A Bed Built for Two!

I got Simon a Bagel Bed from work and there seems to be some question as to whom it belongs.  Nemo seems to think it is his bed.  Good thing they are buddies although Simon kinda looks like he isn't too thrilled about sharing.  Nemo sure loves his dog!

What He Does

Not that I completely understand it myself but I'm including a link to a website that Bobby built. He did all of the coding and created the logo. I'm not going to attempt to explain any further what he does because I'm sure I won't say it properly. You can look at the website and pretty much figure it out on your own. Safe Guard Inspection Group ....and then you can also go to his business website... Inspector Mobi to see the product he developed

Smarty Pants

Bobby and I decided that we are going to start trying different wines. I've never really been a wine drinker (probably because I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to wine)but I do know that I prefer white. We made this decision and last night and followed through with it. I had seen a post on Facebook by someone who liked this certain wine called Middle Sister. Cute name with a cute concept. We were in Target and I saw they had it. We started reading the labels and decided we would try it. We got a Pino and a Chardonnay. We both ended up liking the Chard best, although the Pino was good too.

Go check out their website  Middle Sister Wines  ...all the "sisters" have different names.  The Chard was Smarty Pants (I found it fitting that this was the name of my new favorite wine)  The Pino was Drama Queen.    Think we may have to go get a new one to taste tomorrow night when I don't have to work the next day!

Smells like 
…lemons, pears and honeysuckle
Tastes like 
…pear and citrus in the beginning, with baked apple on
the finish
Yummy with
Crabcakes, Grilled Chicken Caesar, Corn Chowder,
Smoked Cheddar Cheese...or Bobby on the back porch!!  LOL

Yea...It is Amazing

That I took this caliber picture in downtown Muncie, of all places.  I really love this one...totally frame-able.

As I was posting this I was thinking of all the stuff my mom misses that I post on all of the social media outlets.  I KNOW she would want to see everything so I am adding some links.  Over there---> on the right I've added a link to my Instagram photos.  You can click on the link to go to my Statigram account and see all of the photos I post to Instagram without having to create your own account.  Instagram is ONLY an app so this would be difficult for you technology challenged older folk.  I made it easy for ya cause I know you don't want to miss a single thing we do!! :)

I may get a link on here to my Pinterest account as well.  If I do, it will be over there in the list.  I'm SURE you are dying to see what I post to my Pinterest boards.  I went back and looked at one tonight (haven't looked at them in months) and was shocked at what great taste I have!  Think I should probably share!

Yummy!!

My new favorite summer drink!!  Can be found in convenience stores...highly recommend the Black Cherry Lemonade flavor!  YUMMO!!

Casa Del Sol

Dinner...ther is never a dull moment!

Togetherness...Not so Much!

Jayke and Bobby are spending a lot of time together this summer.With Bobby working from home there is no reason for Jayke to HAVE to go elsewhere during the day.  I think all of this time together is starting to bug them.  I received this picture while at work the other day.  Note the provisions piled next to the bean bag.  No reason to have to go in the house what-so-ever!  Not sure whose idea this was but I think they both enjoyed it in the end.

Reminds me of a Southern Attorney

I don't know why it reminds me of that but every time I see this photo (it is my work desktop theme) I think of the attorney from the movie Sweet Home Alabama!  I know it's just the hat but still...

Bobby needed some new shorts so Jayke and I were killing time while the Metro Sexual was in the fitting room.  The Boy is always willing to slap a silly hat on and let me take his picture...I'm sure that will be ending soon, especially now that he has his own Facebook account and can see everything I put on there!  LOL

It's What's for Dinner

Tonight's dinner...Pierogi with ginger/garlic sauce, steak thinly sliced garnished with cilantro, and grilled peppers.  Yum!  The pierogi is my favorite.  Hadn't posted any #foodporn in a while so I thought I'd share.

Thought I Was Kid Free

....for a week!  Turns out...I still have a kid with me.  Went to Meijer to buy reading glasses because he is going blind due to his advanced age and next thing I know I find this...

....and this...

So much for my week off from babysitting!  LOL!!  I fully expected him to need to buy one of these to wear with his blow dart gun!  Oh well, he will either keep me young or turn me grey (er)!

Aging

Someone had to get reading glasses today.  An admission of his age...LOL.  He handled it well.  Took FOREVER to decide which pair he wanted.  Would have gone a lot quicker if he had just taken my word from the beginning since he ended up with the pair I told him to get.  They look pretty good!  Haven't seen him wear them once since he got them though!

Happy Independence Day!

Fourth of July celebration.  Spent with friends both at the casino and then downtown for the fireworks display.  It was a good day!

Mission Control, Geek Station, Man Cave

....whatever you want to call it.  Bobby's office.   He is beyond excited that he now has 3 monitors (2 computers) to work from.  He has even given me permission to come in and use the one on the end with him...LOL.  Please note the Star Trek themed background wallpaper he has on the screens.  Just to add the finishing Geek touch.  I think I will really flip him out and add my laptop and iPad to the mix.  Or even Jayke's Netbook.  A lot of computers for one house!  I fully expect him to make us rich now that he has the set up to do it!

Not Amused

Someone thinks they are funny.  Bobby made this picture of me and posted it to my Facebook wall.  I attempted to take it down but didn't get it removed before my friend, Laura, reposted it to her wall.  Now it will never come down....sigh.  I'm glad they have been entertained by it.  I'm not amused(actually I was, pretty funny stuff)

International Brunch

He called this an International Omelet when I asked what it was.  I don't care what it was called, all I know is it was damn good!  Cheese filled omelet with a sort of salsa on top.  He used Pace Picante(my favorite) and added some sauteed ham, olives, bacon, onion, and I don't know what else.  Topped it with fresh cilantro.  I do have to say he comes up with some pretty weird concoctions.  Things you wouldn't think to put together but they are always really good.  Part of why I love his cooking (other than the fact that it's not me cooking)is that it is not repetitive...ever!  I was so sick of eating the same things all the time.  I don't think he has fed me the same thing twice in over a month!  Lots of organic and all fresh food too!  I think my body is saying, "what the hell is going on here?"

The Diamonds

We went to watch Bobby's niece, Liv, play softball today and who did we run into?  Ian.  One of Jayke's best friends.  We run into him every where and they are always so excited to see each other.  They hung out the entire time we were there.  I'm going to let Jayke have him over sometime soon or take them somewhere together.  I can just have the kids over and put Bobby in charge now!  LOL

Car Washin

Walked out front and found this...Jayke and Bobby with the car in the front yard. Scrubbing it with Jayke's underwear. We only have one sponge so we had to improvise. Jayke's underwear seemed the most logical thing to me. He was embarrassed that he was washing the car with his underwear...I was not to get them in the picture! They were listening to a little ACDC, Highway to Hell while they were working...I'm sure the neighbors appreciated that especially since yesterday there was an incident with a blow dart gun. Two of our neighbors now have homemade blow darts stuck in their roof...and it wasn't from Jaykeb. I have instructed them to put that toy away for a while. I'm sure they will come up with something else that I will have to take away!

Thank You!

Bobby's brother, Tommy, took his daughter to Disneyland last week...they brought Jayke a t-shirt back.  He was pretty excited about it and made us drive him out there to get it right away.  Of course, once Tommy handed it to him he got really shy but as you can tell by the smile on his face, he was thrilled!

Instagram Profile

Father's Day...Sort Of a First

Love this picture...don't exactly know why.  I think it is the color combination and the lighting on the water. 

Went to Dad's for Father's Day and the "boys" pretty much floated around in the pool all day.  Jayke was pretty much chillin' in the above picture.  Lost of swimming and some interesting grilling techniques pretty much filled the day.  Convinced MJ's grill only has two settings...off and burnt!  I've never seen so much smoke come off of one grill!   

We went from the pool to the pond.  Apparently my boss (Oma's next door neighbor) has bought a big purple boat.  And parked it (yes, parked) at Oma's dock.  He has also given us all permission to use it.  I'm thinking he may want to rethink this after what I heard happened the other day.  Oma and Jayke took the boat out for a spin.  It was really hot out and mom was too lazy to go back in the house to get a hat...so...she improvised by wearing a plastic flower pot she snatched up out of the yard.  Now please take a moment to create this mental image..............got it?  I do and that is why I can totally sympathize with Jayke when I was informed that he was absolutely mortified!  Just picture it!  Oma and Jayke in that big purple boat, paddling down the pond, Oma wearing a plastic flower pot on her head!  I think I need to call her and ask what color the flower pot was so I can truly appreciate the ridiculousness of it all.

We started our Father's Day celebration a little early this year.  We gave Bobby his gift on Friday night.  Jayke had come to me a week ago and asked if we could get Bobby a Father's Day gift from him.  Of course we can!  Especially considering this was the first time ever that Jayke had asked to buy a Father's Day gift for ANYONE!  It was made even more special by the fact that Bobby hadn't recieved a gift of any kind in many many years.  A big moment for all involved. 

We went a little overboard...shocking, I know.  We got him new knives for the kitchen since he cooks so much.  Really nice knives.  We also got him a bamboo cutting board and a holder for the knives.  We were only going to get the knives but Mom told me to get him a shirt too.  I got two because we couldn't make up our minds which one to get.  I don't think anyone has ever appreciated a gift I gave them more than Bobby did.  Nice change.

Brand New

Midwest Metal just built this big new facility, which is where I work.  It's nice to work in a brand new clean building.  The only problem is they should have had me decorate it instead of Bart!

Pop...Circa 1965

Happy Father's Day, Old Man!  Please note the resemblence between my dad and Jaykeb.  Everyone has been pointing it out since I put this picture on Facebook.  Crazy....I thought he looked like my mom, now I'm just confused!

Kohl Foo!

Can't take them anywhere!  Went to Kohls to get a couple of things for the house.  We are having to update my kitchen tools...ie. pans, knives, utensils, etc, since I don't cook and now we have cooking going on everyday.  I was looking at the silverware when I turned and saw this!  Jayke loves it ov course.  I ended up sending them to the car to wait for me.  We made it to the check out and I had had it.  Bobby could tell by the look on my face and went willingly...but not without laughing the whole way out the door.

Here's the picture that caused such an uproar with my friends on Facebook.  GASP!!  Bobby and I wer hugging.  OMG.  The Horror! Our faces are touching.  My family might see it on Facebook, Oh No!  Wow...get over yourselves.  We were sitting on the couch hugging and I held my phone up and snapped a pic.  We thought it was cute and he asked me to put it on Facebook.  I will tag it to my DAD'S wall just to prove that MY FAMILY is perfectly okay with my relationship...as is Jayke...as am I.  Too bad that's not enough for everyone else.  Good thing what everyone else thinks DOESN'T effin matter!!

Asian Fusion

THIS was my dinner tonight...Asian potstickers, grilled asparagus, zuchini, and carrots with fried noodles and grilled chicken in a homemade ginger garlic sauce.  Yea...you can be jealous now, it's okay.

Didn't See That Coming

Foot massage for an eight year old?  Yea...doesn't work very well.  Too much giggling and wiggling from it tickling!  It was comical though.  Bobby rubbed his feet then rubbed some of the extra lotion on his legs.  Jayke asked why he did that and Bobby said, "cause your legs are dry."  Jayke then said, "Well my butts dry too!"  I laughed so hard I almost cried.  Its his delivery.  Not sure where he was going with that but the massage ended at that point.  LOL.

Note:  I had my foot massage first and like everything else he does, he is great at it!  (yes,  I just ended this with a preposition...get over it, BOBBY!)

It's Over...At Least They are Still Smiling

Our travel season has come to an end...mercilfully.  We lost every game we played.  Most of them by a huge margin.  I felt so bad for our little guys.  They tried so hard and never gave up...even when the score was 20-0.  They looked beat but they kept trying.  Jayke was very discouraged about half way through the season.  He would say he didn't want to go because they were just going to lose.  He had to go though because without him we didn't have a sub.  Our little team only had enough players to fill the positions on the field on any given day.  Sometimes, if we got lucky, we would have one sub to give the kids a break throughout the game.  Pretty tough for those little troupers considering the teams we were playing against could sub out their entire team at one time!

Even though they lost every game this season I think they all improved and gained confidence.  I think next season will be better for sure.  Jayke loves soccer and doesn't want to give up.  He now has someone to help him with his skills too so that makes it all better.  More confidence.  We will win a game next season!

Food Art

Jayke is over the moon that he has someone who takes him to a restaurant and lets him do this!  Food art by Jayke and Bobby at Jayke's favorite restaurant, Teppanaki Grill.  aka...teppan Yucky!

Pierogi with an Asian Flare

How lucky am I that I have a guy who makes meals like this for me???  This was my brunch, Bobby made for me the other day.  Pierogi with a ginger garlic sauce.  Maybe my new favorite thing ever!  Maybe the best thing I've ever put in my mouth!  He makes the sauce from scratch too.  Yum!

Good Thing I Ate Before This Post...

My lunch one day...veggie omelet with sweet potato chips and a blueberry waffle.

Roast with root vegetables, salad, and fruit.  Maybe the best roast I've ever had!

Italian sausage with sauteed peppers and onions.  Fried potato chips (for Jayke, his favorite) grilled corn on the cob and salad.

And...a shot of the grill the other night.  Good thing we weren't having company...we may need a bigger grill!  I don't know why but this asparagus was better than any other asparagus I've had.  I didn't ask him what he did to it but I think it had lemon juice on it.  The grilled cauliflower was yummy.  He has made me cauliflower mash before...never had it.  LOVE it!  He also makes us sweet potato french fries that may be my new favorite thing.  Trying to add lots of fiber to our diets.  Hopefully this will help straighten Jaykeb's stomach out.  He has been to the doctor twice with stomach issues.  Since Bobby has been cooking for us every day this issues has gotten better.  Jaykeb is also learning to try new things thanks to Bobby and his cooking.  Something that used to cause a screaming fit when I would attempt to do it. 

All this food that is actually worth talking about and even photographing...caused me to add a new tag to the blog.  FOOD PORN...it's searchable now.  I also finally added one for THE BOYFRIEND.

Points, Points, and More Points!

Jayke got glasses today.  He was actually pretty excited about it.  I wasn't.  I hate that he has to wear them.  I don't want there to be another reason for kids to make fun of him.  Hopefully they don't do that anymore like they did when I was a kid.  Somehow I doubt that though...kids seem meaner these days than they used to be. 

The glasses are Nike, of course.  A major deciding factor in the choosing of this particular pair.  When we left the doctor's office I heard the expected, "Wow!  I can see the leaves on the trees!"  I remember that oh so well.  I got my glasses when I was in the 8th grade and still remember how amazed I was at what all I had been missing. 

We went to Bobby's for dinner (our first date, so to speak)and he was great when we got there.  Immediately acknowledged Jayke's new glasses and reassured him how cool he looked.  Point for the new guy!  He determined Jayke looks like Clark Kent in his glasses...aka Superman!  Point for the new guy.  He played basketball in the driveway with Clark Kent.  Major points for the new guy! 

Dinner went really well.  The man can cook!!  Like REALLY cook!  For a first date it was pretty strange, it was supposed to be Bobby, Jayke, Liv (Bobby's niece and longtime friend of Maci Pickering)and I.  Ended up Tommy, Bobby's brother showed up as well as Liv's mother and Liv's little sister.  Bobby was not happy.  More points for him for being upset that our evening was imposed upon.  (By Liv's Mom...not Tommy, his brother)  After dinner we took a walk around the neighborhood.  More points that he wanted to hold my hand and protect us from oncoming cars.  Bonus points that he tells me I'm beautiful at least 5 times a day.  LOL  Could it be that he is romantic AND can cook??  Fingers crossed!

I need to teach him to smile in pictures...

Whats Wrong With Him???

Too Cold

The boys were really excited when the pool was finally opened.  They couldn't wait to get in...until they felt the water.  They opted for this instead.  First swim of the year...in the tub.