Rednecks-R-Us.

I have heard the stories before; men having a mid-life crisis. It usually involves strippers, hair dye, sports cars and Las Vegas.
I won't say the Coach is having a mid-life crisis....the most extravagant thing he has ever purchased was for ME.
BUT....he has been drooling over muscle cars for years. And old pick up trucks too. He has dreamed, pined and spoke about having a fun weekend car to piddle around in.

I knew the day would come eventually...and I looked forward to it. He works very hard. He never complains about anything, he is selfless, caring, sweet and he comes home every.single.day.

While I was off shopping with the girls last weekend The Coach attended a large car auction. He ran into Charlie Sheen...when does that ever happen? WINNING! Anyhoo....his inner redneck came to a head.

He came home with this little number. Not the cute teen. The jacked up Jeep!

Camouflage gives me a rash.

Lindsay thought he had lost his mind. 

Lolo was ecstatic. 

I was....well,  I just was. 

Just to give you an idea of how redneck this is...I am 5'11.

 Ok, I 'm not 5'll, but I'm hoping to be 5'4 by my next birthday.

I inquired about air bags. I was told I was lucky there were seat belts. Circa 1976 baby!

This is Lo...smiling so happy. She loves stuff like this. I don't know where she came from. Oh, wait, yes I do know where she came from!

Lo and a girlfriend drove it to the Beach on Monday...and had a blast. Kids these days!

You won't soon catch me driving this to the grocery store. I think you have to have a traveling gas pump as you drive...plus you have to actually use the tire as a step-stool to climb into this...that won't work with my clothing ensembles.
Lord help me. :)

I usually go with this thought process:
What's his is ours.
What's mine is mine.
But in this case, THIS is his. :)

Have a great weekend....and if you are on the road, watch out for these peeps!

Relaxful

Linds and I traveled to the East Coast for a little whirlwind weekend for my Niece, we only see her once or twice per year.
We do enjoy our time with her. Do you want to know how she IS my niece?
Deep breath: Her Mother is my Dad's 2nd wive's daughter. Or, I could say she is the daughter of my ex-step sister. Or I could say that I grew up with her mother, whose mom was married to my Dad for 9 years.
I'm sure you got that.

 Cute huh?

She is graduating this year and was in need of senior photos...and oh, how about a prom dress?

{Becca tried on 329 dresses before finding 'the' dress, I was close to pulling down some drapes from the hotel lobby and creating a dress}

My niece is very sweet and let's just say she has a different vocabulary than we do. We find a lot of humor in her sayings.
I wish I had written them all down. Becca-ism's. 
Lindsay caught this little humdinger....The girls were sitting under the Chickee hut at my friend Kelly's house.
Becca was enjoying the moment, enjoying the peaceful scenery.

And she said to Linds:

Oh, this is just so relaxful. 

I do hope you've all enjoyed a relaxful weekend! Oh, what is it Wednesday already?

Knowing me, Knowing you.

Linds and I have a small road trip planned....and thankfully, I found this missing CD. JUST IN TIME!

The Definitive Collection.

In this case definitive means every.song.they.ever.recorded. 

37 songs.

Oh, Lindsay will be in her glory.
I can hear the eye rolling already.

Come to think of it....she might have been the one to hide this CD from me!

She'll pay for that one...she always does.

What song do you think is my fave?

I won't make you guess.

Please, take out the number 17 and insert 35 44!

When Linds was in 4th grade her class was having a fun event/party.
{You know I was there volunteering my little butt off}
Anyhoo....I walked into the classroom and the kids were all having fun and this song was playing....so I started dancing towards my sweet little daughter.

I wish I had a photo of her horrified face as she realized it was HER Mother who was dancing in public!

Gosh, you would have thought I was dancing around a pole. again. 

Do you love watching Mamma Mia as much as I do? Or do you cringe just hearing the songs?

If you cringe, I don't know if we can hang out any longer.

It was nice knowing you. 

The one where I feel really guilty.

I left the screen door to the pool lanai open on Sunday morning, and if you think I left it open to see if the cats would run away forever, I won't make eye contact with you.

Later in the day, I went out to the garden to retrieve some cilantro {swoon} for my pot of chicken tortilla soup {double swoon} and I noticed a flurry of activity at the top of the lanai screen; inside.

Dragonflies.

And they were trapped; we counted 7 of them.

With the assistance of Lo, we saved ONE that was down low. And that took some time.

In case you didn't know it, dragonflies don't listen for sh*t.

I was even using nice words saying: Come here you cute little fellas....this is the door to your freedom. 

*crickets*

Not actual crickets...just the non listening dragonflies.

I feel really guilty about leaving the door open because it will end the lives of the dragonflies. And I said this out loud several times...."I feel so bad, I feel so bad, I feel so bad"

Lo told me to not feel so bad and something about the circle of life........but I tuned her out. I am similar to a dragonfly in the listening aspect.

Of course, by this time in the afternoon, all the cats were back. And Miss Sasha Fierce, never even left.

One orange cat said to the other: Do I like you? And they both answered at the same time: NO!

 A few hours later, I walked by the glass doors and noticed Maisy the spry cat running with a lizard in her mouth.

If you weren't aware,  I also save lizards.

I went out and hollered at Maisy, she froze, opened her mouth and the lizard flew away. 

Ok, it was not a lizard, it was a poor innocent, jailed dragonfly.

I got my handy dandy dragonfly saver LoLo, and we spent some time rescuing victim #2.

This is victim #2 after we got him outside.....and he attached himself to the screen.

Of course, Lo and I thought he was the coolest looking thing ever. I can't believe we didn't 'name' him.

Sun flare anyone?

We gently removed the cob webs from his wings...remember my screen was covered with webs?

If he is still there in the morning, I will give him a pedicure. It's just how I roll.

After this event, we counted 7 dragonflies still INSIDE the screen. Do you think they are multiplying that quickly....horny little boogers?

I tried to make this a short post. I feel my short posts are better. But I have a hard time doing stuff short. Except for my legs.

And this is just me bragging again.

I do hope that I have not tarnished my tree hugging, earth loving, critter saving persona by sharing this.

Did you inadvertently kill any critters this weekend? Ants don't count.