The Plague

Poor Mike has been sick for a week! It started as some sort of GI bug last weekend...now it's progressed to general malaise and fever. He went for 3 days without being able to eat and tonight he went to bed at 5:20 pm....I knew I should have made him get a flu shot!! Poor thing!

Ash Wednesday

It's Lent! Today was Ash Wednesday and I already blew it by accidentally eating a ham sandwich at lunch...I just totally forgot! To top it off, I missed mass by 20 minutes so I didn't get to receive the ashes either, ugh! I am giving up chocolate this lent....that will be VERY difficult since I seem to think that I need it every day. Mike just told me that he won't be able to live with me if I give up chocolate for 40 days!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Valentines Day!

I got some pretty flowers for Valentine's Day..

Mike and I continued our tradition of Valentine's Dinner at the Outback Steakhouse. This was year number 4 and we had a great time!

My Little Brother

My brother's 16th birthday is February 17th.....it's hard to believe how quickly time passes! He was born during my Senior year in high school and now he's a sophomore in high school himself....he went from this
to this!

Here are the three of us in 1997... not sure what Trac was doing in a cheerleader outfit!And here we are in 2007!

This is art?

This sculpture is located about 1 block from our house, just outside of the Folly Theatre. Every time I walk by it I get goosebumps because it is SO disturbing.......they call it art, I call it freakin' creepy!!.
This is from the Kemper Art Museum's website:

Part of Michael Rees's "monsters" series, Putto 2x2x4 features an 18-foot sculpture accompanied by a two-minute animation on a 6-foot by 9-foot outdoor video display. The work stands just west of the historic Folly Theater at 12th and Central Streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. As the animated figure dances through a variety of contortions and wrestles with itself, passers-by are confronted with the grandeur of Rees's surreal assemblage—a monster with two legs, two large fingers, and four small toes. A native of Kansas City, Rees embraces new media technology for his work.

Wild Animal Paradise

Two hornets, seven squirrels, a big turtle, ten thousand migrating geese, 14 ducks, a deer rub, a beaver with some BIG TEETH..one weekend in Rich Hill!

Cat tales

We got a new parabolic heat dish....Minnie loves to soak up the rays! Sweet Pea enjoys going for a ride...

Mike obliges!