Random Sunday night thoughts

I watch a lot of Discovery channel... well, I should say... when I watch TV, it is usually one of three channels: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet or Food Network (I do love Cupcake Wars).

Problem is... when I watch these channels, I feel like I can do anything. Currently, here are some of the things on my list to do:

1- Cook cupcakes everyday so my house always smells like -- well -- cupcakes.

2- Climb to the summit of Everest. {See THIS}

3- Go camping in a rain forest, for a month WITHOUT getting lost.

4- Get an online degree {there are a LOT of online education commercials on these channels}

5- Own every Shark product ever made.

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Okay, that was just something random. Now for the 'real' stuff :-)

We went to the St Louis Zoo today.



It was very fun to go back and see how things have changed since we were there last (3 Jul 05). Lots of changes. Rob was disappointed in some things, but overall everything was great!

It's so fulfilling to see the kids' excitement -- and knowledge of certain animals. Though today, the focus was on poop. Yep, I said it. Poop.

Every time we went to a new area, I'd ask the kids what they saw.

"Elephants" or "Monkeys" or "Lemurs" is what I would hear... but one of them would always chime in with ".. and poop" {or in Bones's case "... and pook"}.

Don't know what it was about, but they were fascinated. By the end of the day, every time somebody would say "poop" somebody else would say "well, everything poops". Funny kids I have!

Glitches...Why are there always glitches?

So, as you can see, I used the advice given and found a new background. Problem is... i can't adjust the width of the posts to accommodate my huge pictures. SO... I will be sizing down the pictures in the future. Where's the glitch?

I can't get PhotoBucket to size down the pictures already on here. Well, that's not exactly true. If I go to photobucket, they are sized down. Since they are linked to the blog, it should automatically happen. And it does... sometimes.

Oh well, from here on, I think I've got it figured out. Just know that if you want to see those huge pictures, they will be overlapping the column on the right. Maybe if I put the column on the left... hmmm

I'm going to try that now.

Soccer pictures are coming. Bubba has his next game at 1300hrs today -- that's right... 1300hrs. Ugh... I only like soccer season when games are over by noon. Yikes... did I just put that in writing?!? It's true though. We can't really *do* anything when the games don't start until after noon. Oh well...

Blog Template

So, I was trying to change my template and lost it... so I'm back to the basic. I'll figure it out, but it may take a while (mainly until the kids are back in school this week).

Why was I trying to change it? Because I can't stand when there isn't a date stamp on the blog entries. My old one just had a timestamp, but no date. Finally got past the point that I could stand it anymore.

I really want a cool background, but need something I can modify the template (to accommodate my big pictures :-)) Anybody have any good *free* template sites they would recommend?

Blog Catchup...

Lots of stuff going on... here are some highlights :-)

Gasp... has it been this long since I've blogged?!? Josh's birthday... I can't believe he is FIVE! Since he is ALL about cars now, we got him some motorcycles that race. This was taken just before the red one busted into my knuckles! Ouch!


The world's longest game of Hopscotch -- or a good effort at reaching it! This stretched from our house, up the street past about five other houses. Quite a game! And quite a bunch of kids!


Rob got promoted! WooHoo!

This is me, changing his rank out. Josh was happy to have the old CPT rank :-)



My sweet husband had flowers for me -- in Engineer colors, no less!




And we took our first trip to St Louis. It was a bust. Unfortunately, we didn't realize that the day we picked to go would also be football season opener games for Mizzou (downtown STL) and Washington Univ (Forest Park, aka the zoo) AND a Cardinals baseball game. Traffic was INSANE. We were late to our Arch reservation, had to pay for parking (though we had a free parking pass for making reservations online), and got our patience tested. By the time we made it over to Forest Park (still not knowing about the Washington game), we were redirected AWAY from the zoo. All we wanted to do was go up in the Arch and go to the Zoo. We didn't get to do the zoo. Next time. Next time... we will do a bit more research into that one.










If you've never gone up into the Arch, this is the 'pod' you have to ride. Horribly small. Horribly creaky. Horribly cramped. Horribly small (did I mention that?).





And apparently, I wasn't the only one feeling a bit claustrophobic. Check out the terror in that face!



Since we weren't able to do everything we wanted to do, we felt like we'd let the kids down a little. That is, until we drove by and saw this baby lit up...



Ahh... fresh and hot. A yummy ending to a not so great {but quite a learning experience} trip to St Louis!