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well I would not call this great but it was the best my puter would do at home not int he studio and the program kept freezing on me.... I can't wait for my mac for home!!!!!

Beauty is Pain

Well I have finally crossed into the land of the not eyeliner challenged people! Yeah. The other evening after a wedding Jayne coaxed me to see our friend Rose the esthetician. Where after she locked me in and I conceded to have permanent eye liner put on. Was a little nervous about someone jabbing what turns out to be 24 small needles at a time at my eye, but went ahead and thought that I would give it a whirl. Oddly enough I have to report that it really didn't hurt very bad at all! I am not even nervous about my follow up in 4 weeks. And I hate needles with a passion. Seth loves how it looks which is good being it isn't going anywhere any time soon. Jayne has even gone back today and I can't wait to see how awesome her touch up looks. I will have to add pictures later cause Seth has my bag.

The Cottage where your food and service is non existent

Was it bad service or what would you call it?
Last night Seth and I took some clients out to dinner. We arrived at 6:40 pm our clients arrived at 7:00 as planned. We ordered our ice tea's and our cheese and fruit plate (that took at least 45 min to receive). I mean it's cheese and fruit how long does that take to cut??? We ordered our dinners as soon as he brought the cheese out . We watched as other people got food payed and left. A little after 9:00pm our dinners arrived, you would think piping hot right... um no lukewarm. And I am not a huge fan of lukewarm salmon or steak so... Not to mention the fact that they got a order wrong now you would think that it would be hot and fresh picked and so on after taking that long.
So the owner is walking around talking to people swings past our table and says is everything OK all right good and starts walking on with out giving a chance to say anything just assuming all is great. So I was like um actually we had to wait for two hours for our food and when it came it wasn't even hot. He say oh well I am sorry and walks off. Do we get a hey let me make this right or anything? Nope.
Now I feel bad for the poor kid having to deal with unhappy customers, We were very nice with him and made sure he understood we weren't unhappy with his service (being that he was normally a cook).
So we get our bill and no surprise they charge us for everything but the cheapest desert (wow thanks). So on the bottom of the bill where it says thanks please come again Seth crosses it out and write Not after tonight!
Now we figure rude self centered owner that's the end of that just mark it a place not to go back to and let everyone else know not to go there either. So this morning Seth gets a phone call from the other owner apparently a husband and wife own The Cottage in Kila. She called to apologize for last night and says she is sorry but isn't willing to make it right! A sorry but I don't really care that you had to be at my restaurant for over three hours in entirety doesn't matter. So to me that really isn't much of a apology. I mean a crappy fast food joint messes up and gives you a free meal or something to bring you back.
So with all my ravings I say good bye to The Cottage for Seth has made it clear that we will never return and I have to recommend that you don't go either. It just isn't what it used to be and there is no service why not spend your money some place where you get what you pay for. I mean at least at tupelo you get good food even if the service is iffy at times

Truly Blessed!

Seth and I were so lucky to be truly blessed this past weekend.

Our Friends Garren and Jayne invited us to the lake, where it was so evident that God has blessed us with friends who Love God with all there hearts.

Whether it was a few new acquaintance's or old ones, fun was had by all. So great thanks to the Hartman's for bringing us all together.

Wow I feel like saying holy Tibetan monks or something. It has been a whole month sense I have had a chance to blog! And I am afraid this is just going to be a catch up note.

We have been so busy it's crazy.

Cross country season is done and Emma did OK. She did ribbon every time but didn't give it her all. Her last race was good she managed a 3:04 for a time and that is awesome. She finished out with one first, two seconds, a sixth, and a seventh. Which probably doesn't sound to bad to most except that she wasn't even breathing hard when she crossed the finish line on the 6 and 7. But there is always next year and she know that and that is good.

As many know Seth surprised me with a trip to Cancun this last month as well. We had a lot of fun just getting to hang out with each other. I have to say meal times were a bit odd not having to get food for 5 other people first, my food was still hot which I found to be a novel idea=-)

All is going well school is about out and we are opening a studio. Which I won't say to much about so Seth can blog about it (ha ha). I am hoping to put some Cancun pics up soon, till then have warm sunshiny white sandy beach thoughts.

We're number 1 and 2

So Cross country season has started! Proud to say that at Emma's first meet she snagged first place! She wanted it so bad last year and got it. On the down side she might have become a little to sure of herself this week and ended up with second. We are still very proud of her she is a bit bummed but there was also a bit of confusion yesterday that messed up a lot of the kids =-( The person starting the races was doing a horrible job and there was up to three or four groups running at the same time and crossing the finish line getting all mixed up. It mad it hard to get times on all of our schools kids. But there is always next week!
Nathan is also running and is doing really well. He has improved his time from last week and manage to jump over a jumble of kids who tripped at the start line (one even lost a shoe).

Bear deterrent?

As I ran up the stairs from the basement today, to see what all the commotion was about. I didn't expect to be accosted by a terrible chemical. You see I was putting plastic on the windows so we can finish up the basement with the texture and paint. Then the dogs started to bark and the kids were running around so I figured I had better see what was going on. And as I opened the front door and stepped out onto the porch I could see that Seth was outside trying to keep up on his goal of keeping other peoples dogs off our property. Now the dogs in question belong to a neighbor at the beginning of our drive way. They have been giving Seth a hard time lately by chasing and trying to nip him when he is on his bike or motorcycle. In the past they have always been behind a fence but seem to have figured out how to get out, and the brown one is pretty mean by all actions. Apparently when Seth went out it came at him a bit so he came back in to get the bear spray. And though he managed to get rid of the dogs without spraying he wanted to check and see that it was still any good as it was getting old. Wind picks up I happen to breath obviously not a great idea because I inhaled a bunch of bear spray. It felt so nice as it was trying to cut off my ability to breath. But in all of that I had the though man I wonder if this would be a good thing to spray at a bear? I mean yes it was painful and obnoxious. But was it enough that it wouldn't just totally tick off a bear even more so it wants to bring on the pain? Just a thought of course. I am thinking that you should have at least two cans to discharge though cause then when you miss with the first you can hit it the second time around (ya know if you still have a arm=-)

G I who

Have you ever seen those people who are pulled over on the side of the road and seem to be looking for something in the ditch? And while sometimes you drive by without really noticing them, other times you think what are they doing that's just odd. Is ditch diving really any better than dumpster diving after all. I mean is something found on the side of the road really any less trashy than something pulled out of the green bins? Re the people who ditch dive any different than the ones who see, to live at the Columbia falls k-mart (for those of you who haven't visited the green bins in c-falls we lovingly call it the Columbia falls k-mart)?

As you may be wondering where it is I am going with this I would love to take the chance to introduce you to someone who against my desire has entered into our home.

Yes it's true, my husband much to my great dismay has become a ditch diver. As I think back trying to figure out how something like this could have occurred I realized it must only happen by accident. There could be no other explanation for such a thing. You see we helped my sister move this weekend with a group of guys from her church. And everyone had trucks and on one of our last trips Seth noticed a basket in the ditch. and so asked my sister if she had any and she said yes. So he drove out to go and get the basket in case it was hers. He found the basket and this GI joe. Which as it turns out neither are hers. And Seth has decided to keep said joe. I think there was something about putting him on his dash board.... not to mention the crappy sunglasses he found the other day that he threw in the trash.

not yet

Yes well this for sure isn't right. Sorry about that eye though Garren must be hard having it out like that =-)

A Change

Well I decided to change my blog around a bit. I think it is a bit off right now. Kinda like a Easter egg threw up on it. So I will keep working on it .....

oh yeah

And without googling it how many of you know what a petroglyph is?

2nd Grade Spelling?

So this week as I was going through my second graders papers from school, her sheet of spelling word caught my attention.

1. Paragraph

2. petroglyphs

3. photo

4. telephone

5. graph

6. laugh

7. cough

8 rough

9. enough

10. tough

11. pursuit

12. recruit

13. birthday

14. buy

15. dance

Now maybe it is just me, but I sure don't remember having words like petroglyphs as a spelling word in the 2nd grade. Now most of the time they do get five days to work on their words. But doesn't a word like petroglyphs seem a bit out of place when other words on the list are buy and dance? I mean she has only been reading sense the end of kindergarten, and spelling for a little over a year. Not that she seems to have any problem at all in spelling, most of the time she ends up with no more than two wrong. Which I know she didn't get from me. But I guess time will tell. Her spelling test is today and she will be able to tell me how she did when she gets home. But is it just me or should a child be able to tell you what the meaning is of the words they spell? I would love to do a poll of 2nd grader and ask them id they could tell me what a paragraph is and why it is needed, or what is a graph and how does it work? Or better yet If I recruit you what have I done? Who knows maybe she knows the answers to all of these questions.

Oh and I spell check this and I found it interesting that it said petroglyphs was misspelled but had no suggestions on how to fix it!

on your marks get set go!

So about that 11 pounds! =~)

So I thought that we would start running, so we are all ready for cross country season. This year it will only be these three kiddos taking part. I figures if we start practicing early that we won't have any probs being ready for the first race.

I think it should be a fun season and the kids are stoked to get started. Though myself I don't get it, I hate running.

But if it means getting in shape I'll do it. Photo's were taken by my older sis being that I hate running and was.

yum yum

So I am starting to notice a pattern of food showing up in my blog. And always bad for you food to.

I have decided that maybe I should start running, even though I HATE running.

I was wanting to start running with Emma to get her ready for cross country, and am thinking now is as good a time as any.

My goal is to drop 11 pounds.

We shall see how that goes. With all that said I have posted some pic's of a wonderful pie that my sister and I made when we had them over for dinner! Nothing like lots of sugar. Which is really all a lemon meringue pie is.

My shoes

These are my favorite shoes! They are so comfortable and cozy. It's like slipping your feet into warm fuzzy happiness every time you put them on. In fact the day they wear out and die I might need to hold a funeral for them... well lets not be silly they are just shoes.

Or are they?

you better be there

OK Jake you got a deal I will bring candy popcorn (a.k.a. death corn) on Thursday so you better be there! And be ready to totally loose on any game we play!

candy popcorn

Stinkin good.

Which is pretty aptly put by my friend Jayne. For it is tasty and unfortunately for anyone who eats a bite find that is is hard to stop. And then tends to find themselves feeling a bit sick from eating to much like you might have done when you where a kid.

Which then brings you to the thought of why is it I ate to much when I made sure that the kids here didn't eat too much. After all the thought had to of crossed your mind in some form that eating to much was bad, if you could make the call not to let others not eat to much....

But what goes better with candy popcorn than a movies and what better movie to whatch than lotr? So as 4 adults settled down to watch a movie 14 kids ran a muck eating candy popcorn, playing games and having fun.

Finally

I am finally goining to get a couple of pics up on my blog. Under the pretense that I am working right now ( at least that is what seth think's). And I did get my work done....

So these are just some snap shots I took while on a walk next to our house with my kiddo's last fall. The first looks little dark on the blog.

I was lots of fun and just about the perfect day you could want. Sunny and warm but not hot. Awsome all around I think we went about two miles so not to bad. We can't wait for hiking season! My goal is to get two peaks this year instead of one. Plus as much small hikes as possible. Our kids love to hike so that is helpful, and they can go far (6 miles if the two little ones are with us or farther if it's just the older ones) which is even better!

Coming soon!

The lazy blogger.....

So very true that I havn't posted in a while.

Is it that I am just lazy with my blogging?

That is what I thought,

until I was just enlightened a few moments ago ( with the aid of my sister). I have just relized that it isn't that I don't have anything to blog about or even that I am to lazy to spend the time.

It is the bloghogs fault!

milleniblog is on all the time making it impossible to get a few words in here and there. I had to trick him off the computer to get in and write, and in all my scheming I have forgotten what I wanted to say..........

super duper bowl

Yum chips and dip!!!! As someone who has never watched much football the best part of the super bowl has always been the chips and dip. I can't say a lot has changed for me, though I don't mind watching the playing of the game so much now. But we enjoyed a day of sledding and hanging out with our friends, and of course chips and super yummy dip!

Pajama Breakfast!

As we woke up to the ringa ding ding of Seth's phone alarm this morning I remembered the wonderful fact that I was NOT going to have to cook breakfast! What joy as I thought goody! No, "Mom I'm hungry, whatchya making?", and ( my particular favorite ) when Seth sits them all at the table with forks and spoons and they start there chant of "We Want Food, We Want Food". Some how Seth thinks that it is funny, yet I haven't quite figured out why that is. Being it usually ends with something burnt, since I feel the need to chase him down and have to repress the urge to hit him with my spatula.

So, with the realization that we were supposed to meet our friends at a little cafe that we had found with great food (lots of it) and small prices, in about 45 min and nobody was really up yet, I better get the move on. I half remembered a comment; something to do with pajama's? But what about them?

So, as we are walking out the door my phone rings and Jane says to me they're closed. I was like huh seriously? They are closed on Saturday? That is so weird. So we made alternate plans at a place that was "OK", more busy, not as good food, but did I mention more busy? So as we arrive and walk in, I could see and now understand the pajama comment! They were all wearing Jammie's. Hence Jammie breakfast. So, Yea Hartman's including Garren with his pink piggy's!

My First Blogariffic blog!!

Well I sure couldn't let Seth out do me and have a blog on his pages of our site and not have one myself now could I? So lets see...... All goes good in the Eagleton house hold today. Emma and I continue in our second day of learning the guitar, and if I do say so myself we both show promise =-)