Aaron playing with Roxy

Blowin' Bubbles

This bubble contraption also morphs into an ice cream truck, a ‘free candy’ van, and basically anything else that you want to keep your kids away from. Indiana

I freakin' love the people of walmart website. If you haven't seen it, you need to. I follow it on twitter so I get my daily dose of funny captions & crazy photos. I love it.

Shutter Island by: Dennis Lehane

PLOT: In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and hsi new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solondo is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

OPINION: This book was awesome and I enjoyed every word of it. The book took me for a ride. I loved the ending - it took me by surprise. Two-Thumbs Up!!!

A Bone To Pick 'AuRoRa TeaGaRDeN Mysteries' by: Charlaine Harris

PLOT: Going to two weddings-one of a former lover-and a funeral for a member of her disbanded crime discussion group keeps Aurora "Roe" Teagarden quite busy for a few months. Unfortunately, her personal life seems to be at a standstill-until her fortunes unexpectedly change.

After the funeral Roe learns that Jane Engle, the deceased, has named her as heir to a rather substantial estate, which includes money, jewelry, and a house complete with a skull hidden in a window seat. Knowing Jane, Roe concludes that the elderly woman has puposely left her a murder to solve. So she must identify the victim and figure out which one of Jane's ordinary-seeming neighbors is a murderer-without putting herself in deadly danger....

OPINION: I need to read more. I like these but it doesn't even come close to Sookie or Harper. and I love those characters.

Real Murders 'AuRoRa TeaGaRDeN Mysteries' by: Charlaine Harris

PLOT: Lawrenceton, Georgia may be a growing suburb of Atlanta, but it's still a small town at heart. Librarian Aurora "Roe" Teagarden grew up there and knows more than enough about her fellow townfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature.

With those fellow crime buffs, Roe belongs to a club called Real Murders, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. It's a harmless pastime - until the night she finds a memeber dead, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. And as other brutal "copycat" killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects - or potential victims...

OPINION: I like this book. I think I need to read more and really connect with the character.

Eclipse & Breaking Dawn by: Stephanie Meyer

I'm team Edward all the way. I like him, and Bella. Jacob is a determained and a well liked character.

The ending surprised me, I didn't see it coming. I loved it though. The story was sweet and had a happy ending. I'm excited to see the movies. : )

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Our neighbors have a Siberian Husky fenced in a small enclosure. Roxy loves running in circles with Taz.

She will stick her snout in the fence and they lick each other. I say it's her boyfriend. He's never been out that I know of.

It's sad When I arrive home from work Taz gets so excited. He's hoping Roxy gets to run around with him for any amount of time.

He's a beautiful dog and he's always well behaved.

TWiLiGHT & NeW MooN

I wasn't going to read the Twilight series. I knew it was a teen vampire version compared to the Sookie Stackhouse novels. After watching both movies and reading the books I'm happy I did.

But, Steph invited me to the movies to watch "New Moon". I borrow Twilight from her and was pretty excited about seeing "New Moon".

I really like Bella with Edward. He's so gentle and caring it's great. He hasn't found a mate yet and he can't read Bella's thoughts. The relationship starts the moment they meet.

Playing baseball in the field with the Cullen's, Bella meets some bad Vampires(James, Lorent and Victoria). James starts the hunt and it's on from there.

Edward leaves thinking that is what's best for Bella. It's not at all what she needs. Once Edward is gone she becomes a zombie.

Jacob becomes a replacement since Edward left. He's a couple of years younger than Bella and has a major crush on her from day one. He knows she's head over heals for Edward but he's hoping she wants the werewolve in the end.

The story is great and Alice is my favorite. She's so happy go lucky. She has a cool power and loves Bella too. I'm almost finished with Eclipse and I'm looking forward to reading Breaking Dawn.

Wayne comesback and bests Frankfort.

I watched the best high school football game earlier at Pioneer field. We were down 21 to 0 at half time. The third quarter we were smoking hot. We came out of that locker room ready to play ball. And those boys did. (final score 27 to 21) We are now going to travel to Wheeling to watch the AA state football championship game. We will face off against Bluefield. I traveled to Wheeling in 2004 where we met Bluefield. (score 69 to 24) Bluefield's coach wouldn't put in the second string because he wanted to reach the highest score in a championship game. They were so rude and I felt so bad for Wayne. I want a Pioneer victory Friday night and so do so many others.

LETS GO PIONEERS!!!

All the way in AA
Wayne go all the way!

Ok, so I was looking at this website to get the score to the 2004 game and this is what i've found....

Looking through Years from 1958 - 2009.
Bluefield came to its first AA championship game in 1995 and lost. They have since had a 3 and 5 record.

Wayne came to its first championship game in 2000 and lost. They have since had a 1 and 2 record.

An Ice Cold Grave, 'HaRPeR CoNNeLLY Mysteries' by: Charlaine Harris

PLOT: Harper Connelly heads to Doraville, North Carolina, to find a missing boy--one of several teenage boys who have disappeared over the last five years. And all of them are calling for Harper. She finds them--buried in the frozen ground. All Harper wants is to get out of town before she's caught in the media storm, until she herself is attacked. Soon, Harper will learn more than she cared to about the dark mysteries and long-hidden secrets of Doraville--knoledge of the dead that makes her the next in line to end up in an ice cold grave...

MY OPINION: This is my favorite one of the series. Harper gets beat up pretty bad. She's caught right in the middle of all the drama. It's no surprise that her and Tolliver become lovers. I've known from the beginning she had feeling for him. It was great to see he had feeling too.

Twilight & New Moon

So, I love both Twilight movies. I'm going to start reading the books once I finish with "An Ice Cold Grave". I can't wait, I hear they are good.

The Road by: Cormac McCarthy

PLOT: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food-and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the gather and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, The Road is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.

MY OPINION: This is our November book for the Ladybug book club. The club hasn’t decided whether or not to watch the movie when it comes out this month. The book didn’t break down in chapters so it seemed like it took me forever to read. The book was very depressing, no hope for the boy and his father. I loved how the father never got upset with the boy when he would make mistakes along the way. He was always calm and never showed frustration.

The Road trailer

43rd Annual CMA Awards

ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR: Taylor Swift

ALBUM OF THE YEAR: "Fearless," Taylor Swift

FEMALE VOCALIST: Taylor Swift

MUSIC VIDEO: "Love Story," Taylor Swift

SINGLE OF THE YEAR: "I Run to You," Lady Antebellum

SONG OF THE YEAR: "In Color," Jamey Johnson, Lee Thomas Miller, James Otto

MALE VOCALIST: Brad Paisley

VOCAL GROUP: Lady Antebellum

VOCAL DUO: Sugarland

MUSICAL EVENT: "Start a Band," Brad Paisley (duet w/ Keith Urban)

NEW ARTIST: Daruis Rucker

MUSICIAN: Mac McAnally

I love, love, love Taylor Swift. Taylor was nominated for four awards last night and she won all four. Taylor made history at the CMA Awards, becoming the youngest person to win Entertainer of the Year and the first solo female to win it in a decade. She was so deserving and I was so happy for her. I hope she will keep writing and recording music for years to come. I was also happy to see Lady Antebellum take home Vocal Group and knock out Rascal Flatts who dominated for six years in this category.

The Five People You Meet In Heaven by: Mitch Albom

PLOT: Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in a meaningless life of fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years-from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge-so, too, has Eddie changed, from optimistic youth to embittered old age. His days are a dull routine of work, loneliness, and regret.

Then, on his 83rd birthday, Eddie dies in a tragic accident, trying to save a little girl from a falling cart. With his final breath, he feels two small hands in his-and then nothing. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a lush Garden of Eden, but a place where your earthly life is explained to you by five people who were in it. Those people may have been loved ones or distant strangers. Yet each of them changed your path forever.

One by one, Eddie's five people illuminate the unseen connections of his earthly life. As the story builds to its stunning conclusion, Eddie desperately seeks redemption in the still-unknown last act of his life: Was it a heroic success or a devastating failure? The answer, which comes from the most unlikely of sources, is as inspirational as a glimpse of heaven itself.

MY OPINION: I read this book in one day. Once I started, I couldn't put it down. It was so uplifting and a great read. It's not the kind of book I would pick up on my own but I'm glad I gave it a try.

Grave Surprise, 'HaRPeR CoNNeLLY Mysteries' by: Charlaine Harris

PLOT: At the request of anthropology professor Clyde Nunley, Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver come to Memphis to demonstrate Harper's unique talent-in an old cemetery, Nunley is skeptical, even after Harper senses-and finds-two bodies in the grave beneath her feet. One of a man centuries dead. The other, a young girl, recently deceased, whom Harper had once tried, and failed, to locate. But Harper's new investigation into the crime yields yet another surprise: the next morning, a third body is found-in the very same grave...

MY OPINION: Charlaine Harris is incredible, I love the way she tells a story. Harper grew up with a drug head mother. She is very close to her step-brother Tolliver. Together they make a great team.