No One Listens to Wise Old Me: August 2008

Sunday, August 24, 2008

This makes me laugh!

The meaning of the name Henry is Ruler Of The Home

The meaning of the name James is Supplanter (to replace (one thing) by something else).

I think we named Henry correctly!!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

On August 8, 2008 my wonderful SIL Penny had an 80's party that was "totally rad , man"! We all wore our horribly wonderful 80's clothes, brought treat & goodies we loved in the 80's. I brought sour patch kids! And we watched "Better Off Dead". I had forgotten how bad (but in a good way) that show is! My favorite lines:

Paperboy: "Two dollars! I want my two dollars! "

Charles De Mar: "This is pure snow! Do you have any idea
what the street value of this mountain is? "

John & Penny have this fabulous scooter we all posed in front of. Shawn wasn't able to come, so I brought an even cuter date!! He was dressed up too, Henry was my Cabbage Patch Doll. I even signed Xavier Roberts name on his bum like a real doll.

And my favorite was Jason! He was one of the guys from Devo. So very cool! And it was even a last minute costume! Sarah & Jason were at DI that day and came across this cake pan, that is totally a Devo hat! Lucky ducks!

I had a great time! Thank you John & Penny!!

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Great Grandma Sylvia

Here is a slide show of pictures from her 82nd birthday party.

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Happy S'More Day!

So today is National S'More Day so of course we HAD to celebrate!! Here are some pictures of the evenings festivities.

First we made a kind of s'more brownie. It was good, but the graham cracker didn't hold up as well as I had hoped. Oh well...

Here is the recipe:

1 cup butter, melted
1/3 cup white sugar
3 cups graham cracker crumbs
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
3 cups miniature marshmallows

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 9x13 inch baking dish.
In a medium bowl, combine butter, sugar and graham cracker crumbs until well coated. Press half of crumb mixture into the bottom of the prepared pan. Top with the chocolate chips, then the marshmallows. Sprinkle the remaining graham cracker mixture over the marshmallows and press down with a spatula.
Bake in preheated oven 10 minutes, until marshmallows are melted. Cool completely before cutting into squares.

After we delivered the s'mores to some friends, we came home and roasted mallows and made traditional s'mores. And then, of course, we had to teach the kids chubby bunny...