Monday, September 29, 2008
Jordan Our Future Chef
Here is Jordan in his chef outfit for school. This is the 1st year uniform that they wear at vocational school. He says he really enjoys what he is learning; and on occasion has brought home some yummy samples.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Couple of Blogs
Make sure you scroll down, I blogged a couple of things that we did this weekend.
Also check my blog later in the week for pictures of Jordan in his Chef outfit.
Also check my blog later in the week for pictures of Jordan in his Chef outfit.
Fall Decorating
I LOVE decorating for Fall/Autumn/Halloween.
I can never decide if I want to decorate cute, scary or pretty. I think as you can tell by the way my house is decorated in the pictures below; that I combine all 3. Jordan volunteers every year at our towns Indian Summer Festival, so today Todd and I took the motorcycle to the festival and stuffed a scarecrow. You can stuff the scarecrow for free as long as you bring everything you need. Once we finished making our scarecrow, we put him in Jordan's car for him to bring home for us. The funny thing is; we put the scarecrow with no head in the front seat of the car and seat belted him in. Jordan had 2 more hours to work at the festival before he came home so this headless scarecrow sat in the front seat for 2 hours in the parking lot and then Jordan had to drive home with him sitting next to him. It really was rather funny to see.
As you can see a man fell off our roof and landed on his head, unfortunately his head is stuck in the ground and we can't get him out. And the skeleton in the background hung himself off our gutters. It is so frustrating to have dead things in our front yard,
Mr & Mrs Scarecrow greeting you near our front door.
It is always nice to have Homer hanging out at our house. But again in the background we have death with a small cemetery at the corner of our yard.
I ordered a witch to also put out to decorate but she hasn't showed up at our house yet.
I can never decide if I want to decorate cute, scary or pretty. I think as you can tell by the way my house is decorated in the pictures below; that I combine all 3. Jordan volunteers every year at our towns Indian Summer Festival, so today Todd and I took the motorcycle to the festival and stuffed a scarecrow. You can stuff the scarecrow for free as long as you bring everything you need. Once we finished making our scarecrow, we put him in Jordan's car for him to bring home for us. The funny thing is; we put the scarecrow with no head in the front seat of the car and seat belted him in. Jordan had 2 more hours to work at the festival before he came home so this headless scarecrow sat in the front seat for 2 hours in the parking lot and then Jordan had to drive home with him sitting next to him. It really was rather funny to see.
As you can see a man fell off our roof and landed on his head, unfortunately his head is stuck in the ground and we can't get him out. And the skeleton in the background hung himself off our gutters. It is so frustrating to have dead things in our front yard,
Mr & Mrs Scarecrow greeting you near our front door.
It is always nice to have Homer hanging out at our house. But again in the background we have death with a small cemetery at the corner of our yard.
I ordered a witch to also put out to decorate but she hasn't showed up at our house yet.
Birthday's
Yesterday we had my sisters and family over to celebrate Todd and Nikolas' birthday. Their birthdays are a day apart.
I took what I thought was a really cute picture of the 3 cousins together, but unfortunately when we downloaded the pictures, it was slightly blurry. So this week when Nikolas comes over; I will try again to get a more recent picture of them.
Here are some of the pictures from the celebration.
The Birthday Boys:
PRESENTS!!!!
I took what I thought was a really cute picture of the 3 cousins together, but unfortunately when we downloaded the pictures, it was slightly blurry. So this week when Nikolas comes over; I will try again to get a more recent picture of them.
Here are some of the pictures from the celebration.
The Birthday Boys:
PRESENTS!!!!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Card 38 of 52
This is a fall card we made at stamp camp on Saturday
The Stamp Set is Throughly Thankful from Stampin' Up!
The Stamp Set is Throughly Thankful from Stampin' Up!
layout 36 of 52
This is a 2 page layout. It is the back side of the map from Dollywood with some random pictures taken at the park.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Bye Bye Ethan's 1st Car
Tomorrow we say goodbye to Ethan's 1st car.
Victory Auto Wreckers will be here 1st thing in the morning to junk the car.
The car needs over $3000.00 worth of work done on it and we decided it was time to say good-bye. He got 2 years of driving out of a $900.00 car so I think we got our moneys worth. Now to start the search for a replacement used car that can get him to school and work.
Victory Auto Wreckers will be here 1st thing in the morning to junk the car.
The car needs over $3000.00 worth of work done on it and we decided it was time to say good-bye. He got 2 years of driving out of a $900.00 car so I think we got our moneys worth. Now to start the search for a replacement used car that can get him to school and work.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Our 1st Diners, Drive-ins and Dives Road Trip
About a month ago I came up with an idea and asked Todd if he was interested in doing it. I asked him if on a weekend that he wasn't traveling if he would want to take the motorcycle up to Kenosha WI and go to a restaurant that we saw on the Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. I knew what his answer would be, but I asked anyway. So looking at our calendar we picked his pre-birthday weekend.
We got up at our normal morning time which is 4:45am, showered and got ready to go. It was rather on the cool side so we dressed in layers and took a backpack.
Todd Googled the route the day before and planned the route to avoid highways. We left a little after 6:00am and were very happy we dressed in layers. Since it was early most of the roads were empty which was nice.
After a few stops to check the map, getting gas and asking for directions because we couldn't find Rt41 we hit Franks restaurant at about 9:00am.
Before I show you any more pictures of Franks let me give you a little history about Franks:
In 1926, there was some real excitement in downtown Kenosha when six horses pulled Franks Diner to the spot where it stands today. The structure was built by the Jerry O'Mahoney company in New Jersey and shipped to Kenosha on a railroad flat car.
Anthony Franks, who first learned of the unique restaurant opportunity through a magazine article, paid $7,500 plus $325 in shipping charges to launch his business. He added a dining room in 1935 and a larger kitchen in the mid 1940s. The Franks family operated Franks Diner until 2001.
It is now owned and operated by Lynn Groleau and Chris Schwartz.
When you walk into the restaurant you will most likely be standing until there is a place available. There motto is, if you are in a hurry; don't come. You are standing behind the people eating at the counter and are told to move all the way down to the end and they will let you know when something opens up. I kind of wanted to sit at the counter but we ended up at a table. This was OK because our waiter was a trip. They are slightly sarcastic but in a fun way.
One of the items featured on the show was the Garbage. Todd and I both ordered the 1/2 Garbage with one meat no onion. The waiter kept insisting that I didn't want jalapenos; but I insisted that I did; I got my way.
The food is made on a griddle and the cook must work on 6 or more "Garbages" at one time. Both Todd and I thought it was rather neat to actually see someone that was featured on TV live doing what they did on TV. The 1/2 garbage was awesome I thought it was going to be on the greasy side but it wasn't. A 1/2 was enough that we didn't need lunch and possibly could have skipped dinner too.
This place is definitely a dive and I would go back again anytime.
We got done eating at 10:00am and headed to Uke's Harley Davidson shop in Kenosha
where Todd picked up a t-shirt for his collection.
On the way home we found 41 so it didn't take us as long to get home and as it did to get up to Kenosha. We ended up getting home just a little after 1:30pm.
I can't wait to plan another trip to a Diners, Drive-ins and Dives that we saw on the show.
We got up at our normal morning time which is 4:45am, showered and got ready to go. It was rather on the cool side so we dressed in layers and took a backpack.
Todd Googled the route the day before and planned the route to avoid highways. We left a little after 6:00am and were very happy we dressed in layers. Since it was early most of the roads were empty which was nice.
After a few stops to check the map, getting gas and asking for directions because we couldn't find Rt41 we hit Franks restaurant at about 9:00am.
Before I show you any more pictures of Franks let me give you a little history about Franks:
In 1926, there was some real excitement in downtown Kenosha when six horses pulled Franks Diner to the spot where it stands today. The structure was built by the Jerry O'Mahoney company in New Jersey and shipped to Kenosha on a railroad flat car.
Anthony Franks, who first learned of the unique restaurant opportunity through a magazine article, paid $7,500 plus $325 in shipping charges to launch his business. He added a dining room in 1935 and a larger kitchen in the mid 1940s. The Franks family operated Franks Diner until 2001.
It is now owned and operated by Lynn Groleau and Chris Schwartz.
When you walk into the restaurant you will most likely be standing until there is a place available. There motto is, if you are in a hurry; don't come. You are standing behind the people eating at the counter and are told to move all the way down to the end and they will let you know when something opens up. I kind of wanted to sit at the counter but we ended up at a table. This was OK because our waiter was a trip. They are slightly sarcastic but in a fun way.
One of the items featured on the show was the Garbage. Todd and I both ordered the 1/2 Garbage with one meat no onion. The waiter kept insisting that I didn't want jalapenos; but I insisted that I did; I got my way.
The food is made on a griddle and the cook must work on 6 or more "Garbages" at one time. Both Todd and I thought it was rather neat to actually see someone that was featured on TV live doing what they did on TV. The 1/2 garbage was awesome I thought it was going to be on the greasy side but it wasn't. A 1/2 was enough that we didn't need lunch and possibly could have skipped dinner too.
This place is definitely a dive and I would go back again anytime.
We got done eating at 10:00am and headed to Uke's Harley Davidson shop in Kenosha
where Todd picked up a t-shirt for his collection.
On the way home we found 41 so it didn't take us as long to get home and as it did to get up to Kenosha. We ended up getting home just a little after 1:30pm.
I can't wait to plan another trip to a Diners, Drive-ins and Dives that we saw on the show.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Card 37 of 52
The stamp set us Season of Joy by Stampin' Up! I made this for the weekend card challenge I participate in plus it will be part of my Christmas Card Camp and sold at the resturant.
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