spring is here...yeah right!!

i don't know if you've ever heard that the spring
time in virginia is one of the nicest times here. i'm beginning to think that's all just a bunch of crap. here we are at the end of april. it should be beautiful. warm, not hot, no humidity, breezy. well, if the past couple of days have anything to do with spring, i dont want any part of it. its horrible. its hot (95), humid, and sweaty. i feel just like this cartoon world. i hate this time of year. cant wait for fall.

new world or old?

since ive been doing this blog thing (new world) i have let my scrapbooking thing (old world)
go to the wayside. and the reason is because i feel that anything i would
scrapbook (old world) about i have already blogged (new world) about.
now, i know you can get your blog printed and bound in books, which
is awesome, but i still have this fear that if i dont print my photos
and manually put them in books that i wont have the memories documented.
oh man, its a dilemma im having between that old world (scrapbooking)
and this new one (blogging). what ever will i do?

lindSAYsew

so, ive started this necklace making thing. it started out
as a little crafty hobby and has turned into a real money
maker. im always up for a new craft and seeing as how i cant
sew beautifully (even though i wish i could) ive taken on
other ways to bring out my craftiness. when i started making these
little gems i was just giving them away to friends/family
and when my boss got a hold of one she came up with the idea
to display them at the shop and see if anyone is interested. and by golly,
people seem to be VERY interested. i was a little surprised. so now
with the help of my boss jodi, we are on a necklace making roll.
she strings the necklaces and i "sew" them. hence
the name lindSAYsew. our clients are loving
them and we are having so much fun making them.

wake-up call

we cut his head off.

this morning i woke up to brade giving a grizzly bear yell and a twitch. i rolled over and looked at the clock. it read 5:43. a couple seconds later another grizzly bear yell and twitch came. "what's wrong?", i asked. he said it felt like something bit him. the first yell came from a bite he felt on his stomach and the second was on his thigh. and dagon, something did bite him. it was this little bugger we found a few minutes later crawling on my comforter. it was terriful. im scared to get in my bed again. i guess there's a reason people put their bed up off the ground.

an eggy day with oobleck

so, our good true friends came over last night and we had an easter egg hunt for the guys and then dyed eggs. i haven't done either of those in years so it was fun to act like kids again. while elissa and i were dying eggs, brent and brade were doing "science experiments". it was really fun. brade made some oobleck and we played with it for awhile when all our eggs were done taking their colored baths. if you dont know what oobleck is, im sorry, cuz its really some fun stuff.

new york city babay

dinner at a really good japanese restaurant

passing subway train

the best candy store ever. i got a 13 dollar bag of candy there. NUTS!!!

in times square

out to dinner in little italy

getting lost

in the subway

atop the empire state building

brady hailed a cab

on the train

we went to new york city this past weekend with my brother
matty, and his girlfriend, jessica. we had a blast. the weather
was ok. it was windy one day, rainy another, and beautiful
the day in between. theses were some of the hightlights.

brade in the big apple

and here he is amongst the tall buildings.
this was brady's first trip to new york city.
we've been having a great time. today is our last day
and with the rain and the cold outside
right now, i'm not sure how fun it will be,
but i'll let you know. more pics to follow.

hidden pot

i was cleaning and vacuuming today, when i went to put the vacuum away in the closet i came across a curious find. it was this pot. if you look closely you can see that something has been badly burned in the bottom of it. a few days ago i was wondering where this pot had gone to and here i am 3-4 days later, finding it hidden in my front closet. brady had put rice in here and forgot about it and it burned and burned and burned for who knows how long before he realized it. he didnt want me to know so he hid it in the closet several months ago. now you must be wondering if i vacuum regularly (which i do) why didn't i find it sooner? well, the answer is simple. it was sitting on top of a suitcase which was being covered by a trench coat. since we are going to NYC this weekend i was digging further in the closet to get the suit case out and that's when i came across this find. it made me think of something my future son would do when he has ruined something and is afraid he's going to get in trouble for it. i have to say, it made me LOL to myself for several minutes..

climbing anyone?

here we are again. it was such a nice day this past monday so we
went out to manchester wall for some climbing fun.
it was great. matty did his first lead climb and i
honed my lead climbing skills. and brady made
everything look so easy, as always.