The Name Game

I found this tag while blog stocking and thought it would be fun to do.

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car):
Trudi: Old English Sheep Jeep
Chad: Dog Dodge

2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie):
Trudi: Sherbet Peanut Butter
Chad:Vanilla Peanut Butter

3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name):
Trudi: TBRO
Chad: CBRO


4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal):
Trudi: Green Horse
Chad: Blue Rabbit

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born):
Trudi: Lynne S. Lake
Chad: Preston Salt Lake


6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first):
Trudi: Brotr
Chad: Broch

7. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The" + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink):
Trudi: The Brown Lemon aide
Chad: The Brown Coffee

8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers):
Trudi: Bobby Ray
Chad: Horace Ted

9. STRIPPER NAME: ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy):
Trudi: Endless Love Peanut Butter Cup
Chad: English Leather Oh Henry

10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's & father's middle names ):
Trudi: Raynone
Chad: it's protected

11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter):
Trudi: Hanson Henderson
Chad: Fisher Fresno

12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower):
Trudi: Spring Daisy
Chad: Fall Lantana

13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you're wearing right now + "ie"
or "y"):
Trudi: Banana Pantie
Chad: Watermelon Socky

14. HIPPIE NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Trudi: Cheerio Weeping Willow
Chad: Egg Potato Red River Birch

15. YOUR ROCK STAR TOUR NAME: ("The" + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + "Tour"):
Trudi: The Blogging Rain Tour
Chad: The Rabbit Raising Snow Tour

So.....I tag Kaylynn and Lindsy to post their answers on their blogs. Have fun!

Thin Ice with the old lady

While walking through the service drive today, I saw Anthony heading to the building through the door opposite the one I was going to. He did his normal "hi mom" wave, while I just smiled and gave him the "peace sign". He stopped dead in his tracks and said "Mom, don't ever do that again". I was thinking that maybe I had given some sort of gang sign, or something offensive that could get me into trouble and asked him why. He just simply said "because you are old".

I was shocked, I couldn't believe that my son just called me old. This is the same kid that was happy when I turned 30, so he could finally tell his friends that his mom was in her thirties.

And now, with only 5 years away from him being in his thirties, he calls me old. Hmmmmmm........All I can say is that boy is treading on thin ice with this old lady.

Peace out Anthony!!!

Corn Dog Sticks and a Field Trip

Christopher comes to my house on Wednesday nights for spelling lessons, and while driving, we usually have a pretty good conversation. Last week, he was telling me about school lunch and how good the food is. He likes the pizza, it's square and it doesn't have crust on the edge and it is good.

The kids get served lunch on thin plastic trays, the kind of plastic that is used to make the plastic cups you would use for soda (these are his words). They throw them away when they are done and they don't hold that much food. The trays at his old school are much better because they held more food.

One thing that really baffles him is; why do they take the sticks out of the corn dogs? So when they eat the corn dog they have to pick it up with their hands because the stick is gone. He's not sure why they are gone and wishes they had sticks. I wish they had sticks too.

What has our world come to if our elementary kids can't have sticks in their corn dogs? I guess if they take them out before the kids get them, they don't have to have stick monitors to make sure they confiscate all the sticks before the 2nd graders get a chance to sharpen them into deadly weapons.

The best day of the whole entire week was going to be the day his class got to go on a field trip to Skate Zone. He was pretty excited. I hope he had fun.

***Alert***Alert***Alert***

Someone is having a birthday -

I'll give you a hint -

Bee-Are-Aye-Tee

Give up?

Go to the birthday page to find out who!!

Happy Anniversary Chad

15 years ago, we said I do, again. And since this is our "legal" anniversary, I thought I would tell you right here in front of everyone (all 5 people who read this), how much I love you and how happy I am to be your wife. I am very lucky to have you and I am looking forward to the next 15 years. I love you Chad!

Recent random stuff

Today was the first day of trying to adjust to the end of Daylight Savings Time. Dang, that's hard to get used to. I don't like it getting dark at 5:00. The only plus is that I get to sleep in tomorrow.
I had lasik eye surgery about 8 years ago. They fixed my astigmatism and I have been able to see 100% better than I did before the surgery, for all this time. But lately, I have noticed that I don't see as clear as I should. So, I went to the eye Dr. and he confirmed that I can use some help with my distance vision as well as my close up. So basically, he said I'm getting old and recommended...........are you ready for this? Bi-focals! Sheesh....I'm not even 40 yet. Actually, age isn't completely to blame for my diminishing eye sight. He said that the cornea, the part that is reshaped during lasik, is like hair. It just continues to grow, so eventually my astigmatism will and has started to return. I could have lasik again to touch it up and it should be good as new. My close up vision problem though, is age. And even if I did redo the lasik, I would still need reading glasses. So I ordered progressive lenses which I can wear to see close up or far away. I hate that I can see so good with them. I don't want to get dependant on them and wear them all the time. Oh well, on the bright side, I'm not blind.

Halloween was fun, we went over to Anthony's to have birthday cake and ice cream for Zachary's birthday. He didn't quite know what to think when we turned out all the lights, lit a "2" candle and everyone was singing to him. He was looking around like we had lost our marbles. He was just about to get mad when the song was over and his daddy was encouraging him to blow out his candle. Next year, he may understand it a bit more.

After cake and ice cream, we followed all the kids to the Saddle West for some trick or treating. They had closed off the outside corridor of the hotel and made a path past hotel rooms where people were handing out candy from the rooms. Some were dressed up and some had there rooms decorated. I don't know how many rooms there were, but the kids all got a full bag of candy. Then at the end, they had a haunted house that you had to go thru to get out. You could by pass that part if you wanted to, but who wants to do that? That was the best part. I think all the kids had fun and no one was tormented too bad.

Speaking of the Saddle West. Since Chad and I had such a great time when we went to see the Beverly Hills Chihuahua, we decided to share it with the kids. So, we picked up Kaylynn's and Anthony's kids and went to the movies. The only one we didn't take was Zachary. We figured we were already pushing our luck with 6 kids, so we better not try it with a baby too. The kids had a great time. None of the kids except Aly had been to the movies before so it was quite the treat. We had drinks and popcorn and Grandpa and Grandma survived. It was a great night.

Last, but not least; Sunday is quickly becoming my favorite day of the week!

Happy Halloween

We have a real live monster in our family. And guess what? He's having a birthday. Skip on over to our Birthday Blog (it's open for everyone now) to see his birthday wish. But I'm warning you, he is SCARY!! So be careful.

You Should Be a Pregnant Nun for Halloween

According to our quiz, you'd make an ideal pregnant nun. Your runner up costume: Witch

The Halloween Costume Generator

Kristy's Blog

Kristy started her very own blog. She is so excited about it. Her mom is going to help her put all kinds of fun stuff on it. Check it out and maybe leave her a comment now and then. http://themonkeybrat.blogspot.com/

Take this quiz and see where you belong.

I Belong in 1951

You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in!

What Year Do You Belong In?

My Baby Boy!!

Happy 25th Birthday Anthony. I hope your day is great.

Love Always,
Your WoW

Movies in Pahrump.....2nd time

We went to the movies at the Saddle West again last night. This time we saw Beverly Hills Chihuahua. I love this movie. It was sooooo good. I probably like it so much because of my own Chihuahuas. And just so you know, I finally know the truth about my Tippy. She did get taken by Coyotes, but they didn't eat her, they took her on a train to Tijuana so she could go on to Beverly Hills. I think she is an actress now. That's my story, and it makes me feel better.

Happy Birthday Alley Cat!

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Happy Birthday to our dog Alley

October 1994 - 14 years old

(that's 98 in doggy years)

We don't know her exact Birthday, but she became part of our family in November 1994 when she was 6 weeks old. She tried to get away from us a few times by running away, but we just kept dragging her back..poor dog. I think she's finally decided to stay. We even had to bail her out of jail once. She has helped our family raise quite a few kids and we love her dearly. So Happy Birthday Alley aka: Alley Cat, Al, Fatty, Fat Cat, Alley Dog, Kitty Cat we all love you!

Problems logging onto Birthday Page

I think some may be having trouble logging onto the Family Birthday Page. If you are having trouble, please let me know by either a comment on this post, or an email. Thanks.

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin' Baby Boy is Rollin'

OK - so remember a while ago? I told you about how I get all freaked out watching Chad and Anthony race. Well, there is a perfectly good reason I get all freaked out. And I knew it would eventually happen, Anthony rolled his car.

The exit to the track runs along the back stretch just before turn 3 and is separated from the track by a berm, so if they drive too high on the track they can go over the berm and onto the exit.

I'm not sure how it happened, but Anthony was high on the track, somehow him and others got tangled up, and Anthony went over the berm, rolled twice and landed on his roof in the middle of the exit. I couldn't see the whole thing happen, because the berm was too high, but I saw enough of it to FREAK OUT. As soon as I saw Anthony getting tangled up, I was up and out of my seat. When he rolled over the first time, I was headed down the bleachers. Kaylynn decided that she would try to calm me down (yeah right) by holding my arm and telling me he would be OK. I finally had to yell at her to let go of my arm so I could continue with my freaking out as I was running as fast as I could with Sharon right behind me to the entrance of the track. Luckily by the time we reached the track, Anthony was out of the car and waving his big long arms above his head to the crowd. He knew his mom and wife would be worried and wanted to let us know he was OK. We stood there and watched while they flipped his car back over and then he got back into his car and they pushed him off the track with the tow truck. I tried to take pictures of them pushing him off, but I was still shaking so much that I couldn't get the shot.

Thankfully, Anthony came out of this OK. His shoulders are bruised from the seat belts, but he is otherwise OK. His car is messed up but that's replaceable, my baby boy is not.

Super Monkey

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's slippery swine catchin, rock climbing Monkey -

What can I say? I have the best slippery swine catching grand-daughter EVER....This makes three out of four years that Kristy has been the WINNER. This girl KNOWS how to catch slippery pigs! She was in a group of 5, her and FOUR boys. And, she was wearing flip-flops, so she had to stop and put them back on because they fell off. She still got in there and showed those boys how it's done. Way to go Kristy!! You are awesome.

Then, she wasn't done showing off her strategic athletic abilities. She wanted to show us how to climb a rock wall. She got 2 tries to get to the top of a 25' wall and ring the bell. She didn't get very high on the first try, but that just made her more determined to do it. She just kicked off her flip flops and Christopher gave up his shoes and off she went to the top. She got stuck about half way up so she studied up and down the wall and finally made her plan. She got a grip in sight, used her legs and jumped up to grab the next handle and pulled herself up till she could get her footing. I was so amazed. Not only is she tough, but she is so smart, she planned that like a pro. I asked her afterwards if she was scared. She said "Yeah, I'm still shaking". I love that girl!

Family Birthday Blog

OK - so the secret is out. My secret project is a Family Birthday Blog. We are not always good at letting people in our extended family know that we remember them on their birthday's, so we've created this birthday blog. This way we can wish every member of our family a Happy Birthday and, share our special wishes with everyone.The project is not totally complete yet, but it is up and running and you can expect to see the first birthday wish(es) to appear October 4.

Right now, access to the blog is by invitation only, so if your in my family, and I have your email, you've been invited. If I don't have your email, you can go to my profile on this page and click on the Happy Birthday blog and enter you email then I can give you access.

We hope you enjoy our Birthday Blog as much as we do.

http://mysecretproject-trudi.blogspot.com

Racin' Shoes

This is so good it's worth repeating!

Geek

OK....so I decided that I'm an electronics geek. I bought a new phone the other day, and it is way more complicated than a phone needs to be. It's a blackberry pearl. At first I didn't think I liked it very much. I even packed it up the next day, I was going to return it and get an easier one. But guess what? Now that I have had it a few days, I've decided that I love it. So, this is where the geekyness comes in. I like playing with electronics to see how they work. I didn't know that about me before. They say, admitting it is the first step to recovery.

Happy Birthday Lindsy

Hope you have a great day Daughter-in-law!

We Love you!!!

Secret Project

I have a secret project going on. I think it is going to be so much fun and I can't wait until I can share it with my family.

It should be finished around the 1st of October. Check back for the announcement!!!!!!!

Tent Sale

Saitta Trudeau Chrysler Jeep Dodge is having a tent sale this weekend. It started today in the parking lot at the Pahrump Nugget. Go down, check em out, and get a good deal!

Movies in Pahrump

What a treat!!! We went to the movies last night......here, in Pahrump! Hard to believe huh? We saw Burn after Reading, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
The Saddle West has a portable movie theater in their convention center. I wasn't expecting much, but it was really good. The seats were like luxury folding chairs. They were padded and really conformed to your body, I'm not sure but they could have been soft leather. There were two columns of seats with about 10 rows. Each row had 5 seats on each side of the isle. The down side was that all the seats are on the same level, but they had the rows staggered so each seat was situated between two seats in the row before it. That way you weren't sitting directly behind someones head, you are more between the shoulders of two people in front of you.
The movie was pretty good, a little weird, but good. I've never been good at recapping movies or books, so I'm not even going to try. Go see it, you'll like it.

New Blog

I killed my old blog (accidentally), so I spent the day rebuilding. I hope you like the new look. Also, check out broadheadstwobitracing.com all the guys are building pages to let everyone know whats going on in their race world. Racing is about ready to start up again at Death Valley Raceway, so excitement is in the air, you'll see when you visit their pages. Blogging is fun, get your own at blogspot.com.

Happy Birthday Sammy Boy!

Samuel Rex Gunter

Born: September 9, 2007

Happy 1st Birthday Grandson!