Part sentiment. Part sarcasm. Part language-obsessing. Part people-watching. All Southerner. All in good fun.
Sunday, December 23, 2007
A little indulgence
Cindy gave Eli a fire truck for Christmas. It took forever to get him to tear the paper, and the second it tore far enough for him to peek inside and see what it was, he quit tearing the paper and began trying to pull the truck out of the paper. He finally just crawled inside with the paper still around most of the truck. VERY cute! So far, he's only learned to "drive" in reverse. :-)
L&S,
Leslie
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Say Cheese!
L&S,
Leslie
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Friday, November 02, 2007
These are a few of my favorite things....
EAT ALL YOU WANT AND STILL LOSE WEIGHT...AND WE COULDN'T SAY IT ON TV IF IT WASN'T TRUE!!!
(Really? There's absolutely NO lying on TV, huh? I missed that announcement.)
This line appears in a toilet paper commercial in which an ACTUAL PUPPY is running along strips of toilet paper and judging their softness and strength:
Puppy fantasy. Not a demo.
First off, do we really KNOW what a puppy fantasy consists of? Do we think SO LITTLE of man's best friend as to think his fantasies are about running along strips of toilet paper? Secondly, have Americans (and such groups as PETA) gotten SO out of hand that we have to explain to people that this REAL PUPPY isn't ACTUALLY running along toilet paper? Really?!?
Good grief!!!
L&S,
Leslie
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Oh yeah, by the way....
DREW AND I ARE EXPECTING!!!!!
And morning sickness is for the birds... Hard to be excited about ANYTHING AT ALL when you are on the verge of puking TWENTY-FOUR/SEVEN (literally). Can't wait until this part is OVER.
We have a first "picture" of Baby Bowers, but our scanner is broken, so one must imagine. In the picture, he/she is the size of a piece of rice. If the books are correct, he/she is now the size of a single peanut shell. (How can something SO SMALL wreak so much havoc on my body?!?) God's creative abilities are QUITE amazing!!!
L&S,
Leslie
Friday, September 14, 2007
He knows EVERYBODY!!!
This is a better clip of him naming us all - "Dwew", "Wetwie", and "DAAAAAADEEEEEEEEE".
L&S,
L
Tha Cooooo!!!
L&S,
L
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The back of my neck...
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Wetwie
Love & Shipoopies,
Leslie
Saturday, September 01, 2007
Do-over
The mostly finished product. (The orange is going to receive a glaze to darken it up a touch.) Thanks to Mama and Munner for sewing the beautiful curtains.
A better view of the curtains. Please note gameday food on the table and the "childproofing" backwards garbage can (from Eli's visit). :-) tee-hee
Love & Shapoopies,
Les
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Luckyyyyyy
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Old enough to appreciate history???
I find as we furnish our house, that I am enjoying finding furniture from our past. I feel like having furniture that is a part of our memories, or better yet, a part of our parents' or grandparents' memories, makes it feel more like HOME. From items with which we have short histories, like the table Drew got from Shorter and our couch - my first piece of furniture I bought new - to items that connect us with family history.
We will soon be getting a pair of chairs that were my Mamao Tucker's (Munner's mom). I'm sure they were Munner's at some point as well, but for the entirety of my childhood, they sat in my parents' bedroom. We played in them, had long talks in them, and even kept clothes in them. :-D They are full of childhood memories, and I also can't help but think of my sweet Mamao Tucker each time I look at them.
Then there is this --
This is the chair in which Drew and Matthew were rocked as babies. It's teh chair in which Cindy was rocked as a baby. It's beautiful. It's comfortable. Heck, my feet COMFORTABLY reach the ground while sitting in it. Though it was given to me as a bribe from my mother-in-law (I saw the wink-wink, nudge-nudge in her eye), I LOVE that it is now part of our house. I can't wait to get it in our house. (Drew wants to febreeze any "other house" smells out of it before bringing it in so Cosmo doesn't feel the need to "make it his" like he did with our China cabinet.)
And this --
This desk belonged to Drew's Grandma Mary (Ricky's mom). It sat in her entryway (as it does in our house). It was in Ricky and Cindy's home. It's LOVELY. And Drew had so much fun cleaning it up and making it beautiful again. It's now OURS.
How great to have families so great that we want to bring them into our house!
Love & Shipoopies,
Leslie
Monday, August 13, 2007
Glimpses
Monday, July 09, 2007
Georgia on our minds - and soon to be on our tags
I'll put up pics VERY soon. (I'm currently in Clanton and therefore away from the camera and its USB cord.)
Blast is July 20 and 21. If you're in Clanton (or can get there), you should come. Should be a good one!!
Love & Shipoopies!
Les
Monday, June 25, 2007
On the Road Again!
Anywho, we're exhausted and excited.
This is probably the most ahead-of-time packing we've done before the actual loading. The packing has been getting done (rather quickly as our boxes didn't get here until Wednesday) and it's been pretty organized. So far, no really random boxes. We've done the occassional, "I have a hole. Do you have something that fits there?" conversation while loading a box but for the most part, it's all been pretty together.
I'm so very excited about the new place -- all of the space and different rooms and a yard!!! Definitely looking forward to being closer to everyone (except Uncle Randy and Missy, and I guess I'm actually moving farther away from you two, huh?!?).
Nevertheless, moving is always emotionally difficult -- saying goodbye to your favorite places and people. In the whole scheme of things, we haven't really been here that long, yet we have really bonded so closely with so many of our friends here. Goodbyes are just hard. Tears, and the hopes that you won't become those friends who say they will call, but never actually do. Or even worse, that it won't become one of those relationships where one of you calls and the other never returns the calls. Of course, everyone says they will keep in touch, but it's hard knowing that some of them really won't.
Anyway, I suppose that's enough deepness (or maybe too much) for 7:30 in the morning on 5 hours of sleep. :-)
I love you all and hope you'll come see us at our new place soon!!
Love & Shipoopies!
Leslie
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
What's that you say?!? A REAL house?!?
That's right, folks! We have a contract on this puppy!
By the end of June, we should actually be living in this baby - IN Georgia!!! How tremendously thrilling!!! :-)
If you'd like more pics and haven't received them yet, drop me your e-mail and I'll send you a power point with all of the pics in it. :-)
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Potter Pals
Love & Shipoopies!
Les
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Ahhh, the joy
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Phrases I hate
1.) I hate the word "engorged". What a disgusting sounding word!! That's not to say that I never use it because sometimes it's the only word that truly fits, but it's still a repulsive word.
2.) I hate when people say, "I could care less." Well, if you COULD care less, then your feelings on the topic aren't really strong enough to be worth commentary, now are they?!? The phrase is "I COULDN'T CARE LESS"!!!!! It drives me nuts that the incorrect way has become acceptable. Even very educated people use it incorrectly. Drives me nutters!!! (Admitedly, this is not a trip for which you need to fill your tank.)
3.) I think "over top of" is one of the strangest, most awkward phrases I have ever heard. It's either "OVER" or "ON top of". I don't understand the need to combine the two to make this modern marvel of awkward language. "It's those things that make ya go hmmmm..." (Who remembers this song? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?)
4.) One of my new favorite phrases is "Less Worse". Now, I understand that this is a bit hypocritical, since I dislike other phrases based almost solely on their gramatical incorrectness. However, I have a reason for liking this one so much. Drew's graduate Orchestral Conducting professor is Chinese and has a delightful way of expressing things. This is the man who, when Drew wasn't conducting emphatically enough, told him, "You captain, maybe Colonel. I need (and I will spell phonetically here) Fie Stah Genrah!!!" (That's Five Star General for those of you not as random in the head as I am.) Anyway, when he's trying to get a student to fix a problem in their conducting and they change something, but it's still not what he wants, he tells them that it is "Less worse". I LOVE IT!!!
Ahhh, the English language! What a grand thing!!!
Love & Shipoopies!
Les
Monday, March 05, 2007
Fascinating Stuff
Love & Shipoopies,
Les
Thursday, February 01, 2007
AAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Okay, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but I am so excited that my stomach is flipping over and over like I'm about to go on a first date with someone or something.)
Yipee!!!
Love & Shapoopies!
Me
Monday, January 08, 2007
Check, one, two... Is this thing on?
In the meantime, for your very much viewing pleasure, here are two 3-generation pictures taken at the reception after Drew's Graduate recital. We didn't intentionally take them in such an identical manner, but here we are in the same places and everything. :-)
Enjoy!
Love & Shapoopies,
Leslie