes to be called a Mousie, but only really by Ethan. It's their running game that they play. Ethan is called Owner and Ev is Mousie. He can get her to do anything if he just calls her that. Like the other day they collided from running down the hall and she started crying. All he had to say was, "Sorry Mousie. " And she stopped crying full stop. It's great.

3. She likes to cuddle. More than cuddle. She's lovingly referred by everyone in the family as the Soft-Neck Strangler. She's always loved soft, warm necks. I admit sometimes it feels VERY claustrophobic, but I hold out as long as possible because I know the day will came when the only thoughts that will accompany will be true thoughts of strangulateion. But I need to stop being so optimistic about the teenage years.

4. She's not too girlie. She likes to get dirty. Almost to a fault. She loves to play with Ethan and all his boy things.

5. She's cute. I'm not that parent who openly talks to others about how great my kids are, how they're honor students or anything like that, but I do have a quiet pride in the fact that my kids are pretty great.

Here's pics from the party! It was a Strawberry Shortcake party. She invited 3 girls over and they watched Strawberry Shortcake and had Strawberry cupcakes with Strawberry frosting. It was fun! Bucky got into it, after he discovered the girls eating their cupcakes like piggies.

The Time Draweth Near

  My birthday is coming up this Friday and I mention this because all I want to know is, "Where did all the time go???" Is it a universal question? I think it is. It's like something inside us prevents us from thinking that we will age past 21. And for those that aren't 21 yet, rejoice because you probably know everything and think you will stay young forever. Revel in the ignorance because it won't last...

Running out of Time

Hello everyone! I'm sorry that my post has been up there so long!!! Our laptop is fried!!! Not happy times in the Cash house. So, I'm at the library now hurrying because my time will expire soon. Hope all is well. We are doing well. I had my Kickoff Show for Cookie Lee and it was good. I have 2 shows next week. Okay, I have 3 minutes left, I have to run!

I've joined the Cookie Lee Jewelry Family!!!

For those of you who may not know, I used to work the retail end of a business called Cookie Lee Jewelry. I heard about the job from a friend of mine that worked at the showroom in Salt Lake. I liked the job, but in the end, after problems with management I decided to quit. Cookie Lee is a home-based business that is similar to Mary Kay or Avon. It's affordable jewelry that you can share with friends at home shows.

That being said, I'm trying to solicit your business! I will be honest, I've never done ANY sort of selling, and am doing this to raise money to take a family vacation this summer. So, check out the website to the right of this post and see a bit of the new catalog. Then I can send you a catalog to order from. There are perks to having a catalog show as well, you can earn free jewelry and hostess incentives! And who doesn't want to earn free jewelry?!

Since most of you live out of state I think the only way this can work is with catalog orders. Sorry for the blatant use of my blog to solicit my business!!! If anyone is interested in joining Cookie Lee and would like to join my team that would be awesome too! If you sign up this month you will earn $300 in free jewelry. Okay, enough of that. Have a good day and check it out!

FRANKENBREAD

To begin with, I grew up on homemade bread. I know what a good loaf of bread tastes like. I know what it looks like, I know the feeling of coming into a house where it's been baked. It's amazing. It's home to me. I want that for my kids. I want it for my husband.

Well, I've been fighting the good fight the last 6 months trying to make a good loaf of bread. It has eluded me! Tonight, was the straw breaker. Look at this freaking loaf of bread. I've decided to laugh about it and call it my science experiment. It's going to make me laugh every time I cut into it.