Jophes Manhunter

Yesterday I discovered one of Naissa's little horses had all four legs chewed off. When I asked the kids who had done such a thing, I of course got a resounding, "NOT ME".

Remember NOT ME from the Family Circus comic? Yeah well apparently he upped and moved into my house because NOT Me is continuously doing bad stuff around here.

Isaac finally gave up a little more information about the culprit who chewed the horses legs off....

"I didn't do it but my friend, Jophes (a form of Joseph) Manhunter might have"

Really? Jophes Manhunter? He's your friend?

"Yeah"

Are you sure you didn't take a little bite out of the horses legs? (asking "a little" usually squeezes out at least a partial confession)

"Nope, Jophes did it"

Well where is Jophes?

"He bited the legs off and ranned away"

17 years

Today was our 17th anniversary.

Not only that but it was our first time back in church as a family in a really long time.

We didn't even make it for Easter or Christmas this year.

It was VBS Sunday so the service was like a re-cap of the week. All the kids were scattered throughout the sanctuary, sitting with their families and would holler out during parts of the songs and whenever the leaders would say certain phrases.

Honestly I had a hard time. I enjoyed watching Naissa dance in the aisle but was quickly annoyed when one of the girls wearing a "staff" shirt came and stood in front of us...to try to get a couple of boys to do the moves to the song...and she blocked the entire view for Naissa and Isaac and even myself. She pushed their chairs back close to our feet totally oblivious to the fact that Naissa was trying to watch the leaders and do the moves too! Dang, I got ticked and had to breath in and out slowly because I wanted to holler! I wanted to push her over the balcony.

Anyway, my parents watched the kids while Jim and I went to lunch. They even treated! After lunch we came back to the house, because I wasn't in the mood to sit through a movie, and I fell asleep! I had a nice nap and Jim dozed off too. Next thing we know it's time to go get the kids.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Quick trip down Memory lane

I thought I would put up a picture of Jim from High School first, that way I could post any picture of me and it would still be Jim that you will laugh and talk about - HA!!

This is Jim in 1988, dressed as Paul Stanley. (He's from KISS for those of you who don't know...but if you know Jim...you probably already knew)

Now when I was a sophomore I got the most horrendous haircut, right before the formal. And yes, I did suffer through the formal, but only that one time. All other "dress up" dances I made my mom take me out of town so I would have a legit excuse for not going. I was (still am) more of the MORP type of girl...give me some jeans, a big t-shirt and my converse and I am HAPPY. (I like big ass kicker boots too) So anyway, this is my hair AFTER growing out for 4 months. I was in the band and we went to HAWAII! This is one of my very best friends in High School, Sean. We just recently re-connected again, thanks to myspace, after way too many years.

Another picture I found from our Hawaii trip. My best friend Ang~ is to my left...and yes that's me in the pink jean jacket! Ang~ and I have kept in touch and both have a butt load of kids (that would mean a butt load = 5) Amy is in the blue and white stripes and she and Jim used to date! Jim was not even close to being the type of guy I dated in high school! God must of got a big kick out of the two of us, knowing he would be putting us together in the near future and changing our lives forever!

Kris, Amy, Me, Ang~

(which by the way is pronounced like Tang with out the T,

her real name is Angela but I thought Ang~ was better - Ha!)

Don't you just love our flowered jeans?

Here we are in Disneyland, for Grad Night....still friends - Ha!

Ang~, Albert and Me

Little did I know that my friend Albert here, was helping prepare me for my future husband (Jim of course). Albert was/is a HUGE KISS fan. I'm not sure who the bigger fan would be. Last time I saw Albert his hair was all the way down his back. Take that CUSD!!

Believe it or not I used to sing in the church choir! My friend Sylvia and I just recently re-connected on facebook. I've missed her. Enrique and I went to church and school together. I hadn't seen him in several years and when we moved and our kids started their new school, we found his mom working in the office! So Enrique and I have also re-connected this year!
Well, it was a short trip. I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the fact that I can now scan old pictures onto my computer! I sure love my digital camera!

Kristi the Frazzled

Why yes, it is 2 o'clock in the morning and I am still up and on the computer. What's that? You wanna know why? Well...um...I guess you could say I have a new escape...a new addiction...on facebook....called MOBWARS. Yep, I'm just a frazzled mobster seeking money, territory and a good fight. There has been a glitch in it for the past 24 hours or so and I'm going into withdrawals. Sure I've been invited to play similar games on myspace but I just can't get into it. You see, there are a couple of mobsters who have made it personal...attacking me when I'm down, putting me in the hospital and one guy even had the ***** to add me to the hitlist...FOUR times!!! So it's personal. As I lay there in that hospital bed, being forced to "rest" I give it all I got and punch the guy in the face and that just seems to make me feel better. He may not enter the hospital over my punch but it's not about that...he's been playing longer than I have...he's got more money, territory and more mobsters, so of course he's gonna kick my *** but I've got pride...I've got dignity...I've got a head full of stubborn! It's a matter of principle. So I'm gonna just keep punching him in the face and he'll just keep putting a hit out on me and round and round we'll go....but I can't stop playing. I wonder if the 12 steps would apply here. We have a new friend here today, go ahead and introduce yourself... "Hi I'm Kristi the Frazzled and I'm addicted to MOBWARS...it's been 12 minutes since I last punched a guy in the face"

Set Me Free - VWOC - Ignite - SHOCKWAVE Drama Skit

The Butterfly - Author Unknown to Me

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and it could go no farther.

The man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time. Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. it was never able to fly.

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If God allowed us to go through life without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been....and we could never fly!

Have a nice day and struggle a little!

Lifehouse's Everything Skit

Lifehouse --- Everything

Find me here
Speak to me
I want to feel You
I need to hear You
You are the light
That's leading me
To the place where I find peace again.

You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose...You're everything.

How can I stand here with You and not be moved by You?
Would You tell me how could it be any better than this?

You calm the storms and You give me rest.
You hold me in your hands, You won't let me fall.
You steal my heart, and You take my breath away.
Would You take me in? Take me deeper now?

How can I stand here with You and not be moved by You?
Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
And how can I stand here with You and not be moved by You?
Would You tell me how could it be any better than this?

Cause You're all I want, You're all I need
You're everything, everything
You're all I want, You're all I need
You're everything, everything.
You're all I want, You're all I need.
You're everything, everything
You're all I want, You're all I need
You're everything, everything

And how can I stand here with You and not be moved by You?
Would You tell me how could it be any better than this?
How can I stand here with You and not be moved by You?
Would You tell me how could it be any better than this?

Would You tell me how could it be any better than this?

Linkin Park - Given Up (OFFICIAL Video)

Screaming!

I should get in bed and try to fall asleep but I have too much on my mind. Jim is still away at camp with Zack. Naissa and Isaac really out did themselves with the messes today. I out did myself on the screaming. I gave myself a headache and started my period….now that’s screaming!
I think you might scream too if you found sunscreen sprayed all over your sliding glass door, dripping down onto the carpet and the gazillion play food toys that were dumped blocking you from getting to the door. I think you might scream if you found that the dishwasher full of clean dishes you were about to put away was also sprayed with sunscreen and every single cup and plate in there had greasy ass suntan residue on them. You might even scream if you found blue cupcake icing smeared all over the kitchen floor, front room carpet and a pile of clean clothes your kids had strung all over. If you didn’t scream over that, maybe having one daughter cut up another daughter’s shirt with scissors would do it for ya, or receiving a pink notice from the city of Clovis saying your payment has not been received…and the reason it has not been received is because you have no payment to send them, or maybe finding more than 50 dvd’s out of the cases, scattered about the front room most likely with new scratches on them or later finding more sunscreen all over the drum pads for the Rock Band game, or all the laundry you worked so hard on being scrunched down into the couch cushions as the kids walked across the couch pulling the clothes at the bottom of the formally neat stack. To top it off you find that same sunscreen has been sprayed on the only remaining rabbit and you have to now give the rabbit a bath, in a tub that some child has dumped their frosted mini wheats in and left them to dry permanently to the tub. If that isn’t bad enough, you find the musical tea set in the trash can right after you asked them to pick it up and put it away, or the unclaimed puddle of pee on the kitchen floor, or the child who awakens from his nap with diarrhea and you are already late to pick up another child from youth group. The bathroom and hallway look like someone has played a prank and TP’d them. The clothes you washed only an hour ago don’t smell fresh and are already drying in a heap in the washer before the dryer is ready with the previous load. The entire rack of clothes you have hung up has been knocked down and some completely off their hangers…then trampled on the floor by little feet with blue frosting on them. Different from the pile mentioned earlier. I think it was a scream worthy day. Try to play a game of Don’t Bug Me (like Go Fish) and a child purposely crunches up a card and blames a sib – The screaming is building up again. What the crap?
How much can one take in a single day?

Happy Sad Happy Sad Happy Sad

Today (actually yesterday - Monday) was Isaac's birthday! He is now 4 yrs old.
Jim and Zack are away at camp for the week.
We went to my mom-n-law's and played with cousins Finn and Reed.
It was really really hot today.
Isaac picked out a new bike.
When we got home THREE of our bunnies were dead.
My mom and daughter Leesha made it home safely from Germany late tonight.
I can't sleep.
We're going to my parent's tomorrow to see them and go swimming.
I have to remove the dead stiff, covered in ants and flies, bunnies out of the cages.
My dad is going to dig the hole.
I have to take them out there in my car. (PU)
:) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :( :) :(

Cupcake Anyone?

What?!? Do I have something on my face?

Happy 60th Birthday Grandma Cathy!!