Saturday, September 13, 2008

Ramblin' 'Round

Here's a picture of Joshua and me shortly after we got married...
Don't we look like KIDS?
Well, we were only 19. I guess we really were kids.
I was actually still 18 when we got married, by the way. My wedding day was 2 months before my 19th birthday!

When Joshua and I were newlyweds we had some posters hanging up around our house.
We couldn't afford actual FRAMED art, so we made do with what we had.
I had to hang this one up because The Cure just screams "I'm punk rock cool, but sensitive and emotional at the same time." LOL

And Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes was my favorite CD for a LONG time. (I still love it)

I also had a HUGE poster of James Dean (it almost covered an entire wall in my house) that I kind of swiped off a building when I was at Dixie College. It was being used as part of a student election campaign. It said something like "He's a rebel WITH a cause, VOTE for yada yada yada..."
I felt personally OBLIGATED to take the poster down and keep it, since it was WAY TOO COOL to be used for such a CHEESE ball slogan!!! I think I just confessed to stealing. Oops! SORRY!

Oh, here's a picture of me and my lil' sis Carrie:

She took this a couple weeks ago at their LSU party.
We love their football parties!!!
We were at K-Mart recently and we saw this cheesy Chuck norris poster and had to take a picture of it. It was so funny to us for some reason.
FACT: When Joshua waited tables at a country club here in LA, he served iced tea to Chuck Norris.
I have never met a celebrity, and he has:
1. served tea to the Texas Ranger
2. had lunch at the same table as James Woods
3. Sold a Hummer to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
4. shook hands with George W. Bush
SOOOO NOT FAIR.

Can you see the writing on that poster?
The best one is this: "When Chuck Norris does push-ups, he's not pushing himself up, he's pushing the earth down"
This was one of the happiest days of my life:

Happiest days ever:
March 18, 1995: Married Joshy Poo
Dec. 11, 1996 : Julian was born
Sep. 24, 1999 : We were sealed in the temple
Feb. 20, 2001 : Emily was born

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Wow

Me & my friend Jennifer goofing off.... we were about 16 years old here!!!
I always took it way too far.
see how she still looks kinda cool, but I just look nuts?
If you click on the pic, you can see my awesome "geometric" artwork on the window sill. amazing!!!

I'm the clown...another example of how everyone else still looks semi-cool but I just took it overboard a bit. LOL

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Hurricane Diary

What do you do when you know a hurricane is coming right for you? Eat all the ice cream, cuz you know it'll be melted tomorrow. How sad!!!

"Trees in the wind"...what movie does that line come from? But pronounce it like this "TAYS IN DA WINNNNNN"

These 3 played 3 separate games of Monopoly while the power went out. One game lasted over 3 hours. Am I the only person who doesn't like Monopoly?

Day 1 of rain. We were saying "Well, that wasn't bad at all!!!" Little did we know the rain hadn't even gotten started yet.

Monday

If you ever wonder why the power stays out for so long after a hurricane, here you go:::

Making PB&J's by flashlight:

Good news about the power being out- My kids actually read books!!!

Around town

This is normally a road near our house. It became a river. Several roads became rivers.

We went for a ride around town to see the damage.
Lake Pontchartrain flooded big time:




We got out to walk toward the lake but the water freaked me out when I saw an EEL.

MORE RAIN....

The yard was gettin' scary. The front yard flooded so bad our whole street was under water for about 12 hours...

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Good times

My sweet sis Carrie & me

Josh & Randy