You Know Your From......

You know you're from Arkansas when...

There are no men in church on the first day of deer season ( So very true)

There is only one Catholic church in your county. (no there is at least one in every town in every county)

Thanksgiving dinner includes "polk greens" and no one really knows what it is. (I have no clue what polk greens are never had them or heard of them)

During the summer, you can run out of food and not go shopping for a week because everyone you know invited you to a "fish fry". (Have not been to a fish fry this year but would love to go to one)

You regularly attend "fish fries". (sadly no)

Those "You might be a redneck jokes" apply to you or someone you know. (I am sure some of them do)

Everyone knows what chicken wire is. (of course)

You say words like "herebouts" as in "she must not be from herebouts". (no)

You can experience all four seasons in the same week. (That is for sure true)

The cheerleaders win more awards than the football team. (yep)

It goes from 70 degrees to 45 in three hours. (True True)

After prom you wind up in one of two places, the bowling alley or IHOP. (well I went to a friends house after prom and we don't have a IHOP)

You use use phrases like "wind up" to describe where you end up. (at times)

The most popular place to be after a football game is Wal-Mart (please bring cameras). (Wal-Mart is the place to be I wouldn't see alot of people if I didn't go to Wal-Mart)

You say "simular" instead of "similar". (yeah I might)

Everyone you know owns a pick-up truck. (yeah that is true but we are not one of those people we have cars)

A '65 Mustang is the equivalent to the Hope diamond. (got to love the Mustang)

NASCAR and home state college football are practiced religions. (That is true for alot of people I know)

Instead of discussing the finer points of the porche and ferrari, you hear shouting matches about who makes a better truck, Ford or Chevy. (yep true I see alot of trucks with the little guy peeing on a Ford or Chevy symbol and we won't even talk about a dodge)

You either live on a farm or know someone who does. (yep but mostly the farms are cotton, fish, or beans)

The marching band is just as important as the football team. (don't know about that one)

The band members are usually considered more cool than the football players. (don't know about that one also)

You know at least 10 people who go by their middle name. ( My husbands whole family goes by their middle name)

You think think Anit-semitism is a form of cement decay. (no)

You know why America should be afraid of Huckabee becoming president. (Well I like Huckabee)

You know how to spell "yawmpto" and what it means. (What?)

Every Latino is a "Mexican" regardless of where they are actually from. (Well that can be true)

You "bake" potatoes on the grill. (never done that)

Grilling is not only a pastime, it's a sport, or a way of life, depending on what region you're in. (yeah we grill every Saturday)

In the winter, you hate the rain, and in the summer, you forget what it is. (very very true)

The tornado siren is your signal to go outside and look for a funnel. (no way plus I live to far from town to hear any siren)

Nobody says a word when someone wheres a chicken suit to school. (well never seen anyone do that)

Hunting season is a valid reason to skip school. (well for me it was not because I don't hunt but for alot of boys it was)

You know what to fear more, a serial killer or a hillbilly. (case and point, you don't go up into the mountains alone.....period) (ha that is funny)

If someone says they're going to take you to the "bottoms", you run the other way. (for you northerners, this would be the equivalent of an Italian saying they're going to take you to the docks) ( never heard that saying before)

You don't go to the bottoms by yourself....period. (well not sure what the bottoms are)

You know what snipe hunting is. (no)

You know what frog gigging is. (yes but have never been)

You have gone "cow tipping". (no but know people that have)

You never insult your elders to their face until you've learned words that they don't know. (would never insult my elders)

You know what cantankerous means. (yes and sometimes my kids are that way)

You've had a "coniption". (sure many times)

You have more than one gun rack. (no we don't own any guns)

You have been to a "shot-gun" wedding. (this didn't necessarily mean the bride was pregnant) (well I guess it could be called a shot gun wedding there was no shot gun but the girl was pregnant and was 16 Welcome to Arkansas)

AND....you know someone who's parents are related. (No000000000)

Favorite Vacation Spot

Our Favorite Vacation spot is Gulf Shores, AL. The one thing I love about the beach is it is like going to another world. It is so different from what I see everyday in Arkansas. Well anyways we went there last year and well we loved it. The boys still talk about the beach and are always saying they want to go back. We are already trying to save some money so we can make the trip next year. Of all the things we did their are favorite thing was the beach. We went to the Gulf Shores State Park beach so it was not crowded at all and was very nice.

Then we went to Pirates Island Adventure Golf. Ian just loved it, Bradon not so much.





Then we took the kids to a Family Fun Park to ride go-carts, and other stuff. Ian and hubby loved it. Me and Bradon for the most part just watched.





Then we went to Wales West Light Railway & Family Fun Park. It took us forever to find but the kids really enjoyed ridding the train.

Then we took the kids to the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo. It had a show on Animal Planet called The Little Zoo That Could.

Then on the way home we went to The USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park. We all enjoyed going threw the ship and see all the planes and stuff. If you ever go and have a small child do not and I repeat do not take a stroller. We made that mistake and it was hard lugging a stroller threw the ship. Up and down all those steep stairs. Uh it was hard.

Well if you would like to show your Favorite Vacation spot jump over to

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What Would Your Child Say? Wednesday.

Ok so I know I am a little late but I wanted to share a story that happened late last year. Well my husband might not want me to share but he doesn't read my blog so what he don't know won't hurt him.

Well my hubby comes up the the odd games to play with the boys and here is a example. One night I hear the kids just a laughing and caring on in the room. I go in to see what is so funny and my husband is playing a game with them. Oh how I hate to share the name of this game but here I go it was called "Giant Turd" the point of the game was to push daddy off the bed then run over to the dresser and flush daddy down the toilet. Well I told my husband he needed to change the name of the game because it was going to come back to bite him.

Well our friend that is a pastor of a church invited us to a open house at there church. Well we go because we haven't seen him since high school. We all where going to eat and they where going to have games for the kids to play. Well our friend is talking to Ian and says that the kids are going to play games and asked him what kind of games he like to play. As soon as he asked my heart just stopped! I was thinking please please God don't let him say it. Well my son looks at him and says "I like to play the giant turd game" Oh my I just wanted to die!! I looked at hubby and said "I am going to kill you!" We explained the game and everyone had a good laugh but I just wanted to die. Now the game is called blanket monster. I think hubby has learned his lesson.

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German Burgers

I have been thinking of school lately and well that made me think of this burger we had in school. There was not much about school food that I liked except for the German Burgers, and Pizza. I did like somethings on the breakfast menu like the breakfast pizza and the hot honey buns. Well anyways back to German burgers I don't know if anyone else had this in school but basically it was hamburger meat, onion and what ever seasoning they used wrapped in a bun type thing with a hole in the top. So I have been looking for the recipe for this burger and find the recipe for the burger but not for the bread thing. So what I think I will do is buy the stuff to make the burger and and then buy some crescent type roll wrap it in it and bake in oven. They also always gave us this cheese sauce stuff to pour on it. So I will have to find some cheese stuff like cheese whiz or something.

Ingredients

1 lb lean ground beef
1/2 medium onion, minced
3 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
1 egg, beaten
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons flour
butter (for frying, use about 1/4 stick at a time)
1 large onion, thinly sliced into rings

Directions
1Combine all ingredients except butter and onion rings. Shape into patties. Melt butter in skillet over medium to med-high heat. Fry in melted butter until desired doneness, about 10-12 min per burger.

2Remove and keep warm. Fry onion rings in pan drippings until golden. Place burger on bun, with whatever condiments you like. Put fried onion on top of burger, enjoy!

I think I will make this sometime next week so I hope it turns out well. The only thing I will change about the recipe is that I will not be making the patties I will just fry everything in a pan then I will wrap the bread around it and cook in the oven. Well we will see :)

Well Not Much To Say

Well things have been kind of slow around here. I have been just cleaning, cooking and trying to take the kids outside as much as I can while we have nice weather. School starts next week and well that has me down. I really hate that my summer vacation with the kids is almost over. Ian is not wanting to go back to school so that makes it harder. I have gotten him all his school supplies expect to the paper. I can't seem to find any loose leaf paper anywhere. Something I have noticed since my computer died and I lost all my photos I really haven't been taking pictures like I ust to. I don't know what is wrong with me. So the other day we where outside and the sky was such a beautiful color that I ran in and got out my camera.





Then the other day I was at my kitchen window and was going to take a picture of a squirrel eating a pear. The squirrel would not be still and kept turning away from me so I gave up. I did get a picture of my rose bush. This picture was taken straight out of the camera with no editing at all.



I hope that my kids hurry up and say something funny because I hate missing What Would Your Children Say? Wednesday. I have been trying to think of stuff they have said in the past but I am just drawing a blank.

Oh I have a new love.



Pulled Pork Sandwich with cold slaw. Oh how I love it so.

What Would Your Child Say? Wednesday

Well it times for What Would Your Child Say? Wednesday

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Well for the past couple of days my youngest Bradon has been talking about Chuckie James. Who is Chuckie James? Well at the time you guess would be as good as ours. I thought for a while he meant his uncle James my brother. He kept saying "Chuckie James has a truck? I would say no he has a car. Then he would say "Chuckie James went in the water and fell over." I just thought he was talking nonsense. Well this Sunday night he was talking about Chuckie James with his daddy. He was saying stuff like "Chuckie James drove a monster truck and fell in the water." My husband ask do you mean Jessie James? Bradon says "yes Chuckie James he cool" me and hubby laughed our butts off. Who knew all this time he was talking about Jessie James. He is talking about the Jessie James that builds bikes and has a show on Spike called Jessie James is a Dead Man. My husband watches this show every Sunday and well he watches anything with Jessie James in it. Bradon watches it to he really only pays attention when Jessie James is talking. I guess I have another Jessie James fan in the house. That is ok as long as he dosn't do any of the other crazy things that Jessie James does.

Oh how I love this little Guy. Something else he said this week was he was talking and talking about Chuckie James and I say you are a silly little man. Bradon says "no I'm Bradon Alexander" Oh so cute!!!!

Getting Close

That is to school time. Ian starts back to school on the 17th of Aug. He is really not that excited to go back, but I hope he has a good school year. Last week I got his school supplies list. It may take me a while to get everything.
Here is the list.

1 Box of colors

1 pair of scissors

1 bottle of Elmer's glue

10 pencils

1 12" ruler

1 small composition notebook

2 pink erasers

4 packages of loose leaf paper

2 boxes of Kleenex

3 packages of toilet tissues

6 rolls of paper towel

1 large package of napkins

2 packages of baby wipes

2 packages of drinking cups (9 oz)

3 cans of kool-aid

I just keep thinking about in a couple of years when I have 2 of these list. Ian goes to a very small private school, and there is about 30 kids in the whole school. That is pre k thru 5th. I only pay 150.00 a month and I just love the school. I have got about 6 things on the list thank God I have some more time. I like to get a little every week that way it doesn't seem like I am spending so much. Of course I am not but it at least it feels like it.

Hubby went back to work today and it was a little strange. I was getting ust to him being home. Today when I watched Christy and Dr. Quinn it was not the same. I am however am happy that I don't have to cook lunch. I was frying chicken and everything else for lunch when he was home and now it it back to good old fish sticks.

Ian lost another tooth Saturday. Him and his dad where playing around and he ran to the bathroom like something was wrong. I guess during playing with his dad the tooth got pushed or hit on. When I went to check on him it was just hanging out of his head. I just touched it and it fell right out. It was the quickest tooth pull so far. I forgot to get a pic of him so I will have to post that latter, but he sure does look cute with his two front teeth gone.

Well I guess that is all for tonight. I really hate to close a post without pics so here are some random photos of our vacation last year. We really hated not going to the beach this year because we all love it so much. Hopefully next year we will be able to go.