Yippee! We're at Six Flags

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So Saturday we braved the rain, and validated our Six Flags season passes. Then, after Chris and I decided we were wet enough (even though we had only ridden the Carousel) we headed home and had a play date with Megan's friends Ella and Brenna. We had Wii fun, (Dance dance revolution, Rockband) and then decided the weather looked better.

So we all went to the park, and enjoyed four hours of great fun with very little waiting since lots of people had finished for the day or not gone at all on account of rain! Here Megan is jumping for joy at our return to Six Flags!

And here's that rabbit. Megan also wanted to go see the "chicken one" (that would be Tweety bird). She has no idea that the rabbit and chicken have names and used to star in cartoons!

Four Generations Here

Here is a family shot of four generations! Lester + daughter, granddaughter, grandson, great grand-daughter all in one photo! (with Voncille, Chris and Cheryl too!) This was from a few weeks ago, but a photo that Cheryl had on her camera -- thanks Cheryl!

North Family 5-2009 color corrected, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

and here is the other with Lester + son + grandson + great-granddaughter (with Voncille, Gina and Cheryl too!)

Her first SELF haircut

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Oh good grief. Today, Megan told me that she cut her hair. She handed me the scissors, and I did a quick inspection. Then later I really looked closer at the crown of her head (after I found several sections of hair to show thatshe was in fact successful) and what do you know -- she DID cut her own hair. AAAARRRRGH. I thought I had at least another year or so before this one happened, but I guess she is advanced when it comes to trouble making!

3-1/2 years of trying to grow some hair on my fairly bald baby, and now that she finally has a little hair, she chops it off! : )

M & M drumming

M & M drumming, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

Here Megan, and her cousin Martin (I dub them M&M) are having a great time playing together and practicing for their rock band solo! This has prompted the acquisition of rock band 2 to our collection of things to do to waste time and have fun!

A visit with cousin Maddie

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A few weeks ago, Megan's grandpa and grammie came to town, and we went with Uncle Doug, Aunt Gina, and my nephew and his family (Ryan, Cheryl and Madison) to the Southlake festival.

Here Megan sets off on a walk with her little cousin.

At the Discovery Center in Amarillo

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Using the magnifying glass to look at the turtle's shell

Cast Copper

Cast Copper Name Plate Megan, originally uploaded by homanhouse.

So here is a little piece I had some fun making. I used the word art generator at wordle.net to create the text, and then some new tools that I downloaded for creating the cast copper image of it. Atomic Cupcake makes some great Photoshop actions, and I finally bought a good set of those.... Now -- what to do with this? : )

Oven saga continues

Ok, this is getting annoying. The oven arrived last Thursday (hours after they were supposed to arrive and just before we were leaving for Amarillo) and then it DIDN'T FIT! It fits in the opening and everything as measured, but there is a natural gas pipe that sticks out in the opening. On my old oven, that pipe just fit into a recess on the oven frame, but this new oven doesn't have such a recess. So now I have an oven mostly installed, sticking out three inches, and I have to get a contractor to repipe the natural gas line in a different location (I hope). So I guess I'll continue to update the saga as it continues! And I'll work on posting some cute pics from the trip to Amarillo!

Our new Oven -- part three!

Wow! This is actually our 200th post. So we have come a long way in posting, and been a little more consistent!

And yet, it seems like we were just here a few months ago, with an oven that broke. So if you don't remember our previous oven trauma check out part one and part two. Today we are starting part three (which is hopefully the final chapter).

Today, while attempting to make biscuits, the oven ran away, got really super overheated, generated an error code, and toasted the biscuits.

It literally blackened Chris's homemade handmade biscuits (they looked like campfire marshmallows that got in the fire) and if you know Chris, you know that did NOT endear the oven to him. We theorize that it went it to self clean mode temperature (where it was stuck last year), and have now decided to just get the new oven we wanted any way. So today we bought our new oven, and next week we should have it installed and working! Yippee! (We are excited to upgrade our oven and get a convection oven as well!)

So while I am posting, I found (stole?) a cute photo addition from Easter!



All dressed up! Of course while we got ready for church, not one of the really cute little girls in the house would willingly participate in any kind of cute posing....!

What kind of accent is that anyway???

Megan cracked me up this week. We always joke a little about her Texan accent. Despite the fact that Chris and I don't have particularly strong accents for Texans, Megan has (since even 1-year old) had several strongly accented words. We think this came from daycare, where several of her teachers have accents. Recently we have been working with her more trying to "smooth" out the accent and transition the words to more (midwestern?) unaccented sounds!

You know, the typical "you guys" vs. "y'all" (although we have never really had that lesson with her)

So when we took Megan to Sunday school, and she wanted to know where we would be, she asked "Where are y'all guys going?" I guess at least she didn't use the plural of y'all (all y'all -- for those of you 'not from around here')